Example sentences of "be [adv] [det] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That they are rather more than irrelevant epiphenomena , at least in experimental colitis , is indicated by the anti-inflammatory effects of specific antioxidants . |
| 2 | Not surprisingly , the landlord 's covenants are rather fewer than the tenant 's and if one was of a mind , and really thought that it was worth the effort , it is possible to invent several pages of landlord 's covenants which the tenant would dearly like to have included , but this would definitely not be worthwhile . |
| 3 | They are rarely more than a couple of hundred metres high , and they are usually symmetrical , although they may be ‘ breached ’ on one side , where a lava flow has emerged . |
| 4 | Commissions and inquiries are rarely more than a device to allow politicians to put off taking decisions . |
| 5 | We said that non-standard forms are rarely more than a social irritant to some people , and that there are few situations where such forms could cause real communication problems . |
| 6 | Even in these areas , though , the farmsteads or small hamlets are rarely more than 1–2 kilometers ( ½-1 mile ) apart . |
| 7 | The hotels are rarely less than impeccable , be they five star or one , and the service , though short on warmth , overdoses on diligence . |
| 8 | Many of our finest singers — such as Josephine Barstow and John Tomlinson — have given memorable ‘ star ’ performances for Opera North ; others , like Sally Burgess and Helen Field , have developed their repertoire here , in productions which , if lacking in the radical Central European flavour promoted by the Welsh National Opera , are rarely less than good-looking and intelligent . |
| 9 | If his estimate of time was accurate , it would have been rather more than an hour since it had stopped . |
| 10 | Or else his handicap had been rather less than she had reckoned . |
| 11 | Licence fees are little more than department administration costs . |
| 12 | But military analysts in Bangkok pointed out that casualty figures are low , many of the positions along the sparsely-populated Route 69 are little more than bamboo huts sheltering two or three soldiers , and no big towns have been threatened . |
| 13 | Lewis 's eldils , for instance , are little more than the angels of Judaeo-Christian tradition ; but by confusing them linguistically with Tolkien 's eldalie ( in The Silmarillion ) , he implies that the elves of mat mythology are angelic , which they are not — they are simply elves . |
| 14 | In fact , the TECs are little more than a device for luring the private sector into tackling unemployment . |
| 15 | Those parents helping in school can sometimes feel that their goodwill is being abused and that they are little more than washers of paint pots and menders of broken books . |
| 16 | The Arab houses are little more than shacks separated by acres of devastation where developers have torn down vacated Palestinian homes . |
| 17 | There are flourishing schools which reflect the growing affluence and improved living conditions of a portion of the population , but there are other schools which are little more than shells , with few materials and facilities . |
| 18 | Despite this expansion , the low levels of education expenditure mean that many schools , especially in rural areas , are little more than shells . |
| 19 | The motives described by these authors are little more than romantic inventions , but the fact that the dying cat 's actions have been recorded in this way by very different writers is of some interest . |
| 20 | Very recently , in the 1950s and 1960s , there have been the Rex cats and the Scottish Fold cat , and even more recently the Somali and the Burmilla , although these are little more than crosses . |
| 21 | The UN will provide legitimacy for what are little more than acts of international piracy and entirely consistent with the new world order strategy of ‘ destroy and abandon ’ . |
| 22 | Those two examples , both with shrouds , are little more than three-dimensional renditions of the monumental brass type , the shrouds held in place with a top-knot , the opposite end hanging *eely behind the feet . |
| 23 | Rather than being long-standing relationships which have been strong enough to stand ‘ the test of time ’ , as we often assume , they are little more than empty shells which are no longer of any significant mutual support or value . |
| 24 | Many World War One Aerodromes are little more than a folk memory kept alive by such names as Aerodrome Cottages at Hadleigh in Suffolk . |
| 25 | Banks today are little more than expensive money shops with remote managers and fewer staff at the counters . |
| 26 | ‘ Nonsense , you are little more than a slip of a girl , you would be prey to all sorts of men , fortune hunters and the like . |
| 27 | Narrow paved streets that are little more than alleys wind informally round a low ridge once densely packed with houses . |
| 28 | In contrast , very little business of substance is transacted through Moscow 's resident NSWP ambassadors , whose postings are little more than sinecures . |
| 29 | Hence all predictions about what proportion of the total population the 65 + age group will constitute in the future are little more than speculations based upon the extrapolation of current trends . |
| 30 | They have strong fore-legs , though their back legs are hardly developed at all and are little more than buds . |