Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj -er] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We believe and we know that re-offending rates after secure regimes are much higher than after community based schemes and the well being and safety of children we believe can be compromised by incarceration in secure provision . |
| 2 | Wages in West Germany , for hard currency marks , are much higher than in East Germany ( for soft marks ) . |
| 3 | The numbers of teeth digested in the European eagle owl and tawny owl assemblages are much higher than in the categories 1–2 species ( Table 3.12 ) . |
| 4 | The Black Wood investigation and related studies by BGS have shown that sulphate concentrations in pore waters beneath trees are much higher than in pore waters from beneath heathland or unfertilised grassland . |
| 5 | For Western economies such as the UK the challenge in cutting emissions is even greater because emissions per head of population are much higher than in most developing countries . |
| 6 | The periods are long , from about 80 days to over 600 days , and the magnitude ranges are much greater than with the Cepheids . |
| 7 | This is not because reactor accidents are more likely , but because the potential consequences for the general public of some reactor accidents are much greater than from accidents at other stages in the fuel cycle . |
| 8 | There are several other attractions of buying a house in Ireland : prices are much lower than in Britain , and the annual property tax can be avoided by opening the house to the public , if it is architecturally interesting enough , for no more than four weeks in the year . |
| 9 | As a result , the breccia fragments are surrounded by a mud matrix and rocks are only of marginal reservoir quality with porosities and permeabilities that are much lower than in the collapse breccias of Auk and Argyll . |
| 10 | A similar system is in operation in many countries , with the key exception of the US , where book prices are much lower than in the UK . |
| 11 | Down at ground level , the ordinary houses are much nicer than in American cities , like little Mediterranean villas with tiled roofs and white-washed or painted walls . |
| 12 | ‘ The differences in our electorate are much bigger than for the conservative parties , ’ says Heidi Wieczorek-Zeul , a member of the party praesidium . |
| 13 | One of this country 's great strengths is that the burdens imposed by the Government on employing people are much lighter than in France and Germany . |
| 14 | It is already apparent that players are much fitter than at the same time last season . |
| 15 | In tetrahedral there is no center of inversion ; this means that mixing between d and p orbitals is possible , and the bands in the visible spectrum are much stronger than for ( Fig. 6.22 ) . |
| 16 | Our averages for the elasticity of expected duration with respect to benefits are much smaller than in NNS and NN who estimated different models from the same data . |
| 17 | The figure of 49% would have been much higher but for the fact that only one in ten of farmers in Powys and Speyside saw this as a constraint on their future development . |
| 18 | Experts believed that the death toll could have been much higher but for the recently installed early warning system which had allowed time for many people to move to safety or to use the 300 concrete cyclone shelters built under the Cyclone Preparedness Programme , run mainly by the Bangladesh Red Crescent . |
| 19 | Ignoring measurements above 50m ( the mixed layer depth ) the mean temperature difference of -0.15°C between 1991 and 1981 shows that cooling has been much greater than since 1962 ( -0.08°C ) . |
| 20 | Traditionally , the connection between the police and the party in power locally has been very close , and the susceptibility of the former to the wishes of the latter has been much greater than in Britain . |
| 21 | " Spain has managed to maintain those areas much as they have been since the Middle Ages , because industrial development here has been much slower than in other European nations . |
| 22 | Buyers are attracted to the glamorous provenance of works recovered from the sea bed and prices are generally higher than for similar objects without such watery origins . |
| 23 | Porosity is known to occur in all of the carbonate units but the best potential probably exists in the Z1 and Z2 Carbonates , where porosities are generally higher than in the Z3 Carbonate . |
| 24 | The results are generally better than with exfoliative bile cytology alone , with a sensitivity over 60% . |
| 25 | Homes are generally colder than in the West , and student dormitories unheated : people habitually wear so many layers of clothing that they look almost round . |
| 26 | The ventral interradial areas are covered by spinelets similar to the dorsal side although they are usually smaller and in some specimens they may resemble rugose granules . |
| 27 | While prices in many parts of northern France are still cheaper than in south west England , those who dabble in French residential property will quickly discover there are few fat profits to be made . |
| 28 | Prices have fallen a little but are still higher than in Spain , says John Esplan of Babet . |
| 29 | I know that he recently considered this matter at a meeting with the northern TECs , but will he further consider the plight of some regions where costs are slightly higher than in , say , the south-east ? |
| 30 | The percentages for the rest of modernised Europe , with the exception of Switzerland , are slightly higher and for North America they are higher still . |