Example sentences of "[subord] [is] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Due to the very nature of vigilance , the tests to measure it must take much longer than is required for the other tests above . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | However , rehabilitation has made rather more significant inroads than is suggested by the formal description of the system . |
| 13 | Such manuals as there were may have been more bland and technical than is suggested by the antique illustrations reproduced by Smith ( 1969 , pI . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The intercept is then , the slope of the line yields A 2 , whereas is obtained from the initial slope s i of the line i.e. |
| 17 | Consider for example , that ( Fig. 7.6 ) will be parsed as Europe lie rather than your reply , since is matched to the long word Europe and is matched to lie . |
| 18 | And , even amid its licensed disorderly streets , ceremonial and ritual can hold sway — as is displayed by the stately procession through the teeming revellers of a stoop-kneed , silk-swathed geisha and her entourage . |
| 19 | This ‘ lake effect ’ modifies the climate considerably within 40-50km of individual lakes as is observed in the Great Lakes region of North America . |
| 20 | The relative phenotypic homogeneity of this disease may , however , be the result of selection bias , and now that a DNA marker is available more variability may become apparent , as is seen in the other inherited prion diseases . |
| 21 | for direct processing the track index does not make it clear which records are in overflow and which in the prime data area ; this prevents the first overflow record being retrieved as quickly as is achieved in the two-entry index system — at least while it is the only overflow record . |
| 22 | Education is probably the best form of conservation because public opinion influences politicians , as is exemplified by the environmental debates of the late 1980s that figure so prominently in the media . |
| 23 | It should also be remembered that newspaper people work very fast — the very latest news is always the most desirable , as is instanced by the occasional ‘ scoop ’ of the event which has not yet even happened . |
| 24 | As is explained in the next section , informal arrangements may be preferable . |
| 25 | They also seem to be able to acclimatise themselves to lower temperatures than most other cichlids — as is indicated by the recommended temperature . |
| 26 | An alternative way of looking at it would perhaps be to say the Greater York Area is that area within ten miles of the city centre as is indicated by the third of the criteria set out in policy H two . |
| 27 | As is indicated in the following sections it is not easy to answer this alarmingly simple question . |
| 28 | Many such incidents are of a consensual nature as is illustrated in the following example . |
| 29 | Catalysts can also greatly speed up chemical reactions , as is illustrated by the familiar oxidation of iron . |
| 30 | This production is , however , episodic as is illustrated by the volcanic record of Iceland , which is both a hot spot and part of a mid-oceanic ridge . |