Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where only part of the works are to be designed by the contractor , the standard form is used with modifications set out in the Contractor 's Designed Portion Supplement to the JCT Standard Form of Building Contract with Quantities , 1980 edition . |
| 2 | This meaning contrasts with that found in sentences such as She ordered me to break down the door , where only part of the movement signified by to is actualized : Here the infinitive can be described as evoking a subsequent potentiality , i.e. an event whose actualization is futurized with respect to that of the main verb . |
| 3 | There is , however , nothing to stop the PC1512 being used where either text on it own or simple text and graphics from programs like Gem Draw are involved . |
| 4 | This seemed to me a more important priority in 1959 than overmuch argument about nuclear philosophical heresies of one kind or another . |
| 5 | Planning , is of course likely to be more than just identification of needs . |
| 6 | But surely what we want is more than just housework to be waged and left as it is ? |
| 7 | Laser light can now give us more than just music in our ears . |
| 8 | The problem for Foucault is that this argument involves more than just madness as such , for it really amounts to a questioning of the very possibility of critique . |
| 9 | In the 1980s Soviet and DRA leaders have persistently claimed that Afghanistan remains non-aligned whatever its bilateral links with the Soviet Union ( and this is meant to imply more than just membership in the Non-Aligned Movement ) . |
| 10 | Even acute fear of dentistry may be more than just fear of the drill : California dentist James Rota says that women who are most frightened of dentists are those who have been sexually molested as children . |
| 11 | It was more than just fear of Gesner 's contempt . |
| 12 | ‘ And yet , you know , there 's surely more than just hatred for a disruptive influence in class . |
| 13 | Many of these ingredients were indeed present , but as the months passed I became increasingly aware that there was much more than just science at work here . |
| 14 | Nowadays it seems there 's much more than just food to a perfect picnic . |
| 15 | I think it 's true to say that , certainly at my school , about the age of fourteen of fifteen the girls suddenly decide that they ca n't do maths and there 's no way that they could understand anything scientific , but that , I think , is a lot deeper than just encouragement at school anyway . |
| 16 | De Gaulle 's foul temper in the days immediately before and after the Normandy landings reflected more than just annoyance at the exclusion of his movement : he was still confident that events were moving in his favour , but the huge imponderable of American intentions remained a source of concern . |
| 17 | Yeah I know it 's well again , you know , kind of once you can see , once you can see what 's wrong with it rather than just sort of , you know , screwing it up and throwing it away , you know kind of if you can use that as a basis for , for , you know , kind of putting more of the stuff in that makes it look a bit more academic |
| 18 | Stewarts and Crazy Prices supermarkets are cashing in on the schooltime purchases with a bigger than ever range of bags and stationery . |
| 19 | However , we are able to enter the 1991/92 financial year with a firm financial base , a strong management team and a greater than ever determination to be an effective caring Christian response to this global epidemic wherever it is most needed . |
| 20 | He is respected , popular and ( although once chairman of the Conservative Party ) less partisan than most politicians . |
| 21 | Mr Lyons , leader of the MSF technical union , believes — albeit slightly tongue in cheek — that the more exotic menu is fully justified . |
| 22 | Conveyor belting : Although often part of heavy machinery , belting demands its own method . |
| 23 | Thus contempt is wider than simply breach of any of Parliament 's privileges but can consist of any conduct which interferes with the workings of Parliament or is likely to bring Parliament or its members into disrepute . |
| 24 | He had earlier explained that the PSL-S would be a national , centrist party based on Christian values , rather than exclusively peasant in orientation ; and that it would seek to combine the historical legacy of the peasant movement with the ethos of Solidarity . |
| 25 | It 's commonly held that instruments are generally better made these days — even the cheap ones — and one of the prime benefits of this is that the purchaser has a better than even chance of buying a worthwhile instrument , regardless of cost . |
| 26 | Vets who cut out 10ft of his gut to cure colic on November 25 gave him a less than even chance of survival . |
| 27 | At the time when the Hundred Years war broke out , a defender had a more than even chance of beating off an attack . |
| 28 | The drama of it was unmatched in the Open in the Eighties , although maybe second to the 1977 Turnberry confrontation between Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson in the all-time list . |
| 29 | Although officially part of the Liverpool Festival of Comedy and while it does boast many a funny line , Potter 's piece also has its sad side . |
| 30 | Although primarily part of the government 's plans for reducing dependence on the National Health Service , the main beneficiaries will be the Woopies since it is they who can afford private health insurance in the first place . |