Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [adj] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's got ta be better than work . ’ |
| 2 | Much more research is needed in this area , and it is mostly likely to be successful if finance theorists and corporate strategists collaborate . |
| 3 | RETIX PROFITS LIKELY TO BE LOWER THAN ANALYST EXPECTATIONS |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | So lessees can generally expect the rental on operating leases to be higher than finance leases . |
| 9 | Family life for many appeared to be disintegrating as divorce rates rose : from 100 000 per annum in 1914 to 205 000 in 1929 . |
| 10 | Bureaucratic co-operations probably more likely to be available than money in the next few years ! |
| 11 | Now my Lord it 's at the beginning of October things start to go wrong in erm and as it is pleaded on the first of October er , the plaintiffs were told the , in correspondence from the bank , that the financial terms that the finances that had been approved in principal , were only going to be available if security was offered in respect of a number of properties . |
| 12 | At best , his work is defined by what is known to be available as source material . |
| 13 | It will be writing a native implementation of SoftPC for the PowerPC Mac , which is due to be available when Apple first ships the machines in January or February . |
| 14 | It will be writing a native port of SoftPC for the Mac PowerPC and is due to be available when Apple first ships the machines in January or February . |
| 15 | The old workings which were flooded had first to be unwatered before connection could be made by the workings rising from Taylor 's Level below . |
| 16 | Renal failure was considered to be present when plasma creatinine increased above 132 µmol/l . |
| 17 | Menstrual cycles can vary between 22 and 35 days , 28 days being taken as an average , which is why it can be difficult for an individual to be sure when ovulation has occurred . |
| 18 | As a woodwork teacher for many years I consider this design to be dangerous because power drills run at a much higher speed than a brace and consequently the feed is too fast for accurate control . |
| 19 | In this conventional hierarchy , it is morally worse to intend harm than to be indifferent whether harm results from one 's behaviour . |
| 20 | Rincewind turned to run , but the air suddenly seemed to be thicker than treacle . |
| 21 | Even more sharply , it is impossible for the majority of people to be other than black in South Africa as it became impossible to be other than Jewish for Jews in Nazi Germany . |
| 22 | These meetings could not be said to be unimportant because world Christianity ought to be seen to meet . |
| 23 | One of the differences between life and writing is that writing always has to be believable whereas life is n't ! |
| 24 | Whilst ambulatory surgical care has been shown to be cheaper than hospital care in Cali , Colombia , such evidence can not be taken as a general rule . |
| 25 | Parental control , relating to restrictions and rules for behaviour , was judged to be low when supervision was so negligent that the child was left more or less to do as she pleased . |
| 26 | Ministers said they were encouraged by reports from candidates that the party 's vote was holding up and appeared to be firmer than Labour 's . |
| 27 | Of the remainder , another 25–35% will be too advanced for curative treatment and will turn out to be unresectable if surgery is attempted . |
| 28 | Subterfuge was thought to be better than violence . ’ |
| 29 | This probe had been shown to be better than actin as a control for the amount and quality of total ribonucleic acid loaded . |
| 30 | It can not be given to many scientists to be outstanding as experimenter , technical innovator and teacher ; Kuypers was unquestionably all of these . |