Example sentences of "[noun pl] [is] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The student population at polytechnics is growing much faster than that of universities . |
| 2 | Particularly when the subject matter is demanding or unfamiliar ( as in much academic writing ) , it is important that the relationship between ideas is signalled as clearly as possible . |
| 3 | The rise in long-term unemployment and the increase in child poverty since the mid 1970s is likely to mean that the health of the lower social classes is improving more slowly than it should and would have done , rather than that it is getting worse . |
| 4 | The structural explanation of social problems is pursued more thoroughly than in a developmental model . |
| 5 | Moreover , the overhang of unsold properties is evaporating much faster than expected . |
| 6 | As the aim of investigating terraces is to determine as accurately as possible former base levels , the back of marine terraces ( E on Fig. 9.18 ) should be measured as this approximates to the former high tide level , but the front of river terraces ( F on Fig. 9.18 ) is the closest approximation to the level of the centre of the old valley floor which was graded to high tide level . |
| 7 | Will he take urgent steps to ensure that the spread of city technology colleges is accelerated as quickly as possible ? |
| 8 | Alcohol in fizzy drinks is absorbed more quickly than alcohol in still drinks . |
| 9 | It presumed that the particular classroom layouts and patterns of organization commended would promote children 's learning more effectively than any others . |
| 10 | Important though this literature is , the main purpose of later sections is to isolate as far as is generally possible the impact of the government budget on the Lorenz curve that would otherwise have obtained , and then to consider proposals that are more closely tied to the poverty literature . |
| 11 | The sum of the probabilities for space to which records have not been allocated , P EMPTY , is : The rest of the total file area must therefore hold home records , i.e. ( Note : The proportion of the file area that contains home records is calculated indirectly rather than directly , because the sum of home record probabilities is made up of an infinite series , while that of the empty positions is finite , as is clear from equation ( 6.13 ) . ) |
| 12 | The administration of these services is decentralised as far as possible to conform with these areas in more accessible mini-town halls . |