Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [det] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | For this reason they are not so popular with knitters who have standard gauge machines and they do n't seem to have caught on for chunky machines , possibly because they are too thick for the former and not thick enough for the latter . |
2 | The choice between searching for the least or most distant neighbours may depend on the experimental ( or even presentational ) needs because in the former case the algorithm finds more detailed and possibly informationally redundant order of probes , while in the latter case it finds a minimal set of probes connected by clones spanning large regions of the genome . |
3 | I found that for tie problems such as ‘ 1+1 ’ , ‘ 2+2 ’ , response times were very quick and similar for the more and less able children . |
4 | Of course they could read the monthly pack anyway but they do not see this as the same as actually having to insert each change in its correct place . |
5 | He cited too a McKinsey report examining the common differential between the most and least successful companies . |
6 | So I might be showing myself doing worst than I should be but , look , my actual come out about the same and so when I compare my actual with my planned , I get er , an answer which should approach one . |
7 | About the same as yesterday I meant . |
8 | He told Sharpe his patrol was one of the many that daily scouted south to the French border and beyond ; this particular troop had been ordered to explore the villages south and east of Mons down as far as the Sambre , but not to encroach on Prussian territory . |
9 | Only after he had left is he free , in the absence of express restraint , to make use of the latter though never the former . |
10 | But at a time when tunes from bourgeois sources were increasingly popular and when traditional , so called ‘ folk ’ tunes were in decline , certainly in the music hall , Corvan used comparatively few of the former and actively retained many of the latter . |
11 | Labour at the moment offers ‘ more of the same but better ’ . |
12 | The second Duma consisted of the same as before plus a few Social Democrats . |
13 | Er in the U K we 've held our market position and it 's been a a pretty desperate market we were one of the few if not the only book seller who refused to er to yield better discount terms er , on the threat of er every , every book seller was every er publisher was threatened with erm not being stocked unless we gave bigger discounts . |
14 | An excerpt from the list of source node names which shows some of the most and least frequent names |
15 | An excerpt from the list of target node names which shows some of the most and least frequent names |
16 | The client may then be asked to re-order this list in terms of the most and least pressing problems . |
17 | It is of a more than usually splendid birthday party , of jolly music , beer and sausages , goose-stepping , displays of rocket transporters and President Gorbachev saying ( without mentioning his loaded off-the-cuff remarks , or those by his spokesman , Gennady Gerasimov ) all the right things about West German revanchism . |
18 | This Spring , BBC2 is televising a Primetime production of one of the great theatrical stagings of the 1980s — Trevor Nunn 's landmark production of Othello , with Willard White in the title-role , Ian McKellen as Iago , and Imogen Stubbs as a more than usually childlike Desdemona . |
19 | Usually , all rules begin with the same or nearly equal weights . |
20 | If there are too many hypotheses with the same or very similar scores , and the cost of the path increases with its length then the algorithm will explore the search space on a broad front , regardless of the accuracy of the estimate . |
21 | Section 2 to read : The Coordinator as part of his/her responsibility is part Area Secretary for a geographical area with no more than approximately a quarter of a million population . |
22 | His long nose came from the latter and more specifically from a genetic type unit near the Dead Sea . |
23 | In recognition of this fact , there has been a significant entrance of women into mainstream media — much more in western than in Third World countries , but to a noticeable extent in the latter as well . |
24 | a person of one sex is treated less favourably , on the ground of sex , than a person of the other sex would be in the same or not materially different circumstances . |
25 | Direct discrimination against a married person occurs where a married person is treated less favourably on the grounds of marital status , than an unmarried person of the same sex would be in the same or not materially different circumstances . |
26 | In some passerine species it even justifies slightly larger clutches than are found in the same or closely related species of lower latitudes ( Ricklefs , 1980 ) . |
27 | To which he uttered the classic comment , in the more than usually low drawl he employed for such deliverances : ‘ There 's always bound … to be a certain amount of iniquity … in these matters ’ . |
28 | So erm they would n't take him in the army but he , he was in the more or less he was , he was in the map making department . |
29 | ‘ Because the issue was public against private rather than the relationship between private and public , Britain has suffered from a less than fully productive public sector and a less than fully responsible private sector , neither of which were satisfactory engines for growth . |
30 | I still wanted to believe that he had been fooling me , or testing my credulousness in a more than averagely cruel manner . |