Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [prep] a [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're also in a better position to negotiate individual care packages for Chinese people . |
| 2 | They 're now in a larger field . |
| 3 | Experience in the United States shows that suppliers can evade or manipulate regulations through collusion between managers and clinicians and purchasers are usually in a weaker position to verify the claims suppliers make ( Light 1990 ) Effective enforcement is difficult and costly . |
| 4 | President George Green says : ‘ Global marketing is an important area of development and we are probably in a better position than any other publishing group . ’ |
| 5 | State retirement pensions are also at a lower level . |
| 6 | Well the , the er the Guilds I can speak now because I 've been up to a higher level , I 've been on the section and Birmingham is a very big area . |
| 7 | Because non-Porsche parts are often of a lower quality than the real thing . |
| 8 | ( b ) winter aggregations comprising animals of all age classes ( but with the older ones arriving first and departing last ) are often of a larger size and crowd several layers deep in crevices and pools . |
| 9 | The steeples are often in a later style , partly Renaissance and reminding the onlooker of Wren 's designs of the city churches of London . |
| 10 | Because of the repayments that were made of borrowing during that period , in the midst of a recession we are now in a better position to borrow prudently — than we have been at any stage in the past : to borrow prudently and to maintain our commitment to a balanced budget in the medium term . |
| 11 | Service industries are now in a worse predicament than ever , because it is no longer possible to register even a business name in Britain . |
| 12 | ‘ Opinion polls may or may not turn out to be right at a later stage ’ ; ‘ Local authorities exceeded projected expenditure by quite a margin ’ ; ‘ When this campaign started some weeks ago ’ ; ‘ I concede the point , for I have stated it many times in the past . ’ |
| 13 | I am very reluctant to go so far when we — or rather you — could be so near a better resolution . |
| 14 | All these matters are indeed of a lower order of magnitude than those which had been fought for under Lanfranc and Anselm . |
| 15 | We are then in a better position to take steps to see that it is achieved . |
| 16 | From such an analysis we can pick out causes and action points : we are then in a better position to understand what is happening and to do something about it . |
| 17 | The trick of public relations , Branson discovered , was not to pretend to be something you were not , but simply to project what you were on to a larger canvas . |
| 18 | Governors were now in a better position to judge how recently opted out schools have fared financially , she said . |
| 19 | Except for Bulgaria , the report found that the east European countries were now in a better situation than in the early 1980s , in terms of their debt-service ratio ( the ratio of annual payments on principal and interest to export earnings ) , to cope with their obligations . |
| 20 | The reason for this is straightforward , since if the established firm is in the position of already having sunk its fixed costs then it is naturally in a better position than the potential entrant , because the cost of the equipment is irrelevant to the decision as to whether to produce . |
| 21 | Equally , the discomfort associated with gonorrhoea is usually of a greater order , and men who have suffered repeated attacks of both infections can usually tell which infection it is that they have on any given occasion . |
| 22 | Although Bush has managed to reduce Clinton 's lead since the convention , Clinton is still in a better position to win . |
| 23 | He might for example be led by ( 8 ) and ( 9 ) to suggest that white is ambiguous , for in ( 8 ) it seems to mean " only or wholly white " while in ( 9 ) it can only mean " partially white " : ( 8 ) The flag is white ( 9 ) The flag is white , red and blue The semanticist who takes the other tack , that natural language senses are protean , sloppy and variable , is hardly in a better position : how do hearers then know ( which they certainly do ) just which variable value of white is involved in ( 8 ) ? |
| 24 | Thai coups may be a thing of the past , but the army is probably in a stronger position now than it ever was . |
| 25 | In addition , there is up to a further £9.4 million for the Montreal protocol fund . |
| 26 | We found that the SSB oligonucleotide sequence is also within a larger DNA sequence which can form a stem loop structure and that the loop region is entirely contained within the SSB oligonucleotide ( Fig. 6 ) . |
| 27 | Of course , such a device is doing more than protecting them from an over-exciting adventure ; it is also in a calmer way building up their anticipation of a real mystery . |
| 28 | Provided the necessary resources to maintain an active programme of exhibitions are made available , the Library is now in a better position than ever before to project itself to the public at large through the use of instructive and stimulating displays . |
| 29 | Although the beef market is now in a better position , does not the hon. Gentleman realise the damage that he has done to beef consumption and to our farmers in the past year by constantly highlighting that issue on radio and television ? |
| 30 | Heseltine is currently in a stronger position than any of them . |