Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their debts are now more than £6.5m and chairman Sir John Hall says he needs at least a week to draw up another rescue package before he and his fellow directors will be in a position to open talks with Kevin Keegan about the vacant manager 's position . |
| 2 | Member states are not always as Community minded when implementing directives into their respective legal systems as they are when adopting them within the Council . |
| 3 | To play the social contract game successfully , therefore , when the prescriptions of the contract are culturally rather than genetically specified , an animal would have to think of others as having motivations similar to its own , so that it could foresee their future behaviour , and it would have to communicate symbolically . |
| 4 | Indeed , except for first-row elements , band shifts are rarely more than one or two cm -1 , and particular precautions must be taken if they are to be observed at all . |
| 5 | The hotel operators are only here because of some trade-off between governments . |
| 6 | You could find that this is just the beginning and that your plans are n't quite as cut and dried as they appear . ’ |
| 7 | The rules are not always as simple s that , e.g. Classical Arabic has the stress on the first long syllable of the word , or on the first syllable if there are no long syllables in the word . |
| 8 | The British musicals are simply here because people like them . ’ |
| 9 | The roads are not quite as they are shown . |
| 10 | Pubic hairs are further apart than hairs elsewhere on the body and , in particular , than the hairs of the head . |
| 11 | We have got together with Hertz , the world 's largest car rental company , to offer you competitive rates for reliable hire cars pre-booked in the U.K. All of these pre-booked Hertz cars are usually less than seven months old or have covered no more than 31,000 miles ( 50,000kms ) are checked , cleaned and full of petrol and are delivered to and from your Club at no extra charge . |
| 12 | The designs are colourful but have very short floats — when using tuck designs , floats are never more than one stitch long , making these fabrics ideal for children 's garments . |
| 13 | of site assessment [ left ] and of off licence buying , decided to tackle the London Marathon the hard way , realsing that three legs were not better than two . |
| 14 | If it is it must have been with croutons , since those lumpy floaters were n't there when the liquid-lunch-from-hell embarked on its inward journey . |
| 15 | This is significant , given that many commentators in 1983 thought that the policies of the Conservative and Labour parties were further apart than at any time over the previous thirty years . |
| 16 | The council 's fund established after Mr Ridley blocked the deals to pay back any losses is currently less than £20m . |
| 17 | Jumping up off a seat is easy enough because almost any action will make things better . |
| 18 | Fifteenth at the moment six days but spring is really just when new things begin to grow and they 're definitely beginning to grow now . |
| 19 | No you can wait until you can see her going out with wait until the car 's not there if you know what car she 's driving these days . |
| 20 | When sailing in offshore winds , however , this rule is more often than not proved right , particularly in coastal bays . |
| 21 | The pound is up more than two cents at ( $1.88 ) one dollar , eighty-eight cents and down at ( DM2.85 ) two marks , eighty-five cents . |
| 22 | The pound is up more than two cents at one dollar , ninety-two but down at two marks , eighty-seven . |
| 23 | The pound is up more than two cents at one dollar , forty-eight and up at two marks , fifty . |
| 24 | The pound is up more than six cents at two dollars , and up at two marks , eighty . |
| 25 | The pound is up more than two cents at one dollar , fifty-five and up at two marks , forty-three . |
| 26 | The pound is down more than three cents at one dollar , eighty-one , and up at two marks , eighty-four . |
| 27 | The pound is down more than two cents at one dollar , seventy-eight and up at two marks , eighty-seven . |
| 28 | The pound is down more than two cents at one dollar , seventy-five but up at two marks , ninety . |
| 29 | The pound is down more than three cents at one dollar , ninety-one and down at two marks , eighty-four . |
| 30 | The pound is down more than two cents at one dollar , fifty-four and down at two marks , forty-one . |