Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [adj] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Money counts more than Monet in the 1990s . |
| 2 | It is claimed that a fifth of road fatalities say 1,150 deaths a year can be attributed to ’ drunk ’ driving : a driver has more than the permitted level of alcohol in his blood . |
| 3 | ‘ For Tavernier , the cinema counts more than anything . |
| 4 | He was incorrect to say that we have fewer national holidays than any other European country — the Netherlands has fewer than us . |
| 5 | Some people find their hair looks better if they change their shampoo regularly because using one product can cause a build-up of residue , as dies using too many styling products . |
| 6 | Work out the contributions according to the normal earnings period ( for example , weekly or monthly ) , even if the first payment covers less than that period . |
| 7 | South Gully looks good so I excuse myself past a team on the first pitch who are finding the thin , bubbled ice formation awkward . |
| 8 | The modern surveyor involved in administering building contracts needs more than just a working knowledge of its terms — he needs a detailed legal appreciation . |
| 9 | Such a framework has more than a passing similarity with the career structure observed by Howard Parker in his study of young delinquents in Liverpool . |
| 10 | Her red hair stands erect as bristles on a scrubbing brush . |
| 11 | Death toll nears 200 as Bombay rocked by series of bomb blasts |
| 12 | The challenge of AIDS involves more than individual sexual behaviour : it represents an opportunity to work through our commonest societal fears–and taboos , to reach new understanding and evolve compassionate action . |
| 13 | The key to our success is the recognition by users and their families that we avoid notions of coercion and forcible treatment , that psychiatric practice involves more than ensuring compliance with medication . |
| 14 | The Middle-earth of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings is full of chaotic half-glimpsed independent lives , ears in the forest , fell voices on the wind , enemy powers older than Sauron and unconnected with him . |
| 15 | But Leviathan contains more than this , for political philosophy is just one part of an ambitious and systematic three-part account of the Elements of Philosophy . |
| 16 | Therefore , the choice of construction projects for the research holds constant as many elements of the business environment as is feasibly possible , allowing a focus on the different managerial practices in the two countries , and the ways in which SGE is trying to combine them . |
| 17 | This general rule holds good except in the case of degrees including English , and of the joint degrees in modern languages and business studies , where particularly heavy pressure on places means that it may not always be possible to make offers even to applicants who possess grades above the minimum . |
| 18 | The same rule holds true when simple fillings no longer suffice and a tooth has to be crowned or a bridge has to be placed . |
| 19 | Low interest rates have reduced the return on what 's left of the pension funds , and the pensioners say their future looks bleaker than ever . |
| 20 | While much of the UK is looking gloomily at the dark clouds of a major recession , it seems poetic justice that for at least some of Belfast 's population , the future looks better than it has for many years . |
| 21 | This remarkable piece has historic as well as artistic interest , for the intricately worked base is the only contemporaneous illustration of the town 's fortifications as they were after their re-building in 1675–88 . |
| 22 | However , a horse needs more than the space necessary to exercise both body and mind . |
| 23 | Membership of the United Nations has more than quadrupled since 1945 , greatly complicating international negotiations , while a fundamental conflict of interest between developed and less developed states introduced a North-South dimension to global politics . |
| 24 | From the street the terrace looks much as it did when Lorimer and Miller had finished their works nearly 200 years ago . |
| 25 | True , this remedy contains more than an element of ‘ big brother ’ and it may be that it does no more than turn the criminals away from the areas covered by the cameras ' eyes . |
| 26 | Total loans for house buying has more than quadrupled from about £9.1 billion to £43 billion , with the number of mortgages increasing by 62 p.c. from 6.5m to about 10m . |
| 27 | The proportion of men aged 70 and over in the labour force has more than halved from 11 per cent to 5 per cent in the same time period . |
| 28 | In her memoirs , de Beauvoir describes Nizan as " feverishly exultant , triumphantly confident " that the signing of the tripartite pact was imminent . |
| 29 | As far as speed limits lower than the ‘ normal urban ’ 50 km/h ( 30 mph ) limit are concerned , this is subject to the consent of the Secretary of State which is ‘ in practice rarely given . ’ |
| 30 | The diabetic clinic of those days did not even have blood glucose results available when patients were seen : now most clinics enjoy this advance . |