Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police sources said the use of bombs little heavier than a packet of butter could herald a new tactic aimed at beating the roadblocks that have been set up in London for the first time . |
| 2 | In some ways the share price performance has made a deal with one of the US car giants less likely since the numbers have changed quite dramatically . |
| 3 | As PSR J0437–4715 is so close , however , it should be possible to detect a companion about 25 times less luminous than the limit on PSR B1855+09 . |
| 4 | It only has 3000 genes and by this criterion is about 20 times more complicated than a bacterium and 40 times less complicated than a human . |
| 5 | Well , the studies that I 've been involved in , the computer has performed certainly as well as a consultant , and at times much better than a junior doctor in the particular situation that I 'm talking about . |
| 6 | ‘ I found the last 20 minutes extremely hard but the lads gave me every encouragement and I am delighted , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Harry clenched his teeth so hard that the stem of his clay pipe broke , and he had to spit the bits into the hearth . |
| 8 | Trading in dammars , incensewood and rattans sometimes yields financial returns so high that the people abandon cultivation in its favour . |
| 9 | It was hardly even a coincidence ( Charles had told his Aquitanian supporters little more than a fortnight before to follow him northwards , and envoys from Lothar found no difficulty in locating Charles at Troyes on Easter Monday , 18 April ) . |
| 10 | ‘ My dear deluded child , ’ said Gay , who had a disconcerting habit of answering , not one 's words so much as the thought which had prompted them , ‘ you do n't imagine we 're wrestling with the torments of jealousy , do you ? |
| 11 | Not the words so much as the culture which produces them . |
| 12 | Such movements , however , do not necessarily and simply entail the substitution of a smaller conjugally-based family for a traditional extended family ; rather it would appear that at these times kin may take on a new significance , and that we may need to look at a network of relationships much wider than the conjugal family . |
| 13 | Charles is right ; there are others in the town who have done well for themselves , sometimes by methods less creditable than the undertaker 's , and they 're highly thought of . |
| 14 | Throttles opened wide , the engines roared as they regained flying speed , the Vimy skimmed the waves so close that the spray beat underneath the wings . |
| 15 | Lorrimer said through lips so stiff that the words sounded cracked : |
| 16 | Small losses soon accelerated when the U S reported trade gap figures of 9.033 billion dollars , far worse than the city forecast . |
| 17 | Why are the words more vulgar than the behaviour ? |
| 18 | THERE can be few pictures more appealing than the latest shots of Zenouska Mowatt . |
| 19 | His shooting uniform of olive greens and tweeds as tribal as the black Sunday outfits of the Lewis churchgoers . |
| 20 | Again , the spotlight has been on men — a reflection of the place of women in the arts as much as a marker of the unacceptability of lesbianism . |
| 21 | But as they got to know each other Annabelle discovered that Steven liked the arts as much as the sciences/hiking as well as driving/driving cars as well as repairing them . |
| 22 | But , even within such a system the role of nations was not likely to be central because the main players in such a game would be units far larger than the states that most of the characterist , ie , separatist , nationalist agitations of the late 20th century were designed to form . |
| 23 | Interest rates had risen in recent months as high as an annualized rate of 1,200 per cent as banks struggled to retain their funds , and the move initially froze the savings of thousands of Argentinians and also affected major corporations . |
| 24 | Tiny varying voltages were applied to the plates and the platypus 's reactions showed that it could detect field strengths as low as a 500 millionth of a volt ( 0.05 microvolts ) per centimetre . |
| 25 | In fact steel is exceptional in sometimes reaching strengths as high as a tenth of its calculated strength ; the great majority of common solids can show only a hundredth or a thousandth of what theory indicates . |
| 26 | In his prime Burn had built , substantially reconstructed or enlarged as many as six country houses a year for clients as diverse as the Marquis of Westminster and I.K. Brunel . |
| 27 | Frogs , lizards and small mammals are all hunted on the ground ; and the largest rattlesnakes , such as the diamondbacks , which may exceed 2 m ( 6l/2 ft ) in length , feed on animals as large as a hare . |
| 28 | Believing that the recent emergence of theory in literary education is a symptom of disorder , I find the contradictions as symptomatic as the coherences . |
| 29 | The final choice , yet to be made , centred as much around how the suppliers coped with these demands as much as the actual performance figures . |
| 30 | Even when the more violent and disruptive aspects of events in France had become clearly visible , it was often the methods as much as the objectives of the revolutionaries which aroused opposition . |