Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adj] [subord] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever the so-called yield gap ( long minus short rates ) goes negative , and stays so for longer than two business quarters , past experience suggests that the banks get badly bruised . |
| 2 | Had they done so with more than ordinary intensity so that they had left behind something of themselves — a persistent aura ? |
| 3 | The first seven days of heavy fighting and shelling have caused a large number of casualties ; the Commando units in some instances are down to less than half strength . |
| 4 | By 1970 in the USA they earned less on average than any category of manual worker . |
| 5 | Throughout the Sixties various means were employed to give the cast time off , though not normally for longer than one week at a time . |
| 6 | You may use your valid national licence or international driving permit but not for more than 1 year from the date of entry into the UK . |
| 7 | Mrs. Mallett , the typist from the general office , had brought her knitting to work and fortified by an unshakeable alibi — she had sat between the postmistress and Mr. Mason from the general store at the village concert — and with something to occupy her hands , sat clicking away with understandable if irritating complacency until given the order of release . |
| 8 | Kevin Morris says that he wants to get the boat journey over with first because last time they were so ill coming back . |
| 9 | More like Common than Black-headed Gull , to which black head of adult in summer is only real likeness . |
| 10 | ‘ The desert and the sea have more in common than poetic imagery . |
| 11 | It seems more likely , however , that the banks who received income from the landed re-lent within that class and contributed more to agricultural than industrial progress . |
| 12 | There is really more to this than necessary pessimism of the intellect associated with optimism of the will . |
| 13 | Therefore if you 've got a relationship with somebody and all you seem to constantly to be doing is constantly arguing and it 's either I win or you win you 're never gon na get out of that unless other time . |
| 14 | By themselves , these facts do not stand as a complete answer to the challenge : if the industrial co-operative form of organisation is more efficient than the conventional form , why is it that the first has not displaced the second but has remained until recently a negligible feature of the economy and , even now , can hardly be said to have become so far of more than marginal importance ? |
| 15 | The initial problem is in the terms themselves , since some of the most common descriptions of relatively informal groups , notably ‘ school ’ , have been shared , often by deliberate if critical imitation , with more formal institutions . |
| 16 | Respect for human life is surely worth more than easy profit . |
| 17 | Most of the students investigated in this study were non-traditional in that they either possessed qualifications which met the general entrance requirements of the institution but had been gained them in non-traditional ways ( i.e. by other than full time attendance at secondary school ) , or they did not meet the requirement but had other qualifications or evidence of attainment acceptable to the institution in question . |