Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [adv] [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Earth is included because though only a few tens of impact craters are known , all of them are less than 500 Ma old and thus constitute recent cratering . |
| 2 | I am here and this husband of yours is not . |
| 3 | ‘ You do n't think I 'm normally as effing calm and relaxed as this , do you ? ’ |
| 4 | Wycliffe said : ‘ It 's not about Alfred that I 'm here but another matter altogether . |
| 5 | I was here and this house was here , you and I and this evening were here , and they had always been here , like reflections of my own coming . |
| 6 | I was just that some nights I waken up and you know you can actually hear your heart . |
| 7 | I was there when British Telecom was privatised and I warned of the grave dangers in turning public monopolies into private monopolies . |
| 8 | If you are more than twelve hours late , take the most recently delayed pill straightaway , discard any earlier missed pills and use extra precautions ( e.g. condoms ) for the next seven days . |
| 9 | Behind you are more than twenty years of habit-forming obedience to the house rules — and why not ? |
| 10 | ‘ If you are past the mark , you are less than two seconds behind , and too close . ’ |
| 11 | Ironically , if you 're more than five points ahead in a two-player game , you can deliberately kill off your team to win ! |
| 12 | Not unless you 're less than nine inches through . |
| 13 | Twenty , she 's more than she 's more than twenty years younger than me . |
| 14 | ‘ She confirmed what she has been attempting to gloss over in her bid to become deputy leader — that she is still as left wing as ever … a unilateralist in the mould of Tony Benn himself . |
| 15 | She was more than eight months now , so this had to be dealt with at once . |
| 16 | We are currently considering these issues and expect to offer advice and guidance to actuaries who find themselves in these circumstances which can often prove difficult for a professional advisor . |
| 17 | We 're less than forty minutes out now . ’ |
| 18 | We were together as two fools were together , Theo told him bluntly : a couple of foolish idealists . |
| 19 | By the time I realized this we were less than twenty yards apart . |
| 20 | Holists , according to Miller , aim to show why social phenomena would be as they are even if particular individuals possessed properties other than those they actually have . |
| 21 | ‘ Look how much better the Lilliputians do it ’ , is a tempting cry , but the more one looks into it the more one finds that the Lilliputians are n't a fair comparison with us : they have n't got our antiquated industries … our legal system ; and they are less than six inches tall . |
| 22 | A buzzard 's feathers have almost a glossy look to them , and they 're more than one shade of brown . |
| 23 | They were hard but gentle men . |
| 24 | As a consequence wives in social class I and II in 1986 produced their first child when they were more than four years older than wives in social class IV and V. From the 1930s until the 1970s the average couple 's first baby arrived about twenty months after their marriage . |
| 25 | They were more than three times as likely as the unemployed to be part of an income unit with an income of more than £100 per week ( 14 per cent and 4 per cent ) and half as likely to have an income of less than £50 a week ( 19 per cent and 41 per cent ) . |
| 26 | Despite deindustrialization total exports of manufactured goods increased substantially : by 1983 they were more than three times their level in the late 1940s and almost twice their average during the 1960s . |
| 27 | Not surprisingly then , pregnant teenagers are more likely to delay going to the doctor , and in one study , over a quarter had not gone until they were more than three months pregnant . |
| 28 | Trent believed that they were less than two miles from the river mouth . |
| 29 | It 's not whether old trainers are fashionable or not ( many of the old school trainers were crap ) . |
| 30 | Well , it 's Sunday , but it 's not until next week is it ? |