Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every man , woman , and child in the country would own about 100 of them , but garaging them would be no problem as each car would be little bigger than a matchbox . |
| 2 | She saw to the side of one of the houses the faded sign for Morgan and family , boot and shoemakers , fastened over what appeared to be little better than a shed . |
| 3 | Aerial ULV sprays will be most suitable when a pest has to be controlled over vast areas at the same time ; in the control of tsetse fly , for example , and in forests , to control pine beauty moth in Scotland . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ! |
| 6 | A mapping/mutational approach would clearly be much easier if a transcription factor with a more simple DNA-PK phosphorylation pattern was identified . |
| 7 | It must be immediately obvious that such arguments will be somewhat confused unless a definition of development can be agreed . |
| 8 | Thus if at this moment someone said something to me about " that ugly little statue on your fireplace " and accompanied this with an appropriate gesture , I should have little difficulty in identifying the object to which he is referring , but identification may not be so easy if a reference is made to an object that is not accessible to immediate perception , or of which I have no knowledge whatever . |
| 9 | So a thirty year old service might be entirely different than a person with ten years service deferring his pension . |
| 10 | Why should a boat be less social than a caravan , for heaven 's sake ? |
| 11 | Such differences , though they may be less marked when a child is 14 , may yet be considerable . |
| 12 | That prospect may be less depressing than a future dominated by the BJP , but it leaves little room for optimism . |
| 13 | POLICE in Cleveland last night warned people depositing cash to be extra vigilant after a company director was robbed outside a bank . |
| 14 | She could n't have been more than ten then and by our standards would be scarcely more than a child now . |
| 15 | A language is said to be recursively enumerable if a program could be written that would print out each sentence of the language . |
| 16 | A drop in voltage can be more serious than a power cut . |
| 17 | Little can be more disreputable than a Government who hang on to their jobs while pursuing policies that guarantee that thousands of other people will lose theirs . |
| 18 | Equally a group with a wider range of talents in its midst tends to be more effective than a group with a narrow range of talents . |
| 19 | They can also be seen in the popularity in France of the idea of attacks on British commerce as a means of forcing the traditional enemy to her knees , the belief that a guerre de course of this kind , avoiding large-scale engagements and making extensive use of privateers , would be more effective than a strategy which aimed at securing effective control of the seas . |
| 20 | The Language Master is likely to be more successful than a wall-chart , because the child hears the word as well as seeing it . |
| 21 | Moreover , it is the doctor-counsellor as much as anyone else who needs to ask these questions , for often spending time considering these aspects of ill-health might be more helpful than a prescription for drugs . |
| 22 | Now that winter 's coming on , what would be more appropriate than a programme about low temperatures ? |
| 23 | However , when subjects had to decide whether the target sentence followed appropriately from the context , a sentence context should be more difficult than a word context since it presents the subject with a more complex piece of information . |
| 24 | And it has been said that local authorities are not always very sympathetic to acting as a choice of career and sometimes obtaining a grant may be more difficult if a student has evidently changed his or her career tack . |
| 25 | erm Magistrates only send people to prison because they feel the circumstances of the case justify it and erm I think in the public mind erm the criticism is more often the reverse , that Magistrates are too soft , and I 've heard Lord Hailsham say more than once that if we do pay a price for the lay magistrate system it is leniency because what happens , and the difference between the lay magistrate system and the stipendiary system or the Crown Court system is that Magistrates do sit in threes , and what that tends to do is lead to compromises in sentence because discussion between three people irons out extreme views and you do tend to end up with a very well considered compromise view , which probably does tend to be more lenient than a sentence imposed by any one person who might himself take a very serious view of the circumstances . |
| 26 | We believe that it would be more sensible if a proportion of the compensation would be met by people like pension fund managers if for no other reason that it would encourage them to er keep their own house in order erm and you know it 's not a bad er principle to operate in these areas . |
| 27 | What could possibly be more romantic than a wedding on a tropical island ? |
| 28 | We can infer from these studies that horses reared with other horses in a free and enriched environment ( like a large paddock which offers variety and interest ) , if given the extra stimulation of owners who continually expand their mental horizons , will be more intelligent than a horse that never leaves its paddock or continually lives in a stable or yard . |
| 29 | As Daniel Rogers warned in 1642 , ‘ No prison can be more irksome than a son or daughter 's house ’ . |
| 30 | Whether he thought it would be more unnerving than a show of rage or whether he imagined he owed me civil consideration , I was uncertain . |