Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was of most interest , however , was that these subjects then performed less well in subsequent trials when the outcomes were made controllable than did those animals or students who had previously been in controllable situations . |
| 2 | Chart 10 further shows that these industries also enjoyed much stronger growth in pre-tax profits in 1982–89 than did cyclical ones . |
| 3 | Cutting Russia 's remaining lending to CIS republics is politically easier than bankrupting Russian factories . |
| 4 | You just paint it on — it 's a lot easier than t'awd caustic stick . " |
| 5 | You mean it 's easier than having some creep loaded with policies pestering me at my digs — ’ |
| 6 | This , of course , is easier than finding provable hypotheses for which we may expect evidence within the earth 's crust . |
| 7 | Over 15O staff from around the London area spent Sunday April 25 getting bruised and muddy while shooting each other in a Surrey wood . |
| 8 | Deviations from ideality , as we have seen in section 9.7 , are conveniently expressed in terms of virial expansions , and when solutions are sufficiently dilute , the results can be adequately described by the terms up to the second virial coefficient A 2 while neglecting higher terms . |
| 9 | The planners argue that the centralisation of houses makes the provision of services such as sewerage , water , cleansing , roads and lighting more economical whilst benefitting other agencies such as the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board and the Post Office in their work . |
| 10 | Doubtful whether to accept this honour , he was persuaded to do so when the NID asked him to represent them as well . |
| 11 | It may see this as meaning that reason has less hope of producing convergence in ethics than on factual matters . |
| 12 | One can not be so clear when considering other mosaics which appear to owe much to this manner of arrangement and depiction . |
| 13 | The core question of the case , as far as this paper is concerned , was , whether the Defendants had failed to comply ‘ with the statutory requirements and whether the guidelines are reasonable or sufficiently clear as to provide adequate guidance to personnel employed by the Defendants in their maintenance and preservation of federal records ? |
| 14 | Congestion with throbbing all over and burning ; blood vessels throb and pulsate as do local inflammations ; hammering pains in the head if they move . |
| 15 | Is the prevalence of flank pain or macroscopic haematuria in patients with simple renal cysts so high as to justify invasive procedures ( such as removal by surgery or the application of alcohol ) ? |
| 16 | This may have brought comfort to some but statistically it was as risky as playing Russian roulette , and I laid off smoking for the next seven years . |
| 17 | We were given some opportunity to explore this when making three visits to police stations in West Belfast , although the data on community policing are unsatisfactory because of the limited number of these contacts and the absence of supportive observational material . |
| 18 | It 's important that we identify what desires and needs we could have in common with one another when using this approach ; if we do n't know the people concerned very well , or have not considered them in this way , we need to use the participative approach described above . |
| 19 | There are instances where the official syllabus recommends one type of content and emphasis ( e.g. in language skills ) , while the official examination is clearly constructed with the intention of testing different ones ; or cases in which the official aims of education extol the virtues of self-reliance and enquiry-based education , whereas the official syllabus contains an outline of content so rigid and overcrowded as to render any initiative almost impossible to achieve . |
| 20 | Pregnant ladies and elderly people should be careful when eating soft cheese , as they should be when exercising . |
| 21 | Autumn leaves do n't mind this sort of treatment , but you will have to be extremely careful when handling pressed flowers . |
| 22 | Be extra careful when using large pans . |
| 23 | Southpaw stance forces the opponent to be very careful when making rear foot kicks |
| 24 | Food charges at the Married Unaccompanied Food Charge Rate are payable by personnel in Marital Categories 1 and 2 when occupying single accommodation and also by those in receipt of the special allowances mentioned above in relation to Categories 3 , 4 and 5 ’ . |
| 25 | The reason for this is that the linguistic , social and educational environments of the two countries may be so different as to provide different opportunities for language learning . |
| 26 | Washing hospital sheets costs more , in some rich countries , than providing disposable bedding ; returning soft-drinks bottles through supermarkets to be refilled is dearer than using new ones each time . |
| 27 | Results indicated that the yield of about half the wells that could be hydraulically fractured would be improved at a cost very substantially lower than drilling new wells . |
| 28 | But I have more chance of improving that than knocking 10 years off Gregory or adding speed to Fox . |
| 29 | There 's been no shortage of excuses in the past few weeks for getting thoroughly ratted , for going down to The Lamb , finding a spot in the corner and spending the entire evening doing nothing more intellectually taxing than sinking five pints of Special . |
| 30 | Whoever had worked on the case in the laboratory would have been smarter than to leave any traces of the implant visible . |