Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [adj -er] [conj] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Measurements of the HI and CO lines enable one to infer for each point on the sky the column density of HI and H 2 moving with a given velocity , but the inferred H 2 column densities are cruder because of the extra interpretive step required .
2 Generally speaking , instability thresholds are lower than in the quasi-Lorenz system , and the restrictions on decay rates less severe .
3 In such cases the tensions were greater than in the smaller schools .
4 Excitation within a d-d band may lead to very little resonance Raman enhancement , and indeed for some species with inversion centers it has been found that the Raman bands are weaker than in the normal Raman spectrum when excited by light in the absorption profile of a d-d band .
5 European component manufacturing costs are lower than in the States , and we could save the Corporation around a billion dollars a year by purchasin' components from our European plants .
6 The last , as it affects lawyers , has already been dealt with , and we are now considering the General Category , where the prospects at the top levels are better than in the others .
7 And where internal inflationary pressures were stronger than in the United States , devaluation was used to push the constraint aside .
8 The mass of the people were not recorded because the evidence is limited to the loan book , which of course excludes everyone with less than £5 , a class which in Coventry amounted to as much as 80 per cent of the total , though in other provincial towns the proportion was not as high , that of sub-£2 assessments being lower than in the countryside .
9 Their catalogues contain fewer items , but the range of publications is wider than at the turn of the century .
10 The forces are larger than in the experiment of Roll , Krotkov , and Dicke but the torque can only be reversed by bodily rotating the apparatus , which gives large and irreversible effects that vitiate the method .
11 Ministers claim that accident rates on YTS are better than for the rest of the working population in that age group .
12 Charges are higher than for the society 's standard dealing system because the stockbroker can not itself be paid on the deal until the end of the stock exchange account , an average of 10 days ' delay .
13 Permission to offer switched services is unlikely to be denied , but the resale of International Virtual Network services will present more problems , as US carriers feel that they have been denied reciprocal access to the UK , where interconnect , access-deficit and leased line charges are higher than in the US .
14 Here , the volutes are larger as in the Ionic order and the upper row of acanthus leaves is replaced by the egg and tongue and bead and reel mouldings from the Ionic capital .
15 In condensed phases bands are often narrower , so that nearby vibrations are less likely to be obscured , while the peak heights are greater than in the gas phase .
16 Last year 's results were lower because of the national postal strike and because of the pay increases , the Post Office said .
17 Where the company is listed on The Stock Exchange the protection afforded shareholders is greater than under the Act .
18 This research showed that the level of advice and representation in SSATs is lower than in the other tribunals investigated .
19 Temperatures at the lake-beds in about 6 m depths were higher than at the surface when ice was present , rising from 1°C in mid-May to about 3°C in late July .
20 The dominant prey size in the South African samples is smaller than in the English samples , but larger prey is also taken , so that size variation is much greater in the South African samples .
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