Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [is] [adv] strong " in BNC.
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| 1 | Demand for cheap low-quality tea is still strong , due to renewed Russian interest and low stocks . |
| 2 | But neither side is yet strong enough to install its own candidate . |
| 3 | A ribbed shell of this kind is often stronger than one without ribs ( for the same reason that corrugated iron is used for roofing ) , and it is probably no coincidence that ribs may be developed on bivalves too . |
| 4 | The large size of the Jovian magnetosphere is partly a consequence of the fairly low particle density in the solar wind at this distance from the Sun , and partly because the Jovian magnetic field is very strong . |
| 5 | I believe that , as we come out of the recession , we shall find that British industry is much stronger than it was during the same period at the beginning of the 1980s , and that it will prosper mightily during the remainder of the 1990s . |
| 6 | Where marine action is relatively stronger deltas tend to be cuspate with concave outlines in plan , for example the Tiber , though one wonders whether these differences in plan might not be due primarily to the frequency and location of distributaries : the Tiber has only one . |
| 7 | The other part of the gallery traces the development of the three great religions of India Buddhism , Hinduism and Jainism largely through sculpture , in which the British Museum is particularly strong . |
| 8 | This suspicion is particularly strong among biblical scholars , and one of them , Principal T.M. Knox , said more than twenty years ago ‘ The spirit moveth where it listeth and is not to be reduced to the numerical terms with which alone a computer can cope ’ . |
| 9 | It seems that our collective wish for this state is so strong that we are quite unable to contemplate the opposite . |
| 10 | This expectation is so strong that most congregations are prepared to spend huge sums for the provision and maintenance of an instrument which is , in many cases , the single most valuable asset in the building . |
| 11 | I believe that this view is too strong , that , although porn does reinforce certain attitudes towards women , in the main , it is rather a symptom , and not a major part of the cause , of power relations that exist outside the pages of Penthouse , Playboy , etc. , and outside the cinemas in Soho or Amsterdam ( see Moye , 1985 ) . |
| 12 | This coffee 's jolly strong , Samantha ! |
| 13 | If the flavour of this solution is too strong , they may be soaked in milk before use . |
| 14 | His ( 1975 ) solution is to require that the two opposed elements have the same extension.4 However , this solution is too strong for phrasal appositions like the ones in [ 12 ] . |
| 15 | This rum 's too strong for my head . ’ |
| 16 | At S. Trophîme the Roman influence is very strong in the west porch , which is based on a Roman triumphal arch . |
| 17 | But if the being of an individual woman is sufficiently strong and well-developed , then , knowing that light to be there deep within her , she can allow it to permeate the whole of her presence , refining and changing her very substance rather as a lamp when it is lit makes an apparently opaque glass shade appear translucent . |
| 18 | Evidence for this is so freely available even within a single language that it may be overlooked ; a random pair of examples from English , one abstract , one " concrete " , would be those in ( 40 ) and ( 41 ) , each showing the same notion present twice but only once in the guise of a noun : ( 40 ) the male ape has amazing strength the male ape is amazingly strong ( 41 ) Steve 's scarf was greasy there was grease on Steve 's scarf The question is not essentially affected by the need to enter certain caveats related to the superficial grammar of the language concerned ; thus in English , unlike for example Russian or Latin , there are relatively few nouns which can instantiate an entity without some article or other determiner playing a supporting part . |
| 19 | Synthetic thread is very strong and should be used with synthetic or stretch fabric as it has more elasticity . |
| 20 | That foundation is analytically stronger than one relying on the casual observation that since companies possess power , they must use that power ‘ responsibly ’ . |
| 21 | The immediate cause might be a new lover , or the pursuit of her career , but usually this is just a trigger ; the eruptive force is far stronger than that . |
| 22 | The case against environmental lead is very strong , but an argument that contains such exaggeration and error can only be a weak one . |
| 23 | Some circumstantial evidence is very strong — as when you find a trout in the milk |
| 24 | Lovell 's overall conclusion on the results of the tests he surveyed is pessimistic : he writes ‘ … it seems to me that the weight of empirical evidence is sufficiently strong to compel us to suspend belief in the hypothesis of rational expectations , pending the accumulation of additional empirical evidence ’ ( Lovell , 1986 , p.12 ) . |
| 25 | Normally , the energy of the particle is still positive , but the gravitational field inside a black hole is so strong that even a real particle can have negative energy there . |
| 26 | The increased order is so strong that no neuro-electric message can fight it — a special EM field has to be applied . |
| 27 | One can find it difficult to discuss a patient 's complaint when society 's puritanical view of the anorectal and urogenital region is so strong . |
| 28 | Be that as it may , it may turn out that the preparedness not to acquiesce in any all-Ireland solution is decidedly stronger than most commentators until recently were prepared to accept , except for the work of Bew , Gibbon , and Patterson . |
| 29 | Perhaps the Franco-German axis is too strong for us on this issue . |
| 30 | It seems clear that the poorest-quality rural housing persists where the traditional rural economy is still strongest and where urbanization levels are low ( Dunn et al . |