Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I understand him aright , it ought to be possible to show that Descartes ' stripping away of the ‘ accidental ’ qualities of objects is illegitimate , because based on a series of elisions of meaning between one use of an expression and another where the two expressions look the same but have different meanings . |
| 2 | Although smaller and lighter than the 7.62 Self Loading Rifles which we had used in the Territorial Army , its strength lay in its high velocity rounds and accuracy . |
| 3 | Fitting the PT6As requires major surgery to the fuselage because they are much lighter than the R-1830s and would radically alter the DC-3's centre of gravity . |
| 4 | 9.6 volt cordless drills are generally lighter than the 12 volt types , making overhead work easy |
| 5 | The face of his father 's surgeon , Hua , filled the screen , the old man 's features more expressive than a thousand words . |
| 6 | The four speed box would be more economical than the three speed and is a relatively easy conversion . |
| 7 | Even easier than the tens yeah ? |
| 8 | An allowance period shorter than the four years mentioned by the right hon. Gentleman might have an immediate and useful effect . |
| 9 | It suggests that a 65 year-old retiree with a large private income is in some meaningful sense more dependent than a 64 year-old labourer in receipt of a low weekly wage . |
| 10 | One of the aims of the RJWG , unrealized until the 1990 legislation , was to unite Jugendpflege and Jugendfürsorge ( youth welfare ) , not by way of creating centralized state provisions , but by giving local youth offices the task of stimulating and supporting the co-ordinated growth of both strands . |
| 11 | The prospect of a rabid Irish nationalist invasion of Northern Ireland from the Republic in order to swamp the poll is unreal in more than one sense and it is very doubtful if the three months ' residence requirement is necessary . |
| 12 | Both Mr and Mrs Hepwood would think it very peculiar if the one and only time their nephew brought one of his female friends home , that female opted to leave without pausing long enough to have dinner . |
| 13 | It was not clear whether the two latest bombs had been set to go off on Friday , like one discovered and defused on Sunday , or whether they were freshly planted . |
| 14 | It is not clear whether the 8.1. is authority for the service or whether a warrant is required from the sheriff clerk . |
| 15 | Saussure does say that the two are as inseparable as the two sides of a single sheet of paper , but the very existence of the terms themselves implies the possibility of an independent signified existing prior to its signifier , and therefore capable of being represented by more than one signifier . |
| 16 | As high as a 30 storey building , it then extends above a sea level , clearing the 100 year storm level and forms the base structure housing accommodation areas , power plants , processing equipment , helideck and other topside modules . |
| 17 | Indeed , 22.4 per cent of the migrants could be defined as return migrants ( Shaw , 1984 ) and although this is n't as high as the 30 to 40 per cent rates recorded in north Norway ( Nicholson , 1975 ) it is much higher than the 5.5 per cent found in northwest Ireland ( Foeken , 1980 ) , and very different from the situation in northern Scotland where Jones et al . |
| 18 | Ever since the Marquis of Mantua failed to defeat the French at Fornovo in the 1490s ( a period which must have been almost as barbaric and unpleasant as the 1980s ) , this sunsoaked land has had to endure invasion and rely on the assassin 's knife or the patriot 's bullet to even the score . |
| 19 | Many employees were engineers who built scientific equipment that they were unable to buy from the West and who became superfluous when the two German economies were combined . |
| 20 | They made extensive use of sub-contractors , some of whom might agree to bring as few as a dozen men-at-arms and archers to the force . |
| 21 | However there are many less ambitious preservation projects which would be possible with as few as a dozen determined people and not too expensive . |
| 22 | It was more emphatic than the 5-1 win on Thursday because little more than two hours after the start England had already achieved a 4-0 winning lead . |
| 23 | It makes sense that the ineffable languor of Prince is infinitely more fruitious than a thousand sinewy Age of Chance slogans . |
| 24 | Dressed in a pair of designer jeans that were stretched over her buttocks like clingfilm , and with blotchy skin without a trace of make-up , she looked closer to fifty than the forty Dexter knew she really was . |
| 25 | Lower than a thousand units er there 's no immediate affect and one 's tempted to think that erm the er er it 's , that radiation 's therefore safe below that level and that 's not strictly true because there is the possibility of a long term affect it can actually cause cancer in the long term but with very low er ra- er levels of risk cos you can see down at the levels where people actually get radiation doses er like erm members of the public or erm from the actual background of people who work in nuclear power stations , you 're talking about very low levels but the levels , those sort of levels I mean one in three hundred thousand , one in three million , that sort of thing you ca n't actually measure in real er populations because there er any effects that there are can be swamped by other ways of getting er of getting cancer . |
| 26 | But for the whole economy the increase is only 1.9 per cent , better than the 1970s but lower than the 1960s . |
| 27 | For all three junction types the mean value of B is lower than the 3.5 expected for unbiased responding despite the fact that overall subjects gave more ‘ No ’ responses than ‘ Yes ’ ones . |
| 28 | The number of applications was only 65,623 , far lower than the 300,000 expected [ see also p. 38098 , whhich includes provisional figures ] . |
| 29 | McLaughlin 's ( 1991 ) study showed clearly that the personal incomes of ex-carers were around £40 lower than the 1988 Family Expenditure Survey ( FES ) per capita average , while the incomes of two-adult households containing an ex-carer were £144 a week lower than their FES counterparts . |
| 30 | Gross domestic product ( GDP ) growth rate in 1989 was estimated at just over 10 per cent , slightly lower than the 1988 growth rate of 11 per cent . |