Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who have worked in the legal civil service report that it is much more interesting than appears at first sight . |
| 2 | Does he agree that it is good that the British farming community is not as violent as appears to be the case on the continent ? |
| 3 | The Prayer Boat do n't write songs , so much as swells of piano and guitar which float the peculiar Mike Scott-like voice of Emmet Tinley . |
| 4 | Anyone who so much as hints at a ‘ third way ’ between communism and capitalism is considered naive ; there is simply no time to try more experiments . |
| 5 | They also know how paranoid I am ; I 'll be on the phone if the monitor so much as flickers during a thunderstorm . |
| 6 | That 's going to be hell on earth if you keep dissolving into a mushy heap every time he so much as looks at you . ’ |
| 7 | Such compound instructions may therefore be less useful than appears at first sight . |
| 8 | Long famous as recruits to the British Gurkha regiments , the Gurungs are facing the challenges of increasing population , soil erosion , rapid westernization and other pressures . |
| 9 | Degas ' ‘ Singer with a glove ’ ( ca. 1878 ) and ‘ The Rehearsal ’ ( 1873–78 ) , Monet 's ‘ The Gare St. Lazare : the arrival of a train ’ ( 1877 ) , Renoir 's ‘ Seated bather ’ ( 1883–84 ) , and van Gogh 's ‘ Self-portrait dedicated to Paul Gauguin ’ ( 1888 ) are about as good as works by these artists get . |
| 10 | Yields of Texas ' 36MHz SuperSparc implementation , due to feature in the Model 30 , have n't been as high or as good as yields on a 33MHz part , so Sun , under pressure to get Sparc 10 systems out of the door , is thought to have put together the Model 20 to take advantage of this opportunity . |
| 11 | But there will never be an exercise as good as squats for working all of the muscles together . |
| 12 | When they got to the bedroom , further surprises awaited them : ‘ Out of one of the beds , on which we were to repose , started up , at our entrance , a man black as Cyclops from the forge . ’ |
| 13 | Starlings and a wide range of plants from the Mediterranean ( some introduced for ornament , some escaping as weeds from agricultural crops ) have made deep inroads into the native animals and plants of North America . |
| 14 | In these pulsars , γ -ray emission accounts for as much as 1% of the total neutron star spin-down energy , much more than emerges at optical or radio frequencies , so study of this emission is important in understanding pulsar emission and evolution . |
| 15 | ‘ Roll your own ’ more than compensates for the lifelessness of other parts of the book . |
| 16 | The New York Times 's Vincent Canby wrote : ‘ There is nothing obviously glossy in Midnight Cowboy , but it contains a lot of superior laughter that has the same softening effect , ’ yet he found the central relationship was ‘ as honest and affecting as anything you 're likely to see in a movie , and more than compensates for those moments when the film seems to be exploiting its cheap , gaudy locale as might the director of a sight-seeing bus cruising through West 42nd Street and Greenwich Village ’ . |
| 17 | I personally think the strength bonus their weapon gives more than compensates for their lack of a shield . |
| 18 | One fine day and such a trip as this more than compensates for all the bad ones . |
| 19 | There is nothing cruel or stupid about providing a benefit system which more than compensates for the 20 per cent . |
| 20 | ‘ Oh yes , there have n't been the spectacular rises of the first few years , but we could guarantee a growth figure which more than copes with inflation . |
| 21 | We melted away again into the mists and learned to make our way back with unerring accuracy to places that were little more than pinpoints on the map . |
| 22 | The distinction does arise and it can not entirely be neglected but it is much less important than appears at first sight . |
| 23 | Giaffer and colleagues have recently used a slightly modified buccal cell adhesion assay to show that E coli from ulcerative colitis and Crohn 's disease patients were significantly more adhesive than isolates from a control group , but thiat this property was independent of disease activity , anatomical site and treatment . |
| 24 | By Ann Todd A GROUP of Liverpool youngsters are happy as mudlarks about going into school . |
| 25 | Phosphorylates of tyrosine and protein tyrosine kinase , related to the src oncoprotein seem to be important as links between the integrin and intracellular signalling pathways . |
| 26 | Yeah , well like please do take this seriously because it 's , it 's quite important as regards to insurance and having As Vanbrugh proved last weekend , y we can do a good job with your stuff put together , and if like someone got fried , then you may end up in trouble . |
| 27 | The cabins of wattle and clay , of timber , of turf packed with stone , showed no smoke from the woven-reed thatches , neat as favours for children , that mushroomed everywhere on high ground , and on the slopes of the rock-citadel opposite . |
| 28 | Comment was made this morning , er earlier on by Mr Timothy about the fact that the new settlement would be likely to generate a higher usage of transport than is the norm for Greater York , if I understood him correctly , erm , knowing the public transport system in Greater York , erm , I fail to see how he could possibly come to that conclusion , because bus services in the rural part of Greater York are very poor , clearly that 's partly because of the distribution of the rural population , and I fail to see that a settlement of the size being suggested would actually generate a level of usage of public transport any higher than that which ex already exists in the York in flat , and certainly no higher than exists within the exis existing urban area . |
| 29 | In our normal form we will insist that if two expressions are both available as outputs on the same channel , or for assignment to the same variable , then they are different . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , less than a mile away , Therapy ? are happily getting as drunk as newts in a British style pub bar celebrating yours truly 's latest bastard birthday . |