Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recognition of detrital grain morphology ( form , sphericity , roundness and , in some cases , surface textures ) in thin section is only possible where grain surfaces have not been modified during diagenesis . |
| 2 | Its wharves were among the few where steam vessels outnumbered sailing ships at that time . |
| 3 | Wind driven generators are economical where wind velocities average 6 m/s or more . |
| 4 | Spring-tined cultivators with tines at about six-inch spacing , are much lighter than chisel ploughs . |
| 5 | Hence the UK framework is far more lenient with regard to non-price than price restraints . |
| 6 | It seemed to Marx that nothing could be more different than kinship relations and relations in the labour market . |
| 7 | ‘ They 'd be more interesting than business letters , I 'll give you that , ’ said Joe , ‘ but no , that 's not me . |
| 8 | And where should I go to see something a bit more interesting than garden birds ? |
| 9 | There is again the advantage for some people new to banking that the hours during which post offices are open to cash cheques are more generous than bank hours . |
| 10 | The ITC guidelines make it clear that it does n't see ‘ sanitised ’ violence as innocuous and Ferman expresses greater concern about Lethal Weapon 2 than Reservoir Dogs . |
| 11 | She understood now that any deal would be no more adequate than baby clothes thrown into the shade of a seagrape tree . |
| 12 | There is now a specific blood test which is far more reliable than stool tests . |
| 13 | And in misty conditions following a bearing will prove more reliable than path traces . |
| 14 | Despite subsidised kindergarten facilities which would be the envy of most Western countries , the fact remains that school hours are invariably shorter than working hours and there is always the problem of what to do when the children are sick . |
| 15 | Sometimes , as in England , country girls became more literate than country boys — this seems to have happened in the 1850s . |
| 16 | What good is this if core tasks cease ? |
| 17 | If , as Goldstein and Cuttance ( 1988 ) assert , the best single indicator of a pupil 's future success in examinations is her/his ability at intake , it is essential to do this if exam results are to be used to compare schools . |
| 18 | The Orc Boar Boyz option really does commit you to the attack , and things can go wrong if animosity strikes or if the supporting troops do n't perform up to par . |
| 19 | Losses would be twice as high if energy producers imposed a carbon tax and kept the revenues for themselves , or if a tax were levied by a world agency which then shared out the revenue in proportion to each region 's population . |
| 20 | In many ways the Settlement movement of the 1880s and 1890s provided test sites for these initiatives . |
| 21 | Other furs were attractive as novelties or as luxuries but the beaver trade was steady and reliable until silk hats replaced felted beaver hair in the early decades of the nineteenth century . |
| 22 | There was nothing to raise him from this unless world events should create the opportunity for him . |
| 23 | If I and many members of the Institute do this because Institute courses and publications do not offer value for money , this can only cause the Institute 's already poor financial situation to deteriorate . |
| 24 | Premiums are as steep as this because insurance companies got their underwriting spectacularly wrong three years ago : in 1991 they lost £1.2bn on mortgage indemnity . |
| 25 | Later I scanned Teletext as you usually get a few after match quotes appear . |
| 26 | However , it is doubtful whether state pensions policies were the prime cause of this decline since it continued at much the same rate after 1948 as it had done before . |
| 27 | It is doubtful whether fiction writers are public benefactors , or their publishers philanthropists . |
| 28 | Sociolinguists working in the variationist paradigm have concentrated on studying phonological variation , and it is doubtful whether variationist techniques can be applied to grammatical variation at all . |
| 29 | Remotely-sensed images are read from magnetic tapes and stored as disc files . |
| 30 | We paddle on seas the green of cat 's eyes , and seas as clear as mountain streams . |