Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [adj] [subord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for the two factors together , the risks appear greatest where very low and very high ( 35 and over ) maternal age combines with short birth intervals and where women over age 34 have children after intervals of 6 and more years . |
| 2 | An American edition of Streamline is also available and some schools use this as well as the British edition according to the needs of different classes . |
| 3 | This suggests that speakers do more than simply animate a persona now and again for narrative purposes : they actually switch " selves " from time to time , depending on " who " they want to be at a particular moment , relative to their interlocutor . |
| 4 | Perhaps now that the forests and other wilderness areas have nearly vanished , these carnivorous animals burn brighter than ever in our consciousness — solitary beacons of wild nature whose continued survival has come to represent the survival of wilderness itself . |
| 5 | The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye |
| 6 | Furthermore , eye movements include vertical as well as lateral deviations of gaze and the general tendency to pay little or no attention to vertical eye movements may have important implications for interpretation of the data on horizontal movements . |
| 7 | Or did that gold-brown mane of hair look more than usually rumpled ? |
| 8 | Research on conformity has shown that individuals with higher levels of ability conform less to group norms than those with lower levels of ability ; individuals with strong relationship goals will identify with group norms more readily than those individuals for whom multiple , close relationships are not important ; highly authoritarian individuals conform more than less authoritarian individuals ; individuals who find it hard to ‘ see the wood for the trees ’ conform more readily than those who find it easy ; and individuals with strong structure goals conform more willingly . |
| 9 | On the other hand , many studies become open-ended because more and more uses are found for a cohort whose past history is well documented . |
| 10 | A chef would never leave a kitchen with food out on the worktops at the end of the day , and front desk is always tidied at the end of a shift , but how many managers do more than simply turn off the computer and go home at the end of a session with their spreadsheet or word processor ? |
| 11 | Accountants have similar though less well-publicised problems . |
| 12 | This is where anthropological studies prove helpful as well as archaeology . |
| 13 | Many of the suicide incidents have taken place in remote areas where people suffer physical as well as emotional isolation . |
| 14 | Where housing departments were developing strategies on homelessness , there was no recognition that disabled people become homeless as well , and conversely , that some homeless households contain disabled people . |
| 15 | But Oxfam do more than just provide jobs . |
| 16 | Just as the student award regulations are the " hidden hand " of higher education planning , so also do our admissions arrangements determine more than just who studies where : they partly condition both the nature of our courses and the shape of sixth-form education . |
| 17 | Because cervicitis , cervical erosions , and discharges are so common in sexually active women , none of these features help more than indirectly with the diagnosis . |
| 18 | The indigenous media need more than ever to promote lasting peace with justice , through ecumenical and interfaith dialogue . |
| 19 | The jaws appear wider than long . |
| 20 | The ravages of time had caused pieces to break away here and there , so that newer patches of different grey made the whole affair appear shabbier than ever . |
| 21 | These processes involve cognitive as well as interactive skills and , therefore , the exercising of professional expertise and judgement can not be eradicated from the process . |
| 22 | IF THE Home Unions XV are tempted — as they may be after all the disruptive absentees and injuries — to go into tonight 's Parc des Princes Bicentenary bash less than seriously , they should consider the way the French are treating it . |
| 23 | The Feoda 's apparently innovative character makes the fact that it was produced in the same year as the Norman inquest into knights ' fees seem more than simply coincidental . |
| 24 | Not only does seeing a chair as a three-dimensional object have this character , but so does seeing one line as longer in the Mulier-Lyer illusion ( in which two lines of equal length look unequal when differently slanting lines are drawn at the tips ) despite our knowing that the two lines are really the same length . |
| 25 | The reasons for our mortality become obvious as soon as we stop thinking of ourselves as individuals . |
| 26 | Navies all over the world do more than just try and blow each other out of the water , or go on desperate reconnaissance missions as seen on TV . |
| 27 | Experience has shown that employment potential and the needs of the employer require more than just school or college education . |
| 28 | Judging by the mood of the Conference and the realities , er realities see more than ever before . |
| 29 | A letter of 1871 gives a vivid sense of the convictions which impelled her throughout her life : ‘ As I have grown older the terrible sufferings of women of my own class for want of good elementary training have more than ever intensified my earnest desire to lighten ever so little the misery of women brought up ‘ to be married and taken care of ’ and left alone in the world destitute . |
| 30 | I have a feeling that most women want more than just a casual affair . |