Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [adj] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conditions for the application of the defence are cumulative rather than alternatives , so that if the publisher fails to meet any one of them , the defence fails . |
| 2 | The decisive qualifications for profitable Bible study are spiritual rather than intellectual . |
| 3 | First past the post and governments elected by a minority of the vote are sustainable only when there is a turnabout of minority governments . |
| 4 | The latter phenomena have been extensively analysed in the limit B 0 , in which the Ikeda mapping becomes one-dimensional and can be realised in a so-called hybrid system in which the feedback is electronic rather than optical . |
| 5 | Whatever the noise , though , the average speed is little more than 40mph . |
| 6 | The difficulty is that the assumptions on which it is based are to say the least shaky : the assumptions , namely , that only one vote suffices although more than one candidate is to be elected ; that preferential voting is reliable , even when used in ignorance of all the relevant information and inhibited by the arbitrary exclusion of candidates who might otherwise be successful ; that it is reasonable to grant to some votes the privilege of being transferred , and to lower-preference votes the possibility of exercising greater influence than is warranted by their very definition ; that it is reasonable also to give to all transferred votes the same weighting as to original votes ; and that election by quota is sensible even if the quotas are manifestly make-believe . |
| 7 | They looked as solid as reasonable to expect in the circumstances … the midfield were looking to get forward , and being caught on the break is fair enough when chasing a cup tie … and Goodman is one of the better players around … suprisingly fast . |
| 8 | This bland characterisation is apt only if B is misleadingly conceived as a person who has had his conviction quashed on the basis of successfully arguing one of his points of appeal . |
| 9 | If incidence rather than prevalence is of interest , a longitudinal panel study is essential even though the administrative burden can be heavy . |
| 10 | The practice is dubious anyway as larger containers of detergent can become contaminated by certain bacteria , often pseudomonads , and act as reservoirs of infection or spoilage . |
| 11 | Its importance in soil conservation practice is world-wide partly because much of the international literature on the subject in popular and scientific journals is written by Americans , and partly because of the American foreign aid programme in which conservation plays an important part . |
| 12 | The guidance is persuasive rather than prescriptive and has a lower level of authority than statements of auditing standards . |
| 13 | To meet force with force is successful only if the defender is as strong as the attacker . |
| 14 | On , so their effect is negative rather than positive . |
| 15 | We also saw that context can have an effect on the speed of visual word recognition , although experiments by Fischler and Bloom ( 1979 ; 1980 ) suggest that the effect is inhibitory rather than facilitatory , with a word taking longer to identify when preceded by a context which makes it semantically anomalous . |
| 16 | The dangers of excessive alcohol are perhaps more obvious and the real problem here is that the effect is cumulative rather than merely temporary . |
| 17 | Furthermore , in the UK the bulk of investment is institutional rather than private . |
| 18 | The production of these ideological forms would be by people whose labour is mental rather than material , whose product has effects in a world of ideas and social relations rather than the material world of objects . |
| 19 | The latter alternative is possible here since it does not result in crossing the tune with the bass . |
| 20 | Rudolf Dreikurs maintains that talk is effective only when raised voices imply some impending action , and then only momentarily . |
| 21 | However , Strawson also draws a stronger conclusion from it — the conclusion that , since a theory of the determination of action is true now if it is true at all , such a theory would have to be compatible with our distinction between behaviour towards which reactive attitudes are appropriate , and behaviour demanding an objective response . |
| 22 | Also , the cost of living 's cheaper here so the money goes further . ’ |
| 23 | It is important that the horse is warmed-up properly before he starts on his cross country round . |
| 24 | The equation is true even when the eigenvalues are not all different . |
| 25 | 4 ) What back-up in terms of advice and maintenance is available e.g. if the microcomputer breaks down , can it be attended to locally or will there be a delay ? |
| 26 | ‘ I see your condition is diet-controlled rather than by the use of insulin . ’ |
| 27 | This condition is satisfied even though the minimum size of the oscillator is quite small ( Figure 4 ) . |
| 28 | He knelt to check the old man 's pulse only to discover that the President was uncaring rather than unconscious . |
| 29 | Indeed , most companies responding admitted to employing headhunters principally for such strategic positions as Gozzard indicated , so inevitably their usage of search was exceptional rather than everyday . |
| 30 | Dr Clarke contends that while Keynesianism was overthrown on the pretext that it did not ‘ work ’ , the collapse was political rather than theoretical . |