Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case they were quite clear where their own priorities lay : |
| 2 | Volkswagen 's Vario I and Vario II were much more interesting than their wacky bodywork would suggest . |
| 3 | Such stronger forms are available , as we shall see , and they are always more interesting than their weaker counterparts . |
| 4 | Far more interesting than your average conversation that involves people or a good old fashioned joke I do n't think . |
| 5 | Unless the Paris Club , which manages official debt to Western governments , proves much more generous than its past record suggests , a considerable slice of the new money will go merely to service the old loans rather than provide fresh finance for imports and investment goods to support genuine reform . |
| 6 | Thus , the richer States of the north and west should be more generous than their poorer contemporaries of the South , a conclusion that has been sustained empirically , e.g. Magull ( 1978 ) , Fenton and Chamberlayne ( 1969 ) . |
| 7 | On the Continent , station architects tended to be more restrained than their English-speaking colleagues , more prone to arches than towers , but they were not unaffected by the new aesthetic and clung to it longer . |
| 8 | Of course when we think and talk about computers , we generally have in mind something much more formal and more scientific than our own hands . |
| 9 | She might sound diffident , McLeish thought , amused , but she was n't , just more careful than his blunt Francesca about how she made her points . |
| 10 | Some things , then , were more reliable than his own twin likenesses in the school photograph . |
| 11 | Alderly has had owners far more distinguished than its Georgian creator . |
| 12 | In any case , he 's almost certainly no more devious than his Celtic predecessors in the job . ’ |
| 13 | In any case , it is doubtful if its present followers would give much support to such an extension , for it is a religion which claims to confer privileges , including territorial ones , and privileges , by definition , can not have universal application . |
| 14 | A similar delay in Spain could mean something altogether different because there close family relatives take absolute priority and , no matter how important other business is , all non-relatives are kept waiting . |
| 15 | And one of the 8-bit slots is unusable because its blanking plate carries the extra serial and games port . |
| 16 | I am afraid the above formulae are wrong because our new solenoids do n't look the same as the old one . |
| 17 | Laski 's study of judicial review is particularly interesting since its primary focus is a study of Roberts v. |
| 18 | By 1982 a Toronto Board of Education survey found 37 per cent of first-year high-school students were born outside Canada and that nearly half of them spoke a language other than English or French as their first language . |
| 19 | That , coupled with an estimated 50 million working days a year lost to smoking-related illness , means companies now list smoking as their main health concern for male employees and second most important , after VDU and computer worries , for women . |
| 20 | In 1923 Gresley became chief mechanical engineer of the London and North Eastern , the second largest group railway , formed from six individual companies , with Bulleid as his personal assistant . |
| 21 | Not as funny as its box-office receipts might suggest |
| 22 | Receptionist Amanda France , 23 , said : ‘ It 's not as funny as his other films but I still laughed out loud . ’ |
| 23 | At least two-thirds of Americans have never had any reason to think of the British as their Anglo-Saxon cousins ; the East European émigrés who ran the studios were no more likely than their successors to look upon British producers as partners , and nobody would queue to see a film just because it was British . |
| 24 | " Basil and Rosemary " — their names were as inseparable as their professional endeavours . |
| 25 | Indeed , the probability is ( one survey shows that 41 per cent of people name speaking in public as their greatest fear ) that just under half of them do not enjoy presenting . |
| 26 | The leading accountants , KPMG , has now adopted English as its world-wide company language ; reports , board meetings and contracts have to be in English . |
| 27 | Intergraph uses English as its corporate language throughout the world . |
| 28 | It is n't their height but their shapely form that attracts discerning hillgoers , and since many of the tops are not included in tick lists — some of the Scottish ones do n't even get Corbett status — they tend not to be as popular as their loftier neighbours . |
| 29 | While not as popular as his Second Concerto ( what is ? ) , the First is a fine romantic work . |
| 30 | The latter are particularly helpful since cholesterol becomes harmful when its chemical structure is changed through oxidisation . |