Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are rather more women , I think , that go into chemistry on the whole , are n't there , than perhaps physics , and certainly engineering . |
| 2 | Text can be coloured — there are rather more colours available to the user in DLabel — for those with printers capable of handling it . |
| 3 | Basaltic magmas are usually involved in most Strombolian eruptions , too , but these are slightly more viscous , so there are rather more bangs and thumps , but the material that is ejected is still fairly fluid . |
| 4 | Lines drawn with the MacDraw freehand tool are converted so that each vector point becomes an anchor point which can mean that there are rather more points than might be expected , but these are easily tidied up . |
| 5 | This is because there are rather few ways in which an image of the incident light can be formed . |
| 6 | And me bloody petrol gauge has been on half way along Scunnie Road . |
| 7 | She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her ; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants ; and , as Leda , was the mother of Helen of Troy , and , as Saint Anne , the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes , and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments , and tinged the eyelids and the hands . |
| 8 | It is a memorable evocation , casting a spell over the reader : ‘ She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her … ’ |
| 9 | He had been dead some time . ’ |
| 10 | She was cold , she had been dead some time . |
| 11 | He says there are vastly more vehicle miles travelled on the road system with 3 carrier bags of shopping in the back of a car than there is with 38 tons of shopping being delivered to the supermarket in a lorry . |
| 12 | But , however many ways there may be of being alive , it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead , or rather not alive . |
| 13 | As there are rarely any symptoms ( until it is too late ! ) , you wo n't know unless you go and have your blood tested . |
| 14 | To date , however , there has been rather little evidence on the means of transmission of difficulties . |
| 15 | However , there have been rather few cases which have addressed at all directly the question of the legality of the use of nuclear weapons , and even fewer judgments touching on this . |
| 16 | In much of Western Europe a predominant characteristic has been trade union pluralism ( and sometimes reluctance to engage in continuous relationships with employers ) promoted by ideological , philosophical and religious differences , although in recent years there has been rather less emphasis upon the importance of religious affinity . |
| 17 | Yet there has been remarkably little research activity in this area . |
| 18 | Comparative anatomists tell us that there are remarkably few differences between our brains and those of monkeys and apes , other than that ours are bigger . |
| 19 | There are remarkably few fumblings between the main historical chapters as the narrative is handed from one writer to the next . |
| 20 | His country may be taking the first steps to a market economy , but on the streets there are remarkably few cars . |
| 21 | There are obviously many questions to ask in matching current practice with the new programmes . |
| 22 | There are obviously many reasons for the conjunction of forces which produced its institutions and these must include the Reithian spirit ( described above ) , a political system secure enough to grant broadcasting a relatively free hand and the absence ( or the negation ! ) of deep social divisions . |
| 23 | There are obviously many types of typical CAB problems for which the telephone is not useful but it is a fact that there is a heavy demand , particularly from women , for telephone contact with the CAB . |
| 24 | Between these two extremes there are obviously many degrees of importance , so we can hardly make hard and fast rules which suit all occasions . |
| 25 | But any that have been worn flat or dug out of the applicator base are obviously such favourites that you should write down the names immediately . |
| 26 | There are obviously more overheads when the client group is geographically dispersed rather than grouped together in a home . |
| 27 | What are you 're dou if you 've got to think about it you may there are obviously some questions in your mind . |
| 28 | I mean there are obviously some aspects of a school 's policy that are relatively easily changed . |
| 29 | O. globifera can be distinguished from the other Atlantic species of Ophiomitrella by the shape of the disk granules which are much less rugose than those of O. clavigera . |
| 30 | Although rhyolite lavas do not occur in large volumes anywhere in the world , they are much more characteristic of destructive plate margins than constructive ones . |