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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And a couple is less conspicuous than a man on his own … ’ |
| 7 | So a thirty year old service might be entirely different than a person with ten years service deferring his pension . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | I told him last week that he looked more like a German than a Frenchman and he became very cross . ’ |
| 11 | Betting is one of Britain 's top leisure activities , even more popular than a trip to the pub or eating out . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Therefore spreads are usually less risky than a position in a single futures contract . |
| 14 | For one awful moment she feared he would strike her ; instead he looked down at her , his contempt far more painful than a blow . |
| 15 | It was no more painful than a ring through a punk 's nose . |
| 16 | Visually the film is closer to a Babycham commercial than a Tenniel illustration . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ What could be more manly than a man holding a woman in his arms ? ’ |
| 18 | This kind of component is much smaller and more reliable than a valve , which was the earliest form of electronic switch . |
| 19 | International Relations began — and , many would say , remains — more of an inter-discipline than a discipline . |
| 20 | Ah , no , I mean cos violence and drugs is more harmful than a load of girls , you know , doing stupid things on s street corner . |
| 21 | Why should a boat be less social than a caravan , for heaven 's sake ? |
| 22 | Admission is free although a commitment of a specified number of counselling/ training hours per week will be required on completion of the study . |
| 23 | I did n't in the beginning but I do now , she can be funny although a bit bitchy at times . |
| 24 | The love-sick dog went completely off his food , finding his loveable lump more appetising than a bowl of doggy chunks in gravy and soon he was reduced to skin and bone , a mere shadow of the beast his family had grown to know and love . |
| 25 | It just shows that there 's more to demo-making than a bunch of programmers having fun . |
| 26 | For instance , it would surely seem reasonable to suggest that a theory that anticipates and leads to the discovery of new phenomena , in the way Clerk Maxwell 's theory led to the discovery of radio waves , is more worthy of merit and more justifiable than a law or theory devised to account for phenomena already known and not leading to the discovery of new ones . |
| 27 | A spokesman said : ‘ There are ways of calming an aggressive drinker more acceptable than a head butt or kick between the legs . ’ |
| 28 | We believe that it would be more sensible if a proportion of the compensation would be met by people like pension fund managers if for no other reason that it would encourage them to er keep their own house in order erm and you know it 's not a bad er principle to operate in these areas . |
| 29 | The town seemed deserted until a postman appeared and willingly explained that the only Germans there were Gestapo and a few businessmen . |
| 30 | There is a real risk of mice , especially young animals , drowning or dying from the effects of a soaking if a bottle or nozzle of an automatic system leaks . |