Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] are [adj] [subord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though today 's colours , perms and styling products are kinder than ever before , hair is still subjected to a daily assault course and more often than not , needs a little more loving care than it actually gets . |
| 2 | And I know that the Tetleys and P G Tips tea bags are dearer as well . |
| 3 | Living standards are higher than ever . |
| 4 | ‘ On-line ’ and CD-ROM searches are available as well as microfiche , microfilm and video facilities . |
| 5 | Children are particularly welcome at the Castle and special guide books are available as well as educational material for school groups . |
| 6 | If the runner can be told exactly why he or she is doing a particular type of training , what bodily changes it will bring about and how he or she should run to achieve them , then those 15 minutes a day of quality training are more than enough . |
| 7 | Hewlett-Packard Co says that in the UK , growth in orders was a storming 39% , and that orders for Unix systems are more than double this time last year : exports from the UK are up 16% , 80% of everything sold is now new business , and all new business is on the Unix side — as price-performance improves two-fold every year , it is selling four times as many Unix boxes each year . |
| 8 | HP says that in the UK , growth in orders was a 39% , and that orders for Unix systems are more than double this time last year . |
| 9 | Fourthly , the skills and methods which social workers developed during the welfare state era are relevant as never before ( Department of Health and Social Security , 1985 ; Parsloe , 1988 ; Department of Health , 1989 ) : psychosocial assessments , direct work with children , maintaining links , interprofessional collaboration . |
| 10 | He presented a paper on 5 April in which he stated : ’ I am bound to conclude that looked at from the perspective of the economics of heat and power , it makes no sense to replace existing coal-fired plant with CCGTs unless gas prices are lower than today 's . ’ |
| 11 | Spenser 's depictions in Book V are more than just an attempt to justify Grey . |
| 12 | Government ministers admit that ozone levels are higher than anywhere else in the world . |
| 13 | Waiting lists are longer than ever ; yet the day-surgery wards designed to cut them have been padlocked until the end of the financial year . |
| 14 | The ventral arm plates are wider than long , pentagonal with an obtuse proximal angle and a slightly convex distal edge . |
| 15 | The ventral arm plates are wider than long broadly pentagonal in shape and separated from one another . |
| 16 | The dorsal arm plates are wider than long , approximately triangular in shape and separated from one another . |
| 17 | The dorsal arm plates are wider than long , rectangular and contiguous . |
| 18 | The dorsal arm plates are wider than long , slightly rectangular , and contiguous . |
| 19 | The dorsal arm plates are broader than long , contiguous at least on proximal arm segments , with a slightly convex and , in some specimens , carinate distal edge . |
| 20 | Confronted by physical hazards like this , mountain goats are cautious as well as footsure . |