Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [subord] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A similar delay in Spain could mean something altogether different because there close family relatives take absolute priority and , no matter how important other business is , all non-relatives are kept waiting . |
| 2 | Some , the lobefins , developed armour but in the process became considerably less agile than their softer compatriots . |
| 3 | Calculations suggests that a planar lithiomethane molecule would only be 34 kcal mol-1 less stable than its tetrahedral form . |
| 4 | Of course , there may be other reasons why it is not so detailed as our visual image . |
| 5 | It was not long before the administration in practice became less dogmatic and less impulsive than its public rhetoric and even its diplomacy suggested . |
| 6 | For such times are not even necessarily the obvious ones , ‘ the visible sequences of events recorded by the chronicler ’ , they may be invisible , ‘ a complex ‘ intersection ’ of … different times , rhythms , turnovers , etc. ’ , only visible when their particular concepts are constructed and produced ‘ out of the differential nature and differential articulation of their objects in the structure of the whole ’ ( 101–03 ) . |
| 7 | She thought she had never seen anything so delicate as his left eyelid quivering above the green ball of his eye , nor anything so vivid as the scarlet spots spattering the bow of his tie . |
| 8 | Given the welter of competing ideas on the subject ( the European Community has recently adopted a slightly weaker measure , while securities firms outside the EC often operate under different rules than those governing banks ) , its 1993 proposals are less likely than its 1988 rules to find ready acceptance . |
| 9 | I could n't be entirely sure where his other arm was , but he just disappeared . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , when Henry V died in 1422 , his fleet was already less useful than its royal founder had hoped . |
| 11 | There is a lot of evidence that unemployed people tend to be less healthy than their employed counterparts . |
| 12 | Midhurst and Petworth were actually less affluent than their respective market areas . |
| 13 | LIFFE 's other international products , based on US T-bonds and eurodollars , have been markedly less buoyant than its European products since 1988 and 1989 respectively . |
| 14 | It is of relevance in this context that , as will be emphasized later , urban parents tend to be better educated than their rural counterparts . |
| 15 | This relevance makes the material strongly motivating — here is an example of the way you will need to use English in a month 's time — and therefore the quality of the recording is less important than its immediate relevance . |
| 16 | In the eyes of many yeomen and labourers , the principles of either side were far less important than their economic menace . |
| 17 | The proportion of women in higher education has risen sharply in recent decades — one of the most visible gains in the egalitarian struggle — although in practice young female school-leavers are still less qualified than their male counterparts ( and this signifies , in this country , a truly parlous state of readiness for adult occupations ) ; while in the teaching profession itself , women have yet to achieve anything like parity at the higher levels , as college heads , directors of departments and university professors . |
| 18 | Private securities are also harder to sell in Europe because investors there are less adventurous than their American cousins . |
| 19 | These cattle are much less domesticated than their mortal counterparts although , unlike the malignant fairy water-horse EACH-UISGE , they will remain loyal to humans if treated well . |
| 20 | Nowadays , enjoys his outings with and her children who he has more or less adopted as his own grandchildren . |
| 21 | This small study does , however , suggest that disabled professionals are no less capable than their able-bodied colleagues and may have unique assets to bring to these professions . |
| 22 | Moreover the United Provinces showed themselves throughout the later decades of the century notably less welcoming than their southern neighbours to ideas of penal reform of the kind now being put forward by Beccaria and others . |
| 23 | BARNET escaped expulsion from the Football League yesterday but the reprieve may prove only temporary if their financial difficulties continue . |
| 24 | Systems coping with cursive script are fewer and on the whole less accurate than their unconnected character counterparts because recognition of cursive script is much more difficult . |
| 25 | These sulphate esters of bile acids are usually less toxic than their unesterified parent substances and are eliminated more rapidly through faeces and urine so that the organism can be efficiently detoxified in the case of cholestasis . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , there 's no point in it being so beautiful if you ca n't ever go out in it because it 's raining , ’ said Betty , revealing a childish streak in her character which Lydia found rather less appealing than her habitual bossiness . |
| 27 | For a resident , little things become so big when your whole life can revolve round what 's for lunch and can you sit in your usual place or has someone pinched it ? |
| 28 | The phonographer had dressed himself in clothes that were less foppish than his usual attire . |
| 29 | The British Government have lagged in their support for events in Europe and have not been so enthusiastic as our European partners . |
| 30 | Sir John Pryce ( 1698–1761 ) of Newton , Glamorgan , was so distressed when his first wife died that he had the body embalmed and placed next to his bed . |