Example sentences of "[noun pl] is [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The interchange of the two peoples is more and more frequent , and … is likely to continue increasing ’ . |
| 2 | Yet the London we inherited from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is more or less a success . |
| 3 | As can be seen from table 6.5 , the divorce-rate for unskilled husbands is more than four times that for professionals and for the unemployed , almost five times that for the professionals . |
| 4 | C. A. Moser in Survey Methods in Social Investigation identifies three sources of bias in sample selection : ( 1 ) the use of a sampling frame which does not cover the population adequately , completely or accurately ; ( 2 ) the use of a ‘ non-random ’ method of sampling , so that the selection of subjects is consciously or unconsciously affected by human judgement ; and ( 3 ) the refusal to co-operate among some segments of the chosen population . |
| 5 | The excretion of normal subjects is less than 7 g/24 hours . |
| 6 | Sovicille for shops is less than three miles away . |
| 7 | I know Piers is morally and psychologically ugly — just plain and dull , phoney . |
| 8 | The main owner of such schools is usually and indirectly the Church of Ireland , and current expenditure and salaries are provided by the state , with the board of governors presided over by the local minister . |
| 9 | The number of inpatients treated from other districts is more than 50 per cent in one district in ten . |
| 10 | Reports from Finland , Norway , and USA suggest that the declining incidence of gastric carcinomas is mainly because of a marked decrease in tumours of intestinal type . |
| 11 | Stilettoes make your feet , your feet is like but because these are platforms they 're erm |
| 12 | All are agreed , however , that competition in European telecommunications is more or less inevitable , as a debate at last week 's Networked Economy Conference in Paris , organised by Communications Week International , demonstrated . |
| 13 | The argument that converted barns provide housing for rural communities is well and truly scotched by the average price of conversions — well beyond the means of local people . |
| 14 | The future for Britain 's mines has never looked so black , but some believe the future safety of miners is just as threatened . |
| 15 | He has often argued that one of Microsoft 's key competitive advantages is precisely that his firm is not like the old computer giants , offering customers everything from chips and computers to software and service contracts . |
| 16 | But the reason we , unlike the Americans , have no telephones on planes is largely because a consensus on frequencies was a long time coming . |
| 17 | This shows that the present value of £1 per year for 25 years is less than £15 when the rate of return exceeds 5 per cent per year . |
| 18 | Ramped access to public buildings is all but unknown . |
| 19 | The electric/hydraulically powered adjustable wheelbase will stay for certain , and the recycled aluminium structure with its plastic panels is here and now technology . |
| 20 | The comparative infrequency of colonic carcinoma that we have found compared with other studies is probably because of the differences in the age distribution of the populations studied . |
| 21 | This would imply that the density of primordial black holes is less than 100 million per cubic light-year . |
| 22 | Using the equation above , the probability that a difference of this order has been missed in this series of experiments is less than 1% for both acid and pepsin . |
| 23 | Although the , the hub of the sails is more or less in the centre of this photograph it 's not in sent not in the sense of , of the area of vision because you 've got a lot of dark area here so that tends to move the centre of vision so it becomes this bit , if you like , and so that 's not in the centre there . |
| 24 | NASA 's budget for life sciences is less than $138 million a year , out of the agency 's total annual spending of $14 billion . |
| 25 | One of the most ambitious and colourful of diffusionist theories is undoubtedly that advanced by the English anatomist Eliot Smith ( 1871–1937 ) , a contemporary both of Malinowski and Radcliffe-Brown , who sought to explain the global distribution of mummification and other exotic practices . |
| 26 | For example , the Kenyan scholar Ali Mazrui has written that the reason why the Swahili word for a newspaper is gazeti is merely that the first papers that East Africans came into contact with were government gazettes . |
| 27 | In fact , one of the reasons God is so concerned that we do not involve ourselves in premarital and extramarital relations is so that we will never feel we are competing against the skill and ability of another lover . |
| 28 | The rationale for UDCs is presumably that the scale of urban decline necessitates the creation of independent , centrally-appointed development agencies that are free from the apparent constraints of local government . |
| 29 | The lack of satisfactory studies on the use of activated charcoal in reducing drug absorption in poisoned patients is largely because the task is so difficult . |
| 30 | ‘ Under the new legislation , if the amount of VAT that a business incurs in relation to selling nonvatable items is less than 7,200 a year , then all the money can be reclaimed . |