Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [subord] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | East Germany 's slender claim to legitimacy rests above all on the fraudulent implication that it is the good non-Nazi , never-Nazi Germany , any Nazi-supporters having joined the four million renegades whose Westward migration almost drained East Germany dry before the Wall went up on 13 August 1961 . |
| 2 | The Pumping Station at this village on the River Witham near Tattershall was built to drain the surrounding land because shrinkage of the peat ( see Holme Fen ) has left the surface level lower than the rivers . |
| 3 | LUXURY TOUCH : He ordered decorators to coat the walls with an expensive marble-effect finish — about three times dearer than the standard chip paper and emulsion he had chosen earlier . |
| 4 | Obviously the City boys are a bit fussier than the country boys about when they play . |
| 5 | Erm ah , now that erm I think I was reasonably happy most of the time , erm I know if I can sort of look at the other side of the coin erm , I became a bit apprehensive as the war went on and er , obviously it was n't going to last much longer . |
| 6 | McLaughlin 's ( 1991 ) study showed clearly that the personal incomes of ex-carers were around £40 lower than the 1988 Family Expenditure Survey ( FES ) per capita average , while the incomes of two-adult households containing an ex-carer were £144 a week lower than their FES counterparts . |
| 7 | ‘ He got a bit upset when the bowels did n't work and let me know it , ’ he recalls . |
| 8 | Overall mortality was 23% lower than the national average for all causes of death and 18% lower for cancer . |
| 9 | The use of the relay at this point may seem a bit odd as the switching could be electronically activated , but the use of a mechanical relay introduces a small but desirable time variation ( as well as possible bounce ! ) in the duration of the relays closure and so helps in enhancing the random operation of IC6 during the short time that the VCO is producing its high frequency output . |
| 10 | One leg was a bit shorter than the other , I think . |
| 11 | Few reports about this species are received annually , but these suggest that it is some three to four times scarcer than the Common Partridge . |
| 12 | ‘ The case of the customer who simply removes goods from the shelves is of course different because the basis on which a supermarket is run is that customers certainly have the consent of the owner to take goods from the shelves and take them to the checkout point there to pay the proper price for them . |
| 13 | The X100 will be as much as 610mm shorter than the 4724mm ( 15ft 6ins ) XJS , not least because the 1220mm rear overhang will be halved . |
| 14 | Hence an increase in output from Y 1 to Y 2 will reduce the price level from P 1 to P 2 while the level of money wages remains unchanged at W . |
| 15 | They changed that , so the money er it 's a bit different than the Maxwell , the money has n't been erm a switched over to the Cayman Islands and all over the place , it 's it 's stayed in , in the but of course we 're told by the trustees and by our legal advice that nothing illegal 's taken place , the money 's been used to st er finance early voluntary retirement etcetera , etcetera . |
| 16 | And now I am going to have to tell you WHAT TO DO and WHAT NOT TO DO , but this time it 's a bit different because the DOs and DON'Ts that I am going to give you may easily SAVE YOUR LIFE . |
| 17 | Erm I I foresee the possibility that erm we would be faced with lesser proposals lesser than the scale that erm Professor Lock contemplates because it would be said , well if fifty hectares is right for Ha er for Harrogate then what twenty hectares for Richmondshire ten hectares . |
| 18 | During a month-long survey , Lyme Regis passed the EC 's guideline for faecal coliforms which is 20 times tougher than the basic standard . |
| 19 | Also important is the limited availability of alternative sources for retailer 2 once the first agreement is signed . |
| 20 | But the meeting was only a few hours old when the news broke that Winnie Mandela would face serious charges arising out of the murder in January 1989 of 14 year old activist , Stompie Moeketsi Seipei . |
| 21 | These horses have a Jockey Club official handicap rating that merits carrying a weight lower than the minimum weight allotted for a race . |
| 22 | These horses have a Jockey Club official handicap rating that merits carrying a weight lower than the minimum weight allotted for a race . |
| 23 | I found it boring , self-conscious and a good deal sketchier than the Balzac novella on which it 's based . |
| 24 | Sensation rang up the curtain on July when Sir Derek Rayner revealed that government-reared rats for research cost £28 each when the going price for a rat in civvy street was £2 . |
| 25 | Though this model has the same excellent Vibram sole as the S-SB3 L GTX , this does not confer the same walking characteristics as the boot is much more flexible and has much less lateral foot support . |
| 26 | You will not be at a level a good deal lower than the surrounding ground , so you will have to lay a hardcore base to build up the foundations to suit the path material and method of laying . |
| 27 | He said : ‘ Things were looking very bad because the lowest estimate we received for putting the club right after the fire was £180,000 . |
| 28 | He was much paler himself , and looked a good deal sicker than the red-cheeked young man . |
| 29 | The Court declared such practice unconstitutional as the black schools were invariable inferior . |
| 30 | The ‘ compact ’ skis of the 1970s that were such a wheeze ( as opposed to a sneeze ) in powder were up to 10% broader than the skis we use today — they had typical sidecuts at the waist of around 70mm , compared to the slimline ( 63mm to 66mm ) skis that are more common today . |