Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The range of public library services , as was noted at the beginning of this chapter , is now much broader than merely books and readers , and perhaps these logos should have made more attempt to reflect this greater concern for information services in the widest sense . |
| 2 | But there may be more to this than comradely debate . |
| 3 | He is more popular than either Margaret Thatcher or Neil Kinnock . |
| 4 | This year 's Sixteenth Biennale Internationale des Antiquaires , to be held in the Grand Palais in Paris from 18 September to 4 October , will be more theatrical than ever thanks to Italian stage designer Pier Luigi Pizzi who has been hired to create a neo-classical Italianate mise en scène for participants to show off their wares . |
| 5 | I think that by the end of '92 she will be the World No. 2 if not No. 1 . |
| 6 | With Becker in last night 's form , it 's doubtful if even Courier at his very best could have lived him . |
| 7 | The genes producing these peptides are quite distinct but it is not clear whether both peptides are produced in all L cells , as dual localisation is only seen in a proportion of them . |
| 8 | Although the recording equipment was not concealed , and was monitored quite openly by the fieldworker , it was not always clear whether all participants were aware of being tape-recorded . |
| 9 | ‘ We were kids , were n't we , and about as unrealistic as only kids can be ! |
| 10 | When you think about it , a lot of people will look very foolish when finally de Vere can not be evaded . |
| 11 | It was Saturday , and the long street was still , empty as only Glasgow can be during the summer , a stage set patrolled by a solitary policeman . |
| 12 | If the biochemical change is the consequence simply of the experience of tasting the bead , then the level of fucose incorporation in E should be the same as that in D and F , and higher than in all the water groups A — C. If , however , the increased incorporation is associated with memory , then E should be equivalent to B and lower than either D or F. We needed , of course , to repeat the experiment with enough birds — eventually , a dozen in each group — to be sure of the results — but when we analysed the data , they were unequivocal , and I ca n't resist showing them in Figure 10.8 . |
| 13 | While the Midland had expected that its reserves would be lower than either Barclays or NatWest , both newly merged , it was horrified to learn that the true capital of Lloyds , a bank it had always looked down on , was £266m , £73m higher than its own . |
| 14 | It was n't a question of social security payments being too high , it was a question of wages being lower than even government estimates of subsistence ! |
| 15 | This is lower than both types of silicon-based cell , but the thin-film cell is much cheaper to make . |
| 16 | Nature , however , proved more subtle than even Maxwell had imagined . |
| 17 | And Branson knew that Virgin stood a better chance of achieving that than either EMI or A&M had done . |
| 18 | It barely represented the true drama of the moment , though Nicholson was better informed than most on the subject because apart from being a friend of Polanski , he gleaned first-hand accounts by attending the trial of Manson and his disciples , whose story proved to be more gruesome than even Hollywood could either manufacture or exploit in a movie . |
| 19 | I finally turned to Kent , not because of what had already been discovered there but because it was on my doorstep and a lot more accessible than either France or Wiltshire . |
| 20 | Stewarts and Crazy Prices supermarkets are cashing in on the schooltime purchases with a bigger than ever range of bags and stationery . |
| 21 | ‘ But I was fortunate because then Stoddard took over as a professionally run and profitable company and I 've spent 11 happy years with them . ’ |
| 22 | Under dual capacity a member firm can act as both agent and principal whereas previously jobbers and brokers were separated . |
| 23 | Martha bolted out of the door and crashed through the hedge into Mada Joyce 's yard , expecting to hear her grandmother 's shout of rage behind her and all the more fearful when only silence pursued her . |
| 24 | These processes are viewed as essentially positive , but as possessing intrinsic dangers , in as much as either specificity or abstraction may develop in such a manner as to be no longer assimilable by the subject through sublation , in which case they become both alien and oppressive . |
| 25 | I ca n't tell you who to love , or how to love : those school courses would be how-not-not-to as much as how-to classes ( it 's like creative writing — you ca n't teach them how to write or what to write , only usefully point out where they 're going wrong and save them time ) . |
| 26 | Its qualifications for taming England supporters look from this distance more compelling than even Sardinia 's . |
| 27 | I had to sleep with it closed because if I left it open the cat would jump in and more likely than not land from ten feet on to my face — a nasty way to wake up . |
| 28 | When Safdarjung arrived from Persia , Aurangzeb was still Emperor and Delhi was still the richest , most magnificent and most populous city between Istanbul and Edo ( Tokyo ) ; with its two million inhabitants it was far larger than either London or Paris . |
| 29 | I think it 's true to say that , certainly at my school , about the age of fourteen of fifteen the girls suddenly decide that they ca n't do maths and there 's no way that they could understand anything scientific , but that , I think , is a lot deeper than just encouragement at school anyway . |
| 30 | More confused than ever Mungo had picked up The Forest and the Fire , turning to page 119 . |