Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [subord] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The Act is perhaps not so clear where only the claimant with a possessory title is before the court , for example , because the true owner does not appear or can not be found .
2 This disclaimer is not appropriate if either the report is an Investment Advertisement under the Financial Services Act 1986 or if the client itself authorised under the FSA .
3 This is as much a consequence of data on households being more easily available as necessarily a reflection of real differences between household and non-household kin .
4 In some ways , dynamic recognition is more restrictive since both the writer and a suitable input device must be present at the same time , and the technique is evidently only applicable to handwritten text .
5 Their smaller size — an adult male weighs around 150 lb ( 70 kg ) and a female perhaps 30 lb ( 14 kg ) less — makes them more adaptable than either the lion or the tiger , as does their athleticism .
6 The legislation does therefore not set up any presumption in the employee 's favour ; rather it is for him as claimant to lead evidence which tends to establish that it is more likely than not the employer gained from possession of the patent .
7 There is always something to be learned from a knowledgeable local instructor , and a flight is far more valuable than just a site briefing .
8 Their problems were far more complex than any the teacher might have set them .
9 This approach is never more important than when a person first joins any organization .
10 Thereafter , however , their share increased steadily until by 1850 this market was more important than either the European or North American market , in both of which home cotton manufacture had become significant .
11 All this simply reinforces my earlier point that not only must the field anthropologist pay close attention to the difference between normative rules and social practice but that the study of kinship is something far more complicated than simply the study of genealogies or the ramifying biological links of the domestic family .
12 Totally unexpected because frankly no government , no civil service would have given us as much money for residential places as they did if they 'd known .
13 The statement of objectives will normally be far more rounded than merely a price discussion .
14 But regarding 2 this teacher was not especially charismatic — in fact more self-effacing than naturally the centre of attention .
15 Furthermore a drop ’ in maintenance spending is also likely as both the landlord 's means and incentive to spend money on the property are reduced .
16 Again he saw the thing divide and grow and change , like the ever-evolving pattern in a kaleidoscope , but this thing was real , alive as alive as only a thing whose sole purpose was to kill could be .
17 Somehow , you can sing ‘ Goodbye ’ till the cows come home , and it comes up as fresh as ever every time .
18 It comes as a surprise to most people to learn that the experts are still arguing over something as basic as how a cat purrs .
19 An account of professional courses — at least with respect to PGCE — is in principle just as complex because even the advent of accreditation has not enforced uniformity .
20 The challenges facing nurses in the 1990s are likely to be as great as any the profession has ever faced .
21 Now the quality obviously is not as good as either the flat or fully-fashioned and that 's why the Americans have a reputation for not but that 's the reason , productivity .
22 ‘ When we came to leave the Lamb that afternoon , Mr Barnett , we were all in similar states of intoxication , but Jack had become as maudlin as only an Irishman in liquor can .
23 According to Ockleton , he had become ‘ as maudlin as only an Irishman in liquor can . ’
24 Er and er yes , in in as far as where the excess , access is n't
25 Target Date can be a specific date or as general as just the month or year in which you hope that goal will be achieved .
26 Mr Wood has learned enough over the years about badgers to be able to get in as close as just a foot or two .
27 This is likely to be particularly serious if either the poverty trap or the unemployment trap is encountered .
28 The identification and correction of coding errors may be virtually impossible unless either a cost centre is obviously incorrect or a fairly detailed manual backup , such as is outlined in ( b ) above , is utilised .
29 Presumably stray magnetic fields will not be that high as otherwise the efficiency of the motors would be low .
30 as if I 'd only been half awake before so no wonder I could n't do anything . ’
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