Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [adj] [subord] [adv] the " in BNC.

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1 Which is interesting because here the three of us are , thinking about what it means to belong somewhere , what it might mean to belong to this idea called ‘ theatre ’ .
2 The black spot is its unemployment rate of 14% , which is more than double the OECD average .
3 Thus , the benefit for a pensioner couple over 80 will rise from £88.45 a week to £96.15 a week — an increase of 8.7 per cent. , which is more than double the increase in the retail prices index .
4 If one is more than double the other , we should not fit a straight line .
5 Now it 's feared that there 's more than just the family fortunes at stake .
6 But in this book there is more than just the history of the WM & CR .
7 It 's more than even the 150th anniversary three years ago.The entry includes South Africans and Russians .
8 It is unclear whether all the eligibility criteria listed in points ( i ) to ( iii ) need to be satisfied before a grant will be awarded .
9 But it is more than just the lucky shot that has defeated the Great White Shark .
10 It is more than just the onset of literal night ; it is a night of the normal senses , allowing other means of knowing to arise .
11 Also , it is more than likely the case , however , that how a society designs manners for close personal and social relationships can not be totally separated from its understanding of the ‘ proper ’ treatment of its enemies .
12 The vast majority of social research employs ordinal data or , more rarely , the interval scale : even in such cases it is doubtful whether even the most developed of such scales actually satisfy the requirements .
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