Example sentences of "[art] [adv] [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Do n't you think mankind will have to change its basic nature a little before that happens , Percy ? ’ |
| 32 | If Mr Kinnock 's voice is beginning to grate a little after less than a month 's campaigning , is there a risk that the populace as a whole will not take to his Welsh lilt , should he get into Number 10 ? |
| 33 | erm the rest of arbitrary proposals maybe considered small comparison in , in financial terms at least but er differ a little if any in , in educational value , that 's two hundred thousand to boost the fourteen and nineteen strategy , er I think there must in the present climate in which we have to regard the vocational content of education as well as the academic . |
| 34 | It will help to clarify the confusion a little if some of the tendencies at work in these centuries are noted . |
| 35 | He travelled a little as papal legate , and made a private visit to the United States and Latin America , but his experience of countries other than Germany' ( which he loved ) and Italy was practically non-existent . |
| 36 | They actually pay a much as any other human being does , given the standard of the property . |
| 37 | Clearly , out of sorts with himself in the wet and windy conditions which he hated , he smashed his racquet on the ground on no less than eight occasions . |
| 38 | The ultimate achievement , notwithstanding the numerous new stations opened in the area during the last five years , was the reopening to passenger traffic of the Cynon Valley line to Aberdare ( closed in March 1964 ) with no less than eight new stations . |
| 39 | This happened with no less than eight . |
| 40 | Mayo ( Newport ) led from the start with rounds of 70-71-77-67 to finish no less than eight shots ahead of Stuart Little ( Minchinhampton ) . |
| 41 | A rare moment of genuine excitement surrounded an untitled painting by Mimmo Paladino ( lot 349 , est. £18,000–24,000 ) which engaged the attention of no less than eight bidders before it was sold for £47,000 . |
| 42 | The fact that the pilot had clearly demonstrated his incompetence at instrument flying by failing to pass the instrument rating test no less than eight times before finally obtaining a pass must have meant that he was incapable of meeting the required standard on a regular basis and in the circumstances ought not to have been licensed to fly a public transport aircraft . |
| 43 | For your £6 subscription per annum , you get a free bus timetable giving you the times of at least three buses that visit no less than eight M/SV clubs . |
| 44 | What appears to be one village ( and is marked as such on modern maps and on the road signs ) can in fact be seen to consist of no less than eight separate hamlets — Elston ( largely deserted , with a former chapel ) , Shrewton ( from which the village has taken its name ) , Maddington , Netton , Rollestone ( largely deserted with a redundant church ) , Homanton ( deserted ) , Addestone ( deserted ) and Bourton ( deserted ) . |
| 45 | As for the musical — well , it was Nunn who directed the original London and Broadway productions of ‘ Cats ’ , ‘ Chess ’ , and ‘ Starlight Express ’ , and , among others , ‘ Porgy and Bess ’ at Glyndebourne , and ‘ Les Miserables ’ for the RSC — now the most performed musical in the world , and winner of no less than eight Tony awards on Broadway ! |
| 46 | Graphics are especially well handled ; there 's support for no less than 27 formats , including all the widely used ones such as PCX , TIFF , PIC and GIF . |
| 47 | no more than 28 inches in circumference and no less than 27 inches ; |
| 48 | Introduced by Terry 's stand-in Selina Scott , Simon presented a selection of models , each of them wearing one of his incredible Monofibre hair extension creations , to no less than 8 million viewers ! |
| 49 | By 1970 the official limit , not for the first time , was set at no less than 12,000 kilograms , a fair bit up on the I935 maximum of 7,500 kilograms , while the average yield topped I3,800 kilograms per hectare and , after setting the official limit at I3,000 kilograms in 1973 , a law was passed the following year placing an absolute ceiling of 13,000 kilograms per hectare on all AOC Champagne vineyards , beyond which the so-called maximum could not be stretched . |
| 50 | By way of background , it is worth noting that the Church of England owns 16,700 churches , of which no less than 8,500 are pre-Reformation , and 12,000 are statutorily listed ( 2,675 in the highest grade ) . |
| 51 | The ‘ pannage season ’ was fixed by medieval custom , but since the New Forest Act of 1964 the Forestry Commissioners , after consultation with the verderers , may fix any suitable term of no less than sixty days . |
| 52 | Of Leicestershire 's 370 medieval settlements no less than sixty have been deserted and many others are now much smaller than they were in their heyday during the thirteenth and early-fourteenth century . |
| 53 | The charges for prescriptions have seen the sharpest rise — an increase of no less than 1,425 per cent between 1979 and 1990 . |
| 54 | Lewin and Minton ( 1986 ) in their comprehensive survey of the literature find no less than thirteen orientations to management from the year 1911 onwards , each with its own typical effectiveness attributes . |
| 55 | It then transpired that Arkle , under no pressure , had beaten the course record for the distance by no less than eleven seconds . |
| 56 | If you happen to do a tour of the caddies ' pubs in Southport , Lancashire you are likely to stand shoulder-to-shoulder at the bar with four men who have carried the bags in no less than eleven British Open Championship victories . |
| 57 | From the north-east side of the island Captain Ferzenaar also reported that he could see no less than eleven other minor centres of activity , which were either emitting small columns of steam , or occasionally ejecting dust in small explosive bursts . |
| 58 | During the close season I will be contributing no less than 119 per cent of my energy to the club . |
| 59 | There were to be no less than 2,000 uniformed Blackshirts , marching and parading as the advance guard of revolution . |
| 60 | On a clear day you can see no less than 7 lakes . |