Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [adj] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the individual customer who is most vulnerable when competition is lacking , and the Bill concentrates on improving his position and on giving the regulator more powers to stand up for him when he has disputes with the regulated utilities . |
| 2 | In churches , the basilican plan is most common while stone vaulting is the rarity rather than the rule . |
| 3 | Such an approach is validated by a UK study which also showed that improvement is most likely if psychopathology is recognised and the pain is not constant . |
| 4 | Indeed in some ways the proof is rather simpler than Theorem 1 , since it does not need such a complex structure of nested recursions . |
| 5 | Wheat skimming is rather cleverer than potato washing . |
| 6 | Leading on from this , a more general point is that where the objective of the operation is rather broader than profit maximization , shareholder control is probably far less appropriate than state control ( see , for example , Baumol , 1984 ) . |
| 7 | Marxism is rigorously true if History is totalization ; it is not so any more if human history decomposes into a plurality of particular histories , or if , in any case , within the relationship of immanence that characterizes struggle , the negation of each adversary by the other is on principle detotalizing . |
| 8 | The stakes had been painfully clear to Sartre himself : ‘ Marxism is rigorously true if History is totalization ; it is not so any more if human history decomposes into a plurality of particular histories ’ ( II , 25 ) . |
| 9 | This method of analysis does not always work , and sometimes interpretation of such sites is little better than guesswork . |
| 10 | It 's less fattening than ice cream but it 's still not good for you . |
| 11 | It 's less costly than surgery . |
| 12 | Available in blue , black and red ink , it can be used in all writing situations , but is especially effective when carbon copies are required or when a very clear , precision line is needed . |
| 13 | This is especially likely since evolution is considered a very conservative process , ‘ advanced ’ species building on features that were present in their more ‘ primitive ’ ancestors . |
| 14 | This is especially true where dust and grime collects and in heavy tread areas like the hall , stairs and landing . |
| 15 | You can also use them for blocking gaps between skirting boards and floor — it 's much cheaper than wood beading . |
| 16 | Expect to see a version of Norton 's Backup program — it 's much better than Backup and Restore |
| 17 | Well he 's much younger than Rocket who must be we reckon , no |
| 18 | You do n't have to pay for parking or petrol and it 's much quicker than walking . |
| 19 | This information is only retrievable because nature has provided an extremely precise clock on one star , namely the pulsar itself . |
| 20 | Control of H. gallinarum is only necessary when histomoniasis is a problem in turkeys . |
| 21 | And even though Sayers and Adams are psychologists , their work is only recognizable as psychology by a very few feminist psychologists . |
| 22 | The attempt to answer such questions from an examination of the coin evidence is only worthwhile where documentary evidence is deficient . |
| 23 | Recognition of detrital grain morphology ( form , sphericity , roundness and , in some cases , surface textures ) in thin section is only possible where grain surfaces have not been modified during diagenesis . |
| 24 | All this is only possible where multi-skilling and flexible skilling are the norm , rather than restrictive skill defensiveness . |
| 25 | Of course , this procedure is only valid if equation ( 6.4 ) does adequately describe the process determining in each country . |
| 26 | Personal virtue , he went on , was indispensable , for " nothing is so dangerous as intelligence when it is guided by a corrupt heart " . |
| 27 | None of these definitions is entirely straightforward because borderline cases can easily be found . |
| 28 | The metal may be somewhat brittle after this but a final tempering process ( heating to a moderate temperature , followed by slow cooling ) relieves the internal stresses , leaving a hard and durable finished product which is mechanically stronger than bronze . |
| 29 | This is perhaps inevitable since deconstruction resists teleology , and it is this resistance that has enabled its enemies to call it nihilist . |
| 30 | In one way it is more limited , in that it is restricted to rodents , but in another it is less limited because rodent incisors are less variable between rodent taxonomic groups than are the molars . |