Example sentences of "[adj -er] [conj] [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Frenchman 's Creek ’ is obviously much easier but is hardly in the same league as the rich novel produced by Tolstoy 's impeccable skill . |
| 2 | The closed-loop input impedance is easily found as To find the closed-loop output impedance , a source , is considered to be connected to the input in which case Assuming for simplicity that the feedback network negligibly loads the output and so from which the closed-loop output impedance is If further as is often the case , |
| 3 | I wish to alter the low range gearing in the transfer box to something lower than is already fitted in my V8 109 and would appreciate a ‘ crawler ’ gear . |
| 4 | This size-grading occurs because the coarser material generated by an eruption is heavier and is therefore deposited first . |
| 5 | Suppose that person is a stranger and is very weak . |
| 6 | Throughout much of urban Spain the lower-middle class , whilst larger than is sometimes suggested , was engaged in relatively small-scale economic activities involving little in the way of enterprise : family-based manufacturing , localized commerce , a primitive service sector , and not least important the buying , selling and leasing of land — a major middle-class preoccupation since the disentailment of the Church 's landed property in the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 7 | It 's made the committee larger than is usually thought effective has n't it ? |
| 8 | Its goal is getting nearer but is still tantalisingly out of reach . |
| 9 | Not only is it very much easier to culture than brine shrimp , but it also much cheaper and is probably more nutritious as well . |
| 10 | I am quite well and am happy to say Lady F. is much better and is quite well . |
| 11 | Although it is generally true that increasing age exerts an unfavourable effect on outcome of diseases and medical interventions , this influence is weaker than is generally supposed and is mainly due to age-associated disorders . |
| 12 | The gap between rich and poor countries is smaller than is generally thought |
| 13 | The Woodvilles ' personal following was thus smaller than is sometimes assumed . |
| 14 | The Woodvilles ' personal following was thus smaller than is sometimes assumed . |
| 15 | But in global terms , it will be far worse than is easily imagined . |
| 16 | The aims of the project , which are discussed in more detail in Chapter Two , were to provide flexible ‘ packages ’ of supplementary home support to dementia sufferers , in addition to the statutory health and social services and the non-statutory services normally available , and to test whether , given this service , it is possible cost-effectively to sustain such people at home for longer than is usually possible with support only from existing forms of health and social service ; to explore the circumstances in which the dementia sufferers could cost-effectively be sustained at home , and to examine the circumstances in which it was not possible to sustain them ; that is , to identify the limits to care . |
| 17 | In the Mediterranean or Caribbean the peak sunlight lasts longer and is more reliable , while the wind 's strength is frequently weaker than in the UK . |
| 18 | The temporary reputation achieved by the other types lasts longer and is more profitable as the discount factor tends to unity . |
| 19 | This means that it must not be wider than is reasonably necessary for the protection of the employer 's business ; it must not place an unreasonable restraint on the employee 's freedom to earn his or her living ; and it must not be too wide from the public viewpoint . |
| 20 | However , the scope for publishing a defendant 's side of the story prior to trial is wider than is commonly believed . |
| 21 | Thus the social and political implications of design , it is suggested , are wider than is usually supposed . |
| 22 | He concluded that the planet 's habitability is under attack but its natural resilience is probably greater than is normally assumed , and that in the environmental field geographers have made contributions in environmental perception and hazard assessment and also in the area of unified physical and biogeographic research : |
| 23 | From a static point of view , the term ‘ divergent-dialect situation ’ can be understood in two senses : first , Belfast dialect ( for example ) is observed to be divergent from other dialects and , particularly , from ‘ mainstream ’ norms of language , such as RP and standard English ; second , the dialect exhibits a great deal of internal variation — much greater than is generally reported for these better-known varieties ( this is approximately the phenomenon that Le Page ( 1975 ) calls diffuseness ) . |
| 24 | Similarly , the robustness of female Australian aboriginal bones may be far greater than is generally found in male pygmies . |
| 25 | The 1976 DoE circular on the safeguarding of agricultural land defined the general policy as being ‘ to ensure that , as far as possible , land of a higher agricultural quality is not taken for development where land of a lower quality is available , and that the amount of land taken should be no greater than is reasonably required for carrying out the development in accordance with proper standards ’ . |
| 26 | The costs of building refurbishment may be greater than is often assumed . |
| 27 | Yet to acknowledge this is to recognize that our health is under our own personal control to an extent far greater than is currently accepted . |
| 28 | The opportunities for close , long-term relationships are greater than is usually the case in a large , metropolitan , residential area . |
| 29 | It is quite possible that the power of water to influence the structure of biological forms is much greater than is commonly realized . |