Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [art] [noun] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is important to bear in mind , however , that in July 1960 the Soviet leaders could have had little or no intimation of exactly how imbalanced their economic relationship with Cuba was destined to become . |
| 2 | Earlier this season Jim McCorry 's men accounted for Fermanagh in the league by the minimum margin , but that has little or no bearing on today 's match . |
| 3 | There is no linkage , no indication of how to amalgamate one step with another and no indication of either rhythm or quality to make the movement come alive . |
| 4 | After all that and the investment of nearly £30 billion in real terms , this nation has nothing to show for 12 years of this Conservative Government . |
| 5 | On top of this , inevitably but it seems rather unfairly , they have to deal with the problem that faces every teacher in a new school : the fact that they do not know its geography , its structure and its rules , both explicit and unwritten , nor do they have a chance to get to know the personalities and quirks of more than a handful of either pupils or teachers . |
| 6 | During this time we organized two national conferences for students with disabilities and more than a handful of steadily more accessible conferences for lesbians and gays . |
| 7 | I had never seen a police launch , but this one had an unmistakably official look about it , and in size and speed would be more than a match for either Stormy Petrel or Sea Otter . |
| 8 | Most of the time the organization is no more than a collection of loosely coupled individuals and groups . |
| 9 | Add the life and colour of cities such as New York , Washington , San Francisco and Vancouver , and this is a land it would take more than a lifetime to truly discover . |
| 10 | Cadfael had been awake and afield more than an hour by then , for want of a quiet mind , and had filled in the time by ranging along the bushy edges of his peasefields and the shore of the mill pond to gather the white blossoms of the blackthorn , just out of the bud and at their best for infusing , to make a gentle purge for the old men in the infirmary , who could no longer take the strenuous exercise that had formerly kept their bodies in good trim . |
| 11 | This suggests , too , that the very notion of ‘ permissiveness ’ , and its converse , is a slippery one ; in many cases it would seem to mean little more than an exchange of more overt physical controls for more subtle emotional controls . |
| 12 | But the doctor discerned no more than the ghost of either in the Rector 's smile . |
| 13 | ‘ Rural development has often appeared to consist of little more than the creation of as many plans , programmes , projects , rural centres , and special development agencies as possible . |
| 14 | Etching times may vary from less than a minute to over half an hour . |
| 15 | That is the equivalent of a clock set running at the time of the dinosaurs having gained or lost less than a second by today . |
| 16 | For since fishermen require only trained aptitudes , and not any exceptional natural qualities , their number could be increased in less than a generation to almost any extent that was necessary to meet the demand ; while the industries connected with building boats , making nets , etc. being now on a larger scale would be organized more thoroughly and economically . |
| 17 | Throughout the day-long fair , there was never less than a queue of about a dozen . |
| 18 | If the glider is down wind of the site , the decision to return must be taken before the glider gets to less than an angle of about 20° to the field in light winds , and 30–40° in windy weather . |
| 19 | Microsoft 's latest scheme to increase its market share in the Macintosh software arena is a trade-in deal which nets a customer the four Microsoft applications which make up the integrated Microsoft Office pack for less than the price of just one of those applications . |
| 20 | A cyclo-oxygenase inhibitor , indomethacin , also significantly decreased the chemiluminescence signal but the magnitude ( -34% ) was substantially less than the effects of either azide or catalase ( Fig 6 ) . |
| 21 | So this example here we might find that that matches that matches we get a response of two from here and we get a response less than the response from here and the same response from this . |
| 22 | And I also wondered whether there is a case , I do n't know to what extent the County Council is listening themselves , that whether the case for also submitting our views to the County Council . |