Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The intensity of the pink plagioclase stain is proportional to the amount of calcium in the molecule : albite/oligoclase will stain lighter than a more calcic plagioclase . |
| 2 | arbitration is quicker than the highly formalised court process ; |
| 3 | In Britain this trend has been less marked although the more recent appointment of Sir Derek Rayner , the managing director of Marks and Spencer , as the Conservative government 's economic ‘ watchdog ’ , is significant for similar reasons . |
| 4 | This shows that the distance between the chain ends , for this model is proportional to the square root of the number of bonds and so , is considerably shorter than a fully extended chain . |
| 5 | Variations from such ballets as Petipa 's Don Quixote , Raymonda and La Bayadère and Bournonville 's Napoli are still considered by most classical dancers to be more technically demanding than the more complex twistings and turnings of modern choreographers who mix their styles . |
| 6 | In other words these derelict monuments to Robert Maxwell 's empire will remain empty until the most profitable use can be found for them . |
| 7 | " not advisable to adopt the suggestions of the Visitors : the School in its present state works exceedingly well and it is very doubtful if a more extended course of the higher branches of education would be equally beneficial to the great mass of residents in Stockport and its vicinity , who are anxious to avail themselves of the instruction afforded to their children in the School as at present constituted . " |
| 8 | It is still not clear whether the approximately 250 people still listed as missing include those whom ex-detainees say were still alive in May , or if they include the names of those last seen in 1984 or 1986 . |
| 9 | It is doubtful whether a more impressive specimen of mass self-delusion can be produced from any era of recorded history . |
| 10 | Without it , it is doubtful whether the more extreme pacifists could have been persuaded to take part in the canvassing . |
| 11 | This indicates that the polyethylene chain is twice as extended as the freely jointed chain model when short range interactions are considered . |
| 12 | She was wearing a man 's sweater back to front , and under her hair — cut high and short now at the back — there was a triangle of white skin as soft and fresh as a newly broken bread-roll . |
| 13 | As long as they 've been racing hangliders in Britian Pete Harvey from Milton Keynes has flown as fast and soared as high as the very best … |
| 14 | Although the Critique had been intended to rescue Marxism from the sclerosis of Stalinism , Sartre found that his theory of history , far from explaining what had gone wrong when the most radical political theory turned out in practice to be one of the most oppressive , had rather shown why it had necessarily happened that way . |
| 15 | Beginning from Buttermere , follow the path to Scale Force ( 2 miles ) , a deeply recessed waterfall which , at 172ft , is the summit of Red Pike ( 1.5 miles ) is quieter and not as steep as the more popular ascent via Bleaberry Tarn . |
| 16 | A palindrome arises for reasons that have nothing to do with transformational grammar ; puns undoubtedly perform some sort of linguistic operation even though they are not accounted for in the grammars ; etymology reveals monsters more absurd than the most ignorant folk-etymology can imagine . |
| 17 | Income from a UK unit trust invested in foreign shares is lower than a locally based one because of UK corporation tax . |
| 18 | The 54 per cent turnout of the 4,800,000 registered voters was significantly lower than the more than 95 per cent turnout for the 1980 and 1985 elections [ see pp. 30367-75 ; 34020-21 ] . |
| 19 | Since the distortion leads to a level of work that is lower than the socially efficient amount , cutting income taxes would also increase the amount of work done in the economy . |
| 20 | At just over 15 per cent it is 6 per cent lower than the least variable of the constituent shares ( BTR ) . |
| 21 | Second , both these latter people , and the so-called ‘ oilies ’ who pass through the local airport on the way to the oil rigs , are much less respectable than the more permanent residents in Dunrossness . |
| 22 | Although the parameters obtained are analogous to those of graphical statistics their derivation employs the entire grain population and so they are more representative than the graphically derived values . |
| 23 | This was a revolutionary tactic , employing something even more advanced than the most state-of-the-art technology : common sense . |
| 24 | The annual totals are published with the permission of Islay Estates Ltd. where a remarkably long run of weather statistics has been kept with very few gaps . |
| 25 | After all , what could be more natural and nutritious than a deliciously sweet grape dried by the sun ? |
| 26 | The figures are broadly similar although a slightly greater number of students is involved in each practice than is the case among Schofield 's group . |
| 27 | What is apparent , though , is the car 's form and its size : closer to a Porsche 911 than the mechanically similar Lamborghini Diablo . |
| 28 | Part of the oddness of her appearance , he realized , came from the fact that she did n't look like a woman so much as a rather inept female impersonator . |
| 29 | The affair started not so much as a head-first plunge as a mesmerised topple . |
| 30 | Then he called for the caskets of gold in which was the balsam and the myrrh which the Soldan of Persia had sent him ; and when these were put before him he bade them bring him the golden cup , of which he was wont to drink ; and he took of that balsam and of that myrrh as much as a little spoon-full , and mingled it in the cup with rose-water and drank of it ; and for the seven days which he lived he neither ate nor drank aught else than a little of that myrrh and balsam mingled with water . |