Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adj] [subord] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trouble is that the problem is proving to be more intractable than even the most cynical Democrats had feared . |
| 2 | But Caterham 's independence does enable it to be more adventurous than perhaps a large parent would allow . |
| 3 | At the lower end of the scale the items may be far shoddier than even the cheapest village or nomadic rug ; at the higher end , one can find work of the most outstanding calibre and sophistication . |
| 4 | The challenges facing nurses in the 1990s are likely to be as great as any the profession has ever faced . |
| 5 | This is likely to be particularly serious if either the poverty trap or the unemployment trap is encountered . |
| 6 | The identification and correction of coding errors may be virtually impossible unless either a cost centre is obviously incorrect or a fairly detailed manual backup , such as is outlined in ( b ) above , is utilised . |
| 7 | Presumably stray magnetic fields will not be that high as otherwise the efficiency of the motors would be low . |
| 8 | They comprise some 21 per cent of rural housing stock on average , and Shucksmith ( 1981 ) indicates that , during 1968–73 in England and Wales there were usually more than double the number of local authority houses being built per 1,000 population in urban than in rural districts . |
| 9 | The Latvians had fascists who were more vicious than even the Germans . |
| 10 | Further , his total avoidance of arianism is held to have made him more acceptable to the catholic Gallo-Romans , than were the other kings of his generation , and to have helped ensure that the Franks were more successful than either the Burgundians or the Visigoths . |
| 11 | Jane Austen is less descriptive than either the Gothic novelists or Scott , for although her letters are full of domestic detail and she enjoins her sister , Cassandra , to omit nothing in her account of a house — ‘ For one 's own dear self , one ascertains & remembers everything ’ — novels are not written for ‘ one 's own dear self ’ , and she was not one to inflict what she did not enjoy — ‘ your descriptions are often more minute than will be liked ’ , she warns her niece , Anna Austen , an aspiring writer . |
| 12 | What is much better than just the security levels is the User Definable menus . |
| 13 | Our country , as a nation , has a spirit and will — it is much bigger than merely the mechanisms of markets . |
| 14 | This disclaimer is not appropriate if either the report is an Investment Advertisement under the Financial Services Act 1986 or if the client itself authorised under the FSA . |
| 15 | Finally , the particle hmm is not dismissable as just a " performance error " or a " filled pause " ; it has specific interactional functions , best explicated in terms of the system for taking turns at speaking in conversation , where it can be seen to be ( amongst other things ) a turn-holding device ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 16 | Waller believes it is more complex than just a huge shift of opinion on the day . |
| 17 | In some ways , dynamic recognition is more restrictive since both the writer and a suitable input device must be present at the same time , and the technique is evidently only applicable to handwritten text . |
| 18 | It is clear , therefore , that the 70 or so institutions which call themselves colleges or institutes of higher education comprise a sector of higher education which is more diverse than either the universities or polytechnics . |
| 19 | Furthermore a drop ’ in maintenance spending is also likely as both the landlord 's means and incentive to spend money on the property are reduced . |
| 20 | Sociology , as a social science , is more than just a collection of empirical findings and is also more than just a set of speculative armchair ‘ theories ’ . |
| 21 | It is also interesting as perhaps the key example of a special system designed to minimize political influence at the local level , since local authority involvement is only indirect and slight . |
| 22 | It 's far more than just a place to drink ; it 's the social and conversational heart of any Irish village . |
| 23 | Declared expenditure on defence and security is now more than double the expenditure on health . |
| 24 | Suddenly , after battling all season with Manchester City for third place in the First Division , the Wednesday player-manager finds that finishing second is now more than just a pipe dream . |
| 25 | There are also studies from Malaysia , which are illustrative of the effects of logging practices in tropical regions in general , which show that the destructive effect is far greater than just the removal of trees . |
| 26 | His view that letting children run in and out of busy airports smartly avoiding the traffic is perfectly reasonable depends upon a conception of a child which is far narrower than even the sex divide . |
| 27 | In each case the shout is far more than simply a war cry . |
| 28 | But OALD is far more than just a dictionary . |
| 29 | But Seefeld is far more than just a place to swing your mashie niblick . |
| 30 | It is far more than just an accidental entrance to your home . |