Example sentences of "[det] [subord] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It transpires that the new tenant is Pris , one of the androids Deckard is hunting ( though John does not realise this until later in the story ) The presence of Pris excites him a great deal . |
| 2 | Dear Horace , I think I may be a bit late with this as here in the antipodes , and especially being some way down a circulation list , your column takes some weeks to reach me . |
| 3 | Ryan Giggs has achieved nearly as much as Best at the same age . |
| 4 | He feared that a management buy-out would leave things on the shop floor very much as before with the ‘ them ’ and ‘ us ’ of workers and managers . |
| 5 | But I 'm not gon na worry about that until halfway through the week and then I 'll write to them . |
| 6 | In that sorry , in agriculture when there was a good harvest , prices would fall more than proportionately to the change in quantity . |
| 7 | In many instances this does not matter at all , because the full screen , ungridded printout will serve more than adequately as a reminder of the actual design which is stored in the Me \ directory computer memory . |
| 8 | The population of Portadown increased more than tenfold in the nineteenth century . |
| 9 | If she looked a bit to the right , northward , rather more than half-way into the forest , it was often there . |
| 10 | The very fact that there are bodies in existence whereby such matters can be mulled over , experiences exchanged and ‘ fixes ’ established bodes more than well for the safe operation of such aircraft . |
| 11 | Because cervicitis , cervical erosions , and discharges are so common in sexually active women , none of these features help more than indirectly with the diagnosis . |
| 12 | He thus revealed that he was out of touch with contemporary reality and that the complex dynamics of civilian society were more than ever beyond the grasp of his mechanistic , military mind . |
| 13 | As the 21st century approaches , solicitors are more than ever at the forefront of commercial and community life . |
| 14 | It was unshakable in its main bastion , Britain , and elsewhere the prospects of social revolution paradoxically seemed to depend more than ever on the prospect of the bourgeoisie , domestic or foreign , creating that triumphant capitalism which would make possible its own overthrow . |
| 15 | ‘ More than ever before the beer drinker and pubgoer needs a watchdog to protect their interests . ’ |
| 16 | With her bouffant hair , her crimson lips , her plump raincoated figure hour-glassed by a tight belt , she looked more than ever like a matryoshka , a Russian doll . |
| 17 | She suddenly recollected that she was now the wife of the director of a large company , and drew herself up with what she hoped was some dignity ; but she only succeeded in looking more than ever like a pouter pigeon . |
| 18 | He looked more than ever like a baby blackbird , rakish , half-strangled and very dear to me . |
| 19 | In the half-light of the editing suite his face appeared more than ever like a mask , the nose attenuated , the skin smooth and polished . |
| 20 | Feeling more than ever like a cur , Neil turned the pages — but it was all of her that was left to him — and , he told himself firmly , he would read just enough to discover the truth about her … and why she had hoarded the cuttings . |
| 21 | Someone suggested she touch up her lipstick , but make-up only made her look more than ever like the Spitting Image puppet of Bette Midler . |
| 22 | Managers are more than ever in the public eye ; the scientific approach , in tactics , medical treatment , ground improvements , is commonplace ; floodlighting , numbered players , the ten-yard semi-circle are taken for granted . |
| 23 | Cut off more than ever from the society of my peers , I fell back on my mother . |
| 24 | She saw more than enough in the guilt and pleasure on his face to make questions redundant . |
| 25 | There was a particularly nasty crematorium in Mitcham , he recalled , with a chapel that looked more than usually like a public lavatory . |
| 26 | He used to enjoy telling us of the early trials of the Young husband expedition of 1908 which trekked more than halfway across the lonely reaches of Persia and Afghanistan , and over the Himalaya range to Tibet . |
| 27 | It 's irritatingly easy to crash at first , as the pushscroll is only activated when you 're more than halfway across the screen , giving you little time to see and avoid hazards . |
| 28 | How would you feel if someone flew more than halfway around the world to say to you , ‘ I am at a loss . |
| 29 | In particular , appealing to the transactions costs involved in buying and selling securities is of limited use as transactions costs are fixed costs which if anything rise less than proportionately to the size of the deal . |
| 30 | Schools in mid , north east and north west Essex resort to excluding pupils far less than elsewhere in the county . |