Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [verb] [prep] a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1924 , as well as a contribution from Lévy-Bruhl on ‘ Primitive Mentality and Gambling ’ , the Criterion carried Lewis 's ‘ Mr. Zagreus and the Split-Man ’ where , as in Tarr , modern civilization is constantly punctured by a deeper , often clearly anthropological element in a strange world of lustrations , masked figures , and phallic hands . |
| 2 | Mr Clinton is apparently thinking of a smaller force , with total manpower cut to 1.4m and troops in Europe to around 100,000 ; but little more is known of his intentions . |
| 3 | 2 If a Bill of Rights is somehow entrenched as a higher law , then all ordinary legislation will need to be checked against that law . |
| 4 | Although the term , delta , was originally derived from the Greek letter which approximates in shape to the Nile delta , it is generally used with a wider range of meanings today . |
| 5 | The relatively short human lifespan is thus put in a clearer biological perspective . |
| 6 | The increase in the price of consumer goods is thus accompanied by a faster rate of growth in Dept . |
| 7 | The Court held on the one hand that the protection of the Directive was a matter of public policy and so the worker could not trade away his right under the Directive to the maintenance of the same terms and conditions , even if ‘ the employee obtains new benefits in compensation for the disadvantages resulting from an amendment to his contract of employment so that , taking the matter as a whole , he is not placed in a worse position than before ’ ( point 15 ) . |
| 8 | If you are thinking about trying to breed them , this is best achieved in a smaller aquarium where the breeding fish are on their own . |
| 9 | First , an increase in the general wealth of a country is usually associated with a greater proportionate increase in expenditure on services of the kind provided by local government . |
| 10 | The dense A-band is further traversed by a lighter H-band . |
| 11 | There are problems with extrapolating from this type of study design ( NMBJ , Society for Social Medicine meeting , Nottingham , 1992 ) , but , on the assumption that a higher level of responsibility is positively associated with a larger number of patients , our estimate of total activity undertaken by nurse practitioners is best interpreted as an upper limit . |
| 12 | Although some poems , especially her essays , suggest that she is also looking toward a wider audience , in the vast majority of poems she speaks specifically to some woman she knows . |
| 13 | Not only does spinal stabilisation for early scoliosis in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy maintain sitting balance but it is also associated with a slower deterioration in lung function . |
| 14 | Unemployment among other household members is also associated with a higher probability of unemployment among young people ( Payne , 1987 ) . |
| 15 | Ms Shirley is now faced with a tougher challenge for her revolutionary management skills . |
| 16 | Leigh is now looking for a larger space . |
| 17 | Braque 's interest in space gives his work an ‘ overall ’ quality , which has ever since remained one of the main features of his style , whereas in Picasso 's painting the attention is usually riveted on the subject while the background or surround is often treated in a simpler or more cursory fashion . |
| 18 | The debate about representation and culture is here articulated with a sharper political urgency . |
| 19 | Designworks is one of the few budget drawing packages that is n't derived from a larger , more expensive product . |
| 20 | ( This of course remains true even if the whole structure is then subjected within a wider framework to negation , or presented as being hypothetical . ) |
| 21 | It is closely related to a longer version extant in four manuscripts three of which assign it to him . |
| 22 | Future developments include access to more information sources — GL is currently talking to a further four names — new cable and satellite links and , eventually , a Windows NT version . |
| 23 | The title of his article , " Socrates enters Rome " , is certainly justified on a wider basis . |