Example sentences of "[be] considerably [adj] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was backed by the Brewers ' Association of Scotland , which said the real price increases on the pint across the bars of pubs would be considerably more than the Chancellor 's claimed increase of 1.5p per pint . |
| 2 | However , he stressed that the offer would have to be considerably more than the break-up value of the portfolio . |
| 3 | By the time the breeding tubes are visible , the sexes are more readily distinguished , the female 's tube being considerably thicker than the male 's . |
| 4 | Pearson , the media group whose interests span The Financial Times to Madame Tussauds , was heavily in demand as half-year profits were considerably higher than the City had been expecting . |
| 5 | Because , at this level , the floor of the extension is considerably higher than the floor of the main block , the master bedroom is reached from this landing via a flight of five stairs . |
| 6 | Category 2 includes the long-eared owl , Verreaux eagle owl , and the great grey owl , with total digestion percentages of 20–30 per cent , and this is considerably higher than the category 1 species . |
| 7 | Since about 35% of contacts at night are dealt with by telephone the amount of disturbance for individual doctors is considerably higher than the number of claims , and the stress created by night work is out of proportion with the small number of contacts with patients . |
| 8 | Also , the findings for the causal task indicate that even five-year-olds have some knowledge of the directional component of the causal connectives ' meaning , in that their mean score is considerably higher than the score ( of 8 ) which one would expect if they were simply responding at chance level . |
| 9 | According to the Labour Force Survey , the proportion of agency workers working on a temporary basis because they do not want permanent jobs is considerably higher than the average for all temporary workers and that the proportion of agency secretarial/office workers doing so is still higher ( see Table 5.1 ) . |
| 10 | It is also advantageous to be able to prepare sample fractions , whose homogeneity is considerably better than the parent polymer , especially when testing dilute solution theory . |
| 11 | The working capital outflow was controlled and was only er , sixteen million more working capital , which is considerably better than the year before and then finally you had the er , improvement in the capital expenditure . |
| 12 | This is considerably larger than the particle size used by Korth ( 1979 ) , but since even they had little effect on the small mammal bone , two large clasts were added as a third stage , weighing 368 g between them . |
| 13 | I do not want to make too big an issue of the large sums of money that are spent on taking LTA committee members and officials around the world , travelling in premium class and always staying in the best hotels , although it would seem that it is considerably more than the amount of money actually spent on transporting the competitors themselves . |
| 14 | Many would say that a cult is considerably less than a minority . |
| 15 | The grammatical tagset used by the Text710 ( appendix 3 ) is considerably smaller than the LOB tagset2 . |
| 16 | which is such that the proportion of people of the victim 's racial group who can comply is considerably smaller than the proportion of the people not of that group who can comply ; |
| 17 | Prosecution is thus reserved for the cases in which some unfair advantage has been taken of the girl , particularly where the girl is under 13 ( when lack of proper understanding is assumed ) , where the man is considerably older than the girl , where the man held some position of trust in relation to the girl , and where there is some element of deception involved . |
| 18 | Expansion in the service sector has been considerably smaller than the decline in manufacturing . |
| 19 | Temporary workers , as Table 2.9 shows , are considerably younger than the generality of workers . |
| 20 | Smaller than the great skua but a little larger than the Arctic , the most obvious features of the pomarine are the two central tail-feathers which are considerably longer than the rest . |
| 21 | This process leads to the accumulation of coarse grains on the crests of ridges , from which they are not removed , as they are considerably larger than the size the wind is able to move . |
| 22 | Selby et al isolated an excess of44×10 6 mononuclear cells/g UC mucosa , or 440000 per 10 mg biopsy , so both these estimates are considerably smaller than the number of lymphocytes studied with each biopsy ( 2.56×10 6 ) . |
| 23 | In the 1970s the average family size of graduate women at the time of interview ( 1.53 ) was considerably lower than the fertility of women with no further education ( 2.04 ) ( Cartwright 1978 ) and they were likely to be childless . |
| 24 | Finally , the Yugoslav government held up payment to the construction enterprises for several more months , and then paid them in dinars at the current rate of exchange , which was considerably worse than the rate applicable at the time when payment was originally due . |
| 25 | As it turned out , actual PSBR was considerably higher than the target figures . |
| 26 | One was considerably shorter than the other . |
| 27 | It was rumoured that the number of staff who had responded was considerably smaller than the number of participants in the strike claimed by the AUT . |
| 28 | Peggy Ashcroft duly got her gong for playing Lilian , 50 years in the bin , but She 's Been Away was considerably more than a kind of Rain Woman ; a vehicle for acting technique . |
| 29 | It was considerably more than the hour Friar Tuck had reckoned on when he and the Trapper emerged on the track where he had left Marian and Allen . |
| 30 | Pancras in those stations ' heyday was considerably more than the number who use the combined stations today . |