Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adj] [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Greg had been little better than a crook on the business front — and he had very nearly dragged her father — and his stupendous talent — down with him . |
| 2 | They are rarely more than a couple of hundred metres high , and they are usually symmetrical , although they may be ‘ breached ’ on one side , where a lava flow has emerged . |
| 3 | Commissions and inquiries are rarely more than a device to allow politicians to put off taking decisions . |
| 4 | We said that non-standard forms are rarely more than a social irritant to some people , and that there are few situations where such forms could cause real communication problems . |
| 5 | If his estimate of time was accurate , it would have been rather more than an hour since it had stopped . |
| 6 | In fact , the TECs are little more than a device for luring the private sector into tackling unemployment . |
| 7 | Many World War One Aerodromes are little more than a folk memory kept alive by such names as Aerodrome Cottages at Hadleigh in Suffolk . |
| 8 | ‘ Nonsense , you are little more than a slip of a girl , you would be prey to all sorts of men , fortune hunters and the like . |
| 9 | You would do well to remember that you yourself are little more than a child . |
| 10 | Dilution viscometers are most convenient when a concentration series is to be measured . |
| 11 | They must have been less pleased when a slightly sensational story got into Weekend under my own name . |
| 12 | There had been no horror particular to Toulouse to explain that extraordinary fear ; the battle had been less threatening than a half-dozen of the Spanish engagements , yet Sharpe had never forgotten the awful fear , nor his relief when peace had been declared . |
| 13 | Relations between the communist states had for some time been less amicable than a common dedication to working-class interests might have suggested . |
| 14 | Also I did n't have much money , and barn owls are much cheaper than a lot of birds of prey . |
| 15 | Legalised exports of waste from rich countries to poorer ones are much better than a black market . |
| 16 | These are especially acute where a substantial private company is being acquired in a Reverse or Super Class One transaction . |
| 17 | They are agreeably surprised if a child shows a grasp of a phenomenon , such as how a machine works , which they themselves have only recently mastered . |
| 18 | The establishment of compatibility is slower and it remains less stable when the two animals are both of high initial dominance ; thus two males are less compatible than a male — female dyad . |
| 19 | The body 's digestive processes are less efficient when a person is lying down and indigestion may result . |
| 20 | Thus they are less daunting than a large pipe organ to the ‘ reluctant organist ’ . |
| 21 | Alternative ( indirect ) models are less probable than a direct contact model involving the C-terminal part of α and the 156–162 loop of CRP at lac . |
| 22 | Are less inconstant than a Woman 's Soul : |
| 23 | They are less welcome than a troop of ticket inspectors . |
| 24 | But Mr Leonard 's injuries could have been much worse if a mystery middle-aged man had not risked his own safety and stopped the thugs ' attack . |
| 25 | The kind and amount of pollution which come to light in these circumstances are only knowable after a routine sample has been taken and analysed in an agency laboratory . |
| 26 | The Turkish forces , let's be clear about this , have used napalm against Kurdish villages inside the ‘ safe haven ’ which the rapidstrike force is supposedly on permanent red-alert to protect — yet there has n't been so much as a cheep from any of the elements who cheered the US-led forces into the Gulf War on the basis that regimes which defy international law and slaughter innocent people must be confronted , no matter what the cost . |
| 27 | I am not sure whether a statement on yesterday 's meeting would be appropriate , but I shall draw the hon. Gentleman 's request to my right hon. Friend 's attention . |
| 28 | I am not sure whether a wheel clamp would be particularly attractive to owners in inclement weather , but does my hon. Friend agree that , if a device is visible , inside or outside a car , it acts as a valuable deterrent ? |
| 29 | In the ensuing chaos and confusion , I am not certain whether a new record was set or not — or how you count such things . |
| 30 | The figures are broadly similar although a slightly greater number of students is involved in each practice than is the case among Schofield 's group . |