Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This ceases to be possible where a document accepted as binding is bindingly interpreted by an external court . |
| 2 | Admission for assessment for twenty-eight days ( section 2 ) is possible where a person is suffering from mental disorder and it is considered that he or she ought to be detained in the interests of his or her own health or safety or with a view to the protection of other persons . |
| 3 | This is possible where a target 's management are bargaining on behalf of their shareholders . |
| 4 | This still exists in a limited form in relation both to companies and to individuals , in that where a person is adjudged bankrupt or a company is wound up by the court , dispositions of property made by the debtor or the company after a prescribed date , usually the date of the presentation of the petition for a bankruptcy order or a winding up order , are void unless the court otherwise orders : sections 127 and 284 . |
| 5 | The problem can be very acute where a UK intermediate holding company holds shares in foreign companies , and dividends are paid to the foreign parent . |
| 6 | Private generation remained economic where a firm had complementary process steam requirements ( and could use back-pressure sets to produce both steam and electricity ) , where waste heat from another process could be used , or where investment incentives ( not available to nationalised industries ) or local property taxation ( for which the Electricity Boards were more highly rated ) gave an artificial subsidy to private firms . |
| 7 | More generally , it seems that there are many cases where prenominal adjectives express occasion values , and not a few where a characteristic , in his sense , is expressed by a postnominal adjective . |
| 8 | She cites one example of a man who spent several years living in his parents-in-law 's house but still had little to do with them afterwards ; another where a man had helped to nurse his father-in-law through an illness , but when that was over had as little contact with him as he had before ( Cornwell , 1984 , p. 89 ) . |
| 9 | There are other difficulties in making an order in such a case as this where a number of defendants have been equally involved in committing a crime , for the purpose of which a vehicle belonging to one of them has been used . |
| 10 | And a couple is less conspicuous than a man on his own … ’ |
| 11 | They are then encouraged to notice and talk about what happens , e.g. a plastic boat floats , but if filled with water , it sinks ; or paper is lighter than a stone , but when it is wet through , it sinks . |
| 12 | And that mud wagon 's lighter than a Concord . " |
| 13 | You , lighter than a feather — |
| 14 | So a thirty year old service might be entirely different than a person with ten years service deferring his pension . |
| 15 | And you have some way of , of , of getting in , erm and you have some way of controlling access therefore into toilets , now I do n't know whether that would totally it , overcome the vandal system , but I mean if your saying a pass would n't be any different than a coin you could devise an entrance , so that it was n't , you know , so that what you would be doing is stopping having like the total open access all the time , you know , erm . |
| 16 | The Court ruled that , even if the agencies staff were instructed to print out what they deemed to be records , the electronic material are ‘ quantitatively different than a copy printed out in paper form and , therefore the Defendants ’ record keeping system violates ( the statute ) because it does not save all the information contained in these electronic records . ’ |
| 17 | I told him last week that he looked more like a German than a Frenchman and he became very cross . ’ |
| 18 | Natural highways they may be , but while some ridges are broader than a motorway , others resemble a tricky combination of obstacle course and tightrope walk . |
| 19 | It is Easter weekend in Paris and , while his wife is away , middle-aged Jacques ( Stephen Moore ) brings home Julie , a sexy little bimbo played by Leslie Ash in a mini-skirt that is no broader than a cummerbund . |
| 20 | Then through the window you could see it-smaller than a Concord and almost completely open with its canvas side-curtains rolled up and fastened-just turning out of the yard , and the next moment the jingling , rattling sound was right out front . |
| 21 | They do say that essential oils will often work quicker than a tablet . |
| 22 | Time was ‘ quicker than a shake of a lamb 's tail ’ . |
| 23 | Plus , living proof that you CAN get quicker than a Kwik-Fit fitter . |
| 24 | Quicker than Sterland — but he was also quicker than a lot of defenders in those days . |
| 25 | Fatter than a Weight-Watchers ' enrolment evening . |
| 26 | Betting is one of Britain 's top leisure activities , even more popular than a trip to the pub or eating out . |
| 27 | Luther held that it was " better to obey a prince doing wrong than a people doing right " , and he drew a sharp distinction between things spiritual and things temporal ; between the rules and values appropriate to the inner life of the soul and those appropriate to life in the fallen and sinful external world . |
| 28 | Therefore spreads are usually less risky than a position in a single futures contract . |
| 29 | For one awful moment she feared he would strike her ; instead he looked down at her , his contempt far more painful than a blow . |
| 30 | It was no more painful than a ring through a punk 's nose . |