Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can be done , however , only where a taxpayer 's total income is below the level of their personal allowances . |
| 2 | In an attempt to secure such a reduction , national guide-lines were issued in October 1990 , which identified a number of offence-specific factors that would justify a committal , but only where a magistrates ' court feels that its sentencing powers are insufficient . |
| 3 | A man 's voice will be heard better than a woman 's voice . |
| 4 | A curve branched off the terminal stub , less than a car 's length from the end of the track and joined the Corporation 's main line on West Croydon Bridge . |
| 5 | However , funds provided in the third category would be available only if a country 's domestic policies were adjusted to that prescribed by the Community 's Council of Ministers . |
| 6 | It is easy to assume that such skills will be picked up incidentally , as they will usually be by fully sighted children , who often copy what they see other children doing , especially if a teacher 's directions are unclear to them . |
| 7 | So because a client 's main aim behind using facilities management services is to cut costs , the supplier 's profit margins suffer . |
| 8 | It is important to try to contain the scope of the costs that may be recoverable , eg whereas a surveyor 's fees may be reasonable to seek to recover , it is arguable that it may not be reasonable for the landlord to instruct an architect in respect of the matters contemplated by this clause . |
| 9 | The bows of the boat rocked as gently as a baby 's cradle . |
| 10 | His performance is a character actor 's polished gem rather than a tragedian 's stab at the jugular . |
| 11 | I expect some people watching might think that wo wo football is a boy 's game , rather than a girl 's game , but of course that is n't the tradition is it ? |
| 12 | In her attempt to ascertain why anorexia nervosa is a girls ' rather than a boys ' disease , Selvini Palazzoli emphasises the manner in which the adolescent girl ‘ is exposed to lewd looks , subjected to menstruation , about to be penetrated in sexual embraces , to be invaded by the foetus , to be suckled by a child , etc . ’ |
| 13 | His harsh voice shouted at them as if they were at the top of the rigging , rather than a stone 's throw from his feet . |
| 14 | Yeah , I mean his work seems to be , his work seems to be a lettering artist 's work , rather than a typographer 's work . |
| 15 | If she is over 60 when her husband dies , she will usually receive a retirement pension rather than a widows ' pension . |
| 16 | Accordingly , fixtures such as office partitioning which can not be removed without destroying the partitions will be a landlord 's fixture rather than a tenant 's fixture . |
| 17 | For a producers ' rather than a consumers ' perspective on agendasetting see Hetherington , 1985 ; Blumler and Gurevitch , 1986 ; Blumler , Gurevitch , and Nossiter , 1986 and 1989 . ) |
| 18 | The sound echoed longer than a cuckoo 's call . |
| 19 | When the key was turned , the stiff petals ( stiffened canvas ? card ? thin shavings of wood ? ) arched gracefully open to reveal a frilled shepherdess doll no longer than a child 's hand . |
| 20 | The FA-MAS was a compact weapon which was no longer than a man 's arm and only weighed eight pounds ; it held a magazine of twenty-five rounds and could fire automatically , on single shots or in three-round bursts . |
| 21 | Thus when a man 's vassals rebelled against him , it is possible to say that they were exerting , in due form , the ancient right of resistance , of diffidatio , or , with William of Malmesbury , that they had proved swift to break faith . |
| 22 | But what does happen is that people are directed away from blighted homes we know that that happens , it happens all the time , as soon as a home 's name is mentioned social workers , quite honourably believe that there 's no sense in putting down people 's names , no no sense in sending people there and you would expect nothing different from them so it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy . |
| 23 | As soon as a post 's routine was established it would be attacked : Sergeant James and two sappers lay for two days watching a post before deciding that breakfast-time was the right moment for such an attack . |
| 24 | Now one of the things that sex one of the consequences of sex is that a population which reproduces sexually can evolve more rapidly than a population erm which reproduces asexually . |
| 25 | The first trick is to get left of the chockstone and stop in the Jacuzzi Pool , next , to pivot and line up for the exit slot which is only 2½ ft–3ft wide in a foaming pool whose diameter is only 18 ins more than a boat 's length . |
| 26 | A handsomely produced but unillustrated book like Davy 's Six Discourses ( 1827 ) would have cost more than a week 's wages for an artisan like Faraday had been . |
| 27 | Michael has told us down the pub , if they had more than a week 's notice |
| 28 | In North Worcestershire also industrial growth made little or no visible impact on the structure of wealth , possibly because a man 's position in the rural hierarchy determined his choice of trade , In Yardley tile making had evolved as a major activity early in the fifteenth century ; along with tanning , which may still have been the principal industry in nearby Birmingham , it was practised by farmer-craftsmen , who mostly had well under £20 in goods , the £3 — £9 range forming a good two-thirds of the list : Thomas Walton , whose £11 was the highest assessment , made tiles and practised cooperage in winter . |
| 29 | Some time later , my headache had receded , my costume was discarded and my bunk was clasping me as tenderly as a mother 's arms . |
| 30 | He had almost decided to hang up when a man 's voice came on the line , sounding muzzy and oddly worried . |