Example sentences of "[subord] be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although common law jurisdictions are more willing to validate judicial customs that create documents of title than are civil law jurisdictions even in common law validation has been mostly legislative . |
| 2 | Upon excitation by an electron beam , such local sites of crystal imperfection are more liable to absorb energy from the beam than are neighbouring lattice sites . |
| 3 | Flinn considered Neale 's Bath labourers to have been " a particularly unfortunate exception " , but possibly average weekly earnings are a more realistic basis for assessing living standards than are nominal wage rates , and local labour market conditions occasioned considerable variation not only in wages but in the regularity of employment . |
| 4 | ‘ My reasons for so soon destroying my drawings were these ; though I dare say that they do n't appear so rational to any one but myself : I was obliged to limit the work — in order to get more subscribers — & to erase the drawings — because the expense is considerable for keeping them on , & I have pretty great difficulty in paying my monthly charges , — for to pay colourer & printer monthly I am obstinately pre-possessed — since I had rather be at the bottom of the River Thames — than be one week in debt — be it never so small . |
| 5 | The levy probably survived because Margaret Thatcher — unlike the 19th-century Earl of Rosebery , who said he would rather win the Derby ( he did that twice ) than be prime minister ( once , briefly ) — was uninterested in racing . |
| 6 | On the other hand , a wiggle or a riddle from Nik Kershaw surely does n't hold any aspirations other than being unpretentious entertainment . |
| 7 | The more lenient punishments given to women probably reflect a belief that female crime is a result of sickness , of some physical or emotional problem , rather than being rational action with specific , often financial , motives . |
| 8 | The inability to confirm this well-known fact has not spoilt the sudden acceptance of the placebo as something with at least a false concrete explanation rather than being some form of gothic magic about which it is better not to speak . |
| 9 | I I quoted for a rolled screw once , yeah and my buying price from I 'm talking about a year and half ago , was higher than 's quoted price for a ground bore screw . |
| 10 | Solid manure stores , carefully sited and tended , are less likely to give rise to nuisance problems than is liquid storage in the form of a slurry . |
| 11 | Unfortunately for his thesis , women , who are normally thought to be more intuitive than men , have on average less spatial ability , while spatial ability is more important for scientific thinking than is verbal ability . |
| 12 | On the present analysis , moving to the viewpoints of other persons is not in itself a moral act , any more than is temporal viewpoint-shifting , so that a reduced capacity for either is not a moral but a cognitive defect . |
| 13 | The reasons adduced by Hare include the facts that fluvial processes tend to be dominated by extreme events rather than balance relationships , so that stochastic methods and extreme-value theory are closer to the reality of geomorphic processes than is energy-balance climatology ; and that the geomorphic time scale is longer than that utilized by the climatologist . |
| 14 | That is not to say that a perfect democracy is in the end attainable , any more than is perfect freedom or perfect justice . |
| 15 | They do this by acting on the experience mode of establishing truth , and , given the uncertainty associated with any economic analysis relating to a company 's future , experience of a crisis is probably far better at getting us to reassess our schemas and scripts than is rational analysis in times of stability and success . |
| 16 | At a cost of 20 per cent less than is popular hand-riven Westmorland green roofing slate , Cumbria-based Burlington Slate now offers the product with a sawn face . |
| 17 | But one speaker 's attempt at the patois may be closer to the standard end of the spectrum than is another speaker 's attempt at the standard . |
| 18 | Although more oil is ablaze than was first thought , there is less oil at sea . |
| 19 | Scientists excavating the fossilized remains of about twenty nests containing from 1 to 24 eggs each , in southern Alberta near the border between Canada and the United States in 1987 , suggest that dinosaurs were more socially complex than was first thought . |
| 20 | More recently studies have attempted to refine their research methodologies so that reviews of this research are much clearer about what we can claim to know and not know about abuse and in particular that it is a much more complex problem than was first thought . |
| 21 | The making of the assessment of damages in the light of all facts known at the date of the trial enables the court to take into account , if it be the case , the fact that the consequences of the plaintiff 's injuries were more serious than at first thought ; the fact that the expenses to which the plaintiff would be put in consequence of his injuries were higher than was first thought ; the fact that the plaintiff has died ; or the fact that the plaintiff has , since the accident , volunteered to be made redundant . |
| 22 | Merton , for example , was clear that totalitarianism was more likely to foster an attack on the ethical independence and institution of science than was liberal democracy . |
| 23 | It would recognise , too , that industrial democracy can not be conjured into being overnight , no more than was political democracy , no more than was the joint stock company as the common expression of industrial capitalism . |
| 24 | Instead Smith Kline chose just twenty-five key distributors , with whom it maintained far closer contact than was usual practice . |
| 25 | As a political tool naval patronage was rather less in the control of Administration than was military patronage , for although the Board of Admiralty retained all home patronage , there were many flag officers commanding squadrons in distant waters who enjoyed the right to make necessary promotions in their ships . |
| 26 | The actual vicar was er it was high , a high church , Father and then there was er he was a vicar and he used to live in the vicarage which is higher up than the church at the back of the church Street , and there was Father , he used to run the Boy Scouts troop , and there were , I believe there were , there was two curates , I , I think the other one was named , but in those days either in Street I think it was in Street there was er two or three Sisters of Mercy that used to live down there , and they used to , cos being high church they were able to go , they did n't do any preaching or anything like that but they did parish work around the parish you know , they used to , they used to call them Sisters of Mercy . |
| 27 | Here I would identify with the position held by Charles Kraft , namely that God , whilst being above culture , chooses to work through culture ( Kraft 1979:113–115 ) . |
| 28 | Polycrystalline silicone cells , which are 12 per cent efficient , are also used in solar panels for other applications , as are amorphous silicone and hydrogen and according to American manufacture Solarex , has a potential of 100 times the absorption of other crystalline types . |
| 29 | Social institutions associated with the territory are crucial to this , as are other consciousness-creating acts such as the coining of a regional name . |
| 30 | Financial security is high on your list of priorities , as are emotional stability , commitment and loyalty in relationships . |