Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [adj] [conj] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , the studies that I 've been involved in , the computer has performed certainly as well as a consultant , and at times much better than a junior doctor in the particular situation that I 'm talking about . |
| 2 | Such movements , however , do not necessarily and simply entail the substitution of a smaller conjugally-based family for a traditional extended family ; rather it would appear that at these times kin may take on a new significance , and that we may need to look at a network of relationships much wider than the conjugal family . |
| 3 | THERE can be few pictures more appealing than the latest shots of Zenouska Mowatt . |
| 4 | His shooting uniform of olive greens and tweeds as tribal as the black Sunday outfits of the Lewis churchgoers . |
| 5 | Interest rates had risen in recent months as high as an annualized rate of 1,200 per cent as banks struggled to retain their funds , and the move initially froze the savings of thousands of Argentinians and also affected major corporations . |
| 6 | Tiny varying voltages were applied to the plates and the platypus 's reactions showed that it could detect field strengths as low as a 500 millionth of a volt ( 0.05 microvolts ) per centimetre . |
| 7 | In fact steel is exceptional in sometimes reaching strengths as high as a tenth of its calculated strength ; the great majority of common solids can show only a hundredth or a thousandth of what theory indicates . |
| 8 | The final choice , yet to be made , centred as much around how the suppliers coped with these demands as much as the actual performance figures . |
| 9 | His ideas are being applied in settings as diverse as a rich Dallas school ( one computer for every five pupils ) and an institution for the severely handicapped ( who use their turtles to thereby explore space in a way otherwise denied them ) . |
| 10 | There may be a booklet on the subject , a special expert in the technical department who has sat on the relevant government fact-finding commission or a market research survey giving the latest market trends , any of which would help the journalists far more than the standard handouts . |
| 11 | He dropped his pack , unbuckled his sword and propped it against the wall , then turned to rake Isabel with eyes as sharp as the wicked-looking blade behind him . |
| 12 | Beautifully co-ordinated from top to toe , he wore a soft wool coat that matched eyes as dark as a black Welsh tarn . |
| 13 | His face was still , his mouth held in a taut beautiful line , his eyes as cold as an arctic glacier as he encouraged her to continue with the slightest nod of his head . |
| 14 | I confess that more than once I came near to tears , eyes as misted as the beautiful stage setting of Günther Schneider-Siemssen . |
| 15 | Ambient air samples from 50 locations , up to 1000 feet away , are continuously analysed for up to 25 different chemical compounds chosen by the user , at concentrations as low as a few ppb . |
| 16 | " Our arguments are terribly electric , we come out of them sometimes with our heads as exhausted as an electric battery after it has run down . " |
| 17 | The muzzle itself is pinkish grey and fairly broad , the ears quite large and the high-set eyes prominent with a docile expression . |
| 18 | Mr Gaught tells of problems with the transitional reduction scheme , designed to help those faced with bills much higher than the previous community charge . |
| 19 | We might as well be councillor and actually sort of erm stated the problem to which it is very difficult to find a solution and that problem is how do you keep council rents below nine and a half percent , that is a problem to which councillor does not have a solution . |
| 20 | The larger creature placed its feet straight forward while the other toed-out markedly , suggesting a pathological condition . |
| 21 | These were high status castes and many of them were found to have sex ratios as low as a thousand to one , sorry , a hundred to one . |
| 22 | Unix International , which found its million-dollar seat on X/Open 's board of directors as burdensome as the Open Software Foundation did and was threatening to drop out , as OSF did ( UX No 404 ) , has found accommodation in X/Open 's new cheaper technical membership classification . |
| 23 | Drugs often produce effects far worse than the original problem for which they were prescribed . |
| 24 | Policies to reduce the real wage rate in the face of Keynesian unemployment could make matters far worse since a common feature of temporary equilibrium models is the positive functional dependence of consumption expenditure on the real wage rate . |
| 25 | Occasionally a faint glow from the city brushed the edge of his cheek and she was reminded how handsome he was , the smooth chin , his lines as clean as a lengthening shadow . |
| 26 | Though evidence of the Caledonian orogeny has been claimed from areas as remote as the Canadian Rockies and the Bohemian Massif , it is fairly obvious where its main effects were felt . |
| 27 | Early tests suggest that LIFE can pinpoint cancers as small as a tenth of a millimetre across . |
| 28 | Compare that attendance figure with the 248,000 visitors over two and a half months to the ‘ Masterworks from Lille ’ exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum , an only averagely successful exhibition by their standards ; the 204,000 to ‘ Sisley ’ at the Royal Academy over two and a half months , and even the 52,000 to ‘ Royal Treasures of Sweden ’ over three months , considered a flop by the R.A. |
| 29 | Britain has a whole new culture of public education to work out : new expectations , customs , relationships and attitudes more profound than the new vocabulary which is at present being learnt . |
| 30 | That is , they would each have to be about 450 times more accurate than a typical real-life secretary . |