Example sentences of "the [adj] [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The median follow up after ileostomy closure was comparable in the three groups . |
| 2 | Similar intervention apparently occurred in RENFE in the 1985 bargaining round when an improved offer was made following a meeting between confederal leaders of the UGT and the minister of transport ( see ch. 7 ) . |
| 3 | The French charged sooner than we thought . |
| 4 | Irving Penn , one of America 's foremost photographers , is seen by many as one of the few to master more than one genre of photography |
| 5 | Irving Penn , one of America 's foremost photographers , is seen by many as one of the few to master more than one genre of photography |
| 6 | He senses , too , that the actual has more than one side to it . |
| 7 | The second comes about because of the breakeven requirement and is necessary if subsidies are disallowed . |
| 8 | ( And such questions are always among the hardest to answer even where evidence is full . ) |
| 9 | Henry was the most appropriate of the three to carry on as miller as he had served his apprenticeship at Healings in Tewkesbury . |
| 10 | Two of the three moved off as he arrived , with unconvincing references to waiting papers , but Bruce Davidson stood his ground , enquiring heartily how Francesca was and had she been helpful ? |
| 11 | It was excavated in an unsystematic way , and the many illustrations of finds show that the emphasis was put on the recovered finds rather than on the site itself In this illustration , published soon after the excavation in 1883 , the burial was attributed to the Vikings . |
| 12 | Despite the weather the blast-off went ahead as planned . |
| 13 | The realisation of this aim has remained elusive ; in all societies the children of the powerful do better than those of the powerless . |
| 14 | Like many places , the good happened here as well as the bad . ’ |
| 15 | The latter relax annoyingly when not in use and tend to slide out of place . |
| 16 | The latter came in when Paul was halfway through ; he was a gentle Scot in the late twenties , with slanting blue eyes , a fresh skin , and thinning light-brown hair . |
| 17 | When not pressed too hard , the former prefer to disbelieve rather than believe and the latter to believe rather than disbelieve ; but both feel extremely uncomfortable if their tested . |
| 18 | Speaking in measured tones from the fourth row back where sacked ministers traditionally have their say , he addressed a crowded chamber in an electric atmosphere . |
| 19 | But with seven wins from their last eight , the Chargers look set to reach the play-offs for the first time since 1982 — the first to do so after such a poor start . |
| 20 | ‘ We must ensure that our children 's generation is not the first to do worse than their parents . |
| 21 | SIR , — Most commentators would describe ‘ life-terminating acts without explicit request of patient ’ ( LAWER ) as non-voluntary euthanasia but the Dutch do not because euthanasia was defined for the Remmelink report only as ‘ intentionally taking the life of a person upon his or her explicit request by someone else than the person concerned ’ . |
| 22 | ( The above applies even if any of the partners are out of England or Wales . ) |
| 23 | The above applies only if you have given us prior notification of each period of foreign travel and the countries you are visiting . |
| 24 | The former does so because a strategy of playing Nash equilibrium in every constituent game is also a Nash equilibrium of an entire repeated game . |
| 25 | The distinction between complex subjects and multi-word terms is that the former contain more than one unit concept . |
| 26 | Next , the implication that full employment could be achieved by budget deficits encouraged the separation of decisions to spend from decisions to tax , and there has been a tendency for the former to grow faster than the latter . |
| 27 | A telephone hotline service will also be available that will put you in touch with other members who have the same set up as yourself so that you can discuss any problems you have encountered . |
| 28 | But ironically the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts in the 1880s accentuated rather than diminished this tendency , for police and judicial measures , combined with the efforts of moral reformers , were making ever clearer that distinction between respectable and unrespectable behaviour . |
| 29 | His brother Rudolf founded Puma after the two split up as business partners |
| 30 | This paper includes a derivation of the field equations in the form given in Chapter 6 , a general class of exact solutions which includes the two mentioned above as special cases , and a discussion of the singularities that arise . |