Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] [verb] a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In Australia you are not supposed to have a cleaner or someone to do things for you , there 's not such a class distinction . |
| 2 | It may come as a shock to most men , but pre-adolescent boys are more likely to have a higher orgasm rate than the mature members of their sex . |
| 3 | As heavy , active drinkers are more likely to have a faster turnover of erythrocytes than reformed drinkers this might be put forward as a reason why our reformed drinkers did not have high pitted red cell counts . |
| 4 | A lot of people may like you , but it can be more useful to know a smaller , selective number — like the managing director 's secretary , for instance , who 's been with the company twenty-five years , and who loves to chat and fill you in on the history . |
| 5 | However , it would be quite reasonable to use a higher order of averaging , possibly with a bias towards the current maximum , to provide an early warning of plant stress — the talking plant envisaged in the original project aims . |
| 6 | That being so , my prince , it should not be too difficult to contrive a further meeting — if such be Your Grace 's will . |
| 7 | The biggest parties were moving-out parties given by people who were finally able to afford a bigger house . ’ |
| 8 | Attempts to piece together the Declaration [ see also p. 38313 ] had reportedly been fraught with disagreements between the Gulf states , on the one hand , and Egypt and Syria , which were allegedly keen to assume a greater regional role entailing substantial remuneration . |
| 9 | We will address these very seriously , while also being alert to the danger of being too quick to introduce a further round of changes before the new system has fully settled down . |
| 10 | To return to Darwin , leaving aside curious insights to his personal life , it is clear that the examination of his manuscript notebooks and papers preserved in the Cambridge University Library alongside the publication for which he is most well-known adds a richer and more penetrating interpretation of the man and his ideas . |
| 11 | It is much better to try a simpler design and to be thrilled with the results rather than try something more complicated and then feel despondent because it did n't work . |
| 12 | ‘ It is not possible to get a better debut than a game against the world champions , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Although for a majority of employees a protected rights contract is usually likely to offer a higher return , there are certain limitations and the accepted wisdom seems to be that the older the employee and the larger the transfer value , the more attractive a section 32 buy-out becomes . |
| 14 | If a horse does pull from anxiety , it is always worthwhile trying a milder bit — in an enclosed space , he can not go far if it does not work . |
| 15 | The road is totally unsuitable to serve a further housing development which would be better accessed by the originally proposed route along the existing footpath east of Bellburn Lane . |
| 16 | The fatter person is more likely to eat a larger number , and will continue eating after hunger is satisfied . |
| 17 | A national industrial relations system which had its formative stages during the past 20 years is more likely to accord a greater role to the state , for instance , than those developed in earlier periods when the government 's role as employer and regulator was less pervasive . |
| 18 | Some of her family and friends who knew that her marriage was unsuccessful may assume that her feelings about her husband 's death could only be those of relief that their life together is over at last and that she is now free to seek a better future for herself ; not realising that if a woman has lived with a man for many years , unless he has treated her with extreme cruelty , and shown her no love at all throughout the whole of their marriage , some kind of bond is bound to have existed between them , and that even if he left her with only a handful of good memories of times they spent together , it is likely that she may want to hold on to them , cherish them , and even build upon them . |
| 19 | Not that magnification is all-important ; it is far better to have a smaller , well-defined image than a larger , blurred one even for observing the Moon or a planet . |
| 20 | Progressive taxes have higher substitution effects , and are therefore likely to cause a greater increase in leisure consumption ( i.e. less work ) than if the same sum of money were raised via a proportional tax . |
| 21 | Of these 123 , a full interview was obtained with l04 principal carers at the time of the patient 's referral to the project ( six carers refused to be interviewed , and it was not possible to interview a further nine for reasons such as the carer 's ill health or death or because the patient and carer soon moved out of the area ; for the remaining four some information was obtained by telephone ) . |
| 22 | The EAT said that the tribunal was not entitled to introduce a further implied term into the mobility clause to this effect . |
| 23 | The first of those points is the principle of a Greater York dimension to the structure plan , erm we 'll all probably be aware that in the original structure plan the Secretary of State was n't prepared to accept a Greater York dimension in the structure plan , but did accept with the support of the district councils on the first alteration , the inclusion of a Greater York dimension . |
| 24 | He reported fully to Davout at noon , and was therefore surprised to receive a further summons from the marshal in early evening . |
| 25 | The Working Party felt it was very necessary to have a closer contact with Society members than was possible at present and that this could be best achieved by being in direct communication with them . |