Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [conj] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Never have you been less than a living spirit . ’
2 As numerous objectors pointed out , the amount spent annually by the government on research into renewable energy has been less than a tenth of the spending on nuclear research .
3 Now if , if you accept the ten percent owning the eighty percent , there must 've been enough but the poor are not getting it .
4 Now I want a top three medal , and I genuinely believe I can get one , ’ he said at the Luton social club where he runs one of the few silat classes in this country — there are less than a hundred active practitoners of the martial art in Britain .
5 Maxim drove it slowly , en-joying the first real countryside he had been in since the hot weather began .
6 However , given that the disclaimer of responsibility is valid under the UCTA , it is hard to see why such a solution , which puts the buyer in a better position than he would have been in if no express remedies were available , should fall foul of the UCTA .
7 ‘ It depends entirely where you live whether it 's down to the school you are in or the local education authority .
8 The ‘ let it rip ’ days of Nicholas Ridley are over and a new package of environmentally-sensitive planning policies ( 2 ) has been put in its place , thanks to campaigning groups like CPRW . ’
9 We 're there because the Conservative party chose us , and put us there .
10 But the Foss men were famously militant , they had been ever since a young minister with lordly tastes and little scholarship had been foisted on them by the laird twelve years before and they had first boycotted him , then run him down the road on a cart .
11 IN HIS unorthodox pilgrimage there has been more than a normal share of ill-will , resentment and litigation .
12 It had been more than a long time , Erika reflected .
13 The smallest insect alive during the Age of Dinosaurs must have been more than a million times smaller than Brontosaurus .
14 In the previous half-century it could not have been more than a million and a half in all .
15 But much of Operation Gemini is about surveilance , observing known criminals and waiting for the right time to move in and make arrests , of which there have been more than a hundred and twenty since the operation started four weeks ago .
16 But that had been more than a dozen years ago , when Robbie 's family had been in better financial circumstances .
17 And when Kennedy was shot , the ‘ psycho ’ Hoover botched the FBI investigation personally , ignoring evidence that there might have been more than a single gunman involved , sending agents to question the background of the Warren Commission 's staff , punishing his own agents for failing to spot Oswald 's violent nature .
18 With a child 's resilience she had quickly adjusted to the loss of her mother , who had never been more than a glamorous appendage on the periphery of her world , and Sally had stepped in to fill the breach more than adequately .
19 Mary was holding a tiny fawn , and it could n't have been more than a few days old .
20 Sadleir arrived at Qatif on 21 June at a time when no European had been more than a few miles inland and no maps existed of the interior .
21 The two sessions , described by Mr Butts as ‘ good confrontations ’ , seem to have been more than the sensitive Japanese journalists could stand .
22 THE Berlin Wall has long been more than the ugliest symbol of Europe 's division .
23 In modern Germany there are more than a hundred spas offering the ‘ cure ’ , and programmes of hydrotherapy are taken once or twice a year by millions of Germans .
24 Many are more than a hundred years old .
25 There are more than a hundred variables that go to make up this initial decision .
26 The carrot-shaped Attic peninsula dangles into the Aegean towards the Cyclades islands ; there are more than a hundred miles of hospitable Attic coastline , with plenty of good harbours from Skala Oropou in the north-east , past Laurion , just mentioned , round Sounion with its dockyards .
27 There are more than a hundred and fifty thousand heart attacks in your country every year .
28 , . There are more than a hundred thousand stroke victims in your country every year .
29 In fact , according to Austin there are more than a thousand of these acts which are performable in English , and unless the hearer or reader recognises which of these is being expressed by the utterances in question he or she has missed the point .
30 A world of gently impending walls and grades of French & Brigand d'Amour and Symphonie du Nouveau Monde are said by my partner Johny Adams to be excellent 7as , but there are more than a dozen others ( up to 8b ) to try .
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