Example sentences of "[adv] [adj -er] [conj] they " in BNC.

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1 That the long-term unemployment figures are much lower than they were bears testimony to the fact that many of our pledges and the policies that we have implemented are having a positive effect on the ground in relation to the individuals about whom Opposition Members spoke with such understandable feeling and passion .
2 Although I recognise that for obvious reasons the Secretary of State will not want to be locked or painted into a figure of 512 as the maximum , which is what it would be , will he tell the House whether , in the light of last week 's discussions with President Yeltsin and the changes that have taken place since Christmas , the Government are now considering the minimum deterrent to be somewhat lower than they had previously considered it necessary to be ?
3 Also , the tempi in the original Bruckner scores are much simpler than they come to be in some editions .
4 The reason why some people take a long time to learn the Technique is because it is much simpler than they think .
5 The record of the health service is improving dramatically and waiting lists are now very much shorter than they were when the Government first took office .
6 Erm that would have been much much quicker if they 'd bothered and organized them but they had n't organized anything .
7 All these agencies make sending out mailings much easier but they can be very expensive , and unless you give very precise and detailed instructions about which journalists in each category of the media should receive the release you may still be sending to media which can not use the story .
8 it 's much easier if they have somebody attached to them
9 A pair of good cotton gloves make working with chocolate that much easier as they increase the length of time that you can handle the chocolate before it melts .
10 The Blue Arrows and Michael pages of the recruitment world have found it much easier because they have had a variety of products and services , and encompass a number of sectors .
11 ‘ Say , you 're much taller than they said you were , ’ exclaims Bridget Fonda as a pouting nymphet putting the moves on the diminutive star .
12 Litters today are so much bigger than they used to be that sows inevitably find it more difficult to avoid harming their offspring .
13 The cordoned area was much bigger than they had realised , for several square yards of the level ground on top had subsided into ominous , shallow holes , here and there breaking the turf , and the slope down to the river path , once dropping gradually a matter of fifteen feet or so , now sagged in red rolls of soil and grass .
14 Shiny and reflective walls , ceilings and floors will also make space seem much bigger because they throw out extra light .
15 That 's not , they 're much nicer when they 're outside
16 ‘ They are much nicer and they never crash . ’
17 He seemed to want to help them or else his plan was much deeper than they knew .
18 because they do n't give a specific definition as to what a landlord is or a rich peasant or a middle peasant meant that how that there was a lot of flexibility within that and it 's only later that they have to reissue those two documents on how to analyze the classes which erm which had been published in nineteen thirty which they felt that you know the Party 's moving too far away , but why did n't they do it at the time ?
19 ( Had ninth-century rulers really been able to collect a generalised army-tax , their armies would surely have been very much larger than they clearly were . )
20 I do not see much to encourage me at all , but this does not worry me for it could be much later when they arrive , after I have left for home .
21 Would you give them a hundred thousand pounds worth of life cover for a shorter period , looking at them making up the difference perhaps later when they could afford it , or would you give them initially a reduced amount of life cover , say eighty thousand , for the eighteen years ?
22 However , they will only eat earthworms , which is fine ″ the summer , but I would be much happier if they would take a little trout , prawns and beefheart .
23 She would feel so much happier if they had and it was over .
24 It is not that prospects for earnings are 10 p.c. better that they were in the middle of last week , but it is possible to argue that prospects are that much better than they would have been under a Labour government and that the market was discounting such a result .
25 It is not as efficient as either in their own fields , but performs very much better than they can in a situation where a significant enquiry facility is necessary and where the data is frequently processed sequentially .
26 On the other hand , the charting options within the spreadsheet function in Works are robust and simple to operate , with the result that graphics for analysis of publication data are much better than they would otherwise have been .
27 And to a very large degree , that has been erm , achieved , and I think that erm , the prospects for the county council for ninety-four five are now much better than they appeared to be a year ago , and er , I think the prospects for ninety-five six will need to be looked at through the budget review sub-committee and this committee at an early stage , and I 'm sure that the workman-like way in which it 's addressed it 's business is a good sign for the future .
28 Well , from Cizek 's point of view , it is much better that they should draw as they know to be , than for him to show them by means of perspective how to draw the house as it is seen by the camera 's eye .
29 The truth is that my women friends really would n't feel much better if they were 19 going on 20 , 29 approaching 30 or nudging the big Four-O .
30 Well-placed sources said : ‘ It would be much better if they could all travel together .
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