Example sentences of "[coord] [art] [adj] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the value of the whole W ( the value it has , as Moore puts it , on the whole ) consists of the value of W as a whole plus the value of X plus the value of Y. According as to whether the value of W as a whole is positive , negative or nil the value of W , on the whole , may be greater , less , or the same as the value of the sum of its parts . |
| 2 | It logically follows from this that a fit person should need less sleep than an unfit one , or a man than a woman , or a grown-up than a child . |
| 3 | If you do not wear an available seat belt , you are liable to a fixed penalty or a fine if the case goes to court . |
| 4 | The sixth round was the longest to date and the first since the election of a new Labour government in Israel in June [ see p. 38945-47 ] . |
| 5 | It will be the 32nd US space shuttle mission , and the seventh since the Challenger shuttle exploded in flight in 1986 . |
| 6 | The Greater Pilton area has particular problems relating to children and the elderly where the casualty rates per head of population are over twice those for Lothian Region as a whole ( Table 29 refers ) . |
| 7 | Only three weeks ago , Benidorm 's public prosecutor demanded a year 's imprisonment and a fine if the MP were to be convicted on a charge of obstructing the police . |
| 8 | Behind her in the hallway was a grey Rotweiler no bigger than a pony and no fiercer than a cobra with a hangover . |
| 9 | But if they would work no more and no faster than the job required , they would work no slower and no less : nobody had to give them a special incentive to give of their best . |
| 10 | He was going home , and home meant to him no more and no less than the room where his mother was dying . |
| 11 | Restating those views in summary form , in a case where the necessity to require a specimen of blood or urine under section 7(4) arises for one of the reasons specified in section 7(3) , what is required is no more and no less than the formula used in the instant case or words to the like effect . |
| 12 | It should be no more and no less than the business carried on at the time of completion . |
| 13 | From the explosive and detonator , a wire ran round the belt to the side , where it connected with a lithium battery similar to and no larger than the sort used to power digital watches . |
| 14 | Providing that the catfish is avoided , and no more than a total of 15 cm ( 6 in ) length fish is introduced for every 0.09 square metre ( square foot ) of the surface area of the water , excluding the marginal areas , then few problems should be encountered . |
| 15 | First a request , and no more than a request , for an amendment to the order or some sort of assurance concerning its implementation ; these tend to be few in number . |
| 16 | To the rapid , repetitive beat two glistening bodies were contorting themselves into an impossible position , their backs horizontal to the floor and no more than a foot from it . |
| 17 | Most of this level is involved in the physical functioning of our bodies — breathing , circulation , heartbeat and so on — and no more than a quarter is available for dealing with our conscious thought processes . |
| 18 | The following succession of chords necessitates a change from A to A ♯ and no more if the harp is set to the notes D , E ♯ , F ♯ , G ♯ , A , B ♯ , C ♯ , for they are then written thus : |
| 19 | An odd proposal , but no odder than the belief sustained for 40 years that the Kuomintang would return to Beijing to rule all of China . |
| 20 | Holding high small thin green shoots thicker than a matchstick but no thicker than a pencil , he jeered at women satisfied , he said , by ‘ little boys ’ . |
| 21 | In short , public spending was to rise in real terms but no faster than the GDP . |
| 22 | After the storms of bitterness , this really was a tremendous volte-face , but no more than a barometer of the changes within Nancy herself . |