Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [subord] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thrill of sex with someone taller or blonder than the wonderful man I 've got ? |
| 2 | In either case , at the borders and with slight variation in the illumination , it is possible that the exposure is slightly higher or lower than the optimum value for the current conditions . |
| 3 | None was more famous or strange than the notorious Victory Arch ; and in his latest book , THE MONUMENT * , Samir al-Khalil weaves round the arch a fascinating and thoughtful study of totalitarianism and art . |
| 4 | The sieve mesh sizes , raw weights , weight percentages and cumulative percentages , finer or coarser than the specific sieve , may be displayed . |
| 5 | As a result the viewing audience may feel alienated and become bored or hostile unless the original lecture is interesting enough to overcome this reaction . |
| 6 | unc In finding the set of numbers greater or less than a given value , the number line is useful as a check that no elements have been missed out . |
| 7 | That is nothing more or less than a direct payroll tax on jobs . |
| 8 | That is no more or less than a sovereign Parliament within a constitutional monarchy should be able to expect . |
| 9 | It is a typical Karajan project because in one respect it is enormously sophisticated — the technology is elaborate , expensive , and bang up to date — and in another it is very simple , inasmuch as its ultimate aim is nothing more or less than the lucid presentation of the music . |
| 10 | If , on the other hand , the estimates are always equal to or less than the actual cost for a path , as in Fig. 8.2. , then even if the algorithm initially takes the wrong path , its actual cost will be worse than the other , optimistically estimated paths . |
| 11 | They 're very often no more or less than the exact truth . |
| 12 | Most theories were little more or less than an integrated set of concepts or too impossibly abstract to have much direct relevance for social research . |
| 13 | The attributes of any volume which is empty or full after a hard copy run may be changed , with the exception of the volume name and charge code ; the minimum fill mark of partially filled volumes may be revised between hard copy runs . |
| 14 | The external walls of all buildings are therefore required to have the requisite period of fire resistance , unless the building is placed at , or more than a specified distance from , the boundary . |
| 15 | In the opposite case where the market value was greater by 15 per cent or more than the theoretical value of the P/E ratio they found that shares underperformed the market . |
| 16 | This has led the funding bodies ( SERC , NERC , Agricultural and Medical Research Councils ) to introduce a sanctions policy , whereby departments will be penalized , by the withholding of research grants , where more than a given proportion of their students fail to submit theses . |
| 17 | This has led the funding bodies ( SERC , NERC , Agricultural and Medical Research Councils ) to introduce a sanctions policy , whereby departments will be penalized , by the withholding of research grants , where more than a given proportion of their students fail to submit theses . |
| 18 | Of all the species visible in Bharatpur , none is more romantic or mysterious than the Siberian crane . |
| 19 | It is difficult to tell whether they are disappointed or pleased when the expected end seems delayed . |
| 20 | In a number of large irrigation schemes in the tropics , the continuous cultivation of a range of crops now allows certain key pests to survive ; previously a closed season or fallow provided a natural check on insect populations . |
| 21 | It is easy to get thrown by a detail or a minority comment , to grow elated or dejected before the full position emerges . |
| 22 | Some people from both the Libyan Jewish and Slovakian foci of inherited prion disease have been found to carry the mutation at codon 200 and yet remain unaffected at ages similar to or greater than the upper age at onset in most affected relatives.Such incomplete penetrance has not been reported in other types of inherited prion disease . |
| 23 | Yet for many employment offers social satisfaction as great or greater than the financial reward . |
| 24 | If you make PAGE less than its original value or greater than the original value of HIMEM , you will get a " Bad program " error when you try to enter a program line and you may well crash BBCBASIC(Z80) . |
| 25 | Nobody forces you to consume the equivalent of halfa dozen eggs at one meal , but it is very easy to do so , so if you have eaten a mousseline of scallops , red mullet , and écrevisses floating in a lake of sabayon sauce , then do not follow it with a honey ice cream or one of those ali baba affairs nor with a peach charlotte containing five egg yolks , but rather with a tarte fine chaude aux pommes acidulées , which is nothing more outlandish or richer than an old-fashioned apple tart made on a base of puff pastry . |
| 26 | He is also an inch or two taller than I am , Not even the most stupid policeman in the land could possibly mistake him for me in an identity parade , but I suppose I am being too optimistic in assuming that literary critics are likely to be more intelligent or perceptive than an ignorant cop . |
| 27 | He was neither forgiving nor generous because the heroic figure , the truly great man , having nothing to resent could have nothing to forgive . |
| 28 | It maintains that a merger will do more harm than good because the merged group would lose orders from German car firms worried about depending on a single supplier . |
| 29 | It is nothing more nor less than a determined effort by an immensely powerful bureaucracy to silence independent opinion , and to replace it with a censored , frequently biased , and increasingly bland official view of the state of British tennis today . |
| 30 | There was no passion amongst them now , nor more than a vague comprehension of Roxborough 's purpose in forming what he 'd called the Society of the Tabula Rasa , or the Clean Slate . |