Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [subord] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The untitled New Zealander , rated 2320 ( 345 points lower than top seed Tony Miles of England ) has seven points from eight games and shares the lead with Miles and the other grandmaster in the tournament , Ian Rogers of Australia . |
| 2 | Tunings are tumbling quicker than under-prepared marathon entrants , as Thalia Zedek and Chris Brokaw struggle to tame this turbulent beast in the spiralling temperatures , and prompt frustrated stares from her , fulsome apologies from him . |
| 3 | Democracy might not be much , in his view , but everything else is worse ; and a robber-baron , as he once remarked to the Marxist scientist J. B. S. Haldane , is better than an inquisitor , since greed sleeps easier than dogmatic certainty : ‘ where Mammon vacates the throne , how if Moloch takes his place ? ’ |
| 4 | Also , treatment was considered unsuccessful when clinical remission was not achieved after four weeks . |
| 5 | During March talks were held in particular with the KLD , led by Jan Krzysztof Bielecki ( who had preceded Olszewzski as Prime Minister ) , and with the UD led by Tadeusz Mazowiecki ( who preceded Bielecki ) . |
| 6 | I 'm not saying I chose an affair expressly to ward off the 30th birthday blues , but my age and stage contributed more than mere chance . |
| 7 | Both garments are quite windproof but the jacket needs more than thermal underwear under it in wild weather . |
| 8 | ‘ I want more than physical love ! ’ she told him baldly . |
| 9 | His rival , Ayatollah Khamenei , also has less than solid support . |
| 10 | This underscores the need for it to provide more than musical training for its members . |
| 11 | To be happy and settled in a winning province is therefore very important to the top players and for once this may count more than attractive job offers and other benefits . |
| 12 | Lewis 's win provided more than cosmetic surgery to the battered , punch-drunk features of heavyweight boxing . |
| 13 | Leisure wear manufacturers embraced the superfluous pocket with great enthusiasm ; here was a way of disguising less than pristine workmanship with countless compartments in the shape of long pointed things and small squat ones — nothing sensible enough to accommodate anything that people really own . |
| 14 | The Medical Women 's Federation has been pressing the Department of Health to introduce more flexible arrangements to encourage less than full time training . |
| 15 | When Harry , without complications or much assistance , arrived that same evening , she remembered ever afterwards thinking quite clearly how much easier it was to bear physical than mental pain . |
| 16 | Experience suggests that these posts will mostly be occupied by women wishing to work less than full time , particularly since the full time contract in many specialties implies a considerable amount of unpaid overtime work . |
| 17 | Where a partner is permitted to work less than full time , this should be set out clearly ; ( b ) the extent to which a partner must not just be available to do work for the firm but is put under some positive obligation to promote the interests of the practice . |
| 18 | There is also the diversion of a county programme in the North and West , where the competition still has more than passing meaning . |
| 19 | Your PC and Creation 6 has more than ample capacity to store all your patterns and is your main storage area , so keeping them in the console memory after they have been used is not only pointless , it is possibly dangerous . |
| 20 | As it happens , Baden has more than commercial prosperity for which to thank its industries . |
| 21 | The parallel with studying music has more than structural significance . |
| 22 | Databases are being taught how the world works , and thus becoming more than mere filing cabinets |
| 23 | The theory of limited government appears to demand more than simple majority rule . |
| 24 | Continental lithosphere stands higher than oceanic lithosphere because continental crust is both of greater thickness and lower density than oceanic crust . |
| 25 | Stand-offs on the forward cross spar provide positive if angular camber to form an aerofoil , but if used to force a batten into such a profile , the effect of further stand-offs from the rear cross-spars on the same batten is to form a gentle reflex , not unlike the wing section of a soaring bird . |
| 26 | Other sources say that by the seventeenth century big , stately , black longhorns were being reared in Yorkshire , Derbyshire , Lancashire and Staffordshire and that by the eighteenth century there was a large , rangy , big-hoofed plough-ox type which could also give acceptable though ordinary meat and the cows could give reasonable milk well suited for cheese-making . |
| 27 | One might expect this because convergent evolution would lead to similar mechanisms to carry out similar functions . |
| 28 | The electorate can not do this because proportional representation makes it less likely that there will be a single winning governmental team . |
| 29 | In the first , the shape into which the social formation is predisposed to settle , though contested , is obvious and is a powerful influence on the culture ; the second — despite an underlying complexity in the cultural relationships — possesses brilliant if temporary clarity arising from its historical position at the beginning of a period of great situational adjustment . |
| 30 | There is more to looking better than losing weight . |