Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun sg] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the strategy also has a longer term aim to upgrade the infrastructure and skills of the region to enable it to compete effectively for investment when congestion costs in the ‘ grand poles ’ become insupportable . |
| 2 | One other noteworthy source of support to franchise bidders , bringing resources less of money than talent ( though they often acquired shareholdings later ) were the experienced broadcasters , many of whom came from the BBC ( inevitably , in 1955 ) . |
| 3 | Demonstrations of context-specificity do not in themselves establish the correctness of this view as they can be readily interpreted as showing simply that the effects of pre-exposure interfere less with acquisition when conditioning takes place in different context . |
| 4 | An attractive but slow-growing species which does better in emerse than submerse conditions . |
| 5 | insomnia , which is commonly a consequence of addictive disease and which resolves naturally in time as recovery progresses . |
| 6 | And on they sped so swiftly that she might almost have cried out with Ostanes , less in trepidation than delight , ‘ Save me , O God , for I stand between two exalted brilliances … |
| 7 | You 'll also sweat less in bed as air is circulating all round the body . |
| 8 | Liz , like a pale convent girl too long mewed up , went wild in her first year , as she discovered the world of parties she had hitherto known only by reading and by hearsay : in those days , such was the imbalance between the sexes , women were much in demand as status symbols , as sleeping partners , as lovers , as party ballast , and Liz went out a great deal , her appearance improving dramatically as she did so . |
| 9 | During our Pre-Campaign Wave in March defence was the main issue on television , the main issue stressed by the Conservative Party , and second only to unemployment as Labour 's main issue . |
| 10 | As a result , he gives a slightly different portrait of a more experimental painter , dictated less by logic than intuition , and pursuing a development which was not as rigid as the artist 's admirers would have maintained . |
| 11 | Herluin saw him , and uttered a wordless cry , rather of vexation than surprise or alarm , for by this time the steward should have been home in Ramsey , all his booty safely delivered . |
| 12 | Poets seem to write more easily about love than prose writers . |
| 13 | In that cohort , council tenants have their first child much sooner after marriage than owner occupiers ( median interval thirteen months compared with thirty months ) and also have their third births much sooner after their second . |
| 14 | Not only was it the case that many projects were already under way before ERDF resources were committed , but also member states were free to add ERDF aid to the national aid for the project ( individual additionality ) or to add such aid to national regional expenditure as a whole ( global additionality ) . |
| 15 | This may occur for various reasons ; the suspect may have died or be below the age of criminal responsibility , the victim may not wish to press charges or a witness may be unwilling , or unable , to give evidence or a person already in detention after conviction admits to further offences . |
| 16 | When elective treatment is considered , however , contrast enhanced computed tomography may be useful just before surgery as thrombosis may occur . |
| 17 | Modern Rythmic Gymnastics is more about poise than power … its grace not gusto … is it a sport or is it art … theyre arguingthat one out but you ca n't deny its style and skill … |
| 18 | Its actual pace often seems to him interchangeable with Allegro , both words indicating more about character than speed . |
| 19 | The second was more about pressure than pace , as the pack bulldozed through for Paul Ashmead to score . |
| 20 | English fans feel that the emphasis on fast bowling in the last fifteen years has been greatly to the game 's detriment , leading to the continuing decline of the spinner , a lack of variety , slow over rates , broken bones and a situation where batting is more about courage than skill . |
| 21 | Is concerned more about justice than charity . |
| 22 | From the castle he ruled the lake , more as pirate than governor , choosing just the right moment to sell the fortress to the Milanese during the time of the Spanish-French war . |
| 23 | Edwards nodded and said , more as assertion than question , ‘ Dead ? ’ |
| 24 | Gently , I extracted them from the soil with the trowel I 'd brought more as alibi than implement . |
| 25 | While Jane makes a living from her pottery skills using a workshop set up in the garage , her father regards art more as pleasure than source of income . |
| 26 | The uniform , designed more for seduction than aggression , was created by Mr Pierre Balmain who won a pre-podium skirmish with designers Lacroix , Lapidus and Cacherel . |
| 27 | We will continue to argue for employment for all and will continue to criticize unequal development , discriminatory development , low-budget development and development designed more for propaganda than progress . |
| 28 | A cannon or two have been placed around a modern Scandinavian-type house , more for ornament than effectiveness . |
| 29 | However , she allowed him to squire her to the desk , without comment and with a straight face , told him the number of her key , though keys were almost an affectation at ‘ The Salmon 's Return ’ , more for ornament than use , and let him take it down for her and escort her to the foot of the oak staircase , which wound in slightly drunken lurches about a narrow well , the polished treads hollowed by centuries of use . |
| 30 | Mother was dressed more for sun-bathing than fishing , a homemade top being held in position whilst she tried to master the art of casting — much to the discomfort of an angler nearby ; one of the old school : tie , sports jacket , plus fours , deer stalker and gillie . |