Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [det] [subord] [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 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Diderot is hardly more than a name . |
| 20 | Complementarily , if is slightly less than the output is driven into positive saturation , . |
| 21 | The later total , 601,730 , is slightly less than the figure here , 603,550 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The pound is up more than a cent at one dollar , eighty-eight but down at two marks , ninety-one . |
| 24 | There is also more than an echo of Piaget 's notion of schematic development ( Ginsburg and Opper , 1979 ) . |
| 25 | This is as much because the D-mark is weak as because the dollar is strong ; the dollar has gained only 8% against the yen . |
| 26 | An apt combination of noun and adjective , a bon mot , an evocative phrase , is as much as an artist can hope for and a reader can expect . |
| 27 | If the unemployment benefit which they are paid is as much as the savings made from the productivity gains from the new production method , then the savings from the use of the new technology do not re-emerge elsewhere to create new demands and new jobs . |
| 28 | The drink 's as much as the drinker 's . |
| 29 | It is now more than a decade since the authors of the World Conservation Strategy , an influential report by WWF , IUCN and UNEP , defined conservation not in terms of cleaning pollution or saving whales but as ‘ the management of human use of the biosphere so that it may yield the greatest sustainable benefit to present generations while maintaining its potential to meet the needs and aspirations of future generations . ’ |
| 30 | The Brian Nelson affair and the other cases have shown that it is often more than a perception . |