Example sentences of "be much [adj] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But these overall success rates are much higher than the pass rates at individual examination sessions , because many candidates ' progress through the examinations is impeded because they have to resit .
2 Also I did n't have much money , and barn owls are much cheaper than a lot of birds of prey .
3 which are much cheaper than the beeswax ones being used in the .
4 And also , you know sometimes he 's prices are much better than the supermarket 's prices .
5 In Fig. 4.2 , for example , the three-phase currents are quickly established at the maximum value because the phase winding time constants ( 1 ins ) are much shorter than the period of each excitation ( 20 ms at a speed of 50 steps per second ) .
6 But The Orb are much more than the sum of their parts .
7 Furthermore , the common dispersal agents of tropical seeds are much larger than the pollination agents : few of them complete a life-cycle that would be compatible with the short flower-to-fruiting cycles of plants , more suited in this respect to close associations with insects , as in pollination .
8 Although relatively unsophisticated , this method is reasonably fast and it seems to work satisfactorily where the target units are much larger than the source units
9 Also in situations where the target units are much larger than the source units , polygon-in-polygon areal interpolation techniques can be used to obtain reasonable estimates by locating the source units within the target units .
10 Since one can never hope to see things which are much smaller than the wave-length of the light which one is using , there was clearly no hope of ever seeing them directly by means of the ordinary optical microscope which reaches its limit with objects about half a micron thick .
11 ( It should be emphasized that these terms are just labels : quarks are much smaller than the wavelength of visible light and so do not have any color in the normal sense .
12 Both of these velocities are greater than the speed of a real cannonball , but they are much smaller than the velocity of light , which is 186,000 miles a second .
13 This is because the expected daily losses are much smaller since the variation margin payments on the long and short futures contracts are likely to be offsetting .
14 But Mr Leonard 's injuries could have been much worse if a mystery middle-aged man had not risked his own safety and stopped the thugs ' attack .
15 They have passed through the flasks electric sparks simulating lightning , and ultraviolet light , which would have been much stronger before the Earth had an ozone layer shielding it from the sun 's rays .
16 Well the men tend to come to our meetings and sit in the back now because their they well what in their words they say , Oh they they 're much better than the lodge meetings .
17 Put this at the bottom of a deep casserole , which must not be much bigger than the piece of meat , which you should then put in with the calf 's foot on top .
18 It might be much bigger if the drug could be used to prevent , as opposed to treat , prostate cancer .
19 The market opportunities for a flexible hybrid car like the LA301 are likely to be much greater than a battery only vehicle , but in practice such a hybrid car will be driven in zero emission mode for the majority of the time .
20 Subscriptions and students ' fees were not adequate to provide a properly staffed establishment , and the choice made of this method of financing the College , in preference to direct government funding ( which would have had to be much greater than the government grants received from 1795 to 1813 ) was to hamper the growth of the College well into the present century .
21 Small , discrete pieces of information may have little significance in isolation , but when collected together , they can be much greater than the sum of their parts .
22 Buyers on their part will make similar calculations ; and if at any time the price should rise considerably above 36s. they will argue that the supply will be much greater than the demand at that price : therefore even those of them who would rather pay that price than go unserved , wait ; and by waiting they help to bring the price down .
23 However , as members of the Channel Tunnel Research Unit and others have pointed out , the longer term dynamic effect may be much greater if the image of Kent as a business location undergoes a transformation as the result of related investment in supportive infrastructure , especially transport .
24 The Accommodation Office can usually fix you up with somewhere to stay ( especially if you visit during the University summer vacation ) and it will be much cheaper than a hotel !
25 I 've always known you could be much better than the sort of parts you usually play .
26 These are more involved in construction , slightly more complicated to assemble and will inevitably be much larger than the Hexagon or Malay .
27 The socially efficient quantity of labour input would then be much larger than the equilibrium level under current tax rates .
28 Entering text could n't be much easier as the program uses common word processing commands .
29 A mapping/mutational approach would clearly be much easier if a transcription factor with a more simple DNA-PK phosphorylation pattern was identified .
30 Supposition abounds not least because the custom has been shown to be much older than the legend to which its origin is attributed .
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