Example sentences of "is [verb] [prep] a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence the question of democracy is placed in a broader social context , in which a predominant element is the interests and political orientations of social classes which are in conflict with each other . |
| 2 | Females have two equal sex chromosomes , called ‘ X ’ , but males have only one X chromosome , which is partnered by a smaller one , the Y chromosome . |
| 3 | By the end of Lanfranc 's life the number is given by a later domestic chronicler as a hundred , and it was still rising . |
| 4 | The clinical literature , then , suggests that in the execution of certain types of movement or sequences of movement the left hemisphere is implicated to a greater extent than the right hemisphere . |
| 5 | Its particular advantage is that everything is contained into a smaller central area . |
| 6 | We can move , of course , change direction , rattle about , but our movement is contained within a larger one that carries us along as inexorably as the wind and current … |
| 7 | In Labour 's ranks Marjorie Mowlam , the shadow citizen 's charter minister , is tipped for a higher profile job . |
| 8 | What the people who work in a local government planning office do is constrained by a further dominant ideology at some higher level of centrality . |
| 9 | But if Mr 's argument is that windfalls and recycled land are as it were free of any environmental penalties and can be added to his thirty one thousand , then I think that er the way to treat that is to come to a higher number which takes them properly into account . |
| 10 | Above all , and most curiously of all , it is to come to a deeper knowledge of the inexplicable mercy of God , and of that fierce love that simply will not let his world go . |
| 11 | It is usually more difficult to deal more effectively with a complaint if it is reported at a later date . |
| 12 | The NCVO is pressing for a simpler SORP and for the timetable for compliance to be extended to mid 1994 to allow charities more time to prepare . |
| 13 | Working-class politics is located in a wider material , cultural and social universe , and has no meaning outside that universe . |
| 14 | In any case , mass transport in a protein biolayer is distorted to a greater extent than generally appreciated , and will be further affected where intact tissue , whole cells or organelle based biolayers are used . |
| 15 | In many ways , he believes his situation to be a microcosm of what is happening on a larger scale in the industry . |
| 16 | The college is contributing to a better-trained and more professional civil service . |
| 17 | ( W ) is a women 's model , which usually has the same features but is built on a narrower last . |
| 18 | In contemporary British society this link is accepted to a greater degree so far as the care of children and motherhood is concerned , though social attitudes still reveal some of the same ambivalence . |
| 19 | These B flat/F trombones are used a good deal by tenor trombonists too , but the bass trombone is made with a wider bore which improves the tone on the low notes . |
| 20 | But Dr Alan Long , an organic chemist who is research officer of the Vegetarian Society , said : ‘ Sulphadimidine fed to pigs is made to a cheaper and less pure commerical grade , which is not identical to the human drug . ’ |
| 21 | In an impact injury , a bigger blunt force is applied to a larger area of the skin , leading to tissue failure , for instance if an older person slips on an uneven paving stone and falls forward hitting the forehead on the hard pavement . |
| 22 | This year 's festival is sited on a grassier area and Runrig 's confirmation should leave the organisers , London 's Mean Fiddler and Edinburgh promoter 's Regular Music , with no worries about selling plenty of tickets . |
| 23 | The narrow European Economic Community of the 1960s is developing into a wider European Community which could eventually stretch from the Atlantic to the Urals , from the Arctic Circle to the Bosphorus . |
| 24 | It would seem that Parliament 's legal power has been limited only if : ( a ) community law is seen as a higher system of law ; and ( b ) our courts are willing to uphold the supremacy of community law . |
| 25 | This is seen as a better guide to a school 's and pupils ' performance , particularly where there is a wide difference in social and ethnic backgrounds . |
| 26 | And the police patrol is seen as a further deterrent in a place where people are often at their most vulnerable . |
| 27 | A similar effect is seen with a shorter ( GC ) n insert [ ( GC ) 4 G ) , data not shown ] for which the first GC step is cut with lower efficiency . |
| 28 | The neural mechanisms that underlie this behaviour , and especially those by which a simple act is incorporated into a larger biologically significant behaviour pattern , are now being studied increasingly , despite the many difficulties ( Hoyle , 1970 ) . |
| 29 | Thus when it replaces an item at S ( subject ) and that item is written in a later place in the clause , an apposed clause is created . |
| 30 | Parish Clerk Weekley , that man of power and aerial photographs , is pushing for a further diversion to include free eye-testing for the old , and has written to local doctors advising them of this . |