Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [conj] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Company liquidation figures have been more than double the level of a year before , with about half the companies dying within the first five years . |
| 2 | Liquid Crystals These are more or less the opposite to glass . |
| 3 | Nor does it apply to claims which are solely or mainly the respect of physical injury or illness or the consequences of such injury or illness . |
| 4 | Not long , I think , now that internal revolution , disruption and secession , external interference , aggression and absorption are likely to be more and more the fate of these often unstable and highly artificial British ex-dominions . |
| 5 | We 've already reviewed the SoundBlaster Pro — indeed most of us at Practical PC have one in our machines — and know it to be more or less the industry standard for PC sound . |
| 6 | This may be partly because neither the president nor the high command is confident that parts of the army might not rebel . |
| 7 | This is obviously because here the sun always shines . |
| 8 | The main owner of such schools is usually and indirectly the Church of Ireland , and current expenditure and salaries are provided by the state , with the board of governors presided over by the local minister . |
| 9 | Almost everything we do in our daily lives whether it be driving a car , making tea , or solving complex professional problems on the ward , is directly or indirectly the result of learning . |
| 10 | This is more than twice the size of Trevor Pinnock 's English Concert ( Archiv ) , for example , and substantially larger than Sigiswald Kuijken 's Petite Bande ( Deutsche Harmonia Mundi ) . |
| 11 | The French can supply perfect walnuts , but charge dear ; at £5000 a tonne the price is more than twice the price of California bits , and the reason is that the process is totally unmechanised . |
| 12 | It is relatively brief , as can be seen by comparing it with a more recent competitor for the same market , H. W. Janson 's A History of Art , which is more than twice the length and has more illustrations ( 928 in 1962 ) . |
| 13 | But Birtwistle 's work is more than twice the length of Mason 's , and he more than justifies his larger span . |
| 14 | The total cost is more than twice the amount we spend on wine . |
| 15 | Erm , yes that is more or less the case . |
| 16 | At this stage , Browns Lane has not given up hope of getting rear seats into the convertible , but it is proving a hard task , and it is probably that only the coupe will be a two-plus-two . |
| 17 | As has been seen above the Council was organically and functionally the creation of the member States with no separate existence outside their control . |
| 18 | And it was more than just the light reflected from their balding , silvery heads . |
| 19 | It was immediately apparent that the main challenge to the ingenuity of the designers was the considerable width of the building , which , at 20m ( 66ft ) , was more than double the dimension usually found in residential buildings . |
| 20 | Investment activity by unit was more than double the percentage of North Side units contained by the neighbourhood . |
| 21 | The number of reported seroconversions has risen steadily since 1986 ; the number of cases in which transmission of HIV-1 was known to have occurred during 1990–2 ( 157 ) was more than double the number recorded during 1987–9 ( 74 ) . |
| 22 | The annual growth in the number of patients treated , at 1.9 per cent per year , was more than double the rate of growth in spending ( Robinson 1991 ) . |
| 23 | The tube was more than twice the length of an adult macaque 's arms . |
| 24 | A DRIVER who caused the death of a 16-year-old jogger while his blood alcohol was more than twice the limit was jailed for 18 months yesterday . |
| 25 | This was more or less the case throughout the West Indies , although attitudes in Barbados were undoubtedly narrower than elsewhere . |
| 26 | Ellen was adamantly opposed to the first two and a noisy supporter of the last two , while my position was more or less the opposite . |
| 27 | ‘ Stepping Out ’ — it was more or less the record company 's idea ; it was like ‘ stepping out ’ of Genesis . ’ |
| 28 | This was more or less the view of the headmaster . |