Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The floor was sound except near the wall where there were rat-holes in the planks . |
| 2 | The report is more interesting than by the member for South East Derbyshire er not that there 's much sex in it but if er er i it 's more interesting er sexual favours provided by B C C I officials to certain persons affiliated er with the firm . |
| 3 | In the female this tube is broader than in the male . |
| 4 | Every detail was clear except for the number-plate . |
| 5 | For the first time in 42 years , the seven biggest companies reported a smaller rise in assets in the financial year to March 31st than in the year before , as uncompetitive savings policies matured and were not renewed . |
| 6 | The great majority of its members were more attracted to this than to the abuse from the Communists or to the dissensions of the ILP . |
| 7 | In several species , including humans , colonic VFA absorption in vivo is associated with HCO 3 - secretion and a lower luminal pCO 2 than in the absence of VFAs . |
| 8 | More importantly still , the influential Finance Minister , Pierre Bérégovoy , has repeatedly gone out of his way to express interest in the British proposals , emphasising that the French view is closer to the British than to the German . |
| 9 | On the south side of the structure the concrete was cleaner than to the north , where it was discoloured with moss . |
| 10 | Kemp 's voice was no less clear than during the phone conversation . |
| 11 | They are well practised in choosing what they believe to be the right firm to handle a particular assignment and nowhere is this more clear than in the area of specialisation . |
| 12 | In no area , colleagues , is the despair caused by Tory mismanagement more abundantly clear than in the area of welfare benefits . |
| 13 | Nowhere was the call for a new attitude more clear than in the inquiry conducted at Manchester University by Michael Sadler and his associates and published in 1907 . |
| 14 | The militants trudged along the empty lanes unobserved except by the Chief Constable of the county and his forces . |
| 15 | Mr Jackson adds that salaries are much more performance-related than in the past . |
| 16 | If they 've got any sense at all they should be I mean they 're getting it for free except for the telephone calls you might use |
| 17 | Public opinion , in an age which increasingly liked to think itself morally superior to its predecessors , was sometimes less willing than in the past to tolerate activities of this kind . |
| 18 | This may be due partly to the fact that , compared to the University of Wales , the Polytechnic is a relatively new arrival on the higher education scene , and partly because of the Welsh tendency , even more marked than in the rest of the country , to regard technological education as less prestigious than that in pure science and humanities . |
| 19 | And nowhere is this attitude [ opposition to wealth creation ] more marked than in the cloister and common room . |
| 20 | He picked up the canvas shoulder-bag , which was empty except for the map and a compass . |
| 21 | The development of more flexible systems of access and qualifications ( in particular modular credit schemes ) means that the educational life-pattern for any one individual is likely to be less rigidly linear than in the past , a situation which is foreshadowed by developments in the USA ( Stacey et al . |
| 22 | As a consequence , elderly persons entering residential accommodation tend to be more physically and mentally dependent than in the past , and the type of support needed is similar to that given in a nursing home , rather than a guest house or private hotel . |
| 23 | Yet , for some , physical work at night seems more demanding than during the daytime and this is clearly another disadvantage for the night-worker . |
| 24 | Although European markets will be later than Britain in feeling any economic recovery coming from America , the bonus for investors is that share prices remain relatively undervalued and dividend policies , traditionally less generous than in America or Britain are now catching up , chivvied by foreign and domestic investors who are more demanding than in the past . |
| 25 | More than forty thousand people were moved from the old city centre to make way for the new buildings , but even though stereotyped blocks of flats were put up around the site of the palace and were in many cases completed by the spring of 1988 , they remained empty until after the revolution . |
| 26 | Although through the efforts of Charlemagne , who was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by the Pope in the year 800 , the centre of European culture began to move northwards from the Mediterranean , the Viking raids of the ninth and tenth centuries delayed the full effects of this until about the year 1000 . |
| 27 | Starting at Easter , the bookings would continue more or less uninterrupted until after the autumn half-term at the end of October . |
| 28 | Where a continent moves towards a subduction zone associated with an intra-oceanic island arc the consequences are rather different because of the resistance of continental crust to significant subduction . |
| 29 | The situation in the islands is now fundamentally different because of the existence of Comhairle nan Eilean — the Western Isles Islands Authority — which has much greater resources both for investigating local problems and doing something to solve them , than any voluntary organisation possibly could , but the question remains whether the technique devised by the Lewis Association still has validity . |
| 30 | Before leaving Butterworth v. Kingsway Motors it should be noted that if the same facts ( i.e. involving a motor vehicle ) were to occur again today , the result would be different because of the Hire Purchase Act 1964 , Part III ( see paragraph 5–40 above ) . |