Example sentences of "[noun sg] a [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | by means of water carriage a more extensive market is opened to every sort of industry than what land carriage alone can afford it , so it is upon the sea coast and along the banks of navigable rivers that industry of every kind naturally begins to subdivide and improve itself . |
| 2 | There is little doubt that where the appointment of an examiner is permitted under the law of the relevant foreign country , it offers the English practitioner a much better chance of securing a procedure with which he is familiar than does use of a letter of request to a foreign court . |
| 3 | First Bridgeman ( both personally and as First Lord of the Admiralty a very surprising choice ) , and then Baldwin himself were brought in to sustain Steel-Maitland . |
| 4 | " Whatever the method the reason was the same , the amalgamation of a lot of small holdings into sheep farms , and the result a very different pattern of agriculture . |
| 5 | Very few were included in the initial lists of historic buildings and as a result a very large number have been demolished . |
| 6 | Thus , when his secretary of the treasury ventured on one occasion to suggest that colonial rule was more efficient than the successor regimes in the newly independent states , the president brusquely retorted that it was his " personal conviction that almost any one of the newborn states of the world would far rather embrace Communism or any other form of dictatorship than accept the political domination of another government even though that brought to each citizen a far higher standard of living " . |
| 7 | Very soon after I had taken my seat a fairly small number of musicians on the stage , of chamber orchestra size , began their rehearsal . |
| 8 | Although these allegations , if made good , clearly amount to wrongdoing on the part of the third defendant in relation to a number of individual matters , they do not convey to my mind a particularly comprehensible account of a conspiracy or of systematically fraudulent conduct . |
| 9 | Finance minister Tsutomu Hata needs to have in mind a more convincing package of measures than last week 's widely expected damp squib to get Japan Inc back into top gear . |
| 10 | She had in mind a purely platonic visit — there was a guestroom in the little house ; but in the event , perhaps inevitably , they ended up in bed together . |
| 11 | The move argued against the notion of reducing custodial sentences , clearly signalling to the judiciary a more cavalier attitude to the problems of prison overcrowding . |
| 12 | This makes the demonstration a very efficient sales tool . |
| 13 | With methane a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide , this could be contributing as much to global warming as is caused by the CO2 emitted from gas-fired power stations . |
| 14 | A living being is therefore in essence a potentially self-healing system . |
| 15 | Ramie is a natural , linen-type fibre that gives fabric a most attractive slub finish . |
| 16 | There 's a friendly , gentility about today that makes your home , workplace or neighbourhood a very nice place to be . |
| 17 | The problem was that the cultural experience offered by an education in science and technology was in practice a completely different kind of experience . |
| 18 | The employers utilised what appears to be in practice a fairly standard procedure intended to minimise the risk of facing unfair dismissal proceedings with regard to both procedural fairness and the substantive reasonableness of any resulting dismissals of ‘ refuseniks ’ . |
| 19 | In practice a somewhat smaller interval can be used to speed up calculations . |
| 20 | Launch failures account for a very high proportion of gliding accidents , making cable break practice a very important aspect of glider training . |
| 21 | And there was in practice a very thin line between peaceful protest and the other variety . |
| 22 | It was the policy of Henry III , moreover , to dislodge ecclesiastical and lay magnates from the great offices of state , and to replace them by Household officials who would make the central administration a more pliant instrument of his will . |
| 23 | A long , sleek C-pillar gave the car a more muscular look and the side scoops became bigger and wider . |
| 24 | As well as giving you all the benefits of AA Relay , it makes servicing your car a more relaxing experience . |
| 25 | The glass surfaces became more important , especially in side view , giving the production car a more balanced feel . |
| 26 | Is the meeting held in the informal comfort of the staff room or is the setting a more formal arrangement ? |
| 27 | In order to give a good effect a fairly wide range of delay times are required , and apparently it is important that the longer times are not exact multiples of the shortest time . |
| 28 | It is reasonable to give the appropriate Ministers at the Department of Trade and Industry a little more time to respond to it . |
| 29 | The AQMD says that the scheme will give industry a much greater incentive to tackle pollution , will save jobs , will cut the bureaucracy required to enforce statutory regulations , and will be cheaper than regulation , but just as effective . |
| 30 | At the same time , it gives foresters and the power industry a much clearer picture of how their activities are affecting the trees . |