Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] be [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the spraying should stop , as can happen with blockages or burst pipes , the freezing effect travels inwards and the damage may be greater than if no precautions had been taken . |
| 2 | However , the category may be wider than has been envisaged . |
| 3 | Capital allowances deducted from the taxable income may be higher in the early years ( and therefore lower in the later years ) thin book depreciation , which may be charged over a longer period . |
| 4 | Shareholders ( assuming we take the partners in a partnership to be shareholders ) potentially provide a constraint in some cases ; in fact this constraint may be stronger in partnerships and limited companies than in public liability companies . |
| 5 | In patients with this problem who are elderly and in poor general health , other methods of stone fragmentation such as extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy or biliary stenting without stone removal may be safer alternatives than either surgery or enlargement of a sphincterotomy that is already a reasonable size . |
| 6 | Now that can be achieved of course may be quicker . |
| 7 | Difficulty breathing may be better ( > ) lying down at night and worse ( < ) in the morning when there may be copious and usually easy expectoration . |
| 8 | Instead she said , ‘ Your bark may be worse than your bite . |
| 9 | That 's er foot must be smaller than the other . |
| 10 | It is one thing to realize that our faith will always be weaker than we would like it to be , but it is quite another to insist that our faith must be weaker than it can afford to be . |
| 11 | Three implications followed immediately from Vine and Matthews 's brilliantly original modification of sea-floor spreading : first , the ‘ strips ’ should always be parallel to the ridge axes ; second , they should be symmetrical about the ridge , so that the strips on one side are mirror images of those on the other ; third , and most important , the rocks furthest away from the ridge should be older than those nearest to it . |
| 12 | For the criticality to occur at an angle of incidence less than 90° , the shear velocity in the solid must be greater than the dilatational velocity in the coupling liquid . |
| 13 | The length of the board should be greater than 3.60m unless the user is a slight lady or a child , in which case the length and volume can be less than the figures quoted above . |
| 14 | On wider windows two smaller blinds side by side may be better . |
| 15 | However , there is little doubt that people are not yet accustomed to the idea of paying fees and are tempted to avoid it even when the final result may be better . |
| 16 | Some of these ways of interpreting the criterion may be harder than others . |
| 17 | The symptoms and signs of heroin intoxication are familiar to most clinicians , but cocaine poisoning may be harder to recognise . |
| 18 | This means that there are fewer paths , so the cover of a digraph may be smaller than the cover of the undirected graph . |
| 19 | The music programme may be stronger than usual , with a new piece of music theatre commissioned from James MacMillan , specially written for performance at the Tramway by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra , actors and dancers . |
| 20 | A cash alternative may be offered at a lower price than the share offer but such an alternative may be safer if this is likely to happen . |
| 21 | Finding a remedy may be easier because there is less of a genetic component . |
| 22 | Should the entry qualification be to do with difficult behaviour rather than severity , or is required level of care the most important factor ? iii Low expectations and reduced social stimulation from other residents may lead to impaired performance in dementia , hastening the decline iv Segregated units may become stigmatized , and be unattractive to prospective residents and relatives v Staff recruitment may be more difficult , and staff turnover may be higher vi A unit may find itself looking after an increasingly disabled group In response to the increasing numbers of dementia sufferers in every type of service for the elderly , we saw five different ways of dealing with the integration/segregation issue . |
| 23 | There are two ways whereby the planning search may be easier than the real one : |
| 24 | Using a proper name for a subject search may be easier for the user than attempting to guess at an appropriate subject heading , particularly if the object is to extract a class number to pursue subject searching at the shelves . |
| 25 | It also points out , however , that if a significant part of global warming this century is indeed due to increased solar activity , then the greenhouse effect may be weaker than previously thought . |
| 26 | Based on these findings , and on those by Villanova et al showing that : ( i ) patients with multiple primary stones tend to develop multiple recurrent stones while those who originally had solitary stones tend to develop single stone recurrence ; and ( ii ) the recurrence rate in those who initially had solitary stones is only one third of that in patients who originally had multiple stones , we can predict that as patients selected for extra corporeal shock wave dissolution mainly have solitary stones , the recurrence rate after lithotripsy should be lower than that reported here . |
| 27 | With more sunscreens now filtering out UVA , the condition should be easier to control . |
| 28 | It is hard to argue conclusively that the category of murder should be smaller or larger ( unless the death penalty or a mandatory life sentence follows ) ; it is a question of social judgment . |
| 29 | The slope of the gravel should be shallower than required |
| 30 | It is suggested that no compartment of a high-bay warehouse should be bigger than is able to be covered by one sprinkler system . |