Example sentences of "[coord] it is much [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is obviously better if trees can be out of the ground for as short a time as possible and it is much less expensive to buy bare root transplants . |
| 2 | Over 60 per cent of cases occur in males , and it is much more common among the Negro races than Caucasians , although this may reflect the areas where it is endemic rather than any racial predilection . |
| 3 | In this case there is one called WORDCNT and it is much more sophisticated than the one I would have written . |
| 4 | This is a doubtful speculation as spinning , unlike sewing or embroidery does not require a strong light , and it is much more likely that the spinners would be found in comfort spinning by the light of their peat fires as dusk approached . |
| 5 | Such a border can be at least as ornamental as the conventional one , given the range of plants which are now considered to be herbs , and it is much more likely to be the haunt of bees and butterflies , as well as being more aromatic and fragrant . |
| 6 | of the , the national average and it 's not because erm they 're paying high wages to get the , the most able people , it 's because there are mechanisms , institutional mechanisms that keep wages high , there 's no market in the jobs for , th these are generalizations but I think they are fairly , fairly true erm becau there is no market for er for the jobs , for civil service jobs that appointments are made and it is much more important who you know than , than what , what you know and the old boy network , as it 's called , in this country is fairly important in the English Civil Service but a similar sort of network tends to be far more important in developing countries , something that is euphemistically called patronage erm but we might call the old boy network or er er jobs for the boys whatever , but erm |
| 7 | But it is much more useful to explain it in terms of interactions between pistons , cylinders and sparking plugs . |
| 8 | For a complicated shape this may take a few minutes but it is much more controlled than some of the automatic methods . |
| 9 | The book owes its title and framework to Bunyan , but it is much more satirical in tone and purpose than The Pilgrim 's Progress . |
| 10 | But it is much more satisfactory to angle the basic release to suit the readership or audiences of the various media groups . |
| 11 | This system may require some initial experimentation to familiarise oneself with exposure times , chemical strengths etc. , but it is much more convenient in many respects , especially if you are involved with designing/prototyping as well as routine project building . |
| 12 | I am not sure if any time is saved by taking this route , but it is much more interesting . |
| 13 | It is possible that the boundary between mastery and non-mastery might be set differently for different educational purposes , but it is much more likely that different purposes will prescribe whether a boundary needs to be set at all . |
| 14 | One can allow for lack of strength or stiffness in design but it is much more difficult to allow for cracks which catch the engineer unawares and are dangerous . |
| 15 | But it is much more difficult to justify on academic terms an expansion of what I will call ‘ educational exposure ’ ; the development , through extensive first-hand experience , of an understanding of what being a teacher involves , of the demands it makes upon those who teach for month after month , of the stresses and strains ( as well as the joys ) of the classroom . |
| 16 | But it is much more difficult to show antagonism : many contexts which might be expected to manifest it do not : |
| 17 | The funnel structure shown in the drawing is certainly usable but it is much more difficult to use than the ordinary funnel shown in the drawing for " efficiency " . |
| 18 | Amongst elderly women , there has also been a decrease in activity rates , but it is much less pronounced . |
| 19 | For like a great many theories , it seems much more easily applicable to some kinds of text than to others ; one can see quite clearly its possible relevance to the sort of literature that the New Critics generally preferred to discuss , the lyric tradition from Shakespeare , roughly speaking , to Yeats ( Wimsatt and Brooks described their movement ( 1957 : 742 ) as ‘ neo-classic ’ ) ; but it is much less easy to see its relevance to the novel , or to much modern avant-garde writing . |
| 20 | The distinction does arise and it can not entirely be neglected but it is much less important than appears at first sight . |
| 21 | Even to relatively unsophisticated subjects it is quite intuitive to sell when the price is high and store when the price is low , but it is much less intuitive to produce where the marginal cost is equal to some expectation . |