Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as output is concerned , some do particularly badly — producing outputs completely in the wrong ballpark ; some , however , are rather better and a few are really quite good . |
| 2 | Although two thirds of Oxfordshire teachers consider that the scheme has been useful in producing proposals for change in schools , the actual changes claimed are rather nebulous and a quarter of all teachers are unsure as to whether their review has led to any changes at all . |
| 3 | We are keenly aware that a University can seem a large and forbidding place to those on the outside . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Commissions and inquiries are rarely more than a device to allow politicians to put off taking decisions . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In fact , the TECs are little more than a device for luring the private sector into tackling unemployment . |
| 8 | Many World War One Aerodromes are little more than a folk memory kept alive by such names as Aerodrome Cottages at Hadleigh in Suffolk . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | You would do well to remember that you yourself are little more than a child . |
| 11 | Dilution viscometers are most convenient when a concentration series is to be measured . |
| 12 | Estimates of the expected share of British exports of manufactures in world trade are necessarily crude but a conservative one puts it at at just over 11.0 per cent in 1975 as against an actual 9 percent [ Batchelor et al. , 1980 ; Panic , 1975 ] . |
| 13 | Also I did n't have much money , and barn owls are much cheaper than a lot of birds of prey . |
| 14 | Legalised exports of waste from rich countries to poorer ones are much better than a black market . |
| 15 | These are especially acute where a substantial private company is being acquired in a Reverse or Super Class One transaction . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | When these " giant " blastocysts have expanded they are sufficiently large that a razor blade , scalpel or sharp glass needle can be used under a dissecting microscope to sever the mural TE from the other pole of the blastocyst containing ICM and polar TE ( 32 ) . |
| 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 | Moving from a four to a six of the same capacity means smoother running , as individual cylinder explosions are less powerful and a six is inherently better balanced . |
| 20 | The body 's digestive processes are less efficient when a person is lying down and indigestion may result . |
| 21 | Thus they are less daunting than a large pipe organ to the ‘ reluctant organist ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Are less inconstant than a Woman 's Soul : |
| 24 | They are less welcome than a troop of ticket inspectors . |
| 25 | I am much slimmer and a better shape than I have been for some time ( or for months , years , etc. ) and I am going to get even slimmer and achieve an even better figure — a figure I never thought I could have . |
| 26 | The " d " and the " w " of Andrew are somewhat different and a pen stroke joining the " w " of Andrew to the capital " 5 " of " Stavanger " is also different . |
| 27 | Swords which affect psychology are extremely useful and a Sword of Fortitude is a must for any Orc or Goblin army , as it makes the bearer and the unit he is with immune to fear , terror and panic . |
| 28 | In some cases , preferences are relatively weak , so that two ordered results are produced ; in others , the preferences are so strong that a second result is not produced . |
| 29 | Already losses in fibre are so low that a light signal can travel well over 16 km before it halves in intensity ( a 3 dB loss ) . |
| 30 | As many as one in five of the population attends an accident and emergency unit every year , yet staff shortages are so acute that a quarter of the 239 units in England and Wales do not have a trained consultant in charge . |