Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun sg] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one extreme are those who would say that Protestantism was more propitious for science than Catholicism only in the sense that it was less obstructive . |
| 2 | The criteria by which marathon times would become acceptable for ratification as world records were drafted by the IAAF 's own road running committee in response to a call for change many think is overdue . |
| 3 | A gloomy , whale-ribbed corridor led after half a kilometre to a moist cloacal side-passage aglow with lichen where ventilator gargoyles exhaled dazing smouldery fumes . |
| 4 | This can be clearly seen at St Oswald 's in Gloucester , where the many phases of development are more clear in elevation than plan , and where , ironically , the earliest masonry is up above arches put in at a later date . |
| 5 | Of course Lang 's movie was far more interested in psychology than sociology but there were other differences too : Fury was a one-off movie whereas the more pedestrian and less ambitious Black Legion was part of a continuing Hollywood tradition . |
| 6 | The Baltoro comes in a variety of single colours , aiming for a market more interested in function than fashion . |
| 7 | I am not interested in art as affirmation or in art as manifestation of complicity . |
| 8 | I did n't eat meat and I was more interested in ornithology than football . ’ |
| 9 | The report clearly stresses that the catering industry is more interested in quality than price . |
| 10 | Also , due in part to increasing media attention , delinquent-prone youths who are more interested in fighting than football see the terrace ‘ ends ’ as places to maintain and improve tough reputations . |
| 11 | He seems more interested in fishing than football . |
| 12 | Document preparation systems based on mark-up ( such as LaTeX ) , while making explicit the crucial distinction between logical and physical structures of a document , are difficult for beginners to use , and provoke the frequent cry from those more interested in use than principle of ‘ why use this , it 's so much easier using [ my favourite word processor ] ’ . |
| 13 | Master and dame then went off to pass time with a neighbour , while the young people sit and talk happily around a good coal fire : " More free from care than knight or squire " . |
| 14 | This is very unusual for a European wine region ( in most cases , vineyards generally face south to some degree ) and especially for one as northerly in latitude as Champagne . |
| 15 | It may well strain belief that eight hours of enjoyment can make primary school children comfortable with chemical ideas that are being chopped out of GCSE syllabuses , yet this much and more can be achieved by challenging a teaching tradition that is almost as unhelpful to chemistry as phlogiston was . |
| 16 | Procedural gender biases are a source of serious anxiety in a science as powerfully dependent on method as psychology . |
| 17 | There was little dispute that D had committed the offence of dangerous driving , but did that automatically make him guilty of manslaughter when death resulted ? |
| 18 | The Germans , too , began with tariffs more favourable to farming than industry , and it took the McKinley tariff in the U.S.A. and the enormous Russian protective duties to convert the German rulers to protection for their manufacturers . |
| 19 | It is impossible to gauge whether Zealot activity originated from a single headquarters , or whether it consisted of a multitude of groups operating independently . |
| 20 | a widening range of stylistic features more characteristic of writing than speech ; |
| 21 | But this is unlikely to prevent regular fierce exchanges between Dr Kumar and Mr Bates as unalike in personality as East Cleveland and Middlesbrough . |
| 22 | In some of his tracts he is outspokenly hostile to philosophy as mother of heresy , strident in his insistence that for a true believer everything is decided by the authority of the apostolic rule of faith and scripture so that further enquiries are superfluous . |
| 23 | Its public welfare , heralded as a prospect unique on earth when Parliament accepted the Beveridge report in 1943 , was in relative decline as early as the 1950s before its continental rivals ; its industrial growth so slow that by the 1970s it was the poorest member of the Community , as it then was , excepting only Ireland and Italy . |
| 24 | Dr White believes that the stresses that destroy marriages are as effective for construction as destruction . |
| 25 | He had been present in court when sentence was passed and the fact of his contempt was never in issue . |
| 26 | Not all of it could be joined together prior to delivery as size precluded it from being transported in one piece . |
| 27 | So the material spread into all Asian schools and , after modification , into selected African ones ( the New Peak ) ; from towns where supervision was easy and teachers well-trained to country where supervision was infrequent and teachers far less well-grounded . |
| 28 | But no sooner had this new approach been introduced than criticisms were mounted : not only the costs and slowness of improvement schemes , but also the social conflicts inherent in gentrification when improvement benefited not the original occupant but an incomer where areas of working-class housing ( particularly in London ) were transformed into desirable enclaves for higher-income households . |
| 29 | However these products tend not to be as rich in calcium as dairy products and red fish . |
| 30 | The court is responsible for service although emergency protection orders and recovery orders granted ex parte must be served by the applicant ( see Chapter 12 , 6 ) . |