Example sentences of "is [adv] [adj] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gestation period from first inquiry to first completed shipment is rarely less than a couple of years . |
| 2 | Although having a B classification , it is little better than a country lane , yet , despite some sudden halts and reversings and generally slow progress , is a delight to follow . |
| 3 | At times the road is little better than a forestry track . |
| 4 | In terms of use , the status of e-mail messages ( excluding mailed WP documents ) , in most companies , is somewhere higher than a telephone call or a hand-written note but lower than a formal memo or report . |
| 5 | This is especially relevant when a partner leaves on bad terms , but has a general application as well . |
| 6 | This kick is especially useful when a fighter has been knocked to the ground and his opponent is closing in for the kill , although in training it is learned from a standing position . |
| 7 | This is especially valuable where a job has been done for a long time by the same person . |
| 8 | This is especially true if a piece of evidence with a very strong and obvious bias is used , or if two contrasting views of the same event are chosen and the pupils encouraged to compare the two . |
| 9 | Lucky Jim as an over-night visitor drunkenly burning his host 's sheets with his cigarette-ends , and desperately trying to disguise the damage with a pair of scissors , is farcical in a Wodehouse sort of way , though the social rank of the characters is down more than a notch or two . |
| 10 | I go on to argue that , despite the underlying regularities , the behaviour of an individual animal is only predictable when a lot is known about the conditions in which the animal has grown up . |
| 11 | But education , like medicine , is only useful when a person needs it , and the people here do n't need it . |
| 12 | Such a credulity-straining coincidence is only possible when a dybbuk pulls the strings . |
| 13 | See Lord Wilberforce in Stenhouse and Lord Reid in Esso : " … an agreement in restraint of trade is not generally unlawful if the parties choose to abide by it : it is only unenforceable if a party chooses not to abide by it " . |
| 14 | Again the appeal to the Court of Appeal is only available where a point of law is involved . |
| 15 | This power is extremely useful when a supervision order is made in respect of a very young child who can not be expected to present himself for examination . |
| 16 | Eleven years on , this continues , though now there is perhaps more than a tinge of pity for my ‘ lonely ’ existence . |
| 17 | Far more than is suspected are inefficient wives responsible for the misery of many back-street homes , and it is perhaps more than a coincidence that some of the Lancashire towns with the worst repute for their high rate of infant mortality have no girls ' club within their areas . |
| 18 | A reverberant place such as a church , empty hall or tiled kitchen is less easy than a room with some sound-absorbent furnishings , such as heavy curtains and thick carpet . |
| 19 | It covers such a wide variety of conditions that it is less specific than a weather forecast . |
| 20 | Often , to have a solid example in front of you is less daunting than a drawing . |
| 21 | And a couple is less conspicuous than a man on his own … ’ |
| 22 | By the late 1960s , the new social patterns , technologies and musical styles had been substantially assimilated into a reorganized music-industrial system : a transnational oligopoly of vast entertainment corporations , supplied to some extent by ‘ independent ’ producers ; serviced by mass audience radio and TV channels ( with some ‘ minority ’ shows and channels ) , by a symbiotically pliant music press and by related leisure-products businesses ; and directing itself at a series of separate audiences whose distinctness is less subcultural than a creature of market researchers ' consumer profiles . |
| 23 | Stabbing consenting patients goes beyond such narrow confines , is less manageable as a practice , and makes too many inroads into these basic criminal law rules . |
| 24 | It is much worse than a judge at Cruft 's checking over the points of a Pomeranian or Pekinese , and you are more likely to be bitten . |
| 25 | A word processor is much better than a typewriter in letting you enter and edit your text more easily ; print it out as required with much more flexibility ; save it on disc for future work ; and transfer it through an IT link ( see , for instance , below , under communications ) to a colleague elsewhere . |
| 26 | If the council receives a large number of letters about a development , this will give it an idea of the strength of feeling involved and it is much better than a petition . |
| 27 | Without question , a gazelle in a herd is much safer than a gazelle by itself . |
| 28 | Rimming is much safer if a latex barrier is placed over the anal opening and surrounding area , because there is a risk to the active partner not just from HIV ( because faeces may contain infected blood in a person with HIV ) but also from germs living inside the anus , which can lead to hepatitis and other illnesses . |
| 29 | Although water is far less compressible than air , the aquifer holds a lot of water compressed in this way because it is much larger than a tyre . |
| 30 | ‘ Working with Tracey is much easier than a group because you would have to stand around in the group and not get a chance of doing things . |