Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [det] [subord] [art] " in BNC.

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1 There was a pause then Mair said quietly : ‘ Alzheimer 's is rather more than an inconvenience .
2 In the countries of advanced capitalism , on the other hand , sub-central government is rather more than an administrative device .
3 The software , called Multimedia Interactive Control ( MIC ) , is rather more than an authoring tool .
4 To have produced one important poem is rather more than the vast majority of poets could claim in any age .
5 Remember that the insurance valuation is not the amount paid for the rug , but the amount that would probably be required to replace it and , in practice , is rather more than the price originally paid .
6 This is rather more than the summary that appears in the prelims .
7 Sadly , the sort of quality that can be achieved from such bit mapped graphics is rather less than the advertisements might lead you to believe , especially when it comes to enlarging or reducing them and printing them out at high resolution .
8 Certainly not from the club scene , where an average gate is rarely more than a few hundred and even a big club like Hawick has had to launch a special initiative to arrest their declining membership .
9 The gestation period from first inquiry to first completed shipment is rarely less than a couple of years .
10 It is true that water levels on the Alaskan coast , caused by tsunami , earthquake-related tidal waves , have risen over three hundred feet but this only happens when the sea-bed shallows close inshore : in the deep sea , although the tsunami can travel tremendously fast , two , perhaps three , hundred miles an hour , it 's rarely more than a ripple on the surface of the water .
11 Lucky Jim as an over-night visitor drunkenly burning his host 's sheets with his cigarette-ends , and desperately trying to disguise the damage with a pair of scissors , is farcical in a Wodehouse sort of way , though the social rank of the characters is down more than a notch or two .
12 Far more than is suspected are inefficient wives responsible for the misery of many back-street homes , and it is perhaps more than a coincidence that some of the Lancashire towns with the worst repute for their high rate of infant mortality have no girls ' club within their areas .
13 Eleven years on , this continues , though now there is perhaps more than a tinge of pity for my ‘ lonely ’ existence .
14 As a result the accuracy of a composite map from overlay analysis is generally less than the accuracy of the least accurate map layer used ( Newcomer and Szajgin 1984 ) .
15 The number of nested Boolean conditions that can be handled by an inverted file is generally less than the number a serial file can handle .
16 Pupils can come to identify with the students — sometimes the age difference is not more than a few years — and ask how they can emulate them .
17 For practical reasons , it is not more than an interest though — but probably as a direct result of this interest , my fish collection always seems to have an excessive quantity of eels .
18 Exactly what we spend our money on does not matter too much , as long as the money going out is not more than the money coming in .
19 for every naive state N , h(N) is not more than the least cost of any path from N to a goal ; and
20 The other has no chequebook facilities , but provided the balance is not less than a minimum of £10,000 , interest will be paid on the full amount .
21 In the case of a public company , however , s. 11 requires the capital clause of the memorandum to state a figure which is not less than the authorized minimum .
22 Most of the deadlines that must be met for the new pay and file tax system are at least nine months on from 1 October 1993 , but one is already less than a year away .
23 This process is known as segmentation , and methods vary considerably resulting in individual strokes , characters , or some unit which is usually less than a character .
24 The Second Law states that the amount of energy obtained from a system is always less than the amount absorbed , so it eventually ‘ runs out of steam ’ .
25 Since some proportion of interest recipients would not be liable for tax , the composite rate is always less than the standard rate .
26 As can be seen , the bond equivalent yield is always less than the simple equivalent yield because with the bond the first coupon payment can be reinvested , whereas this possibility is not available for a discount security , which therefore has to have a higher yield to compensate .
27 It is , of course , vital to appreciate that the changes described occur at the expense of gain ; the closed-loop gain under negative feedback is always less than the open-loop gain .
28 It is still less than a century since the Putney debates of 1647 were first published and the significance of the Levellers began to be appreciated .
29 Diderot is hardly more than a name .
30 There is ostensibly more than a passing similarity between Gedge and another famed Mancunian bedroom termite , Morrissey .
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