Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | o overall er the plan looks reasonably sound except for the which er reflect in the price . |
| 2 | The floor was sound except near the wall where there were rat-holes in the planks . |
| 3 | The middle course valleys are broader and the valley sides are less steep than in the upper course . |
| 4 | The report is more interesting than by the member for South East Derbyshire er not that there 's much sex in it but if er er i it 's more interesting er sexual favours provided by B C C I officials to certain persons affiliated er with the firm . |
| 5 | Every detail was clear except for the number-plate . |
| 6 | The wide entitlement to reliefs and rebates , which the government insisted were more generous than under the rates ; the existence of safety nets to redistribute income between certain authorities ; and the immediate introduction of capping all fudged the relationship between councils and voters . |
| 7 | Saviours of England 's Test image as the 1980s gave way to the 1990s , he is yet lugubrious except in the most private environs and incurably introverted . |
| 8 | The exercise of new found autonomy has been more apparent in the cultural than in the diplomatic sphere . |
| 9 | Most of these are now desolate except for the fifteenth century Church of the Pantanassa , still a convent , and a few others such as the fourteenth century Church of Evangelistria , S. Sophia , c. 1350 , and the fourteenth century Church of Peribleptos . |
| 10 | More and more members of the American foreign service were coming to question the belief , strongly held at the end of the war , that the USSR was more likely to be caught up in rivalry with the British than with the United States . |
| 11 | More importantly still , the influential Finance Minister , Pierre Bérégovoy , has repeatedly gone out of his way to express interest in the British proposals , emphasising that the French view is closer to the British than to the German . |
| 12 | The British government bought a controlling interest in Anglo-Persian , which from then on operated in Iran on terms much more favourable to the British than to the Iranians . |
| 13 | It is far easier for the British than for the American executive to do this . |
| 14 | Kemp 's voice was no less clear than during the phone conversation . |
| 15 | Nowhere was the call for a new attitude more clear than in the inquiry conducted at Manchester University by Michael Sadler and his associates and published in 1907 . |
| 16 | They are well practised in choosing what they believe to be the right firm to handle a particular assignment and nowhere is this more clear than in the area of specialisation . |
| 17 | In no area , colleagues , is the despair caused by Tory mismanagement more abundantly clear than in the area of welfare benefits . |
| 18 | Still , he reckons that the bigger the mainframe , the cheaper relatively it is to buy — 10% cheaper , in fact , at the top than at the bottom end of the range . |
| 19 | The militants trudged along the empty lanes unobserved except by the Chief Constable of the county and his forces . |
| 20 | Mr Jackson adds that salaries are much more performance-related than in the past . |
| 21 | If they 've got any sense at all they should be I mean they 're getting it for free except for the telephone calls you might use |
| 22 | But the Board was concerned far less about the private use of ‘ blue movies ’ as an aphrodisiac than about the increasing taste for sadism and other ‘ bizarre practices ’ in films and about the worrying influx into Britain of child pornography . |
| 23 | Language work in the final year is more specialized than in the first two years and includes translation and précis writing in administrative , technical and commercial registers of the languages , as well as some interpreting . |
| 24 | Public opinion , in an age which increasingly liked to think itself morally superior to its predecessors , was sometimes less willing than in the past to tolerate activities of this kind . |
| 25 | All investors must look carefully at the safety of any offshore investment as protection arrangements may be less rigorous than in the UK . |
| 26 | The West coast route , however , could not be profitable , with 1960s-vintage equipment which cost more to maintain , and it was less reliable than on the East-coast line . |
| 27 | Even before Vivien 's committal , Eliot had been much more free than in the days of his marriage ; in the summer of 1935 he was with Emily Hale in Gloucestershire , and also visited the Fabers in Wales . |
| 28 | The difference in performance between large and small hardware firms was less marked than for the other sectors . |
| 29 | And nowhere is this attitude [ opposition to wealth creation ] more marked than in the cloister and common room . |
| 30 | The second major issue is that the theme of the sex fiend is much less marked than in the earlier search stage of the criminal investigation . |