Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it is the latter , then we are seeing a constant rate of rape over the last decade but where women are more willing to make legal complaints and the police and courts not willing to convict other than a very small increase in the number . |
| 2 | Even with six vehicles it is not possible to visit more than a small percentage of the schools in England , Scotland and Wales . |
| 3 | Where the returns from criminal work had been too limited to support more than a small number of firms , they had now increased while other firms felt under economic threat . |
| 4 | It was now impossible to see more than a few yards . |
| 5 | The apparatus required for imprinting , and then for measuring the efficacy of the imprinting response , was large and elaborate ; it was impossible to train more than a few birds at a time . |
| 6 | It is impossible to give more than a brief and partial account of it . |
| 7 | Arguable the strongest-ever candidate for the title of the world 's least-successful Formula 1 car , the Life L190/1 with its radical W12 engine , has passed into the history books where it will be fortunate to make more than a footnote . |
| 8 | This particular problem is likely to remain unsolved until a similar figure is recovered from an excavation site . |
| 9 | The average chocoholic eats twelve and a half , 60-gram bars a week — three times more than is usual . |
| 10 | Although no single investor is supposed to have more than a 15 per cent holding the government has indicated that it may waive this requirement . |
| 11 | I find it hard to raise more than a flicker of interest about who killed whom and why . |
| 12 | I wish him well but realistically he is n't likely to get more than a couple here and there . |
| 13 | They also acted to decrease the woman 's coping skills , making her more likely to become depressed or a less sensitive parent when faced with social difficulties or a lack of marital support . |
| 14 | It may not always be possible to do this when a student writes an apparently nonsensical answer ; and you should try to find out if this is because the student has not studied the subject matter of the test sufficiently , or whether the lesson notes have not explained the subject adequately to the particular student . |
| 15 | The evidence for such changes from past excavations is rarely satisfactory and is almost entirely based on the coins , which , in many cases , is far too slight to offer more than a hint . |
| 16 | It would be tedious to quote more than a few examples of the evidence from parliamentary commissions , the STC , union reports and surveys etc. , but the following quotations are typical : " About the only work which the women can do is to stand or sit at their formes and set up type ; and to distribute the types back again into the cases , but of course this is only a portion of a compositor 's work " ( an employer ) ; " " As far as mere type-lifting is concerned , she may do , but there is other rough work in connection with compositors " work which I do not think a woman is qualified for " ( a union leader ) ; " Women … get the best , i. e. the simplest jobs … they are kept always at pretty much the same kind of work " ( an employer ) . |
| 17 | However , it will never be practicable to convert more than a small percentage of this into useful energy . |
| 18 | They hesitated among the thick heather , unable to see more than a few feet ahead . |
| 19 | Easing the car into first gear , she set off back along the road , a frown deepening on her face as she was forced to crawl along at a snail 's pace , unable to see more than a couple of feet ahead in the ever-thickening snow . |
| 20 | Cash-paying customers , unable to see more than a backswing , chose to misunderstand the intention of the organisers , and flattened them . |
| 21 | Mr Barnes said that trading was ‘ holding up well ’ in Britain , particularly at the company 's new restaurants , but that the whole country would not be able to accommodate more than a total of 12 restaurants . |
| 22 | As a result of the MRC 's calculations Martin claims , in an article in the spring issue of the Journal of the Society for Radiological Protection , that ‘ 300 rads average bone marrow dose is unlikely to kill more than a small percentage of those exposed ’ . |
| 23 | She had been caught between relief and disappointment in that moment , but one of the waitresses had materialised at her side to ask a question , and for the rest of the evening she had been too busy to spare more than a passing occasional thought for the man with the still dark eyes . |
| 24 | For Stenton , the half century before 716 when no Anglo-Saxon king had been able to establish more than a local ascendancy , had ‘ little significance in English political history ’ because it had given no promise of the great advance , as he saw it , towards the unity of England which was to be made by the Mercian kings before the end of the eighth century . |
| 25 | The International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) was reported in early August to be unable to trace more than a few hundred of the many thousands of Iraqi soldiers who died in the Gulf war fighting , nor had details been given of the location of mass graves . |
| 26 | But within a few days , all her mother 's youth and vigour were gone and the energetic , independent woman whose health and dependability she had taken for granted for so long had turned into a helpless invalid , unable to hold down the thinnest gruel , unable to sleep more than a few minutes at a time , unable even to answer the calls of nature on her own , so that she had to be lifted like a child onto the pot and lifted back into the jumble of stinking bedclothes . |
| 27 | It has in the past been notorious that a pupil in an English school , having learned French for seven years , and having even passed at grade A at A level , may yet be unable to utter more than a few halting sentences , and be hardly able to follow a simple conversation with a native speaker . |
| 28 | Biggs is of the opinion that Mason would be unlikely to survive more than a couple of rounds against the world heavyweight champion and at this stage it would be unwise to even think of him as a genuine contender . |
| 29 | Given that it is a central goal of the Committee to encourage a public policy on education which will operate to generate and sustain an organic national culture , the only concrete examples within contemporary popular culture to which they can refer this policy in a favourable manner are those which are sufficiently residual as to be unable to offer more than a minimal oppositional purchase . |
| 30 | No other man had ever been able to arouse more than a tingle of interest in her . |