Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [be] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chemical energy however is particularly easy to waste , through misuse or overuse , so levels of skill and control may need to be higher . |
| 2 | There would also need to be higher rates of tax built on top of this sum . |
| 3 | ( Other standards like fruit and ornamental trees will be thicker and the sacking strip will need to be wider and the actual tie bigger , but the principle remains exactly the same . ) |
| 4 | However , if the unit is to be sited some considerable distance from the water supply , it may need to be thicker to prevent excessive voltage drop — loudspeaker wire , for example . |
| 5 | In most secondary schools , TVEI has laid the necessary foundations ; but TVEI criteria are ( sensibly ) less specific than the statutory requirements of the National Curriculum , and planning for the latter will need to be sharper . |
| 6 | More massive stars would need to be hotter to balance their stronger gravitational attraction , making the nuclear fusion reactions proceed so much more rapidly that they would use up their hydrogen in as little as a hundred million years . |
| 7 | Treatment sessions do not usually need to be longer than 1 hour . |
| 8 | Therefore there needs to be a period to allow exploration of satisfactory forms of internal work organisation when new technology is introduced , and this period may well need to be longer than that usually allowed for new skills acquisition . |
| 9 | The breaking and training process will need to be longer than usual and extra care must be taken to ensure that new lessons are clearly taught . |
| 10 | Notation which is to be inscribed on the spine of books may need to be shorter than that used in catalogues , indexes , databases and bibliographies . |
| 11 | The jaws appear to be wider than long . |
| 12 | At North Leigh the relieving insets of guilloche etc. appear to be simpler than those at Chedworth . |
| 13 | However , it has also been observed that those with wrinkled testa ( coats ) appear to be slower to germinate and may well benefit from piercing , scratching or abrasion . |
| 14 | The induction rates for lung cancer and for leukaemia are somewhat lower , and those for other organs for which estimates are obtainable appear to be lower still ( UNSCEAR , 1977 ) . |
| 15 | For press campaigns , which at least appear to be cheaper , a rather higher frequency of contact is usually aimed at : five , six or more OTS . |
| 16 | The notebooks show that Nietzsche was prepared to rethink the precise shape of the book well into 1871 , but almost all of the numerous plans there — including some which appear to be earlier than " Socrates and Instinct " — point to a book centrally concerned with tragedy and recognizably related to BT . |
| 17 | South facing rooms which already appear to be warmer due to the extra light can more easily accommodate cooler shades such as pale blue . |
| 18 | Differentials do exist between blue- and white-collar workers , but they appear to be narrower than in most Western companies , and they are seen to be justified by different educational qualifications . |
| 19 | At that conference John the director general of the Health and Safety Executive gave his views on why certain regulations appear to be weaker than the actual European directives on which they were based . |
| 20 | Their less advanced bodies appear to be easier to reconstitute than those of the higher animals . |
| 21 | In fact a large vocabulary system accepting natural language is simpler to obtain for written language than for spoken , because the recognition units ( i.e. letters ) appear to be easier to identify , and identifying word breaks is not such a problem . |
| 22 | O. enopla veterna differs from O. enopla enopla chiefly by the shapes of the disk spinelets and the tentacle scales ; the spinelets appear to be larger in O. enopla enopla and have a better defined crown with distinct points . |
| 23 | Naively , we would expect many more ordinary quasars , because there is only a small chance of a beam pointing straight at us : but the calculation must also consider the fact that BL Lac objects would on average appear to be brighter than other quasars ( because the doppler effect brightens a beam coming towards us ) , and so we would tend to pick up more of them . |
| 24 | Many mosaics of group ( b ) appear to be later than those of group ( a ) , although in some instances mosaics of each might be contemporary ( i.e. at Chedworth and North Leigh ) , and , occasionally , group ( a ) mosaics appear to be later ( if a later , fourth century , date for the Withington mosaic is accepted ) than some of group ( b ) . |
| 25 | The jaws appear to be longer than broad . |
| 26 | The jaws appear to be longer than wide . |
| 27 | The jaws appear to be longer than broad . |
| 28 | The jaws appear to be longer than broad . |
| 29 | Police reported no new congestion on roads , although traffic was expected to be heavier because of the rain . |
| 30 | Digestion can therefore be expected to be greater in mammalian predators , and so it has been found here . |