Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Act is perhaps not so clear where only the claimant with a possessory title is before the court , for example , because the true owner does not appear or can not be found . |
| 2 | Presumably stray magnetic fields will not be that high as otherwise the efficiency of the motors would be low . |
| 3 | This is acceptable when only the family are around , but when we have guests , embarrassing situations can arise . |
| 4 | Their smaller size — an adult male weighs around 150 lb ( 70 kg ) and a female perhaps 30 lb ( 14 kg ) less — makes them more adaptable than either the lion or the tiger , as does their athleticism . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's become a big problem , bigger than just the problem facing us , ’ said a Williams team insider last night . |
| 6 | It has to pick its way through the minefield of NT and Unix and estimate whether COSE is bigger than just the desktop . |
| 7 | It has to pick its way through the minefield of NT and Unix and estimate whether COSE is bigger than just the desktop . |
| 8 | Shareholders will end up with a highly leveraged vehicle — which is fine if the group is going to thrive and win its franchise , but dangerous if either the group 's stream of advertising revenue or its franchise is under threat . |
| 9 | This disclaimer is not appropriate if either the report is an Investment Advertisement under the Financial Services Act 1986 or if the client itself authorised under the FSA . |
| 10 | This is likely to be particularly serious if either the poverty trap or the unemployment trap is encountered . |
| 11 | In some ways , dynamic recognition is more restrictive since both the writer and a suitable input device must be present at the same time , and the technique is evidently only applicable to handwritten text . |
| 12 | But as much as Pauly the character reflects LA youth 's sun-dried degeneracy , the man himself is a driven individual . |
| 13 | In an isotropic space all geodesic surfaces at a single point have by definition identical Gaussian curvature : in a space that is homogeneous as well the curvature is the same everywhere . |
| 14 | Yeah I know all that but I 'm not taking the piss out of that cos obviously the way he said it ! |
| 15 | The legislation does therefore not set up any presumption in the employee 's favour ; rather it is for him as claimant to lead evidence which tends to establish that it is more likely than not the employer gained from possession of the patent . |
| 16 | If the competitor falls ill while abroad the book does not help . |
| 17 | Furthermore a drop ’ in maintenance spending is also likely as both the landlord 's means and incentive to spend money on the property are reduced . |
| 18 | Their problems were far more complex than any the teacher might have set them . |
| 19 | What is much better than just the security levels is the User Definable menus . |
| 20 | I 'm sure if ever the occasion arises when I want advice on insurance , you 're the first person I 'll come to . ’ |
| 21 | An account of professional courses — at least with respect to PGCE — is in principle just as complex because even the advent of accreditation has not enforced uniformity . |
| 22 | Now the quality obviously is not as good as either the flat or fully-fashioned and that 's why the Americans have a reputation for not but that 's the reason , productivity . |
| 23 | The challenges facing nurses in the 1990s are likely to be as great as any the profession has ever faced . |
| 24 | The Spirit becomes in effect a weak counterpart to the male Logos : I say weak because clearly the Spirit is not differentiated in the sense in which the Logos is associated with a male human being . |
| 25 | The next one is er got a meeting on it er I think the airlines are going on a very much a co- ordinated thing er I think most people are probably in agreement with this size eight exemption , make a group specific because really the idea when they put this original proposal in about the size of aircraft was to protect things like the and troops that are shall we say and I think most people would go for that line of thinking because as put in there , why the hell should something again on Cambridge when we ca n't on Stansted but it was really designed to protect certain things . |
| 26 | In practice , unless you have a 486DX — it does not work quite like that because whenever the program is converting it makes such demands on the whole system that everything else is slowed up . |
| 27 | Declared expenditure on defence and security is now more than double the expenditure on health . |
| 28 | If one is more than double the other , we should not fit a straight line . |
| 29 | The growth in occupational pension provision for women was even more marked with more than double the proportion of 60–69 year olds having them ( 32 per cent ) compared with the over-80s ( 15 per cent ) . |
| 30 | The Micom Communications Corp subsidiary of MB Communications Inc , Lawrence , Pennsylvania has announced a new model in its Marathon range of data and speech network servers which is claimed to more than double the performance of the previous products . |