Example sentences of "be [adj] [subord] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ask away , oh anxious one , for you are lovelier than an aardvark and I can deny you nothing , ’ said the seal , whisking the waves into a fountain with her mighty tail . |
| 2 | Retrospective radiological review showed that this lesion had been present when an initial diagnosis of coeliac disease had been made 12 months previously and a detailed description of the natural history of the lymphoma during this period was thus available . |
| 3 | To parents whose present and future livelihoods depend on their children , those deaths are more than an emotional tragedy . |
| 4 | Such an order has inheritance tax advantages ( if dissolution of the marriage has taken place ) , a saving in the HM Land Registry fees is available ( see Chapter 3 and generally ) and , as any financial provision can be expressed in the order to be in full and final settlement of the wife 's claims ( see Chapter 11 ) , it is less likely to be upset than an agreement between the parties not carried into a " consent order " ( see for instance Dinch v Dinch [ 1987 ] 1 WLR 252 where the court refused to make a further order on the grounds that the consent order had conclusively determined the rights of the parties in the matrimonial home ) . |
| 5 | If you take an on-centre and an off-centre cell with slightly overlapping receptive field and add their outputs this value will be greatest when an edge is positioned between the two . |
| 6 | At common law it appears to be doubtful whether an agreement for a " knockout " , ie a contract between interested bidders to refrain from bidding against each other , was illegal . |
| 7 | A calm horse is more likely to be cooperative than an angry or fearful horse . |
| 8 | However , it can be dangerous when an artist becomes very established . |
| 9 | In everyday language , it is often the case that an apparently unproblematic ‘ observation statement ’ is found to be false when an expectation is disappointed , due to the falsity of some theory presupposed in the assertion of the observation statement . |
| 10 | An individual scorer might be useful where an odd number of people are concerned . |
| 11 | Granules , seed treatment , bait sprays or selective placement may be better than an overall spray . |
| 12 | The interest rate is fixed at drawdown and related to Money Market rates so can be cheaper than an overdraft . |
| 13 | As Harrison comments : ‘ Smaller investors get a good deal on commission , as it will be cheaper than an hourly fee . ’ |
| 14 | Quantifying compensation may be complicated if an ex gratia payment has been made to you . |
| 15 | Art has to be more than an ornament , or a reinforcement . |
| 16 | Normally Baccy would have come in closer but the wind was onshore and the storm could n't be more than an hour away . |
| 17 | I told Neil I would n't be more than an hour and he gets fussy if I 'm late because of the Whistler . ’ |
| 18 | Other resistances or blocks to communication can be more than an initial reluctance to talk about the main issues . |
| 19 | Grading is a method of achieving a shorthand synthesis of every possible quality that one might wish to be included in a profile , consolidated into a symbol which examiners understand pragmatically with reference to a platonic point of reference existing in the minds of a group of examiners who have worked together , while a profile , however detailed , can never be more than an attempt to put down all those qualities . |
| 20 | The talks were clearly to be more than an exchange of courtesies , for Vansittart , Hoare 's permanent under-secretary , was to be present for them . |
| 21 | She wanted to be more than an outsider in ‘ La Felicità ’ , more than a vague summertime nuisance for whose sake the family had to go travelling , someone only to be communicated with by notes or as a new source of rent . |
| 22 | The alternative , it should be stressed , must be more than an alternative governing group . |
| 23 | Clearly there may well be more than an element of exaggeration in this insistence , but it makes more sense if we accept their view that a great many features of literature that might not normally be recognized , at least at first sight , as terms of a comparison , nonetheless have a metaphorical or analogical function . |
| 24 | ‘ I promise I wo n't be more than an hour . |
| 25 | Given the delay in the appointment of a new Director ( see later ) the Directorate feel that preparation for CCT must continue and that options for the restructuring of the Department should be available when an appointment is made . |
| 26 | The length of a sequential retrieval run will be slower than an equivalent run using a sequentially organized file for the following reasons : |
| 27 | A consequence of the existence of such a link is that excitatory conditioning will be retarded when an inhibitory CS is used to signal the occurrence of the US . |
| 28 | It can be infuriating if an anchor gives when the fence is loaded . |
| 29 | A sophisticated package of services will be useless unless an underlying empathy has been demonstrated , and trust established by the social worker . |
| 30 | In cases of breach of repairing covenants where three years or more of the lease remain unexpired a preliminary application for leave under s 1(3) of the Leasehold Property ( Repairs ) Act 1938 will be necessary before an action for forfeiture may be commenced . |