Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] [subord] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Candidal infection of the penis is much less common than infection of the female genitalia . |
| 2 | Perhaps more significant than evidence of this kind is the simple fact that Jesus , on a number of crucial occasions in the Gospels , acts like a king , and does so quite deliberately . |
| 3 | As in the case of genes , fecundity is much more important than longevity of particular copies . |
| 4 | ‘ Why are Catholic churches here not so good as Church of Ireland ones ? ’ the man asked me . |
| 5 | Her success is just wonderful and , although this is not as good as Body of Evidence , the next , which comes in hardback , is better . |
| 6 | No doubt many users of the word ‘ introspection ’ are unaware of its Latin etymology ( from introspicio ‘ look within' ) , yet they are surely influenced by its affinities with ‘ inspect ’ , ‘ spectator ’ , ‘ spectacle ’ ; otherwise , why do they claim to introspect entities as not physical but mental because not extended in space , treating introspection as analogous with sight , which reveals spatial extension , rather than with hearing , smell or taste , which just as much as consciousness of love or anger , hope or fear , exhibit temporal change without spatial extension ? |
| 7 | In assessing the value of treatment , the impact on quality of life is just as important as duration of survival . |
| 8 | It would appear then that self-citation of theses is not nearly as common as self-citation of publications , and even in the case of publications , geology has a lower incidence of self-citation . |
| 9 | The Party Rockin' label proves that talk of any ‘ Bristol sound ’ ( ie a Massive Attack sound ) is as overly simplistic as talk of a ‘ London drum and bass sound ’ . |
| 10 | Timing can be almost as important as selection of the right host species . |
| 11 | A minimum of historical awareness and a willingness to confront our own past is what is needed to teach us that , quite as much as knowledge of ‘ Arab culture ’ . |