Example sentences of "are 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 .
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