Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be more acceptable if the dam made electricity , but it is silted up because the water analysis got muddled up and the river is much siltier than was originally expected . |
| 2 | Currently , the evidence is suggesting that both the motives and the actions are more prevalent than was previously supposed . |
| 3 | While high pay is not a myth , it is not as high as is generally supposed — but if you turn into a super advertising star , the sky 's the limit . |
| 4 | Cancellation of a directly financed transaction will leave the sale from dealer to financier still outstanding ; this though is normally covered through a contractual repurchase provision . |
| 5 | The logic of this though is never give anybody anything in the way of information ! |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The range of organisations that can provide you with back-up is far more extensive than is generally realised . |
| 8 | I have outlined one possible approach to reading discourses , whether racist or antiracist , which suggests that what is going on in and between them may be more complex and contradictory than is often allowed . |
| 9 | This may require close clinical supervision but , given that supervision , is generally much less demanding and fearful than is commonly supposed . |
| 10 | The double bass , too , is more versatile than is commonly recognised ( as is the bass guitar ) . |
| 11 | Their knowledge and experience of drama will be far more wide-ranging than is commonly acknowledged . |
| 12 | In particular , they are much more substantial at ages 10–15 than is commonly supposed . |
| 13 | The popular culture of racism is neither so unified , nor the positions within it so fixed as is sometimes supposed . |
| 14 | Emperor Tetras are a quiet , peaceful fish and not as delicate as is sometimes thought . |
| 15 | But in addition , the time zone advantage is , as has been noted earlier , less valuable than was originally thought . |
| 16 | Further , the physical and sexual abuse of women , which the evidence shows is much more widespread than is popularly believed , can not be understood in terms of anything other than patriarchal relations . |
| 17 | In reality heavy drinking is far more pervasive than is commonly realized and most drugs which are consumed to excess are prescribed by a GP rather than bought illegally . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It 's made the committee larger than is usually thought effective has n't it ? |
| 20 | More recent work has demonstrated that the allochthon is not quite as confused as was formerly thought , and the term Argille scagliose has been dropped in Italy ( though it is still used in many other parts of the world ) . |
| 21 | If the phenomenon of mark up pricing ( alternatively known as ‘ administered ’ pricing ) is as widespread as is generally believed , what instruments of macroeconomic policy can governments bring to bear to alter — in this context , to reduce the real wage rate ? |
| 22 | The commercial application of expert systems in the UK has not been as widespread as was originally anticipated . |
| 23 | The traditional " straight " view of the homosexual relationship as a kind of cheap imitation of that which typifies male-female interaction , while true of some couples , is much less generally applicable than is popularly thought . |
| 24 | Mrs Whitehouse 's attitude to homosexuals and homosexuality , though , is somewhat more complex than was perhaps allowed for at the time . |
| 25 | In the last few decades , however , the simple atoms of the early atomic theories have been discovered to be much more complex than was originally thought , and physicists are continually finding more and more sub-atomic particles . |
| 26 | This can lead to iatrogenic disease ( drug induced ) , a problem which may be far more wide-spread than is generally realised . |
| 27 | partly this was because the current account deficit appears much smaller in current ( 1980s ) data than it was thought to be by contemporaries ; mainly , it would seem , because the invisible position was actually much better than was then realized . |
| 28 | Mildew is more debilitating and weakening than is generally realized . |
| 29 | The ultimate sanction a country can levy — nationalisation ( expropriation ) of operations is not unknown , but is less frequent than is sometimes believed . |
| 30 | I show that the occurrence of false peaks can be far more frequent than was previously thought . |