Example sentences of "[det] [det] [conj] [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No doubt some of you will find this less than convincing in the face of the superstition and magic that exists everywhere . |
| 2 | , is officially described as office cleaner , but became much more than that to the people who knew her during her 33 years with the company . |
| 3 | Naturally , progress towards safer and more liveable residential areas will vary from country to country ; indeed , the fact that the speed of advancement in Britain is so much less than that on the near Continent is the principal justification for this book . |
| 4 | For front projection , the projector is still threaded up reversing left and right , as in rear projection ( it is put in the ‘ wrong ’ way round in order to come out correct in the final composite ) ; but instead of being behind a translucent screen it s in front of , and to one side of , a glass beaded screen which reflects nearly 100 per cent of the light falling on it but on y in the direction from which it came Though the projector is at 90° to the camera-screen axis and its beam is therefore initially parallel to the plane of the screen , passing in front of the actors in the foreground this beam is deflected by a half-silvered mirror at an angle of 45° to the beam This semi-transparent mirror is coated at the front ( unlike normal mirrors , coated behind the glass ) with a very thin layer of aluminium — silver tarnishes too easily Alternatively , the layer of aluminium may be spattered on , so that tiny reflective spots of metal are interspersed with tiny transparent gaps So , although it reflects the beam , the camera can photograph both the action and the reflection from the screen through the mirror Though the mirror reflects the still or moving image from the projector on to the actors and any foreground props or sets as well as on to the screen , the level of illumination of the image is much less than that on the actors , so the camera records only that part of the image reflected from the screen . |
| 5 | The size of a semi-empirical calculation is thus much less than that of an ab initio calculation for the same molecule , even if only first row elements are concerned . |
| 6 | At the top of the scale , landlords and big yeomen farmers owned not much less than one-third of the wealth of Norfolk and Sussex . |
| 7 | Less than a year later , Fuji seems more than willing to pay £100m for a minority share in the music arm which , with sales of £260m , represents much less than half of the Virgin empire . |
| 8 | More than 1,500 people died in civilian air crashes throughout the world , little more than average for the decade . |
| 9 | Despite the massive exodus from the major cities in the 1970s , in 1981 more than three-fifths ( 62.6 per cent ) of Britain 's 54.3 million people were still living in twenty ‘ metropolitan regions ’ which occupy little more than one-fifth of the country 's land area . |
| 10 | Taking the first fortnight as a whole , four-fifths of voters had heard nothing about their local Conservative , Labour , and Alliance candidates but that figure dropped to little more than half in the second fortnight . |
| 11 | Our ‘ need ’ for autonomy is not , of course , total and universal , any more than any of the needs and requirements under discussion here . |