Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adj -er] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This dual emphasis on the reader and on analysis of texts in units larger than a sentence seems to offer the beginnings at least of a new approach to text research , one which moves beyond a correlational approach to readability and starts instead to identify causal relationships between aspects of texts and difficulties in comprehension . |
| 2 | Exactly the same issues arise in relation to the task of spelling non-words to dictation , and here again it appears that this not done solely by phoneme-grapheme rules , but that some role is played by units larger than the grapheme ( Campbell , 1983 ) . |
| 3 | For this reason , and because of the limited use for such general data-types , the only data-types smaller than a word which are at all commonly provided for in the instruction set are half-words , characters , and decimal digits . |
| 4 | In the queue stands six-year-old Hussein Ibrahim — his legs thinner than the walking stick he holds in his hand . |
| 5 | They formed a proportion of new schools greater than the proportion of children they served ( though this may have been because they were more likely to have suffered from bombing in city centres ) . |
| 6 | But with a very , very heavy star — several times heavier than the Sun — the gravity would be so strong , nothing would be able to resist it . |
| 7 | To predict the universe , you 'd need a computer many times bigger than the universe . ’ |
| 8 | A hyaena 's nasal membranes have a surface area fifty times bigger and the richness of the information they can gather is so great and varied that it is difficult for us to appreciate it . |
| 9 | New brickwork , where visible , is several tones lighter than the original , to distinguish the building 's newest section . |
| 10 | Where peasants were already working areas larger than the maximum , landowners were allowed to trim their holdings . |
| 11 | It makes matters worse that the Secretary of State for Education and Science can not even understand that . |
| 12 | It only makes matters worse that the sound remains harsh , boxy and quite uncomfortable to listen to . |
| 13 | I tried to look sympathetic but that only made matters worse and the fellow waved his fingers in the air as a sign for us to go and , turning his back , resumed his prayers . |
| 14 | It was ten or twelve feet higher than the square , surrounded by a stone wall with a granite coping and surmounted by a chain-wire fence to stop the children scrambling up and falling over . |
| 15 | They stretched in great flocks wider than the whole of the Zoo . |
| 16 | For scales larger than the RVE we can use continuum mechanics ( classical and large strain elasticity , linear and non-linear viscoelasticity ) and derive from experiment useful and reproducible properties of the material as a whole . |
| 17 | The space below the hole will tend to contain objects smaller than the hole , and the space above will tend to contain objects larger than the hole . |
| 18 | It is blueish in colour , six times larger than a chicken 's egg , and about to make ornithological history . |
| 19 | Eight times larger than a lion , the griffin has an acute sense of hearing , and its talons are highly prized for their ability to change colour when they come into contact with poison . |
| 20 | ‘ We must assume there is some invisible mass , approximately 100 times larger than the mass of the gas cloud itself , ’ says Terzian . |
| 21 | Their numbers expanded rapidly until there were 66 daidan in Java and another three in Bali : a total not far short of 35000 ( five times larger than the BNA ) . |
| 22 | It must be appreciated that , although the population of the world is about a million times larger than the population of a large village , the model needed to make a reasonable study of some major world trends and problems is not necessarily much larger or more complex than the village model . |
| 23 | However it can be up to 1000 times larger if the host is amorphous , or non crystalline . |
| 24 | The Hon. Peter Horbury appeared to be some ten or twelve years younger than the earl . |
| 25 | On this occasion I would like to mention your Guild is only 14 years younger than the Diocese itself . |
| 26 | At just 46 he is the third youngest president of all time and five years younger than the voice of rebellious youth , Bob Dylan . |
| 27 | ‘ I now find that I am an exact contemporary of the current vice-president of the USA and just two years younger than the president . ’ |
| 28 | Anna Ford is three years older than the man who will now feature constantly in her news bulletins , and her former rival Angela Rippon is 48 . |
| 29 | Though from a much more comfortable background than Burton , Dylan Thomas had been brought up just the other side of Swansea Bay , a few years older than the man who would become his greatest reader . |
| 30 | She was next in line to Lily , five years older than the girl who had come to Riverstown and had the whole world in her pocket , so far as Bernadette could see . |