Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Comparisons are simpler to make when numerical data is presented in diagrammatic form and conclusions are easier to draw from it . |
| 2 | At least as much interest has been stirred up by another special ability of the acoustic microscope ; to see beneath the surface , look into things , whether or not they are transparent to light and other forms of radiation . |
| 3 | The tendencies exist in very many people to a greater extent than they are prepared to admit and sexual fantasy abounds with sado-masochistic components . |
| 4 | Longer words are easier to see than short ones . |
| 5 | Oblique aerial photographs are easier to take than vertical ones , but are difficult to use afterwards , as there is distortion of the image . |
| 6 | However , highly polished surfaces are easier to photograph than oiled ones , as reflections are more easily controlled . |
| 7 | These are easier to cut than royal-iced cakes and come with much more attractive decorations . |
| 8 | Low resolution displays of 25–30 lines are easier to read than high resolution displays of 60 lines . |
| 9 | The disadvantages are that the batteries are inconvenient to change and severe battery leakage can be disastrous to the circuit board . |
| 10 | Whole brown and green lentils are quicker to cook than other pulses and do not need soaking beforehand . |
| 11 | DOME TENTS OFFER LOTS OF SPACE AND ARE LIGHTER TO CARRY THAN OTHER TYPES OF TENT . |
| 12 | Authentic examples are hard to find because fronted predicators are very rare in English . |
| 13 | I am glad to say that immense capital investment is going into that , which did not happen under the last Labour Government . |
| 14 | Many of us are keen for the bay to be redeveloped , and are glad to note that low-cost housing is being provided there . |
| 15 | Nor in the light of experience and knowledge available prior to this accident would it have been reasonable to envisage that internal pressures could exist in the tail structure . ’ |
| 16 | Where I live there is a large Indian community , and local fishmongers often have Tilapia , and Parrotfish , as imported delicacies , although they are cheaper to ship than live fish . |
| 17 | Fluorescent lights are mounted on the ceiling , and are cheaper to run than normal lights , but the colour is not so ‘ warm ’ — though you can get special warm white tubes , usually on order . |
| 18 | Low energy-using fridges and washing machines have recently appeared on the market and are cheaper to run than ordinary ones . |
| 19 | The Flesch Index , the percent of personal and so-called ‘ sesquipedalian ’ or complex words , and the average syllables per word and words per sentence , are all presented as graphic symbols , while the major plot is a readability summary . |
| 20 | Transnational corporations , transnational capitalist classes and the culture-ideology of consumerism are all seen as evil attempts to undermine the freedom and cultural autonomy of weak and poor victims , or the only true paths to development and the only reliable vehicles for releasing the poor from their misery . |
| 21 | Bolton Health Authority , which says it learned only on Friday night that the doctor was an AIDS victim , is writing to all 260 patients he treated at the hospital and will make sure they are all contacted and offered counselling and tests if required . |
| 22 | If a number of studies are able to show that occupational type shows consistently stronger correlations with other variables , say voting choice , style of life , level of education or values , this is evidence that the variable occupation is a reasonably effective indicator of the important dimensions embodied in the concept of social class . |
| 23 | Two valuable books on the seventeenth century ( apart from the Oxford History mentioned in an earlier chapter ) are those published as Open University set texts , Seventeenth-Century England — A Changing Culture ( London 1980 ) . |
| 24 | They are faster to search than binary trees ( Fredkin , 1960 ; Knuth , 1973 ) , and for this particular application it is apparent that a 26-way tree would be the most efficient structure in order to take full advantage of the alphabet . |
| 25 | ‘ I am really pleased that over the last three years I have been able to show that part-time working can work without any difficulty . |
| 26 | Indeed , it may even be possible to argue that certain types of reservation of title clause are caught by s3 , in so far as they purport to allow the seller to retain title until certain conditions are fulfilled , and therefore permit it to render a performance substantially different from that reasonably expected of it , or no performance at all . |
| 27 | It will be interesting to see whether similar actin cables also play a part in driving the coordinated movements of normal morphogenesis . |
| 28 | It would be interesting to see whether other mechanisms , besides CDM , are capable of reconciling HDM with observations . |
| 29 | It will be interesting to see whether current opinion confirms that historical evaluation or throws up masters due for a fuller reassessment . |
| 30 | It will be interesting to see whether Japanese management practices likely to be brought in by the new top management will work in an environment where aggressive individual success , rather than collaborative teamwork has been the norm . |