Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [pers pn] [modal v] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The columnists on the op-ed pages are more bloody-minded than they used to be , but in its editorials the Times remains the voice of American public policy . |
| 2 | The population as a whole is about 10 per cent fatter than it used to be . |
| 3 | As ever , the men look more impressive than the women , but the difference is less marked than it used to be . |
| 4 | ‘ You 're much more sensible than you used to be , but your mum ca n't see it , and my mum still thinks I 'm three and a half . ’ |
| 5 | We are not so sensible as we ought to be of the Providence which hourly sustains us . |
| 6 | It has dawned on the stock market that accounts are not as reliable as they ought to be and that dubious accounting practices may reflect underlying difficulties or at least lead to some distortion in the market 's valuation of a company 's shares . |
| 7 | ‘ The great thing about writing sport for Punch is that people ca n't say it 's not as funny as it used to be , because nobody 's done it before , ’ he said . |
| 8 | Not as funny as it used to be . |
| 9 | So , if erm so your , your , your principal complaint , I maybe wrong it maybe not your principal , look at page a hundred and twenty seven for your assistance , erm standard form of agreements restricted competitions , the service of the petitions or the agents provided so this is names and thereby restrict the competition as the agents them say erm then impose on that it was a regime etcetera , erm that the , the competitive the anti competitive one is your sub paragraph one is n't it ? , on page one , two , seven your saying look here is a of , of dictated through their bi-laws , a standard form that all agents must use , you say , erm , er that that restricts competition because it means that agents are free , or as free as they ought to be , erm to compete with each other or providing services to outside names , I follow that , I did n't say I except it , but I follow that entirely , erm , but does n't , does n't , if you 're right does n't it follow that the agreements are void ? |
| 10 | They 'll not be as lively as they ought to be come morning , but tonight will have got a whole lot of unhappy things out of Seb 's system . |
| 11 | It 's not quite as crisp as it ought to be . |
| 12 | I think that we should accept th that this island in which we live is in effect becoming smaller day-by-day , as it is becoming more and more open er we should accept that its population is becoming perhaps with the assistance of a little advice from myself from time-to-time , rather more mobile than it used to be and I must say that we should I think all accept and I 'm sure we do that criminals do not have any particular respect for local authority boundaries er indeed the existence of the motorway system er despite the M25 does encourage mobility of crime and criminals to a very great extent . |
| 13 | Families in modern Britain are generally more privatized and inward-looking than they used to be , with a greater interest in the home and the immediate family of wife or husband and children . |
| 14 | It also has to be recognised that the general educational standard of aspiring architects is much lower than it used to be . |
| 15 | — much lower than it used to be . |
| 16 | And we 've got you know that is actually a lot lower than it used to be because we they actually caught us charging them three hundred and fifty quid for a bearing that we 're now charging them two hundred and fifty quid for . |
| 17 | He is obviously less discreet than he used to be . ’ |
| 18 | I was already aware that Ian had recently lost an argument with a South Uist bend resulting in a change in vehicle and I can impart to all past and future travellers to the Uists who depend on Ian for transport that journeys are now much more sedate than they used to be . |
| 19 | Litters today are so much bigger than they used to be that sows inevitably find it more difficult to avoid harming their offspring . |
| 20 | Things we make in the UK are much more readily exportable than they used to be because of this . |
| 21 | The scientists who man the climatological observation posts are less cautious than they used to be now that the general theory of climate change has become common property ; government servants are more confident and outspoken ; and , while scepticism remains , no cabinet minister is likely to denounce the theory and the accompanying evidence as hysterical . |
| 22 | It 's so sad because she used to be such a lively and outgoing person . |
| 23 | The way things look now , Greece 's public sector is not going to be cut as much as it ought to be . |
| 24 | ‘ Not quite as much as it used to be . |
| 25 | What is the commitment like for display unit during the year I get the impression it 's not used as much as it used to be |
| 26 | Cos he is n't home as much as he used to be . |
| 27 | This is not as straightforward as it ought to be , because the statement of claim is long and complex and in some respects obscure . |
| 28 | As we get older our bodies are not as good at keeping warm as they used to be . |
| 29 | Producing a coupe derivative , even in the limited numbers envisaged by Bentley with the Continental R , is not as easy as it used to be . |
| 30 | He 'd see it as some kind of betrayal , that I 'd allowed someone from outside to see that things are n't as perfect as they ought to be . ’ |