Example sentences of "[det] is [adj -er] [conj] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is lower than the daily minimum temperature observed in the polar vortex in March for the years 1964–89 ( ref. 28 ) . |
| 2 | This is lower than the steady 3 points per move that both players can amass in a run of mutual cooperation ( and , by the way , this is the reason for the ‘ additional condition ’ left unexplained on page 204 ) . |
| 3 | In 1971 the census-defined unemployment rate for the project area was high at 13% , but this is lower than the national average as defined much less inclusively in 1988 . |
| 4 | This is slower than an audio cassette recording . |
| 5 | This is drier than the original primary growth and hence more susceptible to fire . |
| 6 | The first of these is older than the second , and has acquired a bad name ; indeed , it acquired it fairly early , in some part from the monumental and unappealing system of Herbert Spencer . |
| 7 | The latter is closer than the African elephant to the prehistoric mammoth , which was not , incidentally , as big as most people think . |
| 8 | The most common disguise is that of the jongleur or menestrel ( within the fabliau tales there is barely any discernible difference in status or respectability between these two although conventionally it is supposed that the former is lower than the latter ) : a disreputable itinerant entertainer living , creditably , off his wits and his talents , but only too vulnerable , and given to wasting what he gains on the temporary pleasures of drinking and gambling in the taverns ; a social outcast but at the same time one called upon by the members of normal society , as Jouglet is , both to instruct the ignorant young man and to play for the villagers . |
| 9 | That is bigger than the whole British army . |
| 10 | Meanwhile good news in the clear up rate of robberies , about a third of those recorded in the Thames Valley are solved and that is higher than the national average . |
| 11 | That is longer than the standard truncheon and would be useful to police officers who patrol alone at night because it affords additional protection against all kinds of assaults , excluding of course , assaults using firearms . |
| 12 | The version in figure 9.4 is smoother than the version in figure 9.3 , and each is smoother than the raw data plotted in figure 9.2 . |