Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] be [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than moisture Less is best when it comes to moisturising . |
| 2 | Sales figures around Christmas and New Year are very prone to changes in seasonal patterns , and total sales in the last three months together were less than 0.25 per cent higher than in the previous three months and only 1.4 per cent higher than in the corresponding three months a year ago . |
| 3 | The most influential typology however was probably that produced by Pahl ( 1966a ) . |
| 4 | Poetry alone is worldwide and limitless ; and even through the mangling of translation , the images of beauty come through a hundred tongues unsullied . |
| 5 | The question here is simply whether the operation itself is lawful . |
| 6 | The propeller blades alone are more than twice Barbel 's height . |
| 7 | ( 1 ) Without prejudice to its other powers under this Act , a licensing board may make byelaws for any of the following purposes ( a ) for closing licensed premises wholly or partially on New Year 's Day , and on such other days not being more than four in any one year as the board may think expedient for special reasons ; ( b ) for prohibiting holders of licences from residing in their licensed premises , or for requiring the dwellinghouses of holders of licences to be separate from their licensed premises ; ( c ) for requiring all wines , made-wines and spirits sold by the holder of an off-sale licence to be sold in corked , stoppered or sealed vessels , cans , jars or casks ; ( d ) for requiring every holder of a hotel or public house licence to keep in his licensed premises and to renew from day to day a sufficient supply of drinking water , and such eatables as may be specified in the byelaw , and to display , offer and supply the same as may be required by the byelaw ; ( e ) for printing a list of all applications coming before any meeting of the licensing board , with such other information as may be considered necessary by the board ; ( f ) for the setting out of conditions which may be attached to licences for the improvement of standards of , and conduct in , licensed premises ; ( g ) for the granting of a licence of a type other than that applied for ; Provided that a byelaw made under paragraph ( c ) above shall not apply to licensed premises where no groceries are kept or sold and where a bona fide wholesale business in alcoholic liquor is carried on . |
| 8 | We can not always rely on the fish already being there and feeling hungry too . |
| 9 | Nevertheless his reaction now was less than might have been expected , for he was an impressionable man where women were concerned . |
| 10 | My point here is simply that they do go some way to explaining why patterns of co-residence fluctuate over time . |
| 11 | There were seven bookings in an untidy game and Hoddle added : ‘ The problems tonight were totally because of the new laws of the game . |
| 12 | ( 6 ) If the company shall not within the period limited for acceptance find a Purchaser or Purchasers willing to purchase all the Shares comprised in the Transfer Notice the Proposing Transferor shall at any time within [ three ] months after the Directors have so confirmed their inability to him in writing be at liberty to transfer the Shares to any person not being a Member but capable of being a Member under these Articles on a bona fide sale at any price not being less than the Prescribed Price but in that event the Directors may , in their absolute discretion , decline to register any such transfer of any Share and shall not be required or bound to state the reason for any refusal . |
| 13 | ( 6 ) If the company shall not within the period limited for acceptance find a Purchaser or Purchasers willing to purchase all the Shares comprised in the Transfer Notice the Proposing Transferor shall at any time within [ three ] months after the Directors have so confirmed their inability to him in writing be at liberty to transfer the Shares to any person not being a Member but capable of being a Member under these Articles on a bona fide sale at any price not being less than the Prescribed Price but in that event the Directors may , in their absolute discretion , decline to register any such transfer of any Share and shall not be required or bound to state the reason for any refusal . |
| 14 | I think the alum actually was so because this recipe enabled you to paint them with flowers if you wanted to . |
| 15 | ERNIE 's just been down-rated by the way to reduce the ou the , the ac the average now is less than seven percent . |
| 16 | What Hamilton could see was that the talents of Warner Bros had combined to produce a film that was not so much about the Legion as ‘ about the kind of short-sighted , uninformed and well-enough-meaning men who have to be given an understanding of what democracy really is so that they will not go on and on providing tools for such legions ’ . |
| 17 | Remember the little truth theory that we did in lecture two or three , or when you do semantics in logic by swinging two model theories , when you interpret the expressions of a logical language , you have to assign a structure and , er the claim here is just that the natural language , that structure , structure that the semantic interpretation rules apply to , it 's just the syntactic structure . |
| 18 | The argument here is essentially that a gradation scheme might lead to a lighter sentence in certain cases than would otherwise have been imposed . |
| 19 | The difficulty here is often that it is not clear whether the problem is meant to bear a relation to the book-work question or not . |
| 20 | Despite the widespread diffusion , adaptation , and imitation of the Calvinist psalm-tunes throughout northern Europe , their ultimate contribution to Western music generally was less than that of the Lutheran hymns to which they were so closely related . |
| 21 | 5.9.10 Within [ 28 ] days of any assignment charge underlease or sub-underlease or any transmission or other devolution relating to the Premises to produce for registration with the Landlord 's solicitor such deed or document [ or a certified copy of it ] and to pay the Landlord 's solicitor 's [ charges of [ £20 ( twenty pounds ) ] for the registration of every such document or reasonable charges for the registration of every such document such charges not being less than [ £20 ( twenty pounds ) ] ] [ 5.9.11 Notwithstanding clause 5.9.1 the Tenant may share the occupation of the whole or any part of the Premises with a company which is a member of the same group as the Tenant ( within the meaning of Section 42 of the 1954 Act ) for so long as both companies shall remain members of that group and otherwise than in a manner that transfers or creates a legal estate ] On the one hand , the tenant will wish to deal with the premises in the most cost effective manner , even if this means subletting parts and , on the other hand , the landlord will wish to exercise fairly strict control over alienation , first by ensuring that any assignee is able to pay the rents reserved by the lease and perform the tenant 's obligations under it , and second by ensuring that at the end of the term the landlord is not left with a subtenant of a small part of the premises , which could affect the value of the landlord 's interest in the whole . |
| 22 | 5.9.10 Within [ 28 ] days of any assignment charge underlease or sub-underlease or any transmission or other devolution relating to the Premises to produce for registration with the Landlord 's solicitor such deed or document [ or a certified copy of it ] and to pay the Landlord 's solicitor 's [ charges of [ £20 ( twenty pounds ) ] for the registration of every such document or reasonable charges for the registration of every such document such charges not being less than [ £20 ( twenty pounds ) ] ] [ 5.9.11 Notwithstanding clause 5.9.1 the Tenant may share the occupation of the whole or any part of the Premises with a company which is a member of the same group as the Tenant ( within the meaning of Section 42 of the 1954 Act ) for so long as both companies shall remain members of that group and otherwise than in a manner that transfers or creates a legal estate ] As well as a joint occupation clause , the tenant should consider including a provision permitting the tenant to share the premises with franchisees where the premises are sufficiently large and the tenant 's business could accommodate such trading operations , eg : |
| 23 | The first floor chamber ( 3c ) is empty , but the chambers above are wickedly and horribly different . |
| 24 | I think the biggest thing really is just like they say , is how much you can get that done for and , get the roofing done , that 's got ta be done . |
| 25 | The men here are here because they broke the law . |
| 26 | These setbacks however were more than compensated for by the successes . |
| 27 | Its history thereafter is even and steady , and part of the familiar national story . |
| 28 | C. The functions of Edinburgh today are much as they were long ago . |
| 29 | The social situations of men and women today are structurally and ideologically discrepant , and the dominant value-system of modern industrialized societies assigns greater importance and prestige to masculine than to feminine roles . |
| 30 | With the increasing impact of information technology the problem today is sometimes that there seems to be too much information rather than too little . |