Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [subord] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 However , the gold standard did not always work as smoothly or effectively as this description indicates since many countries were unwilling to follow the simple rules of the game .
2 A trade can only be carried out within one firm if the market maker of that firm offers a price at least as good or better than that offered on the general market .
3 What is more , the participating organisations showed average or better than average health and safety performance in their own industries .
4 A really well-designed state pension scheme ( complete with lump sums ) and not so closely tied to employment history as any of the current schemes on offer , could probably do as well or better than occupational or personal pension provision for most women .
5 For its weight , therefore , the strength of timber is as good or better than most of its competitors .
6 Cutting prospective future costs is as good as or better than generating extra resources to meet them .
7 The convention centre is just as good or better than any museum .
8 It found that women often felt fairly unsure of their ability in DIY matters , but once they had breached the confidence barrier many regularly tackled demanding jobs and felt that their results were as good or better than those achieved by the professional .
9 testing at Tomduff found the situation there to be as good as or better than those with the existing producers of andalusite in South Africa .
10 If the results are similar to or better than those predicted theoretically , the transformation is satisfactory .
11 A reasonable guide will be if it produces results near to or better than those predicted by equation ( 6.3 ) .
12 The initial decision to do this is probably based on some vague notion that a computer system will increase efficiency , or perhaps because all its competitors have installed computer systems .
13 There were problems in a few centres , perhaps because the idea of a closing date was new or perhaps because local computer systems caused delays .
14 If the Church and secular press is anything to go by , a period of intense lobbying has begun with the various groups and interests within the Church of England backing their preferred candidates , or perhaps as significant , blacking others .
15 Where better than this great vault of abandoned statuary and skeletons , to avail themselves of their Catalepsean Nodes for a couple of hours ?
16 Among other findings , this produced five cases of young leukaemia within eight miles of the plant over the period 1979–84 , where less than one would have been expected on the basis of national rates .
17 There were also five four-point alignments , where less than one would be expected .
18 Perhaps because of the long-standing provision of special clinics , the large majority of cases of sexually transmitted disease are seen in such clinics , in contrast to other countries , where less than 20 per cent of cases are seen in hospitals .
19 The regime 's opponents criticized this as inappropriate for a country where 70 per cent of the people lived in abject poverty and where less than 15 per cent of the 12,000,000 inhabitants were Catholic .
20 This structure differs from that found for the related H5 histone genes , where less than 150 bp of the proximal promoter region seems to be sufficient to ensure basal level transcription ( 19 ) .
21 The number of seats for Great Britain England , Scotland and Wales ) , which must not be substantially more or less than 613 , is presently 627 .
22 Patients with ARF were subdivided according to whether their duration of renal failure was known to be greater than or less than 10 days .
23 During the first three years of full-time drug squad work ( 1966–8 ) arrests totalled some sixty-four persons — or less than two per month .
24 We studied cases in which the patient had a fatal aggravation of liver disease during or less than two months after interferon alfa treatment .
25 The number of visits was much greater : 11 per cent had 300 or more — almost one a day , 33 per cent between 100 and 300 — two or more a week on average , 19 per cent 50 — 99 , between one and two a week , 4 per cent 20–49 — between one a fortnight and one a week , 14 per cent 10–19 — less than one a fortnight , 12 per cent had less than 10 or less than one a month .
26 While most residents were in fairly frequent contact with relatives and friends from outside the home , one in five of those who spent all the last twelve months of their lives in a home had either no visitors at all or less than one visit a month .
27 It would also be a simple matter of alter the ‘ daily ’ timing to a period of more or less than one day .
28 The period for which a bill is drawn is not normally longer than six months or less than fourteen days .
29 In a similar way we can use the die figures for the early imperial bronze coinages minted at Corinth to calculate that the total value coined over a century was only about half a million denarii , or less than 5000 per year .
30 now he 's got to transfer that authority , I do n't think it 's any more or less than that
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