Example sentences of "is [adv] [adj] [subord] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a pause then Mair said quietly : ‘ Alzheimer 's is rather more than an inconvenience . |
| 2 | This potential to transform practical into verbal consciousness is highly significant if an elder is to be assessed affirmatively , and is easily ignored in functional assessments . |
| 3 | This is especially important when an aquifer dips beneath another layer that is much less permeable . |
| 4 | It is questionable whether it can become an agent to promote social work but is position is so central than an attempt must be made . |
| 5 | Early appointment is obviously essential when an emergency protection order is made as the guardian must consider whether to apply for early discharge on the child 's behalf . |
| 6 | My hon. Friend the Member for Stroud pointed out that a regulator is much better than an ombudsman . |
| 7 | A child 's skin is much thinner than an adult 's and so more prone to burning . |
| 8 | Not all women can use IUDs and they complain about the side effects of the Pill , but the Pill is much safer than an abortion . ’ |
| 9 | However , that is not possible where an order is placed by telephone . |
| 10 | Such a view is not correct because an expert system that automates the reasoning strategies/processes and knowledge of one/several maintenance expert(s) must contain the knowledge of operations expert(s) as well . |
| 11 | For practical reasons , it is not more than an interest though — but probably as a direct result of this interest , my fish collection always seems to have an excessive quantity of eels . |
| 12 | It is not unexpected because an angler with an active brain , as applies to most specialist anglers , has not got enough challenge with one species . |
| 13 | That finding leads us to a shocking conclusion : a gesture is more individual than an individual . |
| 14 | So what we must consider is that whether a team performance is more important than an individual 's performance do n't forget that it is easy ( relatively ) to mark him out of a game compared to marking 11 men out off game . |
| 15 | The government , even in a minority , is more united than an opposition made up of one majority party and a number of minor parties which do not always act in concert . |
| 16 | There is also more than an echo of Piaget 's notion of schematic development ( Ginsburg and Opper , 1979 ) . |
| 17 | Together , under Caroline Paterson 's skilled direction , the company finds an idiom for a humour which is as sharp as an arrowhead and as hard as flint , and a style for an emotion which is shaped from the very suppression and denial of feeling . |
| 18 | An apt combination of noun and adjective , a bon mot , an evocative phrase , is as much as an artist can hope for and a reader can expect . |
| 19 | Blain 's very personal History of the Spitalfields Trust is as gripping as an adventure yarn . |
| 20 | But in a reasonably just society this belief in an obligation to obey the law , this attitude of respect for law , is as valid as an obligation acquired through consent and for precisely the same reasons . |
| 21 | I suppose that is as outspoken as an expert on etiquette can dare become in digging the dirt with his agricultural implement instead of a spade . |
| 22 | AIDS , after all , is far more than an epidemic . |
| 23 | This is particularly true if an emission spectrum can be observed : absorption spectra arise mainly from the vibrational ground-state because of the Boltzmann distribution of population , unless the sample is already excited in some other way . |