Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [subord] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | External frames are all but defunct in the UK because most have accepted that the ergonomically contoured internal frame sack is much more stable to carry than an external frame pack , even at the expense of some loss of ventilation to the back . |
| 2 | Another consideration is that monitors working in interlaced mode produce an image that generally is more prone to flicker than a non-interlaced display of the same screen resolution . |
| 3 | A hedging transaction will be much easier to justify than an outright speculation . |
| 4 | This indication can then be compared with a national base of 100 to indicate whether a particular area is better or worse than average for finding buyers or owners of any product which is already specifically measured in existing national market research surveys . |
| 5 | It is impossible to predict whether a particular task will help or hinder performance on a second task . |
| 6 | This can be fairly easy to achieve because a brief study of ancient Egyptian friezes shows exactly how to adapt the movements depicted to the turned-out legs of classical dance . |
| 7 | In actual fact , if a court finds it hard to know whether a particular situation comes within the words of a statute or not , the probability is the situation was not foreseen by the legislature , so that the Lords and Members of Parliament would be just as puzzled by it as the judges are . |
| 8 | The cost of hot water is reduced in relation to the capital expenditure which can be undertaken , so that an efficient boiler system is more costly to install than a simple immersion heater , but cheaper to run . |
| 9 | Being a combination , this is more likely to score than a single face punch which , as I said earlier , is often simply overlooked by the referee . |
| 10 | Presumably , this is more likely to happen when a small number of tablets is involved but the poor correlation between medical seriousness of an attempt and suicidal intent ( Fox and Weissman 1975 ) would indicate that this practice should not be encouraged . |
| 11 | It is true that this is likely to happen when a whole class has just embarked on a subject and may be thought ready to take Grade 1 all together . |
| 12 | Driving piles or draining soils that are likely to liquefy if a hit-or-miss proposition , according to engineers at Ove Arup . |
| 13 | They may , however , not be exactly what the author would have preferred , as a colour plate which is readily available ( perhaps having been used in another publication ) is much cheaper to use than a new plate which has to be commissioned . |
| 14 | As has been indicated for the parish church , it will be prudent to determine if a descriptive booklet is , or has ever been , available . |
| 15 | Like the ( far smaller ) Living Water designs , the project will be much cheaper to construct than a conventional treatment works of comparable size , with operating costs about 80 per cent lower ( partly because of vastly reduced energy consumption , a good environmental argument in itself ) . |
| 16 | ACE 3000 will cost no more to buy than a modern diesel engine , and if every US railway converted tomorrow , they would save a third to half of their fuel costs each year , say American Coal Enterprises , giving a good return on investment . |
| 17 | The machinery which keeps the wall from melting is complicated , but despite this , Alp'Roc claim it will cost no more to buy than a normal climbing wall . |
| 18 | It should allow access by different fields , so that , for example , a teacher should be able to inquire whether a particular item has arrived in the library by identifying the author or the title of the item or by giving the name of the teacher who recommended its acquisition for the school library . |
| 19 | We would like to be able to test whether a feasible solution ( x 1 , . |
| 20 | This means that for the first time doctors may be able to tell if an infected person who feels well is in danger of becoming ill , so that they can try to do something to prevent this . |
| 21 | They 're harder to see than a high-speed mouse . |
| 22 | A berserker was a fine thing if you just wanted to kill the enemy ; but if you wanted to manoeuvre , he was harder to handle than a charging bull . |
| 23 | A manual typewriter is physically harder to use than an electric keyboard . |
| 24 | These are practical limits on the beneficiary 's powers , for , although it will not usually be difficult to determine whether a real price was paid , it will regularly be very hard for a beneficiary to show that a buyer did know of the existence of a trust ; and unless this can be shown , no action lies . |
| 25 | From all the discussion so far , one would predict that BSL as a language should be no more difficult to learn than a foreign language , except , that is , for the fact that BSL is not a high status language and its users are often treated as failures . |
| 26 | It is not possible to say whether a substantial report is more likely to make an impact than a slim report . |
| 27 | Before considering the different techniques for resolving conflicts of interest , it is first necessary to outline when a fiduciary relationship arises and the duties that a fiduciary owes to the beneficiary , for our purposes the customer . |
| 28 | It is also simpler to construct than a linked list mixed-method . |