Example sentences of "[subord] [be] [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the hair that looked as though it had been dramatically carved out of something shiny rather than been grown in the normal way . |
| 2 | Every day more children die in the poor world than are born in the rich world . |
| 3 | These proposals are aimed at providing the public with more reassurances than are provided at the present time as to whether boards of directors have fulfilled their stewardship responsibilities . |
| 4 | In some passerine species it even justifies slightly larger clutches than are found in the same or closely related species of lower latitudes ( Ricklefs , 1980 ) . |
| 5 | But rather than be diverted by the red herring of whether or not such a category should exist or by the tricky question of how love should be expressed outwith marriage , let us not look for the borderline . |
| 6 | The improvements would enabled users of the system to place orders whenever they wished rather than be bound by the 24-hour batched system currently in operation . |
| 7 | ‘ I think that any down-side would more than be offset by the increased simplicity which single pricing would bring the client , allowing him or her to see exactly what they are getting . ’ |
| 8 | Gabriel fixed his gaze on the cloud pageants overhead or on Adam or on Lucifer or on God , rather than be distracted by the restless crowd . |
| 9 | They , too , formed a housing co-op rather than be dispersed to the outer edges in identikit " corpy " houses . |
| 10 | If there was an assassin about , he reassured himself , best to confront him now rather than be taken in the dead of night . |
| 11 | Computer People Group Plc saw lower profits for the year ending December 31 than were expected at the interim stage due to a drop in recruitment revenues in the UK and lower volume sales of consultancy services in the US . |
| 12 | The poor internal self-image is reflected outwards onto other people and onto external circumstances rather than being recognised as the diseased part of self . |
| 13 | Rather than being rewarded by the social security system , that home owner suffered a disadvantage . |
| 14 | The corporate ideology is public service broadcasting : this entails the provider deciding what the purchaser ought to listen to or watch , rather than being led by the latter 's clear preference . |
| 15 | For the first time since independence the opposition alliance included Malays , whose dominance was enshrined in the constitution , rather than being restricted to the Chinese and Indian communities . |
| 16 | As the foregoing brief chronology has demonstrated , which Councils have been recognized as ecumenical is far more arbitrary than is acknowledged by the bland words of the current Code . |
| 17 | The third way in which reliability might be breached is when , by judicious presentational techniques , a graph gives a more , or less , flattering view than is warranted by the underlying data . |
| 18 | On the one hand , tenure in top positions is normally limited through a more explicit contractual term of office than is employed in the private sector , and self-perpetuating oligarchies can not form . |
| 19 | There is some evidence that the history of policing in England and Wales contains much more resort to the stick and fist than is recognized in the orthodox accounts . |
| 20 | They are using sonar , but it is a cruder kind of sonar than is used by the smaller bats with which we , in temperate regions , are familiar . |
| 21 | Due to the very nature of vigilance , the tests to measure it must take much longer than is required for the other tests above . |
| 22 | The electrons may be excited from one orbital to another , still localised at the nitrogen impurity , by much less energy than is required in the perfect diamond : in fact , blue light has sufficient quantum energy . |
| 23 | They deserve a role in our society that gives them a little more economic security and social dignity than is offered by the current outrageous employment practices . |
| 24 | The leave of absence arrangements allowed under section 18 of the Mental Health ( Scotland ) Act 1984 enables the psychiatrist and mental health officer to ensure a higher level of supervision of vulnerable patients in the community than is permitted under the Mental Health Act 1983 . |
| 25 | The ability of the Communist parties to survive the onslaught from the ‘ New Left ’ also bore witness to the fact that the debates over strategy and tactics were real , and had a deeper basis than is suggested by the oft-manifested rivalry for the role of ‘ true ’ revolutionary . |
| 26 | If the origin of life were a much more probable event than is suggested by the Solar System Number we should expect , by now , to have encountered extraterrestrial life , if not in ( whatever passes for ) the flesh , at least by radio . |
| 27 | However , rehabilitation has made rather more significant inroads than is suggested by the formal description of the system . |
| 28 | Such manuals as there were may have been more bland and technical than is suggested by the antique illustrations reproduced by Smith ( 1969 , pI . |
| 29 | At present north Belfast and Newtownabbey contain less than five per cent of the office space in Greater Belfast : much less than is contained in the small area around the university and less than a quarter of that found in east Belfast . |
| 30 | A smaller building company may be asked to provide more detailed financial information than is contained in the modified company accounts when applying to join a list of approved contractors or applying for a tenancy of , say , a builder 's yard or offices . |