Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | If you balance , tape recordering , but , but you notice one particular piece that you would rather do an essay on rather than that bit there . |
2 | It is an achievement to be built on rather than despised or disregarded . |
3 | Some key caps have the letters printed on rather than moulded into the plastic . |
4 | But it does mean that , faced with options ranging from what is merely arguably right to what the auditors believe to be best , their critics are convinced that auditors will in practice settle for the arguably right if that is what the directors prefer . |
5 | Rather , they were demanded most rigorously where further training involved FE or professional courses where the educational qualification was an entry requirement . |
6 | After a few months the initial enthusiasm for d-i-y started to wane , and the pace slowed right down as most of the rooms were completed . |
7 | Within a few minutes of installing the application ( which , incidentally , takes rather less than fifteen minutes , even on a reasonably slow machine ) quit sophisticated logos and graphics of that ilk were appearing onscreen courtesy of some simply presented but powerful facilities . |
8 | By the turn of the century , some two million men and women , rather less than 5 per cent of the working population , were employed in mines and factories . |
9 | The petrochemicals business employs some 3500 people on Teesside , of whom rather less than 100 are in the headquarters group . |
10 | They also broke Gloucester 's hearts , because with rather less than five minutes of extra time to go , the home side were leading 18–15 . |
11 | Unfortunately this is led to some rather less than glorious dealings including such actions with planning applications at Heathrow Airport by District Council . |
12 | Of her twenty-four hours , rather less than two remained . |
13 | The importance of east Asia in the general consular picture is especially marked in the case of Britain : by the end of the nineteenth century , when there were rather less than 200 salaried members of the British general consular service spread across the world , the more specialised and highly trained one which operated in China alone numbered seventy-five ( including student interpreters and assistants ) . |
14 | Priced at 102p , they are to be redeemed in April , 2000 , at 100p — implying a capital loss of rather less than 0.25 p.c. per annum . |
15 | Births in a family which pre-date a marriage or follow it by only a very few months were increasingly common and apparently quite acceptable in the late 18th century ; here in Victorian London , however , the suspiciously early arrival of little Benjamin James ( on 11 December 1846 — rather less than nine months after the marriage ) was regarded , it seems , with a touch of disquiet . |
16 | I figured I might have rather less than ten seconds to beat the ascending Mamba to the balcony , from there I 'd take the door which leads to the vast western attics and unexplored spaces beyond . |
17 | Working conditions of the taxi driver are extremely poor and could be likened to Victorian times , hours worked are ra rarely less than sixty per week , there is no holiday pay , no pension rights , no sick pay , and no say in which way the trade is administered by local authorities . |
18 | By contrast , some patients seem to have a frequency that is rarely less than 10 in 24 hours and need to take antidiarrhoeal agents and modify their diet . |
19 | Note also the increased size of the calibrated range relative to the uncalibrated one where the slope of the curve is effectively less than 45 degrees , and the decreased size where the slope is steep . |
20 | His remarkable doggedness led him to carry on regardless when two stink bombs broke everyone else 's concentration . |
21 | What matters is her books , which with their luminous language and insights , will live on long after this bitchy attack has been forgotten . ’ |
22 | But fears of a bulk chemical downturn and worries about the dollar overshadow the ICI share price which at 1,175p sells on less than 8 times 1989 earnings . |
23 | And I get on less than two people |
24 | True , on the first working day after the bomb , business did go on much as usual . |
25 | True , Novell seems to be promising that life will go on much as usual . |
26 | The ultimate strength of capitalist global hegemony is that it continually works , and works very hard , to persuade people that the system is natural , fair and fundamentally better than any realistic alternative . |
27 | While publishing Dawson on ‘ Religion and the Totalitarian State ’ , he selected for notice in the 1934 Criterion a book highlighting persecution of European Jews ; he wrote to Pound speaking of his offence at Pound 's antisemitic remarks ; with regard to the Vichy government in 1941 he wrote in The Christian News-Letter of his ‘ greatest anxiety ’ at news ‘ that ‘ Jews have been given a special status , based on the laws of Nuremberg , which makes their condition little better than that of bondsmen . ’ |
28 | ‘ I thank you , Mr Aycliffe , ’ Theda said drily , ‘ but I know him a little better than that ! ’ |
29 | A coin dealer later offered me £100.00 for my find , which he described as ‘ a common type in a little better than F-grade . ’ |
30 | When we begin to take the law into our own hands we become little better than those individuals who vandalise our homes and mug old ladies . |