Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I 'm sure if ever the occasion arises when I want advice on insurance , you 're the first person I 'll come to . ’ |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | as if I 'd only been half awake before so no wonder I could n't do anything . ’ |
| 34 | Aluminium had recently been prepared in bulk by the eminent Parisian Professor Henri Ste-Claire Deville , who became famous as both a teacher and researcher . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | I shared a compartment with a tanned young man , blond as only a Swede can be , in wire-rimmed glasses and a pony-tail , who was returning to Göteborg from Algeciras , where he had been visiting a girlfriend , as he put it . |
| 37 | He was , I think , even more solipsistic than I was : self-centred as only a man constrained within his own view of what constituted his masculinity could be . |
| 38 | The challenges facing nurses in the 1990s are likely to be as great as any the profession has ever faced . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | Benefits were low because only a minute proportion of copulations result in a reared cub in the next generation ( Journal of Zoology , vol 177 , p 463 ) . |
| 42 | Declared expenditure on defence and security is now more than double the expenditure on health . |
| 43 | If one is more than double the other , we should not fit a straight line . |
| 44 | 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 ) . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | Thus , the benefit for a pensioner couple over 80 will rise from £88.45 a week to £96.15 a week — an increase of 8.7 per cent. , which is more than double the increase in the retail prices index . |
| 47 | Two hydrocyclone separators are to be installed on the Gyda platform next year to more than double the installation 's water handling capacity to 35,000 barrels a day in readiness for an anticipated increase in produced water from the reservoir . |
| 48 | Even before last week 's double blitz the Compensation Agency for Northern Ireland was facing record pay-outs this year — more than double the total for 1991–92 . |
| 49 | Prior to World War I , infant mortality rates in the workhouses were more than double the rate for the entire population . |
| 50 | On housing , I have increased Scottish Homes ' grant in aid next year by £27 million compared with 1991-92 planned expenditure — excluding repayments to the national loans fund — more than double the rate of inflation . |
| 51 | Yet still the Prussians delayed introducing expropriation to Pomerania until May 1912 lest they provoke an uprising , and while they bought up only four estates totalling over 6,624 hectares of land , they paid more than double the market rate . |
| 52 | The Wakefield firm has launched an agreed cash offer of 160p a share — more than double the market price — which values Stag at £12.35m . |
| 53 | Even 17.8 per cent , however , was still more than double the growth of average earnings over that period . |
| 54 | Gordon Owen , the managing director in charge of Mercury , says the group is anxious not to more than double the network in a year as it is a case of ‘ how fast you can go without falling over ’ . |
| 55 | The CBI points out that UK corporate taxes , at more than 4% of GDP in 1989 , are more than double the amount of state aid to industry . |
| 56 | Trading profits in the communications division were more than double the figure for the first half year thanks to the cost control programme . |
| 57 | A task force set up two years ago to raise extra money from international business has enabled it to more than double the number of support staff to five ( last year it raised £300,000 ) . |
| 58 | They comprise some 21 per cent of rural housing stock on average , and Shucksmith ( 1981 ) indicates that , during 1968–73 in England and Wales there were usually more than double the number of local authority houses being built per 1,000 population in urban than in rural districts . |
| 59 | The total so far this year is 53,000 — more than double the number during the same period in 1991 . |
| 60 | DRIVING at more than double the speed limit cost a young Newton Valence woman her driving licence . |