Example sentences of "[det] [subord] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was far more behind this than just a deterioration in the weather . |
| 2 | Er in the U K we 've held our market position and it 's been a a pretty desperate market we were one of the few if not the only book seller who refused to er to yield better discount terms er , on the threat of er every , every book seller was every er publisher was threatened with erm not being stocked unless we gave bigger discounts . |
| 3 | yes , we tend not to use P C Us as much as well a few years ago . |
| 4 | There is not so much as even a prima facie case for imagining that the ad hoc domestic forces available for the Latin music and the English devotional settings bore any close resemblance to the stereotyped and institutionalized vocal dispositions ( SAATB , succeeding SATB and SATTB ) supplied by the contemporary church choir ; these several bodies of music need to be addressed separately . |
| 5 | But as much as Pauly the character reflects LA youth 's sun-dried degeneracy , the man himself is a driven individual . |
| 6 | Yeah I know all that but I 'm not taking the piss out of that cos obviously the way he said it ! |
| 7 | How far is it possible to speak of a partnership at all if only a restricted set of activities is undertaken ? |
| 8 | Only after he had left is he free , in the absence of express restraint , to make use of the latter though never the former . |
| 9 | In practice , unless you have a 486DX — it does not work quite like that because whenever the program is converting it makes such demands on the whole system that everything else is slowed up . |
| 10 | Even 17.8 per cent , however , was still more than double the growth of average earnings over that period . |
| 11 | Gordon Owen , the managing director in charge of Mercury , says the group is anxious not to more than double the network in a year as it is a case of ‘ how fast you can go without falling over ’ . |
| 12 | Trading profits in the communications division were more than double the figure for the first half year thanks to the cost control programme . |
| 13 | Last year , 45 per cent of recorded crime was cleared up — more than double the average rate in the United Kingdom . |
| 14 | Of the 383 state production plans , 148 had been unable to meet their target — more than double the previous figure of 65 . |
| 15 | By 2031 the average number of homes passed on each year , excluding bequests to spouses , could be 343,000 — more than double the current average ( see chart ) . |
| 16 | The black spot is its unemployment rate of 14% , which is more than double the OECD average . |
| 17 | In the Western Isles it was estimated at about 16% in 1976 , or more than double the already high rate for the Highlands and Islands . |
| 18 | Cargo forecasts suggest that a growth rate of 11.4 percent for Europe-Far East trade over the next 20 years will be more than double the expected increase across the North Atlantic . |
| 19 | But the effect of this series of pessimistic changes was to more than double the estimates for wave power up to a range of 8–12 p/kWh . |
| 20 | If one is more than double the other , we should not fit a straight line . |
| 21 | Yet still the Prussians delayed introducing expropriation to Pomerania until May 1912 lest they provoke an uprising , and while they bought up only four estates totalling over 6,624 hectares of land , they paid more than double the market rate . |
| 22 | DRIVING at more than double the speed limit cost a young Newton Valence woman her driving licence . |
| 23 | A task force set up two years ago to raise extra money from international business has enabled it to more than double the number of support staff to five ( last year it raised £300,000 ) . |
| 24 | The CBI points out that UK corporate taxes , at more than 4% of GDP in 1989 , are more than double the amount of state aid to industry . |
| 25 | The Wakefield firm has launched an agreed cash offer of 160p a share — more than double the market price — which values Stag at £12.35m . |
| 26 | If you are pregnant , or breastfeeding , for example , you will need more than double the recommended daily amount of calcium . |
| 27 | The growth in occupational pension provision for women was even more marked with more than double the proportion of 60–69 year olds having them ( 32 per cent ) compared with the over-80s ( 15 per cent ) . |
| 28 | The Micom Communications Corp subsidiary of MB Communications Inc , Lawrence , Pennsylvania has announced a new model in its Marathon range of data and speech network servers which is claimed to more than double the performance of the previous products . |
| 29 | Declared expenditure on defence and security is now more than double the expenditure on health . |
| 30 | They comprise some 21 per cent of rural housing stock on average , and Shucksmith ( 1981 ) indicates that , during 1968–73 in England and Wales there were usually more than double the number of local authority houses being built per 1,000 population in urban than in rural districts . |