Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conventional wisdom suggests that agreed takeovers in the financial services sector are preferable since they tend to avoid mass defections of staff in the target company . |
| 2 | These thicker transfers are preferable because they are less likely to let UV light through , but perfectly acceptable results have been obtained using standard etch-resist transfers . |
| 3 | Ideally mobile units of 100 or 200 bird houses are preferable if it is possible to either move regularly , or at the end of a laying period on to new pasture . |
| 4 | Smaller , more discreet means of cleaning up are preferable when you are out for a walk . |
| 5 | They may have to settle for royalties which are lower than they would prefer . |
| 6 | Despite recent improvements , unemployment is more than 20% , and real wages are lower than they were in the early 1980s . |
| 7 | ‘ Present values are lower than they have been for some time , and are sticking . |
| 8 | Credit costs are lower than they would be if they had to provide for more bad or difficult debts . |
| 9 | There must be some schools today where standards are lower than they should be , where there is a lack of order and clear purpose , where children are bored and restless . |
| 10 | Musical clergy , on the other hand , may find it hard to accept standards of choice and performance which are lower than they believe they could achieve themselves . |
| 11 | Type 6 Standards are lower than they need be . |
| 12 | The Northern Foods shares are lower than they should be , because the stock market has got it into its head that competition is tougher than ever in the food business . |
| 13 | one of the criticisms or possible criticisms of the M R C figures was that these were all patients who had been entered into superficial bladder cancer studies and they do n't therefore re represent all because people are selected to go into the trial and perhaps they are lower risk patients than others and in fact I believe that the recurrence rate in the M R C studies are lower than you would expect for er superficial bladder cancer in general . |
| 14 | Thick , textured fabrics are unsuitable as they do not take the stiffening well and also produce too much bulk around the roller . |
| 15 | Consequently , data which are collected for one particular analysis or processing application are unsuitable where they are required elsewhere for a different purpose . |
| 16 | We have to believe they are right because they have played such an important part in our identity and in defining the world for us . |
| 17 | For the traditional ‘ act ’ utilitarianism acts are right because they maximise ( or at least increase ) welfare , while for rule utilitarianism rules are morally binding because general adherence to them maximises , or would maximise , welfare , individual acts being right or wrong in virtue of their conformity to such rules . |
| 18 | Both points of view are right if they are right for the person concerned . |
| 19 | Summarising prospects for a US-Soviet summit , Baker said : " I think we are right where we were the last time . " |
| 20 | Volkov had been asleep when she came home . |
| 21 | She could n't have been asleep when I lifted the ledger from her lap and scanned its pages : she must have been watching me all the time . |
| 22 | Thus the wing of a bat and the paddle of a porpoise are homologous because they show the same underlying pattern of bones typical of a mammalian forelimb . |
| 23 | Tracy , 27 , said : ‘ Jamie is always having colds and chest infections and has been poorly since he was born . |
| 24 | ‘ Honestly , Mil , ’ said Enid gently , ‘ I know it must have been awful when you were turned into a frog , what with the narrow squeak in the potion lab and everything , but do n't you think perhaps you 're getting a little obsessed with frogs and ponds ? |
| 25 | It would 've been awful if they 'd found my things in the car . ’ |
| 26 | Most women had tried to become pregnant for two or three years , and most ( 412 , 82% ) had never been pregnant when they entered the study . |
| 27 | If Vitor believed her to have been three months pregnant in Adelaide , then he believed she had already been pregnant when they had made love ! |
| 28 | Her triumph would have been short-lived if she had seen the smile slip from his face and a look of regret shape his expression ; his quiet eyes were drawn to the window , to the skyline beyond . |
| 29 | Since definitions are tidier when they only involve discrete alternatives , the languages used for these definitions almost always contain only functions f with finite ranges . |
| 30 | Nobody 's who 's died has ever been depressed after they 've taken |