Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 And I think this social position is more apparent to the informant and the variation in role relations more marked than if the interviewer is an outsider and not in a particular relation to the speakers from the outset .
2 This is somewhat unrealistic because provided the government has a majority in the House of Commons , any parliamentary challenge to such a decision on political grounds would be unlikely to be successful .
3 Blaney 's intention to produce a study of evil was as clear as if the portrait had been labelled .
4 Nothing is more annoying than when a dole queue fan shells out six pounds for a ticket to a show which is nothing but a huge yawn for the artist involved .
5 Section 33(3) requires the court to have regard to all the circumstances of the case and in particular to : ( a ) the length of , and the reasons for , the delay on the part of the plaintiff ; ( b ) the extent to which , having regard to the delay , the evidence adduced or likely to be adduced by the plaintiff or the defendant is or is likely to be less cogent than if the action had been brought within the time allowed by s11 or ( as the case may be ) by s12 ; ( c ) the conduct of the defendant after the cause of action arose , including the extent ( if any ) to which he responded to requests reasonably made by the plaintiff for information or inspection for the purpose of ascertaining facts which were or might be relevant to the plaintiff 's cause of action against the defendant ; ( d ) the duration of any disability of the plaintiff arising after the date of the accrual of the cause of action ; ( e ) the extent to which the plaintiff acted promptly and reasonably once he knew whether or not the act or omission of the defendant , to which the injury was attributable , might be capable at that time of giving rise to an action for damages ; ( f ) the steps , if any , taken by the plaintiff to obtain medical , legal or other expert advice and the nature of any such advice he may have received .
6 Last May , I wrote that if customers had only limited choice as to where to buy jewellery ‘ then it is every bit as exploitative if the quality is unnecessarily low than if the price is unnecessarily high ’ .
7 I knew then that it was more inspiring than if the sound had come from an orphean bird .
8 Note that where the offence in question gave alternatives of using , causing or permitting the use thereof , ‘ uses ’ is interpreted rather more strictly and restricted than when an offence commences ‘ Did use ’ , with no other alternatives .
9 His mother Elizabeth said debris lying around the park was more dangerous than if the area under the play equipment had been left grassed .
10 The next step is crucial because if the rig is not pulled across in front of the body all sorts of problems will arise .
11 This last factor is crucial since if a rock is not saturated ice formation will simply cause the expulsion of water into air-filled cavities , thereby inhibiting a build-up of pressure .
12 The sentence is not related to the offence so much as whether the defendant is homeless , jobless , or has been the subject of a care order , and this is more likely to have happened to black youth .
13 It looked very much as though the Clean-Up Squad was at work .
14 That if If the enemy was n't
15 The size suggested is satisfactory although if the width were increased to say 65 or 75mm the machining and subsequent laying work would be reduced .
16 ‘ The same will apply to a ruck if the ball becomes unplayable except when the referee is unable to determine the team responsible .
17 Given the predisposition of colonic mucosa for neoplasia in FAP , neoplastic change seems less likely than if the pouch environment approximated to that of the colon with complete metaplasia of the reservoir mucosa .
18 The effect of the rule that terms must be incorporated no later than when the contract is concluded is illustrated by the case of Olley v Marlborough Court Hotel [ 1949 ] 1 KB 532 .
19 Thus , if the investment is defined as the initial margin , the variance of the resulting returns will be several hundred times larger than if the spot price is used as the investment .
20 This usually just rests in place ( it 's rather heavy ) , but where inspection chambers are inside a house ( unusual except where an extension has been built on ) , the manhole is screwed down and has to be specially sealed .
21 It was paradoxical because although the subject was very deeply asleep , being completely relaxed and more difficult to wake than at any other time during the night , the EEG pattern was that of alert wakefulness .
22 Heinrich was as horrified as if the Kaiser himself had been insulted .
23 ( 3 ) The chairman of a licensing board has a second or casting vote when the voting in connection with a decision by the board is equal except where the matter being decided is the grant or provisional grant of a new licence .
24 Ten months later , however , the house looks better than when the crew arrived .
25 There is some convincing research that they are often no better than if the manager had simply stuck a pin in at random amongst the names of candidates .
26 Britain 's 1967 Abortion Act does not apply to Northern Ireland , where abortions are illegal except where the mother 's life is threatened or her physical and mental health are considered to be in grave danger .
27 You are only looking at it from our point of view though are n't you , I mean they , they 're going to look at it from the point of view that they can possibly obtain sixteen zero zero fours , although they 'd obviously like to get them cheaper , but at a price that makes the the overall package that contains that bearing and a six eight O seven cheaper than than the package that we would like them to use which inc would incorporate six zero zero fours , and er whatever after .
28 What essentially what you need to do how to do is if you wan na be able to work Saturdays we need to be able to prove that in fact pound per , per item of post on a Saturday is cheaper than because the productivity in the week will be lower therefore and even at time and a half , the cost of doing an hour 's overtime for the work you get out in the week is , is less productive than doing double time with what you get out on a Saturday .
29 The ref 's gon na jus , er banned them all until after the match .
30 The percentage shareholding necessary to give control is problematical since as the degree of dispersal increases effective control can be exercised with a decreasing proportion of the votes , and certainly with considerably less than the 50 per cent required for a member or members to have the right to remove the board .
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