Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] is [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sovicille for shops is less than three miles away . |
| 2 | The government of Ecuador is seriously considering sending its armed forces on a major exercise in the Galapagos Islands . |
| 3 | About how much of Scotland is more than 10 km from a railway ? |
| 4 | The future for Britain 's mines has never looked so black , but some believe the future safety of miners is just as threatened . |
| 5 | Kinematograph Weekly 's critic remarked , ‘ The aura of wealth is everywhere except in the person of Michael Crawford , whose Harry is yet another study in his gallery of perky , slightly common heroes . |
| 6 | The northernmost tip of Hokkaido is less than 50 kilometres from the now Russian-owned island of Sakhalin . |
| 7 | This development on the green belt of Ipswich is partly because of the Conservative Government withering away the planning powers of borough councils , who in the past would have dismissed such a planning application as this , on the grounds that housing and industry should not mix and that it is desirable to have a green buffer zone between the two . |
| 8 | Using the equation above , the probability that a difference of this order has been missed in this series of experiments is less than 1% for both acid and pepsin . |
| 9 | If the endowments are positively correlated , and the share of capital is less than 50 per cent , the inequality-reducing effect is larger . |
| 10 | Only as late as 1918 was it established — by a woman doctor — that the juice of lemons is more than twice as rich in anti-scorbutic vitamins as that of the lime , for long thought to be as or more effective than lemon juice in the prevention of scurvy . |
| 11 | The Queen of Beauty is more than one view or expression of beauty . |
| 12 | F. The sugar content of sugarbeet is highest where there is plentiful sunshine and moderate rainfall . |
| 13 | Where the level of infection is more than 1,000 larvae per kg of dried herbage , the daily larval intake of grazing cows is in excess of 10,000 larvae . |
| 14 | After only 40 doublings the number of cells is more than a trillion . |
| 15 | ‘ The fate of McMullen is all but certain . |
| 16 | A major study of England and Wales using 1966 census data has shown that the pattern of out-migration is largely as expected ( figure 4.3 ) : the principal destinations are the South West , East Anglia , Wales and the outer South East , with the metropolitan London area being the source of most moves ( Law and Warnes 1976 ) . |
| 17 | The mortality after partial or total colectomy in adult patients with cirrhosis is more than 60% and portosystemic shunting or transplantation , depending on the status of the liver disease , is preferable . |
| 18 | ‘ My routine in practice is just as it is on course . ’ |
| 19 | The κ statistic is a widely used measure of observer agreement , but its value can be misleadingly low if the base rate of the condition in question is less than 20% . |
| 20 | Much of what is often praised in broadcasting is there because of a regulatory structure which encourages diversity in programming . |
| 21 | The cobbler 's song in Hassan is there because man invented a shoe . |
| 22 | His figures show that even at 1990 inputs and output the occupier 's surplus from farming is less than £300 , becoming about £6000 after allowing for all sources of income . |
| 23 | For example , the number of women suffering from arthritis is more than three times that of men . |
| 24 | The higher death rate in women than in men is probably because of the higher proportion of elderly patients among them . |
| 25 | Such regions are designated for a period of five years and are specifically defined to be those areas ( NUTS Level II ) where per capita GDP in PPSs is less than 75 per cent of the Community average . |
| 26 | Pont Royal is conveniently accessible for the long weekend away : the flight time from Heathrow to Marseilles is less than two hours , with the resort only half an hour from the airport . |
| 27 | But the reason we , unlike the Americans , have no telephones on planes is largely because a consensus on frequencies was a long time coming . |
| 28 | It reaffirmed " that economic and social cohesion represent an essential dimension of the Community " and decided " to put in place early in 1993 and in those member states where the GNP per inhabitant is less than 90 per cent of the Community average [ i.e. in Greece , Ireland , Portugal and Spain ] the cohesion fund provided for in the [ Maastricht ] Treaty . " |
| 29 | Sometimes dismissed as a fringe activity ( ‘ an educational frill ’ ) , listening to music is clearly as important to as many children as it is to many adults . |
| 30 | A number of times during my weekend visit to Ireland , Bono hints that a move to London is all but inevitable . |