Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [subord] [art] [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would you prefer to move to a flat — one without so much as a balcony and with no windowsills — or to concrete your garden over and spend your days watching your neighbours at work ? |
| 2 | He is also believed to be embarrassed that one person should be earning so much when the recession and heavy unemployment has badly affected Coventry and the surrounding area . |
| 3 | The use of a shotgun for rabbit clearance , as opposed to the fun of the occasional shot , continues to be less effective than the rifle and especially so when it is used by individuals rather than in conjunction with an organised rough rabbit shoot . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , in terms of practical results , the deforestation of vast areas of Brazil affects the rest of the world much more than the oppression and murder of relatively small numbers of people . |
| 5 | The Railway Age , which brings together more than a century and a half of railway tradition on a single site in the heart of Cheshire is set to become a major tourist attraction of national significance , and is located within the town 's famous rail interchange , one of the largest in Europe . |
| 6 | The burrow , on the other hand , may be just one section of a warren or it may be a single burrow system which is much smaller than a warren and exists in isolation from other rabbit holes . |
| 7 | This kind of bravura performance is only legitimate if the context and music allow the dancer to ‘ steal a little time ’ . |
| 8 | Divisions of social class were less sharp than the size and format differences of the quality and popular papers . |
| 9 | She writes : ‘ The continued running of such a business is much less satisfying than the creation and setting up of it ’ , so now that it is sold her next challenge is the restoration of an ‘ old Montgomeryshire half-timbered gentleman 's residence and its apothecary 's herb-garden , dating from 1720 … |
| 10 | An early Southern Hemisphere proposal to bring the scrum back to the point of introduction every time it moved backwards more than a metre and a half — in other words depowering the scrum has been abandoned . |
| 11 | In the time we had been there I had learnt scarcely more than the theatre and the streets about our lodgings . |
| 12 | This implies a potential abnormality of the ileal mucosa in ulcerative colitis that is not evident when the ileum and colon are in normal continuity , with the possible exception of ‘ backwash ileitis ’ . |
| 13 | The male is a little larger than the female and has very bright orange ventral fins when in breeding colouration . |
| 14 | Roll out the remaining red fondant to a circle a little larger than the cake and use to cover the top of the postbox , overlapping the fondant ‘ collar ’ slightly all the way round . |
| 15 | Well , of course , it is inevitable that one thinks of it from that angle from the way one has been brought up but actually one ca n't think of anything more barbaric than the Crucifixion and that way of killing somebody . |
| 16 | The book , said Beatrice , was used like opium or cocaine by poets and painters as a ‘ defence from modern life , this very modern life of noise and advertisement which they profess to find more real than the glory and the grandeur of earlier civilizations … |
| 17 | It was a delight more magical than the panto and the circus had held when I was little . |
| 18 | It looked the same as the other one to her , except perhaps that the knuckle bone of the little finger was more prominent than the rest and the finger itself rather stiff . |
| 19 | ‘ Most of them have never held anything more dangerous than a knife and fork before but after just nine hours training they are doing really well , ’ he said . |
| 20 | ‘ Ah , Wilson , ’ Miss Hawarth had said with a smile , ‘ the keeper is more important than the house and then there are your connections , you know . ’ |
| 21 | The spirit and morale of a nation has no foundation more important than the self-reliance and confidence of its individual people . |
| 22 | She 's more fat than a chip and he 's feeding her tons of stuff . |
| 23 | It only has 3000 genes and by this criterion is about 20 times more complicated than a bacterium and 40 times less complicated than a human . |
| 24 | Nothing could be more complicated than the answer and even the answer , he says , is in question . |
| 25 | Dropping shoulders in a sideways widening direction makes hyperventilation more difficult since the chest and diaphragm muscles are stretched outwards . |
| 26 | ‘ It sounds as though Wheeler was pursuing his old course of the row over the youth club at Narborough and trying to make out Paul 's part was more dishonourable than the Archdeacon and the Bishop said it was . |
| 27 | Unless you have lots of tanks to check or you keep and breed Discus , Rams or maybe Uaru , you have to question if all this fuss is any more convenient than a tube and tablet kit . |
| 28 | Nothing , however , could be more American than the name and image of the New York Yankees . |
| 29 | Nigel assured me that it would be more efficient than the wheel and produce considerably more electricity , and I had to be content with that . |
| 30 | Different mink species are more alike than the male and female within the species . |