Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless the manifesto was in respect of nationalisation little more than an elaboration of the party 's one-term programme as accepted at the 1937 conference , with the addition of iron and steel , which had been included as a concession to a radical resolution proposed by Ian Mikardo at the 1944 conference and carried against the advice of the platform . |
| 2 | One area of boilerplate which concerns the buyer rather more than the seller is the question of the right to assign or sub-contract all or part of the order . |
| 3 | Police sources said the use of bombs little heavier than a packet of butter could herald a new tactic aimed at beating the roadblocks that have been set up in London for the first time . |
| 4 | We have found our technique most useful when the stimulus of a light meal follows fasting , a state that naturally occurs in most people at breakfast time . |
| 5 | In the eyes of Louis , his near-drowning had been an act of self-emasculation , a loss of face tumbling him down the social scale to a level little higher than a peon 's . |
| 6 | The mood had changed by the end of the Sixties , and became more romantic , more allusive , softer and with many references to the past , which suited Lagerfeld 's handwriting much more than the brash futuristic Sixties looks had done . |
| 7 | I mean it 's only fair it 's not we 're not talking about huge wages but for Gwynedd which is a low wage area they were reasonable and they worked for them too you know but but they were n't complaining about the money so much as the principle . |
| 8 | The pace of ideation is for the most part so great that a more formal procedure of idea-handling would be obstructive and pointless . |
| 9 | One must stand in awe of the scientist so Promethean that a single obscenity is all that is needed to clarify and educate . |
| 10 | However , it is not necessarily the immediate reply which influences decision so much as the well-considered facts succinctly presented . |
| 11 | The latter was applying a social policy on which reasonable men could differ ; it had decided against differential rating and this was not a decision so unreasonable that no reasonable corporation could come to it . |
| 12 | They 're not real ‘ boat ’ necks ( the kind so deep that the back of the neck is actually level with the back of the headstock and heel ) but they 're pretty deep all the same and they both feel just excellent . |
| 13 | None of that matters to Kenneth Arnold so much as the fact that he acted selflessly at a time when he was needed . |
| 14 | Scientific discovery and the disillusionment of the twentieth century made the future look less interesting than the nature of time itself . |
| 15 | When she opened her mouth to yell , a hand caught her face , pinching into the angle of the jaw so hard that the cry died in her throat . |
| 16 | In some ways the share price performance has made a deal with one of the US car giants less likely since the numbers have changed quite dramatically . |
| 17 | There must be no nice balancing of odds , the judge must come to the conclusion that such danger is real and appreciable with reference to the ordinary operation of law in the ordinary course of things , not a danger of an imaginary and insubstantial character , having reference to some extraordinary and barely possible contingency so improbable that no reasonable man would suffer it to influence his conduct . |
| 18 | The painting is estimated at a mere FFr50–80 million , not because of the recession so much as the fact it must obviously stay in France . |
| 19 | We 're concerned that the that the Local Authorities of this land , including should have received a demand of twelve a twelve percent minimum for A P T and C , and a minimum wage of nine thousand three hundred and thirty , a level much higher than the Labour Party 's own national minimum wage , and indeed higher than the T U C's definition . |
| 20 | As PSR J0437–4715 is so close , however , it should be possible to detect a companion about 25 times less luminous than the limit on PSR B1855+09 . |
| 21 | It only has 3000 genes and by this criterion is about 20 times more complicated than a bacterium and 40 times less complicated than a human . |
| 22 | Well , the studies that I 've been involved in , the computer has performed certainly as well as a consultant , and at times much better than a junior doctor in the particular situation that I 'm talking about . |
| 23 | However , it he takes as souvenir so much as a blade of grass the entrance to this charming kingdom will close forever more . |
| 24 | The external appearance of the building is most unusual , with a sturdy , embattled tower at the west end of the south aisle , and a big chancel much higher than the nave . |
| 25 | ‘ I found the last 20 minutes extremely hard but the lads gave me every encouragement and I am delighted , ’ he said . |
| 26 | Harry clenched his teeth so hard that the stem of his clay pipe broke , and he had to spit the bits into the hearth . |
| 27 | Trading in dammars , incensewood and rattans sometimes yields financial returns so high that the people abandon cultivation in its favour . |
| 28 | It was hardly even a coincidence ( Charles had told his Aquitanian supporters little more than a fortnight before to follow him northwards , and envoys from Lothar found no difficulty in locating Charles at Troyes on Easter Monday , 18 April ) . |
| 29 | As these results are derived from the approximate pull-out torque characteristic which assumes a torque rather less than the actual pull.out torque , the motor should be able to follow this velocity profile even if the load is slightly more than expected . |
| 30 | ‘ My dear deluded child , ’ said Gay , who had a disconcerting habit of answering , not one 's words so much as the thought which had prompted them , ‘ you do n't imagine we 're wrestling with the torments of jealousy , do you ? |