Example sentences of "[subord] [adj] [vb past] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where some saw in the Hermetic texts an anticipation of Christianity , Bruno saw an alternative . |
| 2 | Where Sly went for an inward-looking drum-numbed indifference ( made bearable , glamorous even , by a wonderfully impenetrable jungle funk ) , Gaye wrought a song cycle that takes the whole world through doubt , disillusion , destruction and eventual redemption through the power of love and community . |
| 3 | After 12 months , the recurrence rate was significantly ( p<0.001 ) lower than that observed during the first six months . |
| 4 | However , when she examined her cocoliche corpus ( 50 hours recorded from 50 speakers ) , Lavandera noted that the frequency of subjunctive forms in all environments was even lower than that observed in the Buenos Aires Spanish corpus ; moreover there was independent evidence that this low frequency did not simply reflect a poor command of Spanish by the immigrants . |
| 5 | The expression of Lewis b in the colon was weaker than that observed in the biliary epithelium in almost all patients . |
| 6 | The uniform staining with anti-Lewis a throughout the colon , the proximal to distal gradient of anti-Lewis b staining , and the weaker staining with anti-Lewis b than that observed in the biliary epithelium also agree with previous reports . |
| 7 | As expected , the carcinoma incidence in the under 50s ( 0.6% ) was very much lower than that observed in the 50 to 70 years age group ( 7.5% ) or the over 70 years group ( 11.6% ) The incidences of adenoma in these age groups were 6.2 , 31.5 , and 32.2% respectively . |
| 8 | This secretion is significantly higher than that observed in the present study on days 6–9 ( Table I ) . |
| 9 | So although the wet climate in the west of Britain causes more magnesium to be washed from the soil than in Germany , this amount is far less than that added to the soil each year from rainfall . |
| 10 | But it remains the case that the current rate of increase in unemployment is considerably lower than that experienced in the early part of last year . ’ |
| 11 | ( 1 ) A licensing board shall not refuse to grant a licence under this Part of this Act except under subsection ( 2 ) below or on one or more of the following grounds : ( a ) that the applicant is disqualified by or under this or any other enactment for holding a licence or is in other respects not a fit and proper person to hold a licence under this Part of this Act ; or ( b ) that the premises to which an application relates are not fit and convenient for the purposes of the canteen ; or ( c ) in a case where objection has been made to the situation of the canteen , on the ground specified in the objection ; or ( d ) that the applicant or body providing the canteen has entered into an agreement limiting the sources from which the alcoholic liquor or the mineral waters to be sold in the canteen may be obtained ; but nothing in this subsection shall prevent a licensing board from specifying in the licence granted by it the types of liquor ( including if the board thinks fit types of liquor other than those in respect of which the application for the licence was made ) which may be sold under the licence , and the holder of the licence or his employee or agent shall be guilty of an offence , if he sells alcoholic liquor of a type other than that specified in the licence . |
| 12 | It is easy to say that the time spent considering the Matisse is time better spent than that spent considering a Gerasimov , let alone a Bouguereau . |
| 13 | The gain to a firm from reneging on the collusive agreement will depend partly on cost , demand , and capacity parameters and partly on the length of time for which a higher profit than that realized under the agreement can be earned before retaliation by the other firms takes place . |
| 14 | No reference document of function exists other than that contained in the original design specification . |
| 15 | In doing so they favoured a more flexible approach than that contained in the proposals put forward by the European Commission . |
| 16 | Back in Rome , Wolfgang was made a Knight of the Order of the Golden Spur by the pope — a higher distinction than that conferred on the Viennese court kapellmeister , Gluck . |
| 17 | The project will make it possible to test the validity of the claim that primary education received in the mother tongue is richer and more meaningful than that received in a second language . |
| 18 | The secret is to use the claw weight in a different way than that illustrated in the instructions . |
| 19 | If this ditch is contemporary with the rampart then the gap for the gate between the rampart ends must have been much narrower than that left between the ditch ends . |
| 20 | Thus , intracellular acidosis causes a greater increase in Na + / H + exchange activity than that expected from the more facourable in to out H + gradient . |
| 21 | Second , it could be argued that , even if the master manipulators were Jewish or Zionist , their means of operation are much more sophisticated than that imagined in The Protocols . |
| 22 | A trade can only be carried out within one firm if the market maker of that firm offers a price at least as good or better than that offered on the general market . |
| 23 | The systematic alteration in decisions between each period and the succeeding one renders each opportunity offered to the market more competitive than that offered in the preceding period that is , it is offered with fuller awareness of the other opportunities being made available , against which it is necessary to compete . |
| 24 | He confirms the analysis of western society given in Chapter 2 : " The problem for most RE teachers is … that the minds of the pupils are tightly closed against the possibility that reality might plausibly be seen in any other way than that transmitted via the dominant culture . " |
| 25 | Will the Secretary of State confirm that the privatisation of the inspectorate inherent in the Education ( Schools ) Bill goes far further than that presaged in the schools charter and includes , under the guise of additional inspectors , the substitution of private money-making firms to do the work currently carried out , not just by local inspectors but by the chief inspector of schools ? |
| 26 | The statement ‘ If rain falls on spruce forests , the rain can become even more acid ’ may have been drawn from a recent paper from the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology that certainly showed that water flowing down the stem was more acid than that caught in the open . |
| 27 | It is doubtful whether much can be gained by trying to achieve any greater precision than that suggested in the definitions above . |
| 28 | The linguistic acrobatics these words perform in Rusty 's mind and the various interpretations which might be attributed to the results are of less consequence in and of themselves than the fact that this performance demonstrates verbal operations of a logic other than that attributed to the rational mind . |
| 29 | Alternatively , an unwilling respondent may claim that the dispute is wider than that presented to the forum , in that third parties are involved , and that the claim should not be considered in their absence . |
| 30 | The statutory duty will be wider than that envisaged in the Auditing Guideline . |