Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It says it will subsidise future private operators rather than permit them to raise London commuter fares to commercial levels . |
| 2 | The current popular level of application of smoke vents to some 3–5% of the floor area does seem low for the fire loads and rate of growth of fire , likely to be experienced in high-bay warehouses particularly when it is borne in mind that unless similar automatic ingress vent areas are provided at low level the effective ceiling vent areas might well be halved ! |
| 3 | The superpowers have seen the conflict as a function of their own struggle , and seen regional contestants either as friends or as surrogates of the enemy . |
| 4 | This is a far cry from our Lord 's proclamation of the good news in which salvation is primarily spiritual and moral , not political and social , and in which the act of deliverance itself is wholly unrelated to the reform of social and political institutions even though it should have an implication in that area . |
| 5 | The corporate planning departments therefore felt that they should be more concerned with the overall economic views rather than with details . |
| 6 | We estimate that the dissociation time for distamycin at 4°C ( <10 s ) must be at least 500 times faster than that of actinomycin under similar conditions . |
| 7 | The six who originally slept about 8 hours did not immediately return to their baseline level , and continued to sleep less than they had before , and even a year later they were sleeping 1 to 1.5 hours less than when they started . |
| 8 | At bottom , this critique revolves around the feeling that many groups of professionals ( in our case teachers ) are organised around professional skills rather than client needs . |
| 9 | In the current climate of change and innovation , education must anticipate and supply professional skills even before their need is perceived by the profession . |
| 10 | The pilots nicknamed them ‘ gremlins ’ and felt , generally , that they were friendly pranksters rather than dangerous antagonists . |
| 11 | Cos I 've still got a bit of a throat and it said for sore throats too if you want . |
| 12 | The Party Programme , adopted at the same congress , promised only that the Soviet Union would ‘ do what it could ’ to assist socialist-oriented states in the developing world ; and authoritative commentaries made it clear that the USSR preferred the peaceful settlement of regional conflicts rather than the ‘ export of revolution ’ . |
| 13 | Some historians have criticised Gladstone 's earlier period of office for reforming institutions rather than society . |
| 14 | Apart , then , from those for whom the virtue of representative democracy is precisely that it restricts and restrains popular power , and even , as in Britain , involves the vesting of sovereignty in the representative institutions rather than in the people themselves the chief argument in defence of representative democracy has been an essentially pragmatic one : that it is the best that can be devised in the context of large societies where the citizens are too many and too scattered to be gathered together in one place . |
| 15 | I think we 're actually getting in each other 's way for the right reasons rather than the wrong reasons , like just said and it 's not a question of somebody else trampling on others er cos I 've heard this sporadically for some time . |
| 16 | Pressure from Bruce Millan , EC regional commissioner , has resulted in the Treasury reluctantly accepting that the funds provided by Brussels are additional to government spending rather than part of it and should be steered to specific projects rather than forming part of the spending pool . |
| 17 | Eventually , formal administrative structures were created between the Task Force and local government , but the Task Force 's determination to implement specific projects rather than to help create a broader and longer-term strategy for the conurbation inevitably created tensions . |
| 18 | The current volume of vehicles could triple , or even quadruple , over the next 30 years and the bulk of the increase will fall on rural roads rather than urban streets or motorways . |
| 19 | Sainsbury 's , ranking 17 in The Times 1000 with 82 000 employees , when considering appointing a senior departmental director , chose to use headhunters for ‘ political reasons rather than convenience or speed ’ because they could then be informed in detail about the market for candidates . |
| 20 | Yet the commercial farmers can be forgiven for believing that the decision to buy the white farms has been taken for short-term political reasons rather than longer-term ones of efficiency or fairness . |
| 21 | Once upon a time , she had been able to withstand Florentine summers better than any English woman she knew but of late they had begun to tire her , to make her feel that in everything she did she was pushing a large boulder up a hill . |
| 22 | The bristlecone pine 's life span is more than 70 times longer than ours . |
| 23 | We , in our turn , live 70 times longer than the smallest mammal , the shrew , and 1200 times longer than a fly . |
| 24 | This tough torch focuses to a beam 70 times brighter than standard . |
| 25 | Opportunities for major fund-raising from other sources are very limited : partly because trust funds usually direct their resources to new short-term projects rather than to longestablished work , and partly because such trusts have been inundated with requests from other agencies suffering from withdrawal of Local Authority grants . |
| 26 | Just one reason why the mortality rate for under-fours is eight times higher than our own . |
| 27 | A study of vegetables from Warsaw 's Ochota district showed they contained 16 mg of lead per kg — eight times higher than the maximum safety level permitted by the World Health Organization . |
| 28 | A suncream with a protection factor of 8 allows you to stay in the sun without burning up to eight times longer than normally . |
| 29 | The new machine produces ‘ cards ’ approximately eight times faster than previously , considerably increasing the flexibility of carpet design and the production of specially made , one-off , carpets for individual customers . |
| 30 | I borrowed one of my dad 's mail-order magazines , and , leafing through the screeds of bankrupt stock , out-of-date and obsolete machines , put together a portable package capable of holding huge chunks of typically verbose Mortonesque meanderings , and spitting them down telephone wires eight times faster than I 'd been used to . |