Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adv] [adj] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is all very well for modern econometric historians to argue retrospectively that slave or serf agriculture was actually more profitable or even more efficient than agriculture manned by free labour . |
| 2 | Although much less important than consumption in aggregate demand , investment has , through the multiplier , a significant effect on National Income , and is the most volatile element in aggregate demand . |
| 3 | The curriculum areas accorded the greatest number of teacher-days were maths , English and science , with English accounting for more than twice as many as science , and these two areas between them taking up about as many teacher-days as maths on its own . |
| 4 | Presentational infidelity is less clear-cut and less readily identifiable than selectivity or measurement distortion . |
| 5 | Firstly , they found from eight of the better designed studies that ‘ mothers of schizophrenics are more concerned , protective , and possibly more intrusive than control mothers both in the current situation and in their attitudes to the children before they showed signs of schizophrenia ’ . |
| 6 | Heroin , derived from morphine by a modest chemical change , is more potent and more strongly addictive than morphine itself . |
| 7 | He had the feeling that Berowne was in some trouble deeper and more subtly disturbing than poison pen messages . |
| 8 | As the minority population became more vociferous in its demands and more openly nationalist and republican , the stature of Paisley in the loyalist camp was proportionately increased because Protestants looked back at what he had been saying in the early days of O'Neill 's reign and saw that ‘ he had been right all along ’ . |
| 9 | Much of this would have been intended for re-export , rather than directly for consumption , but as half of England 's total exports by this time were re-exports rather than domestic products the commercial community suffered enough of a loss to show why the English had to be far more concerned about command of the sea than any other country except the Netherlands , and also how fragile that command was before 1700 . |
| 10 | The predisposition of the voters , issues of the moment , advantages of incumbency , and the support of various groups are all related to the final vote and often more important than money . |
| 11 | They were computerized , all young enough to be looking for promotion and supposedly as mean as hell . |
| 12 | In large buildings , communication with other staff if often not easy but discretion is preferred to valour ! |
| 13 | And then as sure as night follows day , they will be paid less . |
| 14 | 'E 's as daft as a brush , and twice as wooden as t'shaft . ’ |
| 15 | Rita , who was too afraid to show her face to the cameras , divorced her husband after she was forced to take part in an arranged marriage , a practice she believes is barbaric and almost as bad as prostitution . |
| 16 | armoured animals are like rich people — insulated from the real hazards of life and therefore less streetwise' and opportunist . |
| 17 | Not only was nuclear power slower and considerably more expensive than energy efficiency as a means of cutting carbon dioxide emissions , but its overall potential was much smaller . |
| 18 | The effect is still good , but harmonically more obscure and dissonant . |
| 19 | But just as satisfying as compensation for Mrs. Morley would be a change in the law . |
| 20 | Those who complain about such evil seduction usually do not have a great experience of the real world which existed long before TV and continued alongside it , sometimes being reflected by it , but always more horrific than TV . |
| 21 | Terry replied , ‘ he 's retiring next year , fit as a fiddle , but still as soft as shit . ’ |
| 22 | The direct application of normal sociological categories can take us much of the way in these relatively explicit , but also relatively local and shifting , cases . |
| 23 | This obligatory military involvement , though a burden which some clergy would willingly have evaded , was for others doubtless a proud duty or welcome excitement ; not many of those assembled actually saw battle , but their association with this medieval ‘ home guard ’ must surely have blurred the distinction between clergy and laymen , with ambiguous and some unfortunate results : more popular they may have been , but equally more vulnerable when sentiment turned , as it did , against both war and the clergy . |
| 24 | It would be no less of an interesting phenomenon , but even more anomalous than Bliss and Lømo 's cautionary words in 1973 would imply . |
| 25 | The macro depends on there being an empty file called COUNT.DOC so that preliminary step was to use File New and save it while still completely blank as COUNT . |
| 26 | Sceptics may doubt whether anyone would read it but our survey shows that viewers take PEBs seriously and rate them only slightly less useful than news broadcasts for helping decide how to vote ( though much less useful than news broadcasts for providing information ) . |