Example sentences of "[adj] [vb base] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some communicate better than others . |
| 2 | Some appear automatically when you begin a certain task ( the Chart toolbar appears when you start work on a graph ) and others live under the Options toolbar in the menu . |
| 3 | Some earn more than £500,000 . |
| 4 | Of the world 's 250 major industrial products , just 12 consume more than 70% of the energy used by the entire industrial sector . |
| 5 | One noticeably in excess of the standards ( 30 BOD rather than the 20 of the Royal Commission , 40 solids rather than 30 ) is ‘ harmful ’ and requires ‘ improvement to be carried out ’ . |
| 6 | Spring is generally the season in which to sow , but some germinate better if sown in late summer or early autumn , that is , as soon as the parent plants have flowered and set seed , and the seed has ripened . |
| 7 | While most people regularly watch both BBC and ITV news , few read more than one morning newspaper . |
| 8 | For the ones that manage to survive very few live longer than a year ad so the bird trade is perpetuated by owners buying a replacement bird . |
| 9 | On further thought it is soon evident that it is not as easy as that , because the same people are not at church every week , some come more than once on Sunday and will , therefore , be counted twice , and there is an attendance fluctuation depending on the state of the weather and the time of year ! |
| 10 | Because I shall probably need some help here when I examine Mrs Cole , as she finds it difficult to move . ’ |
| 11 | Some have more than one |
| 12 | The gap in the reef showed as a dark stretch less than two hundred yards away on their port quarter . |
| 13 | Opening week saw visitors average three fish apiece as Mr A Robinson ( Darlington ) grassed an impressive rainbow of 6.12.0 . |
| 14 | These dry quicker than conventional oils and are creamy to handle . |
| 15 | These dry quicker than conventional oils and are creamy to handle . |
| 16 | Each proprietary brand of locator has its accompanying transmitter and it must be said that in all four instances these work better if you use the manufacturer 's pairing rather than permutating among the ones available . |
| 17 | Cytomegalovirus was associated with AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis in only two of the present patients in whom cryptosporidiosis was not also implicated and in less than a third overall ; these represent less than 10% of all cases of cytomegalovirus enteritis seen during the study period . |
| 18 | The properties of the sample — the density , optical clarity , modulus , and general mechanical response all change dramatically when crystallites are present and the polymer is no longer subject to the rules of linear visco-elasticity , which apply to amorphous polymers as outlined in Chapter 13 . |
| 19 | The gels , the sturdy Gwendolen of Susannah Harker and Claire Skinner 's pretty ingenue Cecily did well enough , though their voices suggested current RADA-speak rather than , I imagine fin-de-siecle deb talk . |
| 20 | However , there is no doubt that we all fly better if we fly regularly and it is a good policy to fly whenever you have the opportunity . |
| 21 | Territoriality , male ( and juvenile ) aggressiveness , the demand for property , the protection and preservation of kin , and an innate need for ontological security were all put forward as being at the core of individual and social behaviour and observable in unmediated form in people 's behaviour . |
| 22 | Liberalisation , consumer sovereignty , the need for the creation of a global industry are all put forward as doctrinaire arguments , while conveniently overlooking monopoly , foreign exchange drain and , in the case of smaller nations , lack of concern for legitimate development aspirations . |
| 23 | The latter relax annoyingly when not in use and tend to slide out of place . |
| 24 | So we decided to take a look at some of the alternatives available — with one proviso , they all cost less than £10 . |
| 25 | Most LDCs experience at regular intervals external current account ( deficit ) problems due to a lack of diversified exports and/or deteriorating terms of trade because many obtain more than 50 per cent of their export earnings from one or two products , e.g. Zambia regularly obtains over 90 per cent of its foreign exchange earnings from copper . |
| 26 | mm and that I , I think they do and the robin and the , that one starling and the thrush , I think they all roost there cos they seem to be about every time you throw stuff out I just remembered Tom 's father worked at er , the electric company |
| 27 | But , if the entire republic is slowly being submerged , individual citizens can not afford to ignore their collective fate because , in the end , they all drown together if nothing is done ; and again , as with Venice , what needs to be done is far beyond the powers of any one individual . |
| 28 | Crookes took up Faraday 's work on the passage of electricity through gases , and was excited by a passage in an early lecture of Faraday 's where he had speculated that there might be a ‘ fourth state of matter ’ simpler than the gaseous , just as gases are simpler than liquids ; they all expand alike when heated , for example . |
| 29 | There are three million companies in Britain of Which only a thousand employ more than a thousand employees . |
| 30 | The realisation of this aim has remained elusive ; in all societies the children of the powerful do better than those of the powerless . |