Example sentences of "[subord] [adj] and [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Kellerman says , Eventually , faced by a less than resolute and tactically naive president , congress agreed a tax-cutting package of nearly $7 billion more than Ford had requested . |
| 2 | Individual storms may be 500 times more acidic than expected and exceptionally low pH values have been observed during rainstorms as , for example , at Pitlochry in Scotland when on 10 April 1974 a pH value of 2.4 was recorded ( Likens et al. , 1979 ) . |
| 3 | Smells , so often the reason for disinfection , are more appropriately dealt with by improving ventilation , remedial maintenance if necessary and more effective cleaning . |
| 4 | They even jokingly offered me a brother or son — I used to think this was a straightforward , if surprising and rather frivolous show of openness to newcomers . |
| 5 | The software company may even suggest that the problems will be overcome if new and more powerful equipment is obtained . |
| 6 | The most important fact to remember is that it is highly contagious and one case can very easily develop into a large outbreak unless prompt and very strict isolation of any case is done . |
| 7 | What to do — of anything — about the Italian Connection is a problem that has long perplexed the top administrators : some see it as a cancer at the heart of rugby ; others as a storm in a teacup of no consequence to what they see as larger and more insidious threat to amateurism in England and the rest of the ‘ Big Eight ’ . |
| 8 | These rapidly accumulated round the fissure , building up into a conical heap , and then , as more and more new material emerged from the fissures , lava flows were erupted and began to stream down the ski-slopes . |
| 9 | In 1979 , as more and more pressurised water reactors were ordered throughout Europe , EEC ministers decided to take over the project . |
| 10 | Now they are having to change their attitude as more and more public school kids rifle shops in London 's Kings Road and South Molton Street for the best in designer gear Because of their rich clientele , the shops have not previously used the tags and electronic security systems used in high street stores to protect themselves against the £1.5 billion-worth of goods lost through shoplifting each year But designer clothes are attracting designer thieves . |
| 11 | This activity has earned the gratitude and , indeed , the respect of hacks such as myself , who have come to rely on the OHE 's booklets and fact sheets and other publications as accurate and marvellously convenient source material . |
| 12 | He describes Australia 's traditional industrial base as geriatric and virtually past salvation . |