Example sentences of "[conj] [det] [subord] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | unc In finding the set of numbers greater or less than a given value , the number line is useful as a check that no elements have been missed out . |
| 2 | That is nothing more or less than a direct payroll tax on jobs . |
| 3 | That is no more or less than a sovereign Parliament within a constitutional monarchy should be able to expect . |
| 4 | Most theories were little more or less than an integrated set of concepts or too impossibly abstract to have much direct relevance for social research . |
| 5 | The external walls of all buildings are therefore required to have the requisite period of fire resistance , unless the building is placed at , or more than a specified distance from , the boundary . |
| 6 | This has led the funding bodies ( SERC , NERC , Agricultural and Medical Research Councils ) to introduce a sanctions policy , whereby departments will be penalized , by the withholding of research grants , where more than a given proportion of their students fail to submit theses . |
| 7 | This has led the funding bodies ( SERC , NERC , Agricultural and Medical Research Councils ) to introduce a sanctions policy , whereby departments will be penalized , by the withholding of research grants , where more than a given proportion of their students fail to submit theses . |
| 8 | It is nothing more nor less than a determined effort by an immensely powerful bureaucracy to silence independent opinion , and to replace it with a censored , frequently biased , and increasingly bland official view of the state of British tennis today . |
| 9 | There was no passion amongst them now , nor more than a vague comprehension of Roxborough 's purpose in forming what he 'd called the Society of the Tabula Rasa , or the Clean Slate . |
| 10 | It is unlikely that more than a tiny proportion of farms will attain the bureaucratic structure associated with agribusinessmen farmers , but they are regarded suspiciously as possible Trojan horses introducing alien patterns of labour relations into the countryside . |
| 11 | Inclusion criteria were the classical clinical findings of acute pancreatitis ( abdominal pain and tenderness , nausea , and vomiting ) and more than a twofold increase in urinary amylase activity ( in 34 patients the increase was more than threefold ) . |
| 12 | Finally he lowered the papers on to the desk and whistled through his teeth in astonishment , and more than a little dismay . |
| 13 | Joanne and the other members of the team of teachers working with the intake year embarked on the new curriculum with a good deal of enthusiasm and more than a little apprehension . |
| 14 | One or two of the instructions are ambiguous , some of the parts do not fit together as they are supposed to and more than a little initiative is required to complete the project . |
| 15 | It was uncanny and more than a little unnerving to watch : the perfect hunter at work . |
| 16 | After two months of solid work and more than a little imagination , John and Jenny have created a marvellous centrepiece for their home . |
| 17 | THERE IS a paranoiac frisson , and more than a little insight , to be had from the thought that we humans are not really in control of our own fates , and that someone or something is using us . |
| 18 | It was the notion of literariness that made Russian Formalism scientific and systematic , and more than an eclectic set of insights into the workings of literature . |
| 19 | When the library is a multi-media centre , it may be possible for the tape-slide sequence to be studied there , but in the typical school there would be severe limitations if more than a small proportion of students were set to do such study ; the library is usually too small for more than a tenth of the school population at best to use it at any one time . |
| 20 | between aiding suicide and making available , for example , certain drugs to relieve pain which , if more than a certain dosage is taken , will cause death . |
| 21 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that the object of the substituted section 9 of the Wills Act 1837 had been to simplify the requirements for the execution and witnessing of a will ; that the complementary requirements , of a signature and of an intention that the signature should give effect to the will , demanded a practical approach ; that a written name , not being a normal signature , was capable of being a signature for the purposes of section 9 ; but that where a testamentary document was signed before the dispositive provisions had been written , affirmative evidence was necessary to show that the testator had intended the signature to give effect to the provisions ; that by writing his name and the dispositive provisions in one single operation the deceased had provided such evidence ; and that , accordingly , the will had been duly executed ; but that , on the evidence , the deputy judge had been entitled to conclude that the onus on the defendants of establishing the testamentary capacity of the deceased had not been discharged ( post , pp. 588B–H , 589B–F , 592A–C ) . |
| 22 | They are more than a spark but less than a small fire and exporters have high hopes . |
| 23 | Thus a paediatrician is paid almost twice as much as a general practitioner for each patient that he sees , but less than a general physician , who is given twice as much as a dermato-venereologist . |
| 24 | Neither the novel nor the house , however , treat Gothic as more than a superficial application to values that remain essentially Palladian . |
| 25 | This option is chosen automatically when more than a certain number of measurements fall outside a certain tolerance . |