Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [adv] [verb] [det] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arkwright certainly picked a great spot for his country residence : south facing and above a lazy curve in the river , with the high cliff opposite guaranteeing more than a modicum of privacy , and only five minutes from work ! |
| 2 | This bonus may be given because the employee concerned has no pension rights and does not have an enhanced salary already reflecting this or it may just be a reward for satisfactory completion of the contract . |
| 3 | Goods and services produced according to global strategies now comprise more than half the total output , while by 1985 between a quarter and half of world trade ( varying according to economic sector ) was intrafirm , that is between buyer and seller within a single enterprise ( Strange , 1991 ) . |
| 4 | Spires , corner towers , belfries , even unusually shaped domes soon adorned all but the smaller frame stations . |
| 5 | The curists still come , it seems , to drink , gargle or bathe in the baths at the top of the town , but since the end of the last war the cure has been democratized ; in an age of health insurance many can afford it who before could not , and contemporary spa-goers both demand less and live less expensively than their more frivolous predecessors . |
| 6 | Yet , a number of democratic constitutions today contain more than a mere organisation chart of functions and powers ; they contain Bills of Rights , which may also include a charter of social and economic rights , something characteristic of constitutions of the twentieth century , although generally honoured more in the breach than in the observance . |
| 7 | The rural charge-payers now pay more than the urban charge-payers since they pay the same basic charge plus the charge for Parish Council services , yet the provision of services by the Borough favours the urban areas . |
| 8 | A Tory conference probably has more than its due share of savers . |
| 9 | Any doubt there may be that the family disease is a genuine addictive disease is dispelled when the divorced wife of a primary sufferer promptly marries another or when the parents of young sufferers find themselves depressed and lonely and wondering what to do with their time and experience once their own primary sufferer is in recovery . |
| 10 | Finance directors did best , with information technology , marketing and legal directors also receiving more than their colleagues . |
| 11 | Mr Lang replied : ‘ I deeply sympathise with Mrs Byers , whose late husband unfortunately died less than a month before the bill was introduced , but hope that she will appreciate that wherever the cut-off point is set , someone will fall just outside it . ’ |
| 12 | There 's only one lot of bloody people ever started this and that 's the bloody union |
| 13 | However , working class wives living on the new housing estates of the inter-war period often had little but housework to occupy their days and , like many suburban middle class wives , tended to lead extremely isolated lives . |
| 14 | However , the general precedents often contain little or no guidance about when to use a particular form , or why a particular term is drafted in a particular way ( although many firms ' own in-house precedents are accompanied by a commentary explaining the terms and offering suggestions for modifications ) . |
| 15 | Strong representations were successfully made to the ITAC Committee both to preempt this and to ensure that a monopoly situation did not arise . |
| 16 | The other English Duke in Brussels , Wellington , would have been grateful had he known that Richmond had spared him the Duchess 's worries , for the Commander-in-Chief of the British and Dutch armies already had more than enough worries of his own . |
| 17 | Whether or not the Communist leaders really believed this or any other of the sweeping statements made at the time is questionable . |
| 18 | The general world outside knew little or nothing of them . |
| 19 | A further Running Elephant just does that and at speed while an elephant with a ziggurat on his back is Unburdening his trunk into what seems to be a much too tiny pot . |
| 20 | There are a number of modelling programs suitable for use on microcomputers at a price which is so low that a complete system often costs less than the terminals used merely to communicate with larger computers . |
| 21 | Secondly , the marketers of such a financial product often need more than the lifestyle information can provide on its own . |
| 22 | Affected children inevitably attract more than their fair share of parental attention which can cause problems with unaffected siblings . |
| 23 | The Government introduced the discredited poll tax , which cost an enormous amount to collect , so there is not much joy or credit if the new system still costs more than the original system . |
| 24 | In the wild clownfish seldom stray more than a metre or so from their anemone and are therefore good aquarium subjects , finding no difficultly in settling down in the confines of the average home system . |