Example sentences of "is [adj] [det] [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This actually is little more than the theology of Genesis chapter two . |
| 2 | Clumping of cones of the same type is apparent , but is this more than the chance aggregation that arises in any random distribution ? |
| 3 | ‘ The mission of this Government is much more than the promotion of economic progress . |
| 4 | This unofficial ‘ Mk II ’ V8 is much more than the flagship saloon Audi wanted from the start and a fitting testament to a decade of technological advancement . |
| 5 | 16.2 Reading is much more than the decoding of black marks upon a page : it is a quest for meaning and one which requires the reader to be an active participant . |
| 6 | The idea behind trying to get together with Imperial was to create a world-size food company with , as it happened , tobacco money to back it up , because the cashflow from tobacco is much more than the tobacco business actually requires to sustain it . |
| 7 | Highgrove is much more than the house which the Prince Of Wales has made his country home . |
| 8 | Of course , faith is much more than the absence of doubt , but to understand doubt is to have a key to a quiet heart and a quiet mind . |
| 9 | This is much more than the duty levied on an annual rent increased by 17.5 per cent ( see Marsh [ 1991 ] 42 EG 94 ) . |
| 10 | The rent paid by the retailer is much less than the cost of overheads in an equivalent central location . |
| 11 | In most stepping motor systems the winding time constant is much less than the period of rotor oscillations about each equilibrium position . |
| 12 | For low values of current ill the pole windings the flux density in the stator/rotor iron is small and the reluctance of these parts of the flux path is much less than the reluctance of the air-gap between the stator and rotor teeth . |
| 13 | This is much less than the temperature of the microwave radiation that fills the universe ( about 2.7° ) above absolute zero ) , so such black holes would emit even less than they absorb . |
| 14 | Since the number of probes is much less than the library size , it is more efficient to order the probes first and then fit the clones to the probe order automatically . |
| 15 | If the capital market is imperfect such that the lending rate exceeds the borrowing rate , the results of the arbitrage argument may vary , depending on whether cash is being moved forwards in time at the lending rate , or backwards in time at the borrowing rate . |
| 16 | More than 13,000 people turned up to watch , which is 10,000 more than the standard of play merited and the stadium had all the atmosphere of a crypt — a sad pass for a fixture which used to crackle with excitement and produce play of fire and skill . |
| 17 | Before the Minister gives us , once again , the sterile old argument about the number of empty council properties , I point out that the number of empty council properties is far fewer than the number of empty properties owned by the Government . |