Example sentences of "is [adv] [verb] [prep] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cheap care provided by childminders is mostly patronized by poorer mothers , especially African and West Indian mothers . |
| 2 | The abridged edition is widely used in smaller general libraries , specifically school libraries and small public libraries . |
| 3 | Simple quilting or through stitching is only used on cheaper bags which are intended for summer use only . |
| 4 | Water Hyacinth ( Eichhornia crassipes ) A large growing surface plant which is only suited to bigger tanks , where it grows very rapidly . |
| 5 | Worldwide recession is obviously to blame for poorer attendance , as is unwillingness on the part of dealers to exhibit major pieces when clients are hesitant about buying . |
| 6 | Despite this obvious fact , people prefer paper money as they are interested mainly in its purchasing power and the convenience of handling it — in the latter respect paper money is much preferred to heavier and bulkier coins . |
| 7 | Thomas Pennant was here the following year and his account of his visit with John Lightfoot , the botanist , which appears in " A Tour in Scotland and a Voyage to the Hebrides in 1772 " ( Chester 1774 ) is very important and is much used by later writers . |
| 8 | Thomas Pennant was here the following year and his account of his visit with John Lightfoot , the botanist , which appears in " A Tour in Scotland and a Voyage to the Hebrides in 1772 " ( Chester 1774 ) is very important and is much used by later writers . |
| 9 | Man Utd Europe is much improved with better tackling ; good passing is required to break down defences . |
| 10 | Liquefaction is thus favoured by lower temperatures . |
| 11 | The picture of the rejection of femininity is thus brought into sharper focus . |
| 12 | If there is one family type in contemporary Britain , it is one that is not isolated from wider family connections . |
| 13 | But they also stress that if time and attention is not given to younger pupils , the cost could be great . |
| 14 | It is curious that the House of Commons is not seen to better advantage during the passage of legislation on criminal justice . |
| 15 | At this or any stage it may be that one or both of them finds that initial attraction is not supported by later experience . |
| 16 | The pressure is not alleviated by further statements which are over-dogmatic without consideration of their effects : ‘ We are convinced , and our experience supports us , that the auditory mode can be the mode of information transmission for hearing-impaired children ’ ( 1981 : 147 ) . |
| 17 | When syntactic information is not needed for further processing , it may be cleared from the short-term store . |
| 18 | The lack of difference in either hormonal or symptomatic responses suggests that an earlier change in cerebral function with porcine insulin is not associated with earlier warning during hypoglycaemia and may be deleterious . |
| 19 | Any empirical study ( a category to which lexical semantics , as outlined in this book , undoubtedly belongs ) must rest , at some point , on a body of primary data , whose factuality is not questioned , and which is not subjected to further analysis . |
| 20 | Contrary to the widely believed myth , dementia can strike people of any age and is not confined to older people . |
| 21 | This construction is normally used for stiffer mountain boots , and the middle layer is normally the hardest . |
| 22 | For example the considerable criticism of the police response to domestic disputes ‘ mainly related to their failure to take effective action by arresting men who assault their wives and girl friends ’ ( Shapland and Hobbs 1989 ) is largely determined by wider social factors pertaining to the historical role and place of women in society . |
| 23 | It is becoming more and more likely that the main centres of population exploiting the countryside were in the valleys and that the evidence is largely obscured by later ( or continuously used ? ) settlements on roughly the same sites ( Fig. 57 ) . |
| 24 | As it is an expensive and time-consuming treatment , it is best kept for smaller areas , such as the upper lip . |
| 25 | The term ‘ further education ’ ( FE ) is used sometimes in a general sense to cover all post-school education , but in practice it is usually differentiated from higher education ( study at universities , polytechnics and colleges of higher education ) , and divided into the categories of non-advanced further education ( NAFE ) , which means A-level standard or below , and advanced further education ( AFE ) which is above A level or its equivalent . |
| 26 | Signal voltage gain is always accompanied by greater signal current attenuation and vice versa with a transformer . |
| 27 | Continued interest will reassure the surveyors involved that responsibility is still felt at higher level and this will inevitably produce better quality work . |
| 28 | For some this demand is generated by the increased desire to undertake comparative research , which in part is further fuelled by greater accessibility to information . |
| 29 | If your baggage is temporarily lost for longer than 12 hours on the outward journey we will compensate you for the emergency purchase of essential items up to a total of £100 . |
| 30 | Caring for a disabled or elderly person is clearly associated with lower rates of labour market participation among women . |