Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Will my hon. Friend join me in paying tribute to the imaginative experiment that the Lord Mayor of London is supporting this year , in which young people go into schools to help pupils with learning difficulties and those who are quicker than the rest of the class ? |
| 32 | In the hitherto unpublished Leeds University evaluation of the 1991 Key Stage One National Curriculum Assessment , teachers rated the tasks they gave to children as rather more challenging than did observers , and were rather more generous than the observers in their estimates both of the frequency of open questions and of the opportunities they gave pupils to volunteer opinions . |
| 33 | Apologies too for being more boring about this than an Arsenal v Wimbledon game . |
| 34 | ‘ Perhaps it was the Friar , ’ the thin man said , scarcely less alarmed by the thought of this than the thought of the unspecified ‘ they ’ . |
| 35 | ‘ I think they can make a much more plausible case for this than the invasion of Grenada [ in 1983 ] or the Dominican Republic in the Sixties , ’ said an American university law professor , Mr Robert Goldman . |
| 36 | There were many good reasons for adopting the latter course as Claudius badly needed to be certain of the loyalty of his army , and there was no better opportunity for obtaining this than the prospect of a great victory . |
| 37 | While I had liked the Colonello very much , because of his courteous way of talking to me , I never really took to Camino — who seemed more English than the English with his stiff upper lip — although subsequently he behaved very well . |
| 38 | Then he said : ‘ I 'm more interested than the rest of you to know whether he killed himself . |
| 39 | Betting is one of Britain 's top leisure activities , even more popular than a trip to the pub or eating out . |
| 40 | Once again it is clear than the concept of bureaucracy can not be used in blanket terms . |
| 41 | And hope is less clear than the dew of the morn |
| 42 | By looking at the diagram though , you will probably see that the smaller sleeve length is also narrower at the top than the measurements in your size . |
| 43 | These skills are again evident when Tamburlaine successfully manages to woo Zenocrate with lines such as : ‘ Zenocrate , lovelier than the love of Jove ’ and ‘ Fair is too foul an epithet for thee ’ . |
| 44 | Therefore spreads are usually less risky than a position in a single futures contract . |
| 45 | Many married women whose husbands sign on for the family find themselves forced to seek work in the black economy in order to make ends meet ; this is often seen as less risky than the possibility of their husbands being caught . |
| 46 | It was no more painful than a ring through a punk 's nose . |
| 47 | Apart from the infiltration of the local anaesthetic , when the patient will feel a prick in the back , less painful than the anaesthetic for dental work , all that is felt is a pressure on the lower spine with occasionally a faint ‘ tingle ’ in one leg which simply signifies that the needle is in the right place . |
| 48 | The transition from symbol to politician was to be far more protracted and painful than the transition from soldier to symbol had been in 1940 . |
| 49 | Thoughts of the bills returning to Gomez 's alligator-skin billfold were unpleasant , but less unpleasant than the thought of being shot in the head . |
| 50 | Of course the environment is very much more simple and unpleasant than the environment from which you 've just come . |
| 51 | ‘ The shock waves will be felt a lot further than the streets of Tyneside . ’ |
| 52 | Yet the statements of attainment are in most cases much less detailed than the sequences of behavioural objectives in use in many special schools . |
| 53 | It is also a living resource centre stocked with a range of information on the English language that is wider and more detailed than the contents of any one of its publications ( or anyone else 's publications ) , and able to adapt and respond to the requirements of the non-specialist language user . |
| 54 | After the sober belches of the shoe-gazing clique ( itself a knee-jerk reaction to the brash swagger of baggydom ) , The Franks came across like circus clowns pissing around in a casualty department , all charmingly naive , astoundingly cheerful and dafter than a boardroom of brushes . |
| 55 | Men die to win democracy for their countries , which after a while is taken grudgingly ; and its practitioners come to be seen as less skilled , worthy and entertaining than the aristocrats of sport . |
| 56 | Evidence to support this speculation is available from countries such as japan where the gender imbalance is much less marked than the countries of western Europe . |
| 57 | The changes have clearly been more marked than the changes in the distribution of income . |
| 58 | Recent history has , for example , a mass character more marked than the history of earlier times . |
| 59 | The fronting of objects and complements is much more marked than the fronting of adjuncts in English because objects and complements are fairly restricted in position . |
| 60 | For me , this job is easier than a game of croquet … |