Example sentences of "[subord] [adj] [noun] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was into this carefree atmosphere , where hard work and a loving family impose their own disciplines , that the W children came . |
| 2 | I can tell of many schools and many teachers doing an exciting job under very difficult circumstances : a school set up in abandoned , corrugated iron railway sheds in Ghana with no partitions , hot at midday and unspeakably noisy during rainstorms , yet well equipped with a cheerful co-operative staff , an open plan school , Ghana style ; an overcrowded school in Lesotho where teachers had evolved their own brand of team-teaching , one teacher imparting information to a class of 120 , followed by groupwork where two teachers and a student supervised written work ; a school down the road from them where Class I and 2 teachers who finished teaching at lunchtime had organised afternoon sessions on remedial reading for older children ; another in Francistown , Botswana , in temporary classrooms , with walls made of hessian and children organised into ‘ family groups ’ playing reading and number games under the guidance of older children . |
| 3 | A few freaks have been discovered from time to time , one amazing animal tipping the scales at no less than 43 lbs and a dwarf specimen at as little as 3 lbs , but these were abnormal . |
| 4 | The following month , the University celebrated its foundation with Thanksgiving Service in the Church of the Holy Rude on September 23 , attended by more than 30 clergy and a large congregation of staff and students . |
| 5 | The Russian ambassador in Kiev has described Ukrainian independence to other diplomats there as a temporary phenomenon , unlikely to last more than another year and a half . |
| 6 | However , if it is a moral decision rather than mechanical conformism or a prudent surrender to social pressures , the case remains fundamentally as before , but with an added layer ; he now takes account , not only of the effects on his parents but of the damage to the community as a whole of any successful disobedience . |
| 7 | He had launched Laker Airways saying it would be a tight operation with no more than six planes and a staff of 120 . |
| 8 | For the two women , Bumface 's dismissal merited no more than perfunctory laughter and a slight impatience with Charles for not getting on with the business of bottle opening . |
| 9 | WITH no fewer than three courses and a floodlit driving range , Hoebridge in Woking is one of Britain 's leading pay-as-you-play golf centres . |
| 10 | Although three sons and a daughter survived infancy , only his daughter , Sarah , and second son , John , survived him , the latter to pursue a successful career in the City , centred on the Levant trade . |
| 11 | Medicine was a particular interest of the Tughluk Sultans , and Sultan Muhammed 's nephew Firoz Shah founded no fewer than seventy dispensaries and a Shifa Khana ( or Central Hospital ) where free food , drink and medicine were supplied to the sick at the expense of the treasury . |
| 12 | The 1992 Gîtes de France brochure contains more than 2500 properties and a choice of 22 ferry routes . |
| 13 | After the break Duffy knocked in a 92 in less than 6 minutes and a quickfire 83 , taking only 3 minutes 46 seconds , clinched the match . |
| 14 | Scragg et al in a case-control study found that ever user of the pill was associated with an increased risk of symptomatic gall bladder disease in women younger than 29 years and a reduced risk of symptomatic gall bladder disease in older women . |
| 15 | The impact of the deal , the biggest ever in the Swedish market , will turn Procordia into one of Europe 's 20 largest pharmaceutical companies , with more than 48,000 employees and a yearly turnover approaching £3.5billion . |
| 16 | Push towards the limits of the tyres ' adhesion , though , and you provoke little more than mild understeer and a screech of protest from the Continental Sport Contact 195/50 VR15 rubber . |
| 17 | Weighing over 80,000 pounds , it has a barrel of more than 16 feet and a bore of 890 millimetres . |
| 18 | Of course Lake Titicaca is renowned for more than impressive statistics and a name like a birdcall . |
| 19 | A major change is one that we make to your holiday arrangements before departure , that involves changing your UK airport(s) , resort area or time of departure or return by more than twelve hours or a change of accommodation to a Club not featured in this brochure . |
| 20 | The nearest neighbour , a farmer well into his seventies , was more than five miles and a range of low hills away . |
| 21 | Patients had to have had insulin treated diabetes mellitus for more than five years and a history of altered awareness of hypoglycaemia within three months of transferring to human insulin . |
| 22 | Its claims come less than five months after a Greenpeace report said that Aldermaston had an ‘ appalling safety record ’ of unreported deaths and fires , radioactive leaks and contamination of workers . |
| 23 | By the finish of yesterday 's race he was 35 seconds ahead of second placed Gerhard Berger — and had covered the equivalent distance of London to Manchester in a little more than one hour and a half . |
| 24 | In contrast pen-based systems have received much less attention than voice-based systems but a number of commercial products are currently emerging on the market ( e.g. Penpoint , Paragraph and PenWindows ) . |
| 25 | Leota , more than 15 stone but a fast , mobile , strong second-row forward , and Nikau , a 22-year-old 6ft 1in loose forward , will fill the vacancies left by Bruce McGuire and Jeff Hardy when the Australians return home in January . |
| 26 | Just as a chapel was more than four walls and a roof , so the forest was more than pillars and a canopy . |
| 27 | For example , while sexual dimorphism in size is likely to evolve where variation in male success is greater than female success and a given increment in body size has the same effect on breeding success in both sexes , it will also evolve if variation in reproductive success is similar in both sexes but size has a greater influence on success in males or even if variation in success is greater in females but the effects of size are greater among males . |
| 28 | But Qinghua was something of an exception , being China 's top technological university , with better facilities than other institutions and a high level of prestige . |
| 29 | The hatched areas represent returning to theatre , the white areas represent blood transfusion of greater than two units and a hatched area represent patients developing postoperative sepsis . |
| 30 | The journey of almost a thousand miles took more than two nights and a day by steam train , along track of narrower gauge than is usual elsewhere , and therefore with slower speeds . |