Example sentences of "be much [adj] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But these overall success rates are much higher than the pass rates at individual examination sessions , because many candidates ' progress through the examinations is impeded because they have to resit . |
| 2 | But it is clear that the data collected in close investigations of live speech communities are much richer than the data preserved from early language states , and they are observable in a larger number of dimensions and at a much finer level of detail ; thus , the patterns revealed in systematic investigations of live communities appear to the observer as much more variable and multidimensional than historical patterns ( as these are usually reported ) . |
| 3 | Also I did n't have much money , and barn owls are much cheaper than a lot of birds of prey . |
| 4 | which are much cheaper than the beeswax ones being used in the . |
| 5 | Enthalpies of fusion are much lower than the enthalpies of vaporisation of the corresponding liquids . |
| 6 | Our hypothetical cavedwellers with their universal explanation that ‘ the gods did it ’ are not too far separated from the modem Westerner who believes that the Soviet Union is an unalleviatedly ‘ evil empire ’ or that Blacks are inferior to Whites : all three explanations are easy to take on board , they are much simpler than the arguments put forward by the people who disagree with them , and , once accepted , they are clung to with a limpet-like grip . |
| 7 | It has to tell the world openly that the mid-range machine is its chosen contender as the central repository for the 21st century , and above all make convincing its commitment to the AS/400 by rushing out top end machines that are much bigger than the present top model while instituting a crash programme to slash the costs of manufacture — and then slash them again , work out how to make money out of the machine while charging much less for the software — and making all the remaining System 36 users an offer they ca n't refuse to convert to the AS/400 , even if every sale to that base is a dead loss to IBM . |
| 8 | Legalised exports of waste from rich countries to poorer ones are much better than a black market . |
| 9 | And also , you know sometimes he 's prices are much better than the supermarket 's prices . |
| 10 | Although LM potencies are the most highly dynamised remedies they are much milder than the centesimals in action . |
| 11 | In the eastern part of the island grow large crops of onions which are much milder than the British ones and more palatable . |
| 12 | Fitting the PT6As requires major surgery to the fuselage because they are much lighter than the R-1830s and would radically alter the DC-3's centre of gravity . |
| 13 | In Fig. 4.2 , for example , the three-phase currents are quickly established at the maximum value because the phase winding time constants ( 1 ins ) are much shorter than the period of each excitation ( 20 ms at a speed of 50 steps per second ) . |
| 14 | But The Orb are much more than the sum of their parts . |
| 15 | Although relatively unsophisticated , this method is reasonably fast and it seems to work satisfactorily where the target units are much larger than the source units |
| 16 | Also in situations where the target units are much larger than the source units , polygon-in-polygon areal interpolation techniques can be used to obtain reasonable estimates by locating the source units within the target units . |
| 17 | Furthermore , the common dispersal agents of tropical seeds are much larger than the pollination agents : few of them complete a life-cycle that would be compatible with the short flower-to-fruiting cycles of plants , more suited in this respect to close associations with insects , as in pollination . |
| 18 | Politically , therefore , the inducements to continue what the Plowden Committee call ‘ excessive social services ’ are much stronger than the inducements to discontinue them or to supplement any which may happen to be ‘ inadequate ’ . |
| 19 | They are much stronger than the other two resistance groups , led by Prince Norodom Sihanouk and Mr Son Sann . |
| 20 | Since one can never hope to see things which are much smaller than the wave-length of the light which one is using , there was clearly no hope of ever seeing them directly by means of the ordinary optical microscope which reaches its limit with objects about half a micron thick . |
| 21 | Yet large males are in the minority among their peers , and are much smaller than the females . |
| 22 | Both of these velocities are greater than the speed of a real cannonball , but they are much smaller than the velocity of light , which is 186,000 miles a second . |
| 23 | Jupiter is now known to have at least sixteen satellites , though the remainder are much smaller than the Galileans . |
| 24 | ( It should be emphasized that these terms are just labels : quarks are much smaller than the wavelength of visible light and so do not have any color in the normal sense . |
| 25 | The series of oral papillae is separated from the 2–3 small blunt oral tentacle scales situated on the proximal edge of the adoral shields — these scales are much smaller than the oral papillae . |
| 26 | This is because the expected daily losses are much smaller since the variation margin payments on the long and short futures contracts are likely to be offsetting . |
| 27 | But Mr Leonard 's injuries could have been much worse if a mystery middle-aged man had not risked his own safety and stopped the thugs ' attack . |
| 28 | Consequently , their salaries have risen infrequently , perhaps once in each Parliament , so each rise has been much higher than the typical annual pay increase . |
| 29 | They have passed through the flasks electric sparks simulating lightning , and ultraviolet light , which would have been much stronger before the Earth had an ozone layer shielding it from the sun 's rays . |
| 30 | Well the men tend to come to our meetings and sit in the back now because their they well what in their words they say , Oh they they 're much better than the lodge meetings . |