Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [det] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An incident room staffed by 30 officers working full time on the case is being run at Martlesham police headquarters , which is less than a mile from the scene of crime . |
| 2 | Indeed , the current legal minimum allowance of 450 square centimetres per bird gives the bird a space which is less than a page of this magazine . |
| 3 | there is a number k>0 which is less than the cost of any step : cost ( N , C ) r k for every node N and child C. |
| 4 | Under imperfect competition , producers set marginal cost equal to marginal revenue , which is less than the price at which the last unit is sold . |
| 5 | ‘ He knows he could not find an independent panel anywhere in Britain which would accept it is right to make an offer which is less than the rate of inflation to people who work in a service which is already underpaid and understaffed . ’ |
| 6 | The arrangements for the new style NHS assume a continuing need for a local organisation which is more than a tier of management . |
| 7 | Well , you know , I always , I 'm always you have to drink two pints a day , which is more than a litre . |
| 8 | ‘ We was in t'workhouse together and 'e 'll do as 'e 's told , which is more than a lot of 'usbands does . ’ |
| 9 | Hon. Members would then see what good measures I introduced and with what democratic reticence I did it , which is more than the Leader of the House can claim for the way he adduced his case tonight . |
| 10 | This year the increase in grant to the Sports Council is 4.4 per cent. , which is more than the rate of inflation and equivalent year on year to what we have pledged ourselves to provide . |
| 11 | Studies by others on stained tissue using the electron probe and the proton probe , which is more than an order of magnitude more sensitive , have failed to confirm these findings . |
| 12 | Here ( and in Prague ) everything is much as no doubt Hamish represented it when he last wrote . |
| 13 | Gillis accepts , against the advice of his chair-bound agent ( Miranda Richardson ) , but soon discovers that there 's more than a movie at stake . |
| 14 | There is more than a grain of truth in the observation by A. P. Herbert that royal commissions were usually appointed ‘ not so much for digging up the truth , as for digging it in . ’ |
| 15 | There is more than a grain of truth in this scenario , despite Mrs Thatcher 's undoubted role in the creation of the new British Library building . |
| 16 | It is not entirely true that people are as handicapped as we , the comparatively unhandicapped , are prepared to handicap them , but there is more than a grain of truth in that statement . |
| 17 | Byron may have been exaggerating a little when he wrote , ‘ Man 's love is of man 's life a thing apart , 'T IS woman 's whole existence ’ , but obviously there is more than a grain of truth in it , and not necessarily a painful or unacceptable one either . |
| 18 | ‘ There is more than a debt in it , ’ said Cadfael . |
| 19 | However , there is more than a chance that Brewer will take over Gary 's role as captain , and Alan 's place on the blindside of the scrum . |
| 20 | There is more than a hint of the search for the philosopher 's stone . |
| 21 | To begin with , there is more than a hint of circularity about Eccleshall 's definition of Conservatism . |
| 22 | There is more than a hint of desperation in this unlikely selection . |
| 23 | There is more than a hint of Art Nouveau in its decoration . |
| 24 | There is more than a hint of truth in what Alastair Hetherington , a former editor of The Guardian was told to explain how one defines news values : ‘ It 's like riding a bike ; if you stop to think about it , you 'll fall off . ’ |
| 25 | There is more than a hint here of the subsequent legislation in restraint of alienation which was to result in the English statute of Quia Emptores ( 1290 ) . |
| 26 | There is more than a hint of classical Greece in the architecture , and the blue river seen through the sand-coloured columns gives it a Mediterranean freshness . |
| 27 | If there is more than a page full of directories on the disk , type DIR/P and the screen will pause at the end of each page . |
| 28 | There is more than a touch of rags to riches in the story of the outsize barons . |
| 29 | There is more than a touch of racism in your assumption . ’ |
| 30 | There is more than a suspicion of zeugmatic tension when the end-items are yoked together : |