Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [adj] [subord] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whorls thus formed are smaller than the submerged form . |
| 2 | The group acknowledge that Scotland has been slower than the rest of the country to produce credible dance music . |
| 3 | Speed has been essential because the Secretary of State 's timetable is formidable ( see below ) . |
| 4 | Moreover that growth has been greatest where the decline in manufacturing employment has been least — that is , in the regions of ‘ the south ’ . |
| 5 | But Germany has been peaceful because the East Prussians were under our control . |
| 6 | In recent years , the decrease in the number of deaf children has been greater than the general national decrease , though this is mainly in the numbers of partially-hearing children rather than deaf children . |
| 7 | Hopkinton , Massachusetts-based EMC Corp reported first quarter net profit more than twice what they were in the year-ago period — figures , page five — and says that demand for the Symmetrix 5500 series disk arrays has been greater than the company expected , so that it has had to increase the build plan for the remainder of the year . |
| 8 | This has been possible because the interiors of regions I , II and III are all flat . |
| 9 | This has been possible because the phrase ‘ sufficient interest ’ is very vague and leaves it largely up to the courts to decide what interests are sufficient . |
| 10 | So far as I am aware , we have no evidence , for example , to show whether male unemployment which in some areas has been higher than the rate for females , has enabled tending tasks of old relatives to be taken on by men who remain at home . |
| 11 | For example , if a school has attempted to improve its image in the neighbourhood it may feel that it has been successful if the number selecting the school for the following academic year increases . |
| 12 | ‘ This indulgence by journalists and sadly a small number of politicians has been transparent since the shadow cabinet elections in August . ’ |
| 13 | Ward , the world No 2 looking forward to being packaged as ‘ Dazzling Daz ’ , has been unemployed since the sale of his father 's butchery business and still lives with his parents . |
| 14 | Holly Park , once the home of South Liverpool FC , has been empty since the club gave up the battle against vandals in 1990 . |
| 15 | The Holly Park site in Garston has been empty since the club gave up the battle against vandals in 1990 . |
| 16 | So localism is a Major political reality , and the tendency towards localism has been stronger than the tendency towards a national identity . |
| 17 | This decline has been faster than the decline in employment , dropping from 13.3 million in 1979 , to 10.7 million in 1985 , a 19.5 per cent decline since 1979 . |
| 18 | Mr Mendine said in those conditions driving was difficult because the inside of the cab steamed up with condensation , the windscreen wipers did not clear the whole of the screen and the front lights were obscured when carrying a high load . |
| 19 | RAY HAD a knack for singing a peppy tune , an impressive talent given that he 'd been blind since the age of six ( one of his last sights was the drowning of his brother ) and a heroin addict for most of his adult days . |
| 20 | This meant that issues to do with the representativeness of the sample drawn and interviewed were paramount since the objective was to gain an accurate estimate from the sample of the likely population characteristics . |
| 21 | Obviously in that case the loss of earnings that the plaintiff had suffered was greater than the cost of employing a housekeeper would have been . |
| 22 | She tried to pull her scattered thoughts into some sort of order , but all she could do was wonder if the cold , level gaze he had given her betokened indifference or anger . |
| 23 | The company says system trails showed that 95 per cent of data messages were successfully transmitted which it reckons is better than the other means of mobile communication . |
| 24 | work in which the width used is greater than the height . |
| 25 | Instead , we will use the term ‘ subword-level orthographic-to-phonological conversion ’ to stress the fact that the unit used is smaller than the whole word but not invariably as small as the grapheme . |
| 26 | The question of whether God exists is irrelevant because the word ‘ God ’ has no meaning . |
| 27 | The price eventually agreed was higher than the original offer . |
| 28 | ‘ The devil you know is better than the devil you do n't ! . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ So you thought I would sell to another vet and that might make things worse for you on the principle that the devil you know is better than the devil you do n't know . ’ |
| 30 | What Gandhi may be suggesting by the statement that the road one takes is unimportant provided the goal is achieved is that too much importance can be attached to particular religions , especially when it might result in exclusivist claims being made on behalf of those religions . |