Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [det] [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a pause then Mair said quietly : ‘ Alzheimer 's is rather more than an inconvenience . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This is rather more than the summary that appears in the prelims . |
| 4 | Sadly , the sort of quality that can be achieved from such bit mapped graphics is rather less than the advertisements might lead you to believe , especially when it comes to enlarging or reducing them and printing them out at high resolution . |
| 5 | The gestation period from first inquiry to first completed shipment is rarely less than a couple of years . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Lucky Jim as an over-night visitor drunkenly burning his host 's sheets with his cigarette-ends , and desperately trying to disguise the damage with a pair of scissors , is farcical in a Wodehouse sort of way , though the social rank of the characters is down more than a notch or two . |
| 8 | Eleven years on , this continues , though now there is perhaps more than a tinge of pity for my ‘ lonely ’ existence . |
| 9 | Far more than is suspected are inefficient wives responsible for the misery of many back-street homes , and it is perhaps more than a coincidence that some of the Lancashire towns with the worst repute for their high rate of infant mortality have no girls ' club within their areas . |
| 10 | In well-winnowed sediments there is generally little or no matrix , leaving resultant pore spaces which may be partially or totally occluded ( or filled ) by cement during diagenesis ( Fig. 5.2b ) . |
| 11 | As a result the accuracy of a composite map from overlay analysis is generally less than the accuracy of the least accurate map layer used ( Newcomer and Szajgin 1984 ) . |
| 12 | The number of nested Boolean conditions that can be handled by an inverted file is generally less than the number a serial file can handle . |
| 13 | There is thus little or no tendency for molecules of one component to hinder or help the escape into the vapour phase of molecules of the other component . |
| 14 | Washing is not much but the drying is the |
| 15 | For practical reasons , it is not more than an interest though — but probably as a direct result of this interest , my fish collection always seems to have an excessive quantity of eels . |
| 16 | Exactly what we spend our money on does not matter too much , as long as the money going out is not more than the money coming in . |
| 17 | The other has no chequebook facilities , but provided the balance is not less than a minimum of £10,000 , interest will be paid on the full amount . |
| 18 | Most of the deadlines that must be met for the new pay and file tax system are at least nine months on from 1 October 1993 , but one is already less than a year away . |
| 19 | Similarly , one can not talk about contemporary Chinese , Russian or Balkan weaving groups , because there is usually little or no difference in the character and appearance of rugs made in the various centres throughout each country . |
| 20 | This process is known as segmentation , and methods vary considerably resulting in individual strokes , characters , or some unit which is usually less than a character . |
| 21 | The Second Law states that the amount of energy obtained from a system is always less than the amount absorbed , so it eventually ‘ runs out of steam ’ . |
| 22 | The most noticeable feature is that there is still little or no evidence of multi-culturalism . |
| 23 | It is still less than a century since the Putney debates of 1647 were first published and the significance of the Levellers began to be appreciated . |
| 24 | Diderot is hardly more than a name . |
| 25 | This went some way towards closing the financial gap between Gloucester 's endowment and that of his brother Clarence , but income is probably all that the grant was designed to provide . |
| 26 | This went some way towards closing the financial gap between Gloucester 's endowment and that of his brother Clarence , but income is probably all that the grant was designed to provide . |
| 27 | Complementarily , if is slightly less than the output is driven into positive saturation , . |
| 28 | The later total , 601,730 , is slightly less than the figure here , 603,550 . |
| 29 | This is slightly more than the distance that most pilots would like for a spot landing at the gliding site because you need a little more time for the approach in a strange place . |
| 30 | The pound is up more than a cent at one dollar , eighty-eight but down at two marks , ninety-one . |