Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [adj -er] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will my right hon. Friend reflect on the fact that when he attends those international meetings and many others in the EC he will discover that Britain 's standing , authority and reputation are vastly higher than they were a few years ago ? |
| 2 | suddenly , they are put into a situation where the expectations of their performance are much higher than they can possibly deliver . |
| 3 | What good is an educational system which fools youngsters into thinking they are much cleverer than they really are and lets them loose on the working world ( not that there 's much work there ) with worthless qualifications ? |
| 4 | That the long-term unemployment figures are much lower than they were bears testimony to the fact that many of our pledges and the policies that we have implemented are having a positive effect on the ground in relation to the individuals about whom Opposition Members spoke with such understandable feeling and passion . |
| 5 | Also , the tempi in the original Bruckner scores are much simpler than they come to be in some editions . |
| 6 | ‘ They are much nicer and they never crash . ’ |
| 7 | On the other hand , the charting options within the spreadsheet function in Works are robust and simple to operate , with the result that graphics for analysis of publication data are much better than they would otherwise have been . |
| 8 | Institutions are much better if they are allowed to develop slowly . |
| 9 | for the whole year so it 's a very small business the stores are much smaller than they are in the U K erm as regards your last point about margins the margins are erm at least equal to the margins that we achieve in the U K |
| 10 | It may not be a comfortable fact , but there are clear signs that public appreciation of science and the humanities , of research and scholarship are perhaps worse than they ever were , and that most members of the public see these things as simply irrelevant to their daily lives . |
| 11 | Courses which relate English literature to other subjects are perhaps commoner than they used to be … . |
| 12 | In the absence of keen pricing from the Japanese , the competitive element in the UK market is reduced and therefore car prices are generally higher than they would be if market forces were allowed to operate freely . |
| 13 | That 's not , they 're much nicer when they 're outside |
| 14 | ‘ Say , you 're much taller than they said you were , ’ exclaims Bridget Fonda as a pouting nymphet putting the moves on the diminutive star . |
| 15 | That 's right , most people with epilepsy they 're much better if they go to sleep and you do n't wake them up , if you wake the person up from a sleep that 's just had an epileptic fit they 'll be vomiting , but if you let them sleep through it then erm , then they 're usually fine . |
| 16 | So let us be serious : our purpose here is not to kid anybody , to try to convince you that things are any better than they seem . |
| 17 | Trailers are usually safer if they are parked close together so that they protect each other . |
| 18 | Overheads ( rent , rates etc ) are usually lower than they would be in a town centre , where sites are expensive |
| 19 | When children are in care they are usually happier if they are in touch with their parents . |
| 20 | Marketing margins in the USA showed some signs of recovery but are still lower than they were in the late 1980s . |
| 21 | Most New Yorkers probably feel that Egypt is part of Europe , and wo n't want a dirty old European stone cluttering their favourite wilding ground ; others , the more politically correct , will feel that Egyptians have the greater moral claim because Arabs are slightly blacker than they are . |
| 22 | The , it is a competitive marketplace ; er we 're not alone in the U K , if you look at the rest of Europe , you 'll find er inflation lower yes , but salary increases for the senior jobs and the top jobs there , are also higher than they are lower down , so this widening of differentials is n't just something that is , is the British disease , it occurs in other European countries as well . |
| 23 | Goods are bought in bulk ; and prices are often lower than they would be in a department store or High Street shop . |
| 24 | These bonuses , however , are not like those capriciously awarded under the STV : they are far smaller and they are shared out proportionally . |
| 25 | The object of radical legislation is to introduce a more refined and coherent form of gradation which will ensure , inter alia , that guilty defendants are not able to bargain their way into sentences which are far lighter than they deserve . |
| 26 | With the yield on 30-year Treasury bonds at 8.25% and that on three-month bills at 6.6% , long- and short-term interest rates are now lower than they were at the end of the two previous deep recessions , in 1981 and 1973 . |
| 27 | Some of Britain 's rivers are now cleaner than they 've been for years . |
| 28 | the , the hospital stays are dramatically shorter than they were . |
| 29 | ‘ Nice little earners are even nicer when they grow into big earners , ’ said Sorrel philosophically . |
| 30 | They argue that , after the referendum , the president is in a position of strength , while his opponents are even weaker than they look . |