Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [subord] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Janet Walters , an Oxford history graduate who had previously served as a full-time tutor in Northamptonshire in 1943–45 , arrived in August 1952 but resigned two years later : she went on to a successful career in adult education , eventually retiring as principal of Hillcroft College , Surbiton , in 1982 . |
| 2 | People often mention ‘ metal whiskers ’ as if they were the only kind but , as a matter of fact , metal whiskers are less common and less interesting than whiskers of non-metals and it is about these latter that we shall mostly talk . |
| 3 | In what follows I will not be proposing solutions so much as ways of working with these problems in relation to the study of crime and its correction . |
| 4 | It will all look so much nicer than bits of tied drying holly tucked into picture frames . |
| 5 | There is no form of advertising so valuable as word of mouth . |
| 6 | But be warned : trade flows are less and less useful as indicators of economic performance |
| 7 | punchlines are much better than sort of er . |
| 8 | ‘ Why are Catholic churches here not so good as Church of Ireland ones ? ’ the man asked me . |
| 9 | However , N-Oct 5 are transcriptionally inert since cotransfection of N-Oct 3 and N-Oct 5 gave the same test gene expression as N-Oct 3 ( Figure 4 , lanes 8 , 9 ) . |
| 10 | Ratings of radio news were less predictable than ratings of television but they too were influenced by recent political interest , motivations for following the campaign , and degree of party preference . |
| 11 | For this reason they are bound to remain as very secondary aids to choral music , which to be genuinely original and vital needs musicianship much more than exploitation of mere sound effects . |
| 12 | The temples were much more than centres of worship . |
| 13 | Faculties of agriculture may be less important than faculties of planning and community development and the facility to suspend disbelief . |
| 14 | Trees are less important as takers-up of CO 2 than are marine diatoms , and most of the world 's trees grow ( or grew ) in the tropical forests , which were left largely unscathed until recent centuries . |
| 15 | This is especially important if animals of a particular health status are being shipped in Filtered boxes or transport isolators as inadvertent opening of the container may render the animals valueless . |
| 16 | East of the Rhine in the kingdom of Louis the German , for instance , there were no mints , and there is much less evidence for markets and traders , while in the Middle Kingdom ( Lotharingia ) , the volume of coinage in circulation was much smaller than west of the Meuse . |
| 17 | They 're especially pleased because artists of Springsteen 's stature normally head straight for Wembley and stay there for a week . |
| 18 | As plants grow , the amount of purely structural material contained increases , and so the relative growth rates become less accurate as indicators of growth . |
| 19 | Candidal infection of the penis is much less common than infection of the female genitalia . |
| 20 | It has been assumed , for example , that the units of language analysis that figure in models of linguistic description are necessarily valid as units of language for pedagogic purposes . |
| 21 | For other members of the department , some of whom were less aware than Joanne of what they were trying to achieve via the new approach , this was even more the case . |
| 22 | From the literature it is not clear whether prolongation of therapy beyond four months yield a higher response rate . |
| 23 | These infections are generally asymptomatic until maturation of the EL4 takes place during winter and early spring and if large numbers of these develop synchronously , Type II disease materialises . |
| 24 | The Party Rockin' label proves that talk of any ‘ Bristol sound ’ ( ie a Massive Attack sound ) is as overly simplistic as talk of a ‘ London drum and bass sound ’ . |
| 25 | Although this assumption is very likely to be wrong it is still a usable forecast in the sense that it may be no more wrong than forecasts of change that get it wrong . |
| 26 | Because this diffusion was not even , and was far more marked where levels of literacy were comparatively high , it resulted in the growth of two cultural zones : on the one hand , French-speaking regions receptive to ‘ foreign ’ ideas , and on the other , rural areas which retained the old language and the old ways of life . |
| 27 | They are ultimately more instructive than stories of nonagenarians who scale Everest or even ( enjoyable though they are ) of Lord Denning 's battles with the government from his seat in the House of Lords . |
| 28 | Knighton , McColl and Elliott all get a statistical raw deal , he insists , but none is more wronged than bottom of the table Len Ashurst . |
| 29 | These are culpable acts , often regarded as being more serious than thefts of property . |
| 30 | The Athletic News snorted indignantly : ‘ As a matter of commerce , ten young recruits at £100 a piece might have paid better , and as a matter of sport , the Second Division would be more honourable than retention of places by purchase . ’ |