Example sentences of "be [adj] [subord] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence amplifiers involving first-order networks are stable if the closing angle between plots of and is less than 12 dB per octave as crossover is approached . |
| 2 | Since 1940 the average yield , which should in theory have been lower than the official limit but in practice was not always so , has steadily increased : |
| 3 | I am upset because the big man gets his money first . |
| 4 | The opinion in the Reparations Case would not have been possible if the classic rule relating to treaties and third parties had prevailed ; instead the Court considered the nature of the United Nations , the terms of its constitutive treaty , its composition , its functions , its rights and duties . |
| 5 | The objects and phenomena that a physics book describes are simpler than a single cell in the body of its author . |
| 6 | I am sorry if the Prime Minister takes it seriously that I oppose Maastricht . |
| 7 | I am sorry if the hon. Gentleman does not think that there is a vast amount of economic development going on in Lanarkshire as a result of Government initiatives . |
| 8 | Cases of underlexicalisation are clear when a non-specific noun ( such as log ) is used to refer to something for which a specific word exists in English . |
| 9 | The result of the application to the Court of Appeal on 4 November 1991 might have been different if the true position had been known to that court . |
| 10 | However , as Morison makes clear , their relevance to the British economy has always been doubtful because a large proportion of industrial imports enter free of duty , and membership of the European Community has limited their scope . |
| 11 | The AP1-88 's air-cooled truck diesels that provide both lift and propulsion are heavier than the converted aero engine that powers the SR.N6 , but they burn less fuel and cost only one-fifth as much . |
| 12 | There are people out there who 've got problems that are bigger than the average household can deal with and erm I think , therefore , we 're looking for more institutionalized forms of help and folks like this particular character — I almost said his name — almost need to be made to accept that kind of help . |
| 13 | The gap between the different measures of GDP has widened , for example , while the balancing item in the balance of payments has actually been bigger than the current-account deficit itself . |
| 14 | I understand they were , they 're better than the general secretary 's anyway . |
| 15 | Whether we 're bad or not so bad , whether we think we have gone beyond the pale or whether we think we 're better than the other person , we all need a saviour because we 're all sinners . |
| 16 | We 're all as the good Lord made us and some of us a sight worse . |
| 17 | Since you 're more than a little accident prone at this time , exercise caution and be careful not to lead your owner into trouble . |
| 18 | The first is that many important aspects of language processing occur in units that are larger than the single sentence . |
| 19 | Crocker expresses ‘ confusion ’ at the Thai conclusion that their positive samples could have been natural since a wide swath of the district was reported to have been sprayed with yellow rain . |
| 20 | Fantastic , popmungously great 45s , however , are rarer than a disco-dancing dodo . |
| 21 | The observation of the Great Wall has come from an ambitious project to map the positions of all visible galaxies which are brighter than a specified minimum . |
| 22 | Most missiles with pretensions to cleverness are brighter than a laser-guided bomb , but not as clever as a Tomahawk . |
| 23 | The questions are hard because a recombinational event may have no effect on the fitness of the individual in which it occurs , but only on what other genes a particular gene will associate with in future generations . |
| 24 | His fascination with anything to do with space and spaceflight bordered upon obsession and he had been horrified when The New Hope had been blown out of the sky by the Seven . |
| 25 | He would have been happier if the Latin American had made at least a pretence at attempting to beat him down on the charter price . |
| 26 | The June 27 breakthrough on tank numbers had been anticipated on June 14 , when the Polish-French proposal was recorded at a CFE plenary session without Soviet disagreement , but had then apparently been frustrated when the Soviet representative raised technical objections at a working group meeting later in the day . |
| 27 | OED entries which are unchanged after the final integration process may be approved for transfer to the composition system without editorial change , requiring only one version to be kept . |
| 28 | How shit are you ? ! ’ to every talentless flop-haired indie guitar loser of the past decade — also reveals what anyone sane knew already ; that the reason Erasure are better than the early Depeche Mode or Yazoo is because of Andy Bell . |
| 29 | Are there any aspects of the French administration you think are , that are better than the British approach ? |
| 30 | But of course these are equal because the seasonal usage and cost per unit is assumed to be the same . |