Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [adj] [subord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evidently it is no use to describe x as having the property of being greater than y ; and , correspondingly , y as having the property of being smaller than x . |
| 2 | In such an extreme climate , these cave dwellings have the distinct advantage of being cooler than surface structures in summer , and warmer in winter . |
| 3 | I do find the habit of ministers of being bloody when things go wrong a trying feature of this job . |
| 4 | The elimination diet is fairly stringent , and there is a risk of being undernourished because milk-production makes heavy demands on your body . |
| 5 | Evidently it is no use to describe x as having the property of being greater than y ; and , correspondingly , y as having the property of being smaller than x . |
| 6 | Fabia drove down to Dover unhappily , not liking herself very much that , instead of being co-operative when Cara had so much else to worry her , she had been a shade obstructive . |
| 7 | I may say that despite my reputation of being trigger-happy where libel writs are concerned , I restrained him by all sorts of expedients . |
| 8 | I said on what well he said it 's got ta be well cos Maggie said it 's too late I said no |
| 9 | It 's got ta be better than work . ’ |
| 10 | I do n't think they 're short of money to be honest cos Valerie has a good job |
| 11 | Police have asked neighbours to be alert as vehicles must have been used in many of the burglaries committed . |
| 12 | Among the small minority of combatants who found it difficult to adjust to civilian life after the war , who were anti-semitic , militantly anti-communist and concerned about the continued decline of Britain , individuals were almost as likely to be anti-fascist as supporters of fascism . |
| 13 | If y stood at 40% , x would have to be greater than 80% for any excess seat to be won . |
| 14 | Stress will be maintained for as long as the balance measures demands to be greater than resources . |
| 15 | It is , however , harder to explain purely in the context of the theory of contestable markets why some firms ' eurobond operations have continued to be successful while others have been unable to establish themselves , why there has been no significant decline in market concentration over time despite continual new entry , and why profitability has declined so steeply . |
| 16 | Much more research is needed in this area , and it is mostly likely to be successful if finance theorists and corporate strategists collaborate . |
| 17 | Laser treatment was considered to be successful if symptoms caused by intraluminal tumour were reduced to an extent that enabled the patient to lead a lifestule appropriate to his or her age and general condition without constant concern for bowel function . |
| 18 | RETIX PROFITS LIKELY TO BE LOWER THAN ANALYST EXPECTATIONS |
| 19 | The High Court in Edinburgh heard that an investment analyst with the stockbrokers Bell Lawrie White had received information from the chairman of the waste management and construction group , Shanks&McEwan , that profits were going to be lower than City expectations . |
| 20 | Pregnancy order tended to mediate the effect of maternal age , so that weight and height of infants tends to be lower where pregnancy order is high in relation to age ( see e.g. Omran , 1976 , p. 524 ) . |
| 21 | Moreover , even where such opportunities for participation in the decision-making process do appear to exist , as for example in the public local inquiry , they frequently turn out on closer inspection to be disingenuous as McAuslan and others have demonstrated in respect of the Windscale Inquiry ( McAuslan , 1980 ; Breach , 1978 ) . |
| 22 | It would cost the earth , but it had to be safer than Nigel 's Aston Martin . |
| 23 | Scientists from the British Association have stated that they have found no evidence showing organic food to be safer than food produced under conventional farming methods . |
| 24 | In general , when they do use credit they are more likely than others to use types carrying a high rate of charge , though they are also relatively heavy users of mail order ( which carries no rate of charge for credit , though at the cost of prices which have tended to be higher than shop prices ) . |
| 25 | So lessees can generally expect the rental on operating leases to be higher than finance leases . |
| 26 | Workers under 35 years are the worst oversleepers , but overall women are more likely to be late than men , the survey found . |
| 27 | This approach would seem to be correct because goods in that condition were unsaleable by the buyer under the contract description ( but compare Cehave v Bremer [ 1976 ] QB 44 ) . |
| 28 | Bede 's statement that Chad was sent by Oswiu to the archbishop of Canterbury to be consecrated , only to find that Deusdedit had died ( HE 111 , 28 ) , is unlikely to be correct because Wilfrid had known that Deusdedit was dead when he was earlier seeking consecration as Ealhfrith 's bishop and the probability must be that Oswiu 's court would have known this too . |
| 29 | ( ii ) The polynomial unc and the above polynomial unc are said to be equal iff ai = bi for all on-negative integers i . |
| 30 | For instance , apart from the group labelled ‘ other neurotics ’ , a high rate of broken homes was characteristic of the whole group of adults with disorders when compared to child guidance patients found to be well as adults . |