Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The regulation of pension funds tends to be far lighter than for insurance companies as they are bound by trust legislation , and because the companies that offer pensions have an incentive to make sure that schemes are adequately administered as they are responsible for the benefits they have agreed upon for their employees ( even though they rarely run the fund themselves ) . |
| 2 | The emphasis may be different than at Forest but the essentials are the same . |
| 3 | The place was a lot cleaner than in commune days . |
| 4 | Why do my titles come out better in French than in English ? he wrote . |
| 5 | Home Office Minister , John Patten who 's also MP for Oxford west and Abingdon , says the scheme is much fairer than at present . |
| 6 | Similar choices in other languages may , on the other hand , be even more marked than in English . |
| 7 | With the 1989 Housing Act in effect , this will be even more strongly enforced than at present . |
| 8 | On the day when I was wilting with heat my feet were not in the least sweaty , but I would have liked more support — I thought it barely adequate except for lowland walking . |
| 9 | Installation is easier than with mains-voltage supplies too , because you can simply trail the cables across the ground instead of having to bury them . |
| 10 | As glass tubes are ideal for obtaining Raman spectra , sampling of liquids is much easier than for IR spectroscopy . |
| 11 | But , anyway , I said yes , because I thought I could escape from him easier than from madam . |
| 12 | Communications by sea across the enclosed waters of the Adriatic has always been easier than by land routes across the mountains or along the narrow coastal strip . |
| 13 | The war was also a business in which it was apparently no easier than in peace to obtain just treatment for seaman , whatever hardships they might be suffering . |
| 14 | Ground-contact time would be shorter than on concrete , they reckoned , yet step length would be increased , and with it , speed . |
| 15 | In summer the days are longer and warmer and the nights are shorter than in autumn . |
| 16 | Where a comparison can be made , the data show that , in the more developed countries , the risk of material mortality is greater at ages 45 and over than below age 15 but , as mentioned above , in the region of Asia and Oceania and in Mexico , mothers below age 15 incur by far the greater risks . |
| 17 | ‘ On the contrary , with high levels of transport growth the emissions of nitrogen oxides from road vehicles may be higher in 2020 than at present . ’ |
| 18 | The point that I 've been making with the various percentages is that those negotiations will become unrealistic if on average , you 're talking about forty some percent of sites having to go for affordable housing on a negotiated basis . |
| 19 | ‘ He was OK until after training , when he came in and said he was feeling his kicking muscle . |
| 20 | The battle began at three in the morning and continued uninterrupted until past daybreak . |
| 21 | Yet it remained weekly until after independence and was unable to compete on equal terms with the pro-Welensky , pro-Federation daily Northern News . |
| 22 | Mental health is different because of culture and race yet the same irrespective of either . |
| 23 | in the current climate you see it 's also erm interesting because of course this , this , this sort of theory depends who 's interviewing you . |
| 24 | erm er it 's very interesting because of course the children grow up probably much more comfortable around people who 've got mental problems than you or I would be |
| 25 | The is interesting because of course planning is an eggshells area where you have to tiptoe delicately through the tulips . |
| 26 | Well I did hear that point , it 's , it 's interesting because in fact Lithuania er President Boris Yeltsin signed an agreement in July , er which effectively Russia recognise Lithuania as an independent state , it was the second country in the world to do that , er all of this was sorted out in a very er , good , er peaceful , sensible way , there , obviously Russia has concerns in Lithuania er not least the district . |
| 27 | From America , the development of the slave plantations , cotton plantations , meant that far more cotton was being sent over to England , so as well as wool , you also have the choice of cotton garments , which were much more popular because of course , they washed very easily . |
| 28 | Playback to the whole class may be unavoidable because of time and space restrictions . |
| 29 | Myers has estimated that by the end of the century , at present rates , there will be only two relict blocks : western Brazilian Amazonia and Zaire , with smaller ones in New Guinea and the Guyana Shield of South America , but that these are unlikely to last beyond 2050 because of cultivation as , for example , the population in Rondonia in south Brazilian Amazonia increased from 1100 in 1975 to well over a million by 1986 , with an increase in cultivation from 1250km 2 to 10000 in 1982 and 17000 in 1986 . |
| 30 | The FAO expects at least 10 million hectares a year to be cleared between now and 2050 because of population pressures . |