Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [be] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 A child is disabled if he is blind , deaf or dumb or suffers from mental disorder of any kind or is substantially and permanently handicapped by illness , injury or congenital deformity ( s17(11) ) .
2 Grown on his allotment in Middlesbrough , Cleveland , it weighs a massive 26 lbs and is more than three feet round .
3 The mean follow up after common bile duct stenting is now 33 months , ranging from 24 to 42 months and is more than two years in all patients ( Table , Fig 3 ) .
4 Instead of the blue uniform , which sat well on his big frame , he was sporting a hideous shirt patterned with palm trees and his plump buttocks were compressed into a pair of fawn slacks , the cut of which would have flattered a slimmer figure but was less than kind to his own .
5 The author stresses that the nature of assessment is a complex activity requiring skill and being more than the gathering of information which is but a first stage in the process .
6 Mrs Brown last cleaned the house at the end of July and was away when the IRA suspects used it .
7 Keith was impressed with the integrity of the conditions at Newark and was more than happy to come to a loan agreement .
8 I have seen ACE schemes that are doing very good work but are more or less driven out of the place they are in because people did n't like their faces , or for other reasons .
9 The members of the new lower class , of those who are not chosen for the meritocracy , not only are at the bottom but are there because they both deserve to be and know it .
10 Such skills as are implicated in those two lists are essentially relationship skills and are arguably as relevant to individual professional/client relationships as they are to work with self-advocacy groups .
11 By 10.10 the men have still not eaten , although by this stage they should have ‘ stood down ’ for an hour and been more than half-way through the second training session .
12 Fiji 's disappointing display at last year 's tournament , according to Simpkin , was simply due to infighting within the Fiji camp and was mainly because Simpkin was n't the only coach this time around .
13 If the Carrier agrees to accept Dangerous Goods for carriage such goods must be accompanied by a full declaration of their nature and contents and be properly and safely packed and labelled in accordance with any statutory regulations for the time being in force for carriage by road .
14 He had n't been offered the part in the first place and was more than content in the role of Smee .
15 He observed that the tumours of the prostate which arise spontaneously in aged dogs and are sometimes but not usually cancerous , got smaller after the dogs were castrated .
16 ( ii ) If absence is more that 3 days but is less than 7 days , post out self certification form to be completed and returned
17 Corbett , cold and hungry , muttered his replies and was more than pleased when they reached Queensferry .
18 When Edith had met Joss Campbell a few years later he had been so glad for her , because Joss was older than Edith and was more than a match for Nancy .
19 But I need n't have worried ; they were trivial things and were efficiently and painlessly dealt with by RAF dentists very different from The Butcher .
20 Also , it has proved very difficult to reproduce the events which led to Fleming 's famous observation , and it is clear that many versions of the story which were published 15 or more years later , after penicillin became famous , drew on faded but vivacious memories and are more or less imaginary .
21 The studios are for two persons and are simply but pleasantly furnished .
22 He should have enough time to finish his drink and be away before his fellow-officers started to drift in .
23 They 're relatively cheap , but need engine rpm to deliver full output and are best when handling one operation at once .
24 The incident happened late last night and was less than forty eight hours after fourteen year old Sally Cattell died at the wheel of a stolen car in a crash in Erdington , Birmingham .
25 The Glass Menagerie is relevant to all young people chafing under the yoke of parental control and is therefore as suitable for young as it id for older audiences ’
26 This was partly due to the development of improved building techniques but was also because — until , that is , the recent property crash — growing rental income and lowering yields encouraged developers and landlords to think of new offices as investments that would increase in value year on year .
27 He knew of course , because Barbara had told him , that James had already missed one deadline and was more than likely to miss another .
28 The benign types , 6 and 11 , are found in condylomas and low grade intraepithelial neoplasia but are seldom if ever the only virus types in invasive carcinomas .
29 He killed the most famous , Kok Fitzabraham , with his own hands and was less than pleased when Montfort made him share part of the spoils .
30 Instead of taking Barnsley to the cleaners , it was Swindon who went in the washtub and were all but scrubbed out .
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