Example sentences of "[am/are] [adj] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make sure that the dumb-bell bars are lower than the top of your chest . |
| 2 | Publishers ' discounts are lower than the normal 35% off , and copies sold in the shops or to libraries are usually at the suggested published price . |
| 3 | These values are lower than the 2–3% reflectance predicted from heating experiments in which the maturity of the sample is estimated after heating ( Snowdon , 1979 ) . |
| 4 | As Ian Jones at the National Institute for Economic and Social Research has pointed out , benefits in the first year of operation are lower than the figures for net effective cost imply . |
| 5 | In fact , £3,976 should be debited to deferred tax , as the accounting profits are lower than the taxable profits . |
| 6 | For both Lothian and Scotland the 1991 totals are lower than the 1981–85 base but higher than the 1991 ‘ interim ’ target . |
| 7 | But direct operating costs are lower since the fees levied by aerodrome owners for landing and parking etc. are generally much more reasonable than in the UK |
| 8 | Earn outs are impractical if the business will be operated as a division of the purchaser rather than a stand alone subsidiary . |
| 9 | Hence amplifiers involving first-order networks are stable if the closing angle between plots of and is less than 12 dB per octave as crossover is approached . |
| 10 | Work by Bagnold has shown that the pressures are greatest when the pocket of trapped air is thinnest and that when the dimension of the pocket at right angles to the cliff reaches half that of the depth of the pocket the pressure is negligible . |
| 11 | It is felt that tighter controls on mercury emissions are unnecessary because the existing emissions to the aquatic environment are not harmful to human health , ’ said Phil . ’ |
| 12 | Many nations are apprehensive because the treaty establishes no controls to prevent the ruthless industrial and trading practices that built Japan 's pre-war commercial empire . |
| 13 | In isolated word recognition only substitution errors of the meet/meat kind are possible since the beginning , ending , and duration of the word are known . |
| 14 | Longer addressing times are possible because the display need not be refreshed at TV frequencies while it is read on the screen . |
| 15 | A Management Committee consisting of ERA , GDC , our contract architects , and TSA was established to run the project and this part of the project highlighted that ‘ genuine partnerships ’ are possible when the determination to succeed is there . |
| 16 | We 've found it best to glue the wheels onto the axles with superglue and wait until they are dry before the pin is added . |
| 17 | I am upset because the big man gets his money first . |
| 18 | The objects and phenomena that a physics book describes are simpler than a single cell in the body of its author . |
| 19 | I am sorry if the Prime Minister takes it seriously that I oppose Maastricht . |
| 20 | I am sorry if the hon. Gentleman does not think that there is a vast amount of economic development going on in Lanarkshire as a result of Government initiatives . |
| 21 | I am sorry if the Minister finds it difficult to understand that , when I say ’ personally ’ in this respect , I mean that I am expressing my view and the view of my party . |
| 22 | But their solicitor says their chances are slim unless the law can be changed . |
| 23 | Cases of underlexicalisation are clear when a non-specific noun ( such as log ) is used to refer to something for which a specific word exists in English . |
| 24 | The waters around the Sullom Voe oil terminal are cleaner than the Forth and many other British estuaries , a conference on environmental monitoring was told last month . |
| 25 | Such combinations make up the particles known as mesons , which are unstable because the quark and antiquark can annihilate each other , producing electrons and other particles . |
| 26 | Coping strategies which are sometimes suggested , like making a mental agreement with yourself or even an actual arrangement with the other party , to stand over an arm 's length away and promise not to move from your spot , are sensible if the temperature really soars . |
| 27 | These results show that there is a higher complication rate if there are features of Crohn 's disease but that the medium term functional results are acceptable if the pouch can be retained . |
| 28 | My letter to your Honour of the fifth January last being writ before the great events that are upon us now , would lead your judgement astray as to our progress in these fair Isles , for mighty Saturn threw his sinister shadow heavy upon me at that juncture and many untoward and grievous events had combined to cloud my spirits that now are light as a summer breeze again . |
| 29 | Natural highways they may be , but while some ridges are broader than a motorway , others resemble a tricky combination of obstacle course and tightrope walk . |
| 30 | ‘ Ask away , oh anxious one , for you are lovelier than an aardvark and I can deny you nothing , ’ said the seal , whisking the waves into a fountain with her mighty tail . |