Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the sophisticated techniques involved in enhanced recovery of oil and recovery of heavy oil , both investment and production costs are lower than for tar sands , oil shale and for the renewables . |
| 2 | The maximum social security payments for older people living in residential care homes are lower than for younger , physically handicapped people . |
| 3 | Mortality rates for lung cancer in those who have always smoked only cigars and pipes are significantly higher than in nonsmokers but are lower than for cigarette only smokers . |
| 4 | The estimated reservation wages increase with age up to about 35 years and then decrease with the men aged over 55 , with estimated reservation wages for both periods which are lower than for teenage men . |
| 5 | The numbers of theses in this area are lower than for areas further north . |
| 6 | As Mead pointed out , the numbers ( estimated at 13,000 ) are lower than at any time since the institute started counting more than 20 years ago , and well below the peak of 15,400 in 1989 . |
| 7 | In some parts of the south-east , groundwater levels are lower than at any time since records began 200 years ago , with some boreholes in the Chiltern Hills drying up for the first time since they were sunk last century . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Very low prices ( the retailer makes savings through bulk buying , and overheads are lower than in a central location — part of these savings is passed on to the customer ) |
| 10 | These speeds are lower than in traditional streets , but they are greater than walking pace and are regarded as still being too high by elderly people and parents of young children . |
| 11 | This is the major drawback of the postal method , where response rates , usually around 30–40 per cent , are lower than in face-to-face research , which can hope to achieve a 70 or even 80 per cent response . |
| 12 | GABA concentrations in the epileptogenic hippocampus are lower than in the non-epileptogenic side , which suggests that there may be altered release or reuptake despite the relative preservation of GABA neurons . |
| 13 | Species co-existence levels in rain-forest mammals ( and reptiles ) are lower than in birds , whose locomotor abilities allow them access , at a low-energy cost , to food unavailable to species confined to terrestrial or arboreal substrates . |
| 14 | Generally speaking , instability thresholds are lower than in the quasi-Lorenz system , and the restrictions on decay rates less severe . |
| 15 | Faecal worm egg counts are useful in that these are lower than in Haemonchus infection while the eggs are more bluntly rounded , with relatively thick sticky shells to which debris is often adherent . |
| 16 | Its grounds are private and to the west of the lodge the trail leaves the road to cross Kenmure Moss . |
| 17 | Our relationship between any lottery director and G Tec as a company has always been professional and above reproach and as far as our relationship with the current director in California , we 've had instances were we 've been successful in California in gaining business while she was a director , and we 've been unsuccessful . |
| 18 | The pile has a lot in common with most organisations which are stable when under pressure from one direction but can collapse when under pressure from another direction . |
| 19 | ‘ The insurance and financial services are profitable and without our commercial activities the subscription would have to be much higher , ’ he said . |
| 20 | those items that are profitable and within its competence ; |
| 21 | those items that are profitable and within its competence ; |
| 22 | Forty five patients had previously been pregnant and in this subgroup , there were 11 recurrences compared with only one in the 10 patients who were nulliparous — corresponding to LTA rates of 31.2 ( 9.0 ) % and 20.0 ( 17.9 ) % respectively at 42 months ( NS ) . |
| 23 | Thus , systems are hierarchical and at each level the unit is considered as a functional rather than a physical entity . |
| 24 | The capitals are Corinthian except for one which is in Romanesque animal form . |
| 25 | BRITAIN 'S shopkeepers are gloomier than at any time since the early 1980s , according to a survey published yesterday . |
| 26 | BRITAIN 'S shopkeepers are gloomier than at any time since the early 1980s , according to a survey published yesterday . |
| 27 | It has one of the finest outlooks on the Solway coast ; the views of the bay and beaches are panoramic and in the far distance Lake District peaks can be seen . |
| 28 | It was hard — might possibly have been cruel but with most pupils it worked . |
| 29 | steps up and right footed he blasts it into the bottom corner , it subdues the Shrewsbury crowd somewhat , Blackburn fans are rampant because at last there 's some light for them but they 're still trailing Shrewsbury by three goals to two . |
| 30 | Well I think I 've been rather more fortunate , the two branch managers I 've had er , before , I 'd not had long enough , er , both have given albeit not regular , but feedback both positive and negative , er , when you 're doing a good job and when you 're doing a bad job , and er , in all honesty , it 's probably the appraisal itself , that 's actually been unnecessary because of their feedback they 're given me during the year , because the appraisal is just a formal repetition of what 's already been said . |