Example sentences of "[am/are] [adj] [subord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He presented a paper on 5 April in which he stated : ’ I am bound to conclude that looked at from the perspective of the economics of heat and power , it makes no sense to replace existing coal-fired plant with CCGTs unless gas prices are lower than today 's . ’ |
| 2 | Being high up , they know that the temperatures are lower than elsewhere . |
| 3 | In the dipterocarp forests of Borneo , the variation in species patterns is correlated with HCI-extractable phosphorus and magnesium where these levels are lower than about 220 ppm of phosphorus and 1200ppm magnesium . |
| 4 | The dividend is usually expressed to be cumulative , since in the case of equity share capital there is a presumption that dividends are non-cumulative unless otherwise stated . |
| 5 | And I know that the Tetleys and P G Tips tea bags are dearer as well . |
| 6 | These punctilios , which help to moderate tempers and maintain the dignity of the courts , are admirable if not carried too far ; but legal writings need not be encumbered in this way . |
| 7 | As a ghetto they create their own lifestyles and moral values and often express theologies that are anti-Christian as well as anti-human — pelagian , Arminian and gnostic . |
| 8 | The former describe events which are possible if not mundane , while the latter are metaphors . |
| 9 | In summing up the day the Bishop emphasised the fact that there are weak as well as strong , failures as well as successes , amongst the people of God . |
| 10 | Sanctions on employers are weak because almost everyone fiddles his papers . |
| 11 | Most people would agree that bodily examination and tactile contact are inadvisable if not ethically impermissible at this time ; beyond this the only consideration may be the worker 's conscience and departmental policy . |
| 12 | The first is the normal one that both manager and employees are effort- as well as risk-averse . |
| 13 | ‘ You are foolish as well as insolent , sirrah . ’ |
| 14 | The dorsal arm plates are broader than long , contiguous at least on proximal arm segments , with a slightly convex and , in some specimens , carinate distal edge . |
| 15 | From parents , children can acquire habits and tastes that are peculiar if not exclusive to a particular class . |
| 16 | The use of translation is the most obvious but not the only problem in the transmission of what are cultural as well as intellectual texts . |
| 17 | As in France , there are cultural as well as structural problems : the weakness of policy debate and the public sense of alienation from the bizarre workings of their political system mean that the successive crises seldom have anything to do with the outside world . |
| 18 | It is a conditional influence , the bounds of which are dependent as much on the ability to mobilise and win popular support ( which it clearly did not do immediately after Vietnam , when expenditure on the military fell ) as it is on manufacturing an unholy alliance between numerous competing bureaucratic , industrial and military institutions . |
| 19 | You know , in some countries it is against the law to put into advertisements shots that are shorter than so many parts of a second . |
| 20 | Cannons are dangerous if sometimes unpredictable weapons whose manufacture is limited to a few groups of human and Dwarf experts . |
| 21 | He denies they are violent as well . |
| 22 | Once in place there is very little movement and although two lenses are heavier than once , after a few runs you hardly notice the difference . |
| 23 | Confronted by physical hazards like this , mountain goats are cautious as well as footsure . |
| 24 | There the skies are bigger than here , and in the evening the sun sets more red , more pink , then ever ours can . |
| 25 | The news that developing economies , whose costs are low , are bigger than previously thought will cause some Americans and Europeans to fear still more the threat they pose to local output and jobs , and to demand higher trade barriers to check the intrusion of these nouveaux riches . |
| 26 | The rewards are bigger than ever , which means that everyone — governing bodies , teachers , coaches , press and TV — has to take a positive anti-drug stance . |
| 27 | First , the stakes are bigger than ever before , due to the expansion of global capitalism and its Third World interests . |
| 28 | Yorkshire came close behind the North-East for cheapness , but the lowest prices for spirits are in Scotland where measures are bigger as well . |
| 29 | And I say the rooms are bigger as well . |
| 30 | Constantly they gaze Out There , and Clarke 's descriptions of the view are evocative as ever — Saganesque , one might say , except that Clarke was at it long before Sagan. 010 follows logically enough from 001 , book and film . |