Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you want Californian walnuts , you take what you get , so-called combination , which includes some halves but is mostly smaller pieces . |
| 2 | Indeed in some ways the proof is rather simpler than Theorem 1 , since it does not need such a complex structure of nested recursions . |
| 3 | The question of ‘ public safety ’ is rather simpler than that of amenity , though there is ample scope for disagreement ; the relevant issue is whether an advertisement is likely to cause danger to road users , and also to ‘ persons who may use any railway , waterway ( including coastal waters ) , dock , harbour or airfield ’ . |
| 4 | Evidently the Poet 's estimate of the Friend 's credulity is rather higher than ours . |
| 5 | Average desired or intended family size is rather higher than the family size implicit in birth-rates since the 1970s . |
| 6 | Eighteen to 48 hours after thrombolytic therapy about 85% of vessels are open , with the minority remaining occluded , This patency rate is rather higher than that seen at 90 minutes following similar thrombolytic treatment ( 65–70% ) . |
| 7 | As we have already seen in Chapter 1 , the proportion of the temporary labour force who consider themselves self-employed ( 15 per cent ) is rather higher than that of the workforce as a whole ( 11 per cent ) . |
| 8 | Compared with the United Kingdom average of 22 to 1 , it is rather higher in Northern Ireland ( 23.5 to 1 ) and lower in Scotland ( 20.3 to 1 ) ( CSO , 1989a , Table 9.1 : 1988 figures . |
| 9 | Erm well that base budget is rather higher than we are expecting and the time when , the policy committee set its targets for each of the service committees . |
| 10 | Although that , the country is still well in the red , the latest deficit , as I mentioned earlier is rather better than the trade gap that was reported in July . |
| 11 | In particular , the ratio is rather lower in Northern Ireland ( 14.5 to 1 ) and especially in Scotland ( 13.0 to 1 ) ( CSO , 1989a , Table 9.1 . |
| 12 | Having argued that sociology is rather closer to journalism and the literary arts than some might imagine , I now turn to consider those differences that do , after all , divide them : in particular what makes social science scientific ? |
| 13 | Eight months on and little has changed — if anything it is rather worse . |
| 14 | Wheat skimming is rather cleverer than potato washing . |
| 15 | The only difference is that the slope of the worst case is rather steeper than the slope of the best . |
| 16 | This bright and colourful boat is rather larger than most speed boats , but feeds more children that way ! |
| 17 | And the sort of payback , as it were , if you are lucky , is rather larger than the payback , say , in horse racing ? |
| 18 | Thus the two causes appear to be of a similar size in the case of body temperature ( Fig. 1.3 , top ) but the internal cause in the case of urinary flow ( Fig. 1.3 , bottom ) is rather smaller , with daytime and night-time values on the constant routine being more similar . |
| 19 | Tau Ceti is rather smaller , dimmer and less luminous than the Sun . |
| 20 | It builds sensible AND symbols , but finding meaningful OR symbols is rather harder . |
| 21 | Erm , I 'm perfectly comfortable that any bit of my fingernail is completely accidental to me , that I can lose it without losing my arm , but the finger is rather stronger . |
| 22 | It is this procedure , which involves turning a reductionist methodology into a reductionist philosophy , that is the manoeuvre so popular among molecular biologists and some geneticists , but , fortunately , is rather rarer among psychologists or neurobiologists . |
| 23 | Leading on from this , a more general point is that where the objective of the operation is rather broader than profit maximization , shareholder control is probably far less appropriate than state control ( see , for example , Baumol , 1984 ) . |
| 24 | The Prince is rather easier to keep tabs on , but there is always the unforeseen to disrupt even the best-laid plans . |
| 25 | Wet wood is rather easier to bend than dry but the principal agent for bending wood is heat . |
| 26 | A cuckoo 's egg is conspicuously larger than the host 's eggs to our eyes but the egg is sufficiently similar in pattern and colour not to be detected by the foster parents . |
| 27 | Elegy is further accompanied ‘ by a diffused , resigned , melancholy sense of the passing of time , of the old order changing and yielding to a new one ’ ; while true of Beowulf and The Idylls of the King this is conspicuously truer of The Return of the King and its dissolution of the Third Age . |
| 28 | Morale is presumably lower . |
| 29 | Ensure the highest SPR identifier is numerically higher than or equal to the lowest SPR identifier . |
| 30 | Ensure the highest SSR identifier is numerically higher than or equal to the lowest SSR identifier . |