Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for the two factors together , the risks appear greatest where very low and very high ( 35 and over ) maternal age combines with short birth intervals and where women over age 34 have children after intervals of 6 and more years . |
| 2 | Cheerful little odds and ends arranged with flair can often make a room seem far more interesting than much grander collections . |
| 3 | More popular than ever this summer are the Town Gardens , 100 years old next year . |
| 4 | The goldfish can not only spy on the fair-red secrets of our world , but its vision extends through the spectrum to shorter wavelength ultraviolet radiation , making it receptive to a wider band of light than almost any other animal . |
| 5 | Do not think that your horse will do better if you add more than the recommendations , the fact is that too much is more harmful than too little . |
| 6 | Hyacinth , who thought that David was quite good-looking although rather old , wondered what she had to lose . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , unless the transaction is a management buy-in , for which it is appropriate to ask for a full set of warranties , a reasonable compromise is for the vendor to give the purchaser a set of warranties shorter than normally appropriate on a share sale . |
| 8 | The carboxy terminal region of Oct-11 is significantly shorter than either Oct-1 or Oct-2 . |
| 9 | The extreme ultraviolet is part of what physicists call the vacuum ultraviolet , wavelengths shorter than about 200 nanometres which are absorbed by air so strongly that experiments have to be performed in a vacuum . |
| 10 | Studies of such wavelengths , shorter than about 104 nanometres , have been difficult , but they are important to chemists because of the actions they can have on atoms and molecules . |
| 11 | At wavelengths shorter than about 104 nanometres , there are no materials suitable for use as windows to transmit the radiation into the vacuum chamber . |
| 12 | You know , in some countries it is against the law to put into advertisements shots that are shorter than so many parts of a second . |
| 13 | It was hard going , but as readers of her undoubtedly interesting although immensely tendentious book will discover , some progress was made , although so far as I was concerned with astonishing fluctuations in my popularity . |
| 14 | As time went on and Basil began showing me all of these things , it gradually came over me that it would be nice for the American people to see that English art was much more variegated and lively than just these big portraits . |
| 15 | While the table shows that the worst graduate unemployment in 1984 was among the arts ( other than languages ) group , it also shows that scientists were more likely to be unemployed than either social studies or language graduates ( social studies here includes business , accountancy and law ) . |
| 16 | It would be sensible if about fifty of these planes could be sent to Korea and the pilots could be found in Korea . |
| 17 | His thin , pale face contorted as he said , " Well , I sha n't go into the seamy details … the more basic facets of life , but on a cleaner if more frustrating theme , I have been trying to seduce that lovely Dickson boy over the last week . |
| 18 | She had n't got free until nearly seven and by the time she had negotiated the traffic and turned towards her flat it was eight o'clock . |
| 19 | You might remember him as Simon Booth from Working Week , that brave if ultimately flawed melting-pot of disparate rhythms and cultures , whose anarchic soul was mistaken for jazz revivalism and who ended up being misunderstood by both record company and public alike . |
| 20 | The copy that JTR must surely have bought contained careful if long winded analysis of world events as well as local news . |
| 21 | A charming if somewhat absent-minded companion . |
| 22 | The beer was passable , the soaked bread excellent and the goat 's cheese most tasty if rather powerful . |
| 23 | Galvanised by this exciting if slightly surreal achievement , fax in the US suddenly looked like developing in a new and radical direction : broadcast publishing . |
| 24 | It does n't get light until about six o'clock in the morning and it gets dark |
| 25 | By this time next month we 're just about at the solstice we 're find that it 's not getting light until about seven o'clock in the morning and it 's getting dark again by about half past three . |
| 26 | The raids and executions of James V provided only temporary respite from reiving and feuding . |
| 27 | But as it has taken five years of intensive lobbying to assemble the necessary financial support from the native industry for this interesting if rather Teutonic initiative , one might assume that creativity and innovation are still not regarded as entirely positive values . |
| 28 | A more interesting if rather gruesome example of the point is an elaboration of Bertrand Russell 's story of the inductivist turkey . |
| 29 | Exercise has not been included in this because too few people have a history of exercise attempts in the same way as they have diet attempts . |
| 30 | I hope Chairman that er David will listen to the arguments on this because like other members of his group he throws out closure of elderly persons homes , y'know we 've got ta do it , we 've got ta do it something about which he knows absolutely nothing and about which he 's completely wrong . |