Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [subord] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For all his silence , he was passionate , not desolate ; if there was a sadness or loss there , it was bigger or deeper or stranger than the loss of one person . |
| 2 | Long-distance travel is a fever dream where time and mood slip out of control leaving one unexpectedly early or late delighted or depressed until a mosaic of tiny things builds a flat earth beneath you again . |
| 3 | The incremental cost of implementing either regimen ( US$0.08 per dose for OPV and US$0.35–0.50 per dose for IPV ) is similar to or lower than the cost of mass vaccination campaigns ( US$0.68–3.60 per dose ) , and would also be less than expansion of the routine immunisation schedule to provide even more doses . |
| 4 | A second would make it irregular for the start to be higher or lower than the finish by a factor of more than one metre for every kilometre of the distance . |
| 5 | The legislative purpose of the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974 , said Lord Scarman , was ‘ to sweep away not only the structure of industrial relations created by the Industrial Relations Act 1971 , which it was passed to repeal , but also the restraints of judicial review which the courts have been fashioning one way or another since the enactment of the Trade Disputes Act 1906 … |
| 6 | It can not resolve the problem one way or another because the nature of the problem is itself ill defined . |
| 7 | The submission was however inconsistent with the law as stated by this House in Reg. v. Governor of Pentonville Prison , Ex parte Sinclair [ 1991 ] 2 A.C. 64 , 81–92 , in which it was made clear in the speech of Lord Ackner ( with which the remainder of the Appellate Committee agreed ) that , under the provisions of the Extradition Act 1870 , the powers of the magistrate are specifically laid down in sections 3(1) , 8 , 9 and 10 of the Act ; and that in consequence , apart from consideration where appropriate whether the offence in question was an offence of a political character , the magistrate is not concerned with questions of foreign law at all , being concerned only with committal proceedings under English procedure in relation to an English crime or crimes specified in the Secretary of State 's order to proceed . |
| 8 | It was then as if the rotting maggot-infested flesh , or the tags of matted clothing , had already become part of the earth which clung to and enclosed them , no more unnatural or frightening than a clump of compost or a drift of decaying leaves . |
| 9 | The commissions are to strive to ensure that no constituency varies from this quota by more or less than a quarter of it . |
| 10 | Nor did it escape the notice of other critics of the Association that a handbill , lengthily entitled " A Dialogue between Tom and Harry on the Duties of Seamen and the Just and Equitable Rewards for their Services " , was in practice nothing more or less than a statement of union policy on bargaining with shipowners and published in this form only to avoid the appearance that the Standard was more than an innocent friendly society . |
| 11 | Thus investment spending by firms may be greater or less than the volume of saving , government spending may be greater or less than tax receipts , and exports may be greater or less than imports , but it must be the case that a deficit or surplus in one sector is exactly offset in one or more of the other sectors . |
| 12 | Numbers are serially ordered ( 1,2,3,4 … n ) as are the differences between numbers so that , for example , the distance between any pair of numbers is greater than , equal to , or less than the difference between any other pair of numbers . |
| 13 | The direction of the correction depends on whether the demand elasticity , , is greater or less than the elasticity of factor substitution in the corporate sector . |
| 14 | There are occasions when you get an odd fish that weighs a couple of pounds more or less than the average on that day , but to expect this to happen is foolhardy . |
| 15 | This is nothing more or less than an abuse of your professional integrity . ’ |
| 16 | Currently sport occupies a quarter of the BBC 's own production and 17 per cent of its total output , though the fees for broadcasting have risen by as much or more than a thousandfold for certain sports like tennis and golf . |
| 17 | Brontosaurus was 25 metres long and weighed 30 tons , while Brachiosaurus was a long-necked , lizard-hipped creature weighing 80 tons ( or more than the weight of sixteen elephants ) . |
| 18 | In the example above , Smith would have a laterality coefficient of 0.20 while/ones would have a coefficient of only 0.14 It does not matter whether the score for the left side is larger or smaller than the score on the right since the sign of the coefficient , negative or positive , indicates the direction of any lateral advantage . |
| 19 | Now in life there is nothing more defenceless or ridiculous than a man with his pantaloons about his ankles , his shirt tail raised and his mind on other matters . |
| 20 | Thus the effect on the input impedance depends on whether the feedback is series or parallel-inserted while the effect on the output impedance depends on whether the feedback is series or parallel-derived . |
| 21 | Three cases of the conchoid arise : with the fixed distance less than , equal to or greater than the distance of A from the fixed line . |
| 22 | ( a ) The value of BIOLM and DIOLM should be equal or greater than the value for the defined number of database buffers . |
| 23 | It was only a moment or two before a couple of cars came up the hill and screeched into the side of the road . |
| 24 | Richard M. Cooper , former archivist of the house of Longman , who published the book , makes the point , however , that a small ‘ privately printed ’ pamphlet published a month or two before The Pencil of Nature contains a single photographic frontispiece ‘ and therefore can perhaps take prior claim to be the first book in the world illustrated by photography , but it did not play the significantly influential part of The Pencil of Nature in establishing photographic illustration . |
| 25 | I , I 've never really heard of women attacking lesbian women or women attacking gay men , its usually if there 's a if there 's a row something or other because the male of the species seems the one who 's been , feels very , very threatened at the |
| 26 | Now it 's especially for people who are black or Asian because a lot of the time they miss out on the opportunities that are available to a lot of other people because of things like language barriers and although you might think it 's unfair it 's not actually illegal . |
| 27 | There might also be a departmental or other code in the centre of the key , and we might obtain all the records in three areas starting with numbers such as 03 , 05 or 07 if the choice of storage address is unfortunate . |
| 28 | It was later than usual when the lord of Parfois came . |
| 29 | In early studies it was called the residual — as such , it had more direct meaning , being no more nor less than a bundle of factors which can not be quantified individually . |
| 30 | ‘ It represents nothing more nor less than the imposition of the temple architecture of an extinct Mediterranean civilization upon the house design of a northern people ’ , remarks Olive Cook in her English House Through Seven Centuries . |