Example sentences of "it is a [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a better provider of energy than chocolate because of the lack of fat , plus it comprises a balance of three different natural sugars ; glucose , fructose and sucrose . |
| 2 | Much better illustrated than Cotton and Wilkinson and with problems , it is a better teaching aid , but it over-emphasises bonding theory in a rather daunting way . |
| 3 | I feel sure that it is a better Bill than when it started . |
| 4 | For the elderly , and especially for students , it is a better deal than was offered by any previous alternative system of local government finance , and it is much fairer and is a better deal than what would be imposed by the Labour party . |
| 5 | To stroll into reality , the detail of it and the context , to unravel and to uncover it is a better thing than to sprint past , reading the billboards of science . ’ |
| 6 | It is a better strategy to create resources for industrialization to go for a rich peasant economy than to go for a middle peasant economy . |
| 7 | It is a looser form of group association , primarily defined by shared theory and practice , and its immediate social relations are often not easy to distinguish from those of a group of friends who share common interests . |
| 8 | This is not the usual stuff — chargeable hours and so on — it is a higher level of objectives . ’ |
| 9 | Most commentators agree that it is a higher hurdle to clear . |
| 10 | Although the using up of old stock may be one reason for this practice , watchcase-makers were probably also reluctant to use Britannia silver because it is a softer alloy than sterling . |
| 11 | I want to say that , given the political constraints , and the constraints of past practice which keep us within the old mould , it is a better-balanced mould than what preceded it . |
| 12 | It was argued that it allows litigation which would otherwise not be brought , that the lawyers involved act more conscientiously on behalf of their client because of the mutual financial interests , and that it is a simpler method of payment . |
| 13 | It is a shorter session . |
| 14 | Brown mustard is the one grown commercially as it is a shorter plant , at 120–150cm ( 4–5ft ) and the seeds do not fall off easily ; it is largely used instead of black mustard , and has a slightly less hot flavour . |
| 15 | They are using sonar , but it is a cruder kind of sonar than is used by the smaller bats with which we , in temperate regions , are familiar . |
| 16 | Yet it is a harder question whether judgment could actually be given for performance of an act . |
| 17 | It is a harder look that denies unemployment , actual or probable ; it refuses the fact of recession and industrial decrepitude ; it stares the social lie of mid-eighties Britain right in the eye and lies right back . |
| 18 | We could argue , from the title of the volume , that this is a Lyrical Ballad : if so , it is a further development of this kind of poem , in the same way that The Two April Mornings was an intensification of the basic method of The Last of the Flock . |
| 19 | It is a further development of the C2 and calculates VMG as well as ETA . |
| 20 | It is a further mark of his clout on Broadway that American Equity relented . |
| 21 | ACT amounts to double taxation because it is a further tax on dividends paid in Britain from profits already taxed abroad . |
| 22 | THE commonly-cited reason for opposing a charge for driving on particular urban roads is that it is a further restriction on those who have sufficient constraints already , what with parking meters , wheel-clamping and towing-away . |
| 23 | It is a further consequence of this conception that democracy comes to be seen as a more or less perfected instrument which is susceptible to only minor technical improvements ; and in this respect there is agreement with a second notion of democracy , elaborated mainly during the postwar decades , which was expressed by the term ‘ stable democracy ’ . |
| 24 | Pérez de Cuéllar , in turn , maintained on the same occasion that he was " very encouraged , because it is a further step " . |
| 25 | At Londonderry there has been a similar type of growth around a trans-shipment point but because it is further from the mainland it is a smaller centre , of about 90 000 people . |
| 26 | It is a stronger team than the Prince has had before , but still understaffed , given that , as well as finding material for his speeches and meetings , they also have to research and organize his day trips and foreign tours , liaise with the press office and the Princess 's assistant private secretary , Patrick Jephson , over their diaries , as well as handle the colossal amount of mail that arrives by every post . |
| 27 | Discussion and questioning will be needed to establish if it is evidence from the past , or if it is a later interpretation . |
| 28 | An even better view of it is a later reward at the summit of Carn Dearg , when you can clearly see the sharp high gully that slices Ben Alder in two , with a remarkably large high-level loch nestling between the summit and the top of Beinn Bheoil . |
| 29 | It is a narrower version of a kellegi and is usually between 10′ and 24′ long by 3′ to 5′ wide ( 3.05/7.32 × 0.91/1.52 m ) . |
| 30 | Equally , a significantly higher concentration of plasminogen activator inhibitor-2 in malignant ascites confirms previous work , but as it is a weaker inhibitor of tissue plasminogen activator and is present in much lower concentrations than plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 , it probably plays only a small part in the overall inhibition of fibrinolytic activity . |