Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] is [adv] [adj -er] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The need for a reason or cause is even stronger when these events are unpleasant or otherwise undesirable . |
| 2 | Only one in 500 engineers in the UK is a woman and progress is much slower than in the US where the percentage has grown from 0–2 in the 1960s , when the Civil Rights movement stirred , to 10 per cent and is growing apace . |
| 3 | The parallels between the work environment and a natural ecosystem will lead to similar responses , and intelligence is vastly quicker than natural selection . |
| 4 | On a normal tow , except for very low performance machines , the climbing angle of the towplane and glider is much steeper than the glider 's gliding angle when flying downwind . |
| 5 | ‘ All is war now , ’ she records in her column early in August , ‘ and art is under worse than lock and key . |
| 6 | The fabric of political debate and mobilization is both narrower and wider . |
| 7 | Not only is this information ignored , but some of the new-found local expertise on asbestos and health is apparently greater than that of Professor McDonald , the independent expert who has studied some 12,000 case histories . |
| 8 | There are , for example , no elected fascist representatives in the United States , the dollar has been steadily devalued in recent years , the country 's borders are more open , and unemployment is significantly lower than in Europe . |
| 9 | And attendance is much better cos I think the message is finally getting across now . |
| 10 | We can not prevent old age , but we can be aware of its side effects ; we can prevent over-attached dog relationships — and prevention is always better than a cure . |
| 11 | The models of Fudenberg and Levine and Benabou and Laroque show that in games with imperfect monitoring the process of reputation building and destruction is considerably smoother than in games without such noise . |
| 12 | But truth is often stranger than fiction . |
| 13 | Trained keyboard users can type much faster than humans write by hand , but speech is much faster than either of these for the majority of people . |