Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adj] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His own choices are rather limited since the Pru owns 3.5% of the stockmarket . |
| 2 | It will probably necessitate reorganising part of the database and , therefore , navigational systems are rather inflexible once the design has been implemented . |
| 3 | Multi-stage sampling surveys of this kind are most effective when the sampling units are carefully stratified at each stage . |
| 4 | Thus expenditure-reducing policies are most appropriate when the problem is identified as a deteriorating current account balance , whereas tighter monetary policies may be preferable if capital outflows are the source of undesirable pressure on the exchange rate . |
| 5 | These types of errors are most frequent when no language model was used , because there were many more combinations of word sequences that may be confusable . |
| 6 | Dilution viscometers are most convenient when a concentration series is to be measured . |
| 7 | Second , the extremities both of gloom and zeal are most manifest when the Committee considers adult education and , especially , working-class attitudes to literary education . |
| 8 | Estimates of the numbers in the trade , or of union membership , are necessarily vague before the union began publishing statistics in the mid-1870s . |
| 9 | For contemporaries , the charm must have been less impressive than the sense of half-realised ambitions . |
| 10 | We have been less successful where the difficulty already has a long-standing history in our own school . |
| 11 | Other churchmen , too , had ideas about the duties of Christian rulers , and may have been less convinced than the Encomiast that Cnut lived up to them . |
| 12 | He had had a charter drawn up , which presumably contained a boundary clause , but this seems to have been less significant than the authority of the witnesses . |
| 13 | Container-grown evergreens , such as bays ( Laurus nobilis ) are especially vulnerable because the root-ball may freeze solid . |
| 14 | These distinctions are especially important since the development is easier to illustrate in broad terms than to measure precisely . |
| 15 | They are agreeably surprised if a child shows a grasp of a phenomenon , such as how a machine works , which they themselves have only recently mastered . |
| 16 | The establishment of compatibility is slower and it remains less stable when the two animals are both of high initial dominance ; thus two males are less compatible than a male — female dyad . |
| 17 | Degreasers can , with care , be applied to aluminium surfaces as silicates are less corrosive than the caustics . |
| 18 | The body 's digestive processes are less efficient when a person is lying down and indigestion may result . |
| 19 | These claims are less vague than the logic claim , because a question or a speaking turn is easy enough to identify with precision . |
| 20 | It seems clear that , because they probably do not have as much of their total assets dependent upon the fortunes of a specific firm , the firm 's shareholders are less risk-averse than the manager . |
| 21 | There were thus two possibilities : Either we are in a region of the universe in which strong sources are less frequent than the average ; or the density of sources was higher in the past , when the light left the more distant sources on its journey toward us . |
| 22 | The British backed the plan but are less enthusiastic than the French . |
| 23 | Are less inconstant than a Woman 's Soul : |
| 24 | In fact , astronomers who conduct such surveys estimate that 95 per cent of stars are less luminous than the Sun . |
| 25 | They are less welcome than a troop of ticket inspectors . |
| 26 | After a study of academic enterprise in the US , Matthew Bullock of Barclays Bank , concludes that specific ‘ technology transfer mechanisms ’ are less important than the willingness of universities to allow their academics to work for industry ‘ on the side ’ . |
| 27 | The guidelines include a list of entry qualifications which for the most part are similar to those granting entry to the Council 's teacher-training courses for would-be school teachers ; in that respect , they do not accord with NATFHE 's belief that formal entry requirements are less important than the achievement of terminal standards . |
| 28 | Things are somewhat different when the institution or profession is itself new . |
| 29 | Crucially , although the impedances between P' 1 , X' and P' 2 are extremely tiny when the bridge is balanced , as soon as it goes out of balance the large primary inductance of the detector transformer comes into play so that the balance condition is very critical and the bridge consequently very sensitive . |
| 30 | Upon recovering , he admitted he had been extremely depressed since the death of his wife from cancer a year earlier and now did not think he had anything to live for . |