Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [adj] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is most powerful where the individual and the organization share the same goals . |
| 2 | The danger of inconsistency is most pronounced where the draftsman takes parts of his draft from different precedents . |
| 3 | This is most apparent when the label ‘ professional ’ is used , stripped of any connotation of high moral purpose or high social standing , for the killing trades — hangman , professional hit-man or soldier ( ‘ Join the Professionals ’ , as the Army recruiting slogan has it ) . |
| 4 | This problem is most acute when the individual ( or group ) courting media attention seeks to placate different and conflicting audiences , for example an international/foreign audience and a home one . |
| 5 | Application of duration measurements to discrete behaviours is most appropriate where the behaviour in question happens relatively rarely , but each time lasts for several hours . |
| 6 | As with all guitar noise problems , this effect is most prevalent when the amp is very loud , or set up for an overdrive sound . |
| 7 | The danger is most marked where the measurement of improvement is subjective . |
| 8 | Such a reaction is most likely if the glastyn or his family has been hurt or injured when the farmer was clearing land . |
| 9 | This is most likely because the word is retrieved from memory upon sight . |
| 10 | Average desired or intended family size is rather higher than the family size implicit in birth-rates since the 1970s . |
| 11 | Although that , the country is still well in the red , the latest deficit , as I mentioned earlier is rather better than the trade gap that was reported in July . |
| 12 | After rounding the imposing sheer cliff face of Seelisberg , it is rather surprising when the boat draws inshore to moor at a little pier with no sign of village or community in sight . |
| 13 | There was a pause then Mair said quietly : ‘ Alzheimer 's is rather more than an inconvenience . |
| 14 | Remember that the insurance valuation is not the amount paid for the rug , but the amount that would probably be required to replace it and , in practice , is rather more than the price originally paid . |
| 15 | This is rather more than the summary that appears in the prelims . |
| 16 | The only difference is that the slope of the worst case is rather steeper than the slope of the best . |
| 17 | And the sort of payback , as it were , if you are lucky , is rather larger than the payback , say , in horse racing ? |
| 18 | A cuckoo 's egg is conspicuously larger than the host 's eggs to our eyes but the egg is sufficiently similar in pattern and colour not to be detected by the foster parents . |
| 19 | If missed , it is rarely frightened since the silencer ensures that there is no report , so a second , successful , shot is often possible . |
| 20 | ( 149 ) From these , similar artefacts could be dated by comparison ; by this method it is rarely clear whether the date applies to the manufacture or deposition of the artefact . |
| 21 | The gestation period from first inquiry to first completed shipment is rarely less than a couple of years . |
| 22 | It is true that water levels on the Alaskan coast , caused by tsunami , earthquake-related tidal waves , have risen over three hundred feet but this only happens when the sea-bed shallows close inshore : in the deep sea , although the tsunami can travel tremendously fast , two , perhaps three , hundred miles an hour , it 's rarely more than a ripple on the surface of the water . |
| 23 | Although having a B classification , it is little better than a country lane , yet , despite some sudden halts and reversings and generally slow progress , is a delight to follow . |
| 24 | At times the road is little better than a forestry track . |
| 25 | In terms of use , the status of e-mail messages ( excluding mailed WP documents ) , in most companies , is somewhere higher than a telephone call or a hand-written note but lower than a formal memo or report . |
| 26 | Moreover , if she were to enforce a purely nationalist policy in respect of nuclear matters in Scotland , that could have consequences that she would regret — because the quantity of Scottish fuel reprocessed at Sellafield is vastly greater than the amount of overseas fuel brought to Dounreay . |
| 27 | This writer would certainly have preferred the option for moving everything out of the main glen , but the fact that the centre is now seen as being a mistake is encouraging and the partial solution is vastly better than the centre being a rapidly-growing monster . |
| 28 | It 's less common than a beef tapeworm , but more dangerous , because its larvae will settle into almost any part of the body , including eyes . |
| 29 | It 's less formal than the consulting-room . ’ |
| 30 | This potential to transform practical into verbal consciousness is highly significant if an elder is to be assessed affirmatively , and is easily ignored in functional assessments . |