Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [art] [det] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had long marked her down as a less than sociable woman who appeared to nurse some secret grievance . |
| 2 | The two latter poems describe states of physical illness , but I think it is not unfair to quote them along with the former because all three only express in an overt form what is often expressed throughout her work : the connection between purity and superiority , the connection between purity and death . |
| 3 | First year pruning will take each stem of a bush rose down to no more than 3–4 inches ( 8–10cm ) , cutting where possible to suitable outward-pointing buds . |
| 4 | Zurich is an essential part of one of the regions inviting exploration , north Switzerland , which tourists are inclined to pass through with no more than an approving nod , rather than lingering to find out . |
| 5 | For non-PEPs , Gartmore will credit the trust purchase as soon as the share price is known , while M&G and Save & Prosper will normally put it through on the same or the next business day . |
| 6 | Alan got off to a less than |
| 7 | And within was empty darkness , fenced off by no more than a ridge of soil . |
| 8 | From seeming to be a parable or a satire , it ends up as no more than a glimpse of the stunted mentality of a twosome . |
| 9 | Cork , under new manager Damian Richardson , scrambled a 1-0 win over Monaghan on the opening day of the championship and followed that up with a less than impressive 0-0 draw at Galway on Wednesday . |
| 10 | The reason they have this versatility is that they are able to join up with no fewer than four other atoms at a time , to form chains or networks . |
| 11 | The UN felt swamped by the quality and quantity of NATO staff work — NATO planners turned up with no fewer than five bound volumes — in the initial stages of the joint operation that was set up to keep the peace in Bosnia should the Bosnian Serbs join the Croats and Muslims in accepting the Vance-Owen peace plan . |
| 12 | Along with the mingling of the genres go the other stylistic features of a rather modish postmodernism : pastiche ; montage ; paraphrase ; parody ; allusion ; quotation ; often adding up to no more than a cultivated divertissement . |
| 13 | So I might be showing myself doing worst than I should be but , look , my actual come out about the same and so when I compare my actual with my planned , I get er , an answer which should approach one . |
| 14 | According to Swayne , it is the creature 's habit to be out for no more than half an hour at night . ’ |
| 15 | Subject to such disclosure as is required by Section 317 of the Act , a Director may vote in respect of any contract or arrangement in which he is interested or upon any matter arising out of the same and may be counted in the quorum present at any meeting at which any such contract , arrangement or matter is proposed or considered and if he shall so vote his vote shall be counted . |
| 16 | Subject to such disclosure as is required by Section 317 of the Act , a Director may vote in respect of any contract or arrangement in which he is interested or upon any matter arising out of the same and may be counted in the quorum present at any meeting at which any such contract , arrangement or matter is proposed or considered and if he shall so vote his vote shall be counted . |
| 17 | She barely had time to assimilate the sudden rapid rise and fall of his chest before her head was wrenched back with a less than gentle hand and her mouth was captured by his . |
| 18 | Some rural districts , however , still lack separate housing departments staffed by professionally trained housing managers , and in extreme instances allocations have been carried out on a more or less ad hoc basis by local councillors . |
| 19 | During my spell on the late desk I went out on no fewer than eleven murders . |
| 20 | MBO and venture capital fund investors are only slowly appreciating that the trade-off for the lower risk inherent in transactions that are more carefully selected and more conservatively structured than those typical in the mid-eighties has to be lower anticipated rates of return , whether the exit is via a trade sale or a flotation on to a less than receptive equity market . |