Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [subord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since Germany 's actual and expected rates of inflation are lower than America 's , the gap is even wider in real terms . |
| 2 | Only Chlamydomonas reinhardtii which has been chosen as an out-group is unreliably positioned in the presented tree as the bootstrap values are lower than 80% between the connecting intermediate modes of the three eukaryotic kingdoms of fungi , plant , and animals . |
| 3 | But not all professionals subscribe to the view that disabled people are unsuitable as health professionals . |
| 4 | Then , secondly , the truths of the Bible are ever-relevant because God himself does not change , either in his nature or in his dealings with men . |
| 5 | He 'd been asleep when Carla returned . |
| 6 | None of the favourite animals has any outstanding economic value ( unless one counts tourism ) and , apart from otters , domestic cats and hedgehogs , none is especially ‘ cute ’ as an adult , although most are endearing as youngsters . |
| 7 | In that moment Ludens felt sure that they were both remembering the scene beside the lake when Alison had been upset because Jack forced Ludens to behold him naked in her presence . |
| 8 | It was a no-win situation for the unfortunate air crews taking part , and it would have been understandable if morale had completely cracked at that time . |
| 9 | The Brighton-based threesome are duller than Nanette Newman 's dishwater . |
| 10 | Old ladies with thick stockings holding veins like knots of worms , and men whose eyes are duller than clay alleys dream other dreams and watched the numbered screen , killing time , hoping for a win . |
| 11 | So far its trading volumes and liquidity have been lower than LIFFE 's . |
| 12 | Animals that do this include fish such as the cod , which of course are highly mobile even as adults ; crustacea such as crabs and lobsters ; echinoderms such as sea urchins ; gastropod molluscs such as winkles , which are mobile as adults but are not able to travel huge distances ; and also — crucially — most of the animals which are sessile as adults — that is , remain immobile in one place . |
| 13 | We have seen that bond dissociation enthalpies are endothermic since energy must be absorbed to break bonds . |
| 14 | ‘ We are nearer than Middlesbrough to London in many ways . |
| 15 | Growing deafer , moreover , as they had certainly not been deaf as babies . |
| 16 | It must be the influence of Jekyll and Hyde , which has been strong since John Barrymore grew long teeth and took to scuttling about dark expressionist streets , bashing and killing . |
| 17 | ‘ Had my wife — her grandmother — been alive when Rose was orphaned she would have given her what she needed — and never received from her own mother — stability — a moral code . ’ |
| 18 | If he 'd been alive when Robert kicked up all that riot and rumpus , there 'd have been a different story , I can tell you . ’ |
| 19 | Randi says that none of these feats would have been possible if researchers had followed his advice . |
| 20 | Films like Basil Dearden 's Sapphire ( 1959 ) , dealing with racial prejudice and mixed Marriages , and Victim ( 1961 ) , which cast Dirk Bogarde as a homosexual barrister who decides to take a stand against social hypocrisy , would not have been possible if television had not already put such issues on the agenda . |
| 21 | Because medical practitioners are either salaried or paid on a capitation basis they have no financial incentive to " overtreat " , and the competitive bidding-up of salaries has not been possible when pay and salary structures are nationally negotiated ( though this may change in future ) . |
| 22 | and then your starter was about well your starters are dear because sea food is |
| 23 | Insofar as the labour process may be dissociated , it may be separated into elements some of which are simpler than others and each of which is simpler than the whole . |
| 24 | Some tasks are simpler than others ( compare the third and second readings for instance ) . |
| 25 | Crookes took up Faraday 's work on the passage of electricity through gases , and was excited by a passage in an early lecture of Faraday 's where he had speculated that there might be a ‘ fourth state of matter ’ simpler than the gaseous , just as gases are simpler than liquids ; they all expand alike when heated , for example . |
| 26 | I am sorry if Stella has found it uncomfortable to be a female president . |
| 27 | Around three-quarters of the food we buy is processed in some way but Faith is right in thinking some convenience foods are healthier than others — fishfingers , frozen vegetables , pasta , pizza , baked beans , canned fruit in natural juices and yogurt all fit in neatly with ideas about healthy eating . |
| 28 | Sandys ’ proposed deployment of the Army might have been practicable if Afro-Asia had remained quiescent , and if the Army had been given the strategic mobility needed to compensate for its reduction in manpower . |
| 29 | These above-average profits depended to some extent on the Company 's political influence in England ; in India it was not powerful enough to control the market , but its charter gave it a monopoly in England which let it push prices up further than would have been practicable if non-members of the Company ( denounced as ‘ interlopers ’ ) had been able to import cotton goods into England freely . |
| 30 | These vary in that some are video-led whereas others are based on a collection of written materials which teachers can work through on their own or in a group . |