Example sentences of "[det] [det] [subord] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | Much more than in the Review , the concern here is with the quality of service offered to the " client " or consumer " . |
2 | He was still limping slightly , but much less than at the beginning of the week . |
3 | But as Nicholas Bosanquet ( 1975 , 1978 ) points out this is partly because younger people are now dependent , ill and hospitalized much less than in the past . |
4 | See you 've got to get rid of all that because at the back of your mind you 're still saying , Well I 've spent a lot of money still only done part of the job . |
5 | We should not , however , expect a question for the initial verb alone since this is only possible in English for verbs which describe something as being , in some as yet ill-defined sense , " done " to their objects : ( 69 ) what did Rafferty do to the cistern ? and this can not be claimed for the verbs preceding clausal adjectives any more than for a verb which precedes an explicit subordinate clause . |
6 | If they are rich , they can spend more on it , and will ; but there is no calculus which can tell us the optimum amount that we ought to spend on education , any more than on the relief of suffering and the cure of the sick , or on the arts . |
7 | Well you 'll have to go easy because you wo n't get any more until after the weekend ! |
8 | And she did n't like going out with me any more because of the way they all stared at me anyhow , I could n't go most places looking like this , could I ? |
9 | And I ca n't watch football any more because of the way white fans shout racist insults at the black players . |