Example sentences of "[noun] [det] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Strong attractive colours always appeal , and a bright red hatchback will probably sell for £200-£300 more than a dull beige one . |
| 3 | This is the electro-acoustic version of the SW213 and retails for £20 more than the standard model . |
| 4 | Kevin Drinkell , 29 , became Coventry City 's record signing yesterday when his transfer from Rangers cost £800,000 — £20,000 more than the fee paid in 1987 to Chelsea for David Speedie . |
| 5 | Many garden centres offer a great deal more than the stock range of houseplants , I have seen unusual specimens like daturas laden with superbly scented flowers , anthuriums ( aptly named the flamingo flower ) , streptocarpus , the new pot gerberas ( huge flowers in fabulous colours ) and the much improved New Guinea hybrid impatiens . |
| 6 | Yesterday 's denoument will also turn out to be good for Edwards , who will be able to sell his stake for a good deal more than the £10m on offer . |
| 7 | Economic globalization implies a great deal more than the development of extensive trade links . |
| 8 | It was an age of militarism , though not yet of popular militarism ; its wars and battles were a good deal more than the courtly and rather ineffective rituals which some historians have tended to imagine . |
| 9 | Here was this young creature , beautiful and restless , married to a man almost old enough to be her grandfather , and apparently setting out to make the very best of it , too , with no signs of regret or self-pity ; but the prospect of having a girl of her own age in the house , even for a few days , might well matter to her a great deal more than the extension and acceptance of a mere conventional politeness . |
| 10 | THE sum of the parts is sometimes worth a good deal more than the whole . |
| 11 | For Guinnessness and Irishness go hand in hand , or glass in hand , and mean a good deal more than an island of soft green hues and a drink that 's a subtle black and white . |
| 12 | The total value of the property taken was put at £925 , £54 less than the cost of the damage caused . |
| 13 | President Reagan 's Strategic Defense Initiative , announced in 1983 , has always been accompanied by a strong element of criticism of existing US nuclear policy , but it may turn out to be a good deal less than the promised means of freeing the world from the scourge of nuclear weaponry . |
| 14 | Only an upper limit on the flattening can thus be established , but this is a good deal less than the flattening of the Earth . |
| 15 | A suggested admissions policy for the next four years is that new first year students should be admitted each October to bring the total student numbers to 10% more than the previous October . |
| 16 | Nothing has broken the isolation more than the light aircraft . |
| 17 | For £25 , £1 more than the new charge for MoT test for cars , a qualified driving instructor will give the driver an hour-long skills appraisal which will include at least 45 minutes of driving . |
| 18 | In exactly the same way , an atom such as a halogen atom in a covalent molecule can show spin-orbit coupling . |
| 19 | Particular groups such as the young , women , the skilled and unskilled are selected in similar local labour markets to compare their responses to economic and social change . |
| 20 | Filming nut cracking and other behaviour in the dark forest was difficult enough , but it was the inherently fast-moving activity of hunting that provided the real challenge . |
| 21 | Over the same period , small countries such as the Netherlands and Portugal and , indeed , larger countries such as West Germany and Japan , had a reduction in unemployment , so it is not merely a worldwide factor . |
| 22 | The organisation has campaigned for oil tankers to be equiped with double hulls to minimise dangers of oil spills and for them to avoid such environmentally sensitive areas such as the Shetland isles . |
| 23 | The cost of these changes are prices roughly £400 less than the five-door versions and highly competitive with the opposition . |
| 24 | Pitched at £400 less than the IBM RS/6000 model 220 , the colour 705 can be upgraded to use the 50MHz 710 PA-RISC board , upgradability , which HP claims , is offered neither by Sun nor IBM . |
| 25 | It costs £400 less than the CIC Sigma and £146 less than the slightly lower specified Greenfield machine . |
| 26 | Five shillings ( 2s. less than the lowest amount which , according to Rowntree , could support an individual for a week ) was held to be too low . |
| 27 | Jo and Tina were chauffeured every day to a small exclusive private school for the cosseted daughters of those Bel Air families who valued high moral standards and hard work more than the pretence of being regular folks . |
| 28 | It is £100,000 more than the estimated cost the council had put on the work , and more than £32,000 more than the second highest bid . |
| 29 | The loss was £100,000 less than the group predicted when it launched an £18.5m rights issue to refinance the group in August . |
| 30 | He eventually offered Richard £10 more than the asking price . |