Example sentences of "is [vb pp] [prep] a [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clinical literature , then , suggests that in the execution of certain types of movement or sequences of movement the left hemisphere is implicated to a greater extent than the right hemisphere . |
| 2 | In Labour 's ranks Marjorie Mowlam , the shadow citizen 's charter minister , is tipped for a higher profile job . |
| 3 | It is usually more difficult to deal more effectively with a complaint if it is reported at a later date . |
| 4 | Working-class politics is located in a wider material , cultural and social universe , and has no meaning outside that universe . |
| 5 | In any case , mass transport in a protein biolayer is distorted to a greater extent than generally appreciated , and will be further affected where intact tissue , whole cells or organelle based biolayers are used . |
| 6 | In contemporary British society this link is accepted to a greater degree so far as the care of children and motherhood is concerned , though social attitudes still reveal some of the same ambivalence . |
| 7 | These B flat/F trombones are used a good deal by tenor trombonists too , but the bass trombone is made with a wider bore which improves the tone on the low notes . |
| 8 | In an impact injury , a bigger blunt force is applied to a larger area of the skin , leading to tissue failure , for instance if an older person slips on an uneven paving stone and falls forward hitting the forehead on the hard pavement . |
| 9 | This year 's festival is sited on a grassier area and Runrig 's confirmation should leave the organisers , London 's Mean Fiddler and Edinburgh promoter 's Regular Music , with no worries about selling plenty of tickets . |
| 10 | It would seem that Parliament 's legal power has been limited only if : ( a ) community law is seen as a higher system of law ; and ( b ) our courts are willing to uphold the supremacy of community law . |
| 11 | This is seen as a better guide to a school 's and pupils ' performance , particularly where there is a wide difference in social and ethnic backgrounds . |
| 12 | And the police patrol is seen as a further deterrent in a place where people are often at their most vulnerable . |
| 13 | Thus when it replaces an item at S ( subject ) and that item is written in a later place in the clause , an apposed clause is created . |
| 14 | One group on low income who will lose out consists of those people living in areas where the poll tax is levied at a higher rate than the Government calculates , and who in consequence will have to meet a 20 per cent poll tax bill that is larger than that calculated by the 20 per cent met by the Government . |
| 15 | The immediate aim , especially for the average and more able pupils , should probably be to take what is done to a greater length than to introduce content that is new . |
| 16 | As well as these precepting bodies there are numerous joint committees for other services where co-operation is needed over a wider area than the individual district . |
| 17 | If only to explain what section 184 of the Act is all about a brief reference is needed to a further aspect of the present system . |
| 18 | In this context , a recent report that the well documented neoexpression of ABH and Lewis b antigens in colonic cancer is mediated by a higher expression of the enzyme alpha 2 fucosyltransferase may be relevant . |
| 19 | Linseed oil is used in a greater proportion for most colours , although colours such as blues and particularly whites are most made using poppy , safflower of sunflower oil because they are less yellow than linseed . |
| 20 | Linseed oil is used in a greater proportion for most colours , although colours such as blues and particularly whites are most made using poppy , safflower of sunflower oil because they are less yellow than linseed . |
| 21 | ‘ I think I should earn more as the WBC title is recognised as a better class than the WBO but I might come to a 50-50 split . ’ |
| 22 | If the acceptance of increased risk is rewarded by a greater return as predicted by the model then should be positive . |
| 23 | Our modern life is based to a larger extent than is usually realised upon faith in the honesty of the other . |
| 24 | The sociological variant combines similar scepticism with an analysis of medical power and its effects and is based on a wider critique of the professions and professionalism . |
| 25 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that the anxiety that still persists in Staffordshire about the fate of the Staffordshire regiment is not mere local and parochial concern but is based on a wider concern for the strength of the infantry ? |
| 26 | This chapter concentrates on these three national clearinghouses already established , and is based on a longer paper on the subject . |
| 27 | Just as the Spirit loses its way the harder you drive , so the Carlton is elevated to a higher level . |
| 28 | This is less disturbing if the hearing-aid is set to a quieter level . |
| 29 | Even in these recession-ridden times , it is true that in most households , expenditure on the needs of children is protected to a greater degree than those of adults , and , in most cases , right across the social spectrum , books command a positive attitude from parents , where they ; are seen as linking directly with a future passport for career success . |
| 30 | A sample of 150 households has been monitored over two heating seasons and is accompanied by a larger sample in order to check for the representativeness of the more detailed data collected in the panel study . |