Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] be [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is significant , given that many commentators in 1983 thought that the policies of the Conservative and Labour parties were further apart than at any time over the previous thirty years . |
| 2 | The fact that the lyrical desperation is aligned to some seethingly classic melodies is both here and there . |
| 3 | The British musicals are simply here because people like them . ’ |
| 4 | He had assured Lucille that he fought only because his pension would be jeopardized if he refused , but in truth he had wanted to know whether the old skills were still there or whether , like a cannon fired too fast and too often , he had simply worn himself out as a soldier . |
| 5 | We also use those homes as centres for day care , and the financial effects of that are estimated and taken out of these calculations , but I think it 's important for members to remember that your residential homes are n't purely and simply providing only residential care , they are also centres for day care in that particular area . |
| 6 | Furthermore , installing any static system in the overcrowded British Isles was neither militarily nor politically sensible . |
| 7 | I expect one of the old ladies was up there and dropped a fag end or something , and just forgot it . |
| 8 | In this case a child 's shortest distance to school along public thoroughfares was just less than 3 miles . |
| 9 | So the distance makes something look rather fainter , and similarly if you have something like a particular kind of start that you can identify by some property — which we 'll perhaps talk about in a moment — if you can identify it and you know how bright it is , then the fainter ones are further away and you can estimate the distance by how faint they are . |
| 10 | With regard to stereotyping , the justifiable objections are not only that males and females are depicted as occupying separate and ‘ traditional ’ spheres , but that the books present an over-exaggerated version of contemporary gender roles . |
| 11 | However , police statistics suggest that the total number of such cases is barely more than 100 nationally . |
| 12 | In general , this is a general point , the ionic selectivity of such channels is much less than for voltage gated channels . |
| 13 | ‘ Six months is neither here nor there in the scheme of things . |
| 14 | The average in Japanese companies was rather more than twice this percentage . |
| 15 | The number of cases of developed Aids is now more than 2,649 . |
| 16 | It is interesting that such distinctions are most clearly and most confidently made in relatively complex and highly specialized societies . |
| 17 | Mr Charkin 's research — difficult because of the very large number of publishers in the business , most unquoted — has shown him that average profits are usually less than 5% of turnover . |
| 18 | As the increase in synthesis in rectal mucosa from patients with inflammatory bowel disease was very much less than this , the increase in whole body protein turnover in such patients is not solely because of an increase in colonic protein synthesis . |
| 19 | It was an effort to move their legs but just possible , and they edged forward , past Mr Chan and Steve , past a couple of policemen — all looking as if their real selves were somewhere else and only their bodies were on Monument Hill , held immobile just as the cars were . |
| 20 | The anterior or basalar sclerites are never more than two in number , and lie just above the episternum , while the posterior or subalar sclerite is almost always single and lies behind the pleural wing process and above the epimeron . |
| 21 | Private dealers are neither more nor less scrupulous than dealers who operate from retail outlets , but they may prove more difficult to track down if something goes wrong . |
| 22 | The context of these cases is very often that a question has been asked about the validity of a disposition left in unconfirmed codicils . |
| 23 | The event at UCF Headquarters , at 40 Eglantine Avenue in Belfast , runs until Saturday , with opening times being 9am-5pm tomorrow and 10am-12.30pm on Saturday . |
| 24 | The senior officials of these institutions are therefore more or less free to act as they wish , so long as they show a reasonable profit . |
| 25 | of site assessment [ left ] and of off licence buying , decided to tackle the London Marathon the hard way , realsing that three legs were not better than two . |
| 26 | This omission in these sectors is not necessarily or intrinsically a bad thing , but it makes forward planning and therefore continuity of programmes more difficult . |
| 27 | How many fewer places are there today than there were two years ago ? |
| 28 | " These problems are now more or less under control , with the mature plants helping to blanket out the weeds , " explains Barbara . |
| 29 | These variations are however more or less superficial and the main differences between timbers lie in their density . |
| 30 | The probability that a power law can explain all three observations is therefore less than 5% . |