Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The emphasis may be different than at Forest but the essentials are the same . |
| 2 | Home Office Minister , John Patten who 's also MP for Oxford west and Abingdon , says the scheme is much fairer than at present . |
| 3 | With the 1989 Housing Act in effect , this will be even more strongly enforced than at present . |
| 4 | ‘ On the contrary , with high levels of transport growth the emissions of nitrogen oxides from road vehicles may be higher in 2020 than at present . ’ |
| 5 | The bed lies at about present high tide level , so that there is no indication of marine action at levels as high as at present . |
| 6 | It 's been an ever-present feature in PFK — but has never been as large , colourful , or as popular as at present — number one in almost every reader survey of the past few years . |
| 7 | Even so , the carry from the men 's tee was considered particularly daunting , for it was also lower than at present , and even the new bank in front failed to ease the psychological effects of both hazard , distance and danger . |
| 8 | That sensitivity rises when they are ovulating , becoming up to 10,000 times more acute than at menstruation . |
| 9 | Top Romford trainer Kenny Linzell says the fawn-and-white greyhound can only improve , especially when he learns to break from the traps a bit smarter than at present . |
| 10 | But when he insisted that the same warnings should be used on advertisements , and be bigger than at present , he got them furious . |
| 11 | There is no escaping the fact that when you retire some only our expenses will be heavier than at present . |
| 12 | Secretion in both the basal and stimulated states was less at day 7 than at day 3 , an inverse trend to that seen for acid secretion , where basal but not stimulated levels were higher at day 7 ( Fig 3 ) . |
| 13 | There was a tendency for the mucosal pepsin values to be higher at day 7 than at day 3 , which , although not statistically significant in this study , was also seen in a smaller , preliminary study in which a significant change was shown . |
| 14 | Not only does teaching a teenager at school cost less than half as much as at university . |
| 15 | Not as much as at home — at Inveraray , Elizabeth thought , but more than she had expected . |
| 16 | Then , when I remarked it was strange that when a person was in trouble , one forgot at once any little grudge one had against them , so that bearing grudges must be only skin-deep , my friend disagreed : she thought the change of heart was because one was willing to be magnanimous when at advantage , having the upper hand . |
| 17 | Economists worry that even higher rates would make a prolonged recession much more likely than at present . |
| 18 | In the legislative elections which took place on the same day , Jawara 's People 's Progressive Party ( PPP ) secured 25 of the 36 directly elected seats in the House of Representatives , six fewer than at dissolution . |
| 19 | William was visibly more relaxed than at home . |
| 20 | The reason for this is that the length of the season , and the level of activity within it , is less predictable than at Christmas time . |
| 21 | However , if health authorities differ in their priorities and make provision for that health care which they consider to be a priority , then Type I systems can mean that residents of different health authorities find access to some forms of health care even more unequal than at present . |
| 22 | However , Type I systems do create their own form of inequality since , if different health authorities differ in their priorities and make provision only for health care which they consider to be a priority , residents of different health authorities will find , depending on their local HA 's priorities , that access to some forms of health care may be even more unequal than at present . |
| 23 | Even if you spend the winter in a self-catering apartment , you may be able to save money by shopping in local markets and finding prices cheaper than at home . |
| 24 | That 's great because at home , when I go to Sainsbury , I find my hands reach out for the same products every week . |
| 25 | There are a number of reasons for breaking the existing cycle , and replacing it with a system in which people would work for so many hours a month , not necessarily as many as at present . |
| 26 | Has shorter bill than White Stork ( p. 43 ) , and shows no black at all when at rest . |
| 27 | He 's newly made the king 's lieutenant here in North Wales , now we 're as good as at war . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Are we as good as at war ? ’ she asked , and there was no way of knowing whether she laughed or was alarmed behind the widow 's veil . |
| 29 | He was therefore more than at home in French culture , he was an important participant in its development , assimilating it ( as he reputedly said ) rather than being assimilated by it . |
| 30 | The real message that came from this question was that many family and part-time farmers had wives willing to do more than at present . |