Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most authorities lacked such a committee before this except in a shadow , non-statutory form within the majority party caucus . |
| 2 | The floor was sound except near the wall where there were rat-holes in the planks . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A collection of general medical books in a public library may deal with the same range of topics , but the indexing can be broader than in a specialist context , and the terms used for the same thing may be different . |
| 5 | In the female this tube is broader than in the male . |
| 6 | Shaped like straw mushrooms , they are completely clear except for a gossamer veil which makes up their body . |
| 7 | Every detail was clear except for the number-plate . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Mrs Hill was a small , plump , middle-aged woman , with fine frizzy hair which she encased in a fine frizzy hair net ; she always wore a purple and blue flowered pinny , a garment more in keeping with an aunt or a cleaner than with a lover of science . |
| 13 | On the south side of the structure the concrete was cleaner than to the north , where it was discoloured with moss . |
| 14 | Kemp 's voice was no less clear than during the phone conversation . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In no area , colleagues , is the despair caused by Tory mismanagement more abundantly clear than in the area of welfare benefits . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The militants trudged along the empty lanes unobserved except by the Chief Constable of the county and his forces . |
| 19 | In such cases failure is even more painful than with a home student , and one has heard rumours of failed candidates having to return several years of fees to their government , and suffering even worse penalties . |
| 20 | Mr Jackson adds that salaries are much more performance-related than in the past . |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | And nowhere is this attitude [ opposition to wealth creation ] more marked than in the cloister and common room . |
| 25 | What can be easier than for a manufacturer to limit his sales to those members of the public who fulfil the qualification of being this or doing that ? |
| 26 | The radial shields are rounded triangular to teardrop shaped , slightly greater than a quarter of the disk diameter in length , distally contiguous except for a row of granules which runs along the suture . |
| 27 | Notice that holding the intermediate result of a calculation in the accumulator not only shortens the instruction length , but also increases the instruction execution speed , since the access time to a processor register is shorter than to a store location . |
| 28 | The street below was empty except for a girl walking along sobbing quietly and a boy behind her trying to explain . |
| 29 | The doorway led into a small court with white walls and flat roof of red earth , empty except for a man sitting on the ground on a blue mat . |
| 30 | They were empty except for a caretaker or two . |