Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] [prep] be [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lightweight boots with this construction are claimed to be cooler and less sweaty in hot weather , since they breathe so much more freely than leather boots . |
| 2 | Chill Pads , which maintain chilled products at temperature , are claimed to be longer-lasting than ice and more effective than eutectic plates . |
| 3 | The life-times of Digital Audio Tapes ( DAT ) and Exabyte tapes ( similar to home video cassettes ) are claimed to be longer , but how will they perform over ten , twenty or fifty years ? |
| 4 | Results this year are expected to be better than last . |
| 5 | Full-year results for the bank are expected to be higher than last year . |
| 6 | Downstream , in light of high product stocks , industry refining margins in the USA and Europe are expected to be lower in the first quarter of 1993 than in the fourth quarter of 1992 . |
| 7 | There is a move by many environmental agencies both in Mexico and elsewhere for a return to traditional forms of agriculture , as they are considered to be better for the environment . |
| 8 | The so-called chiral drugs ( from chiros — the Greek word for hands ) made with these molecules are said to be safer and more effective . |
| 9 | The other worrying trend is that the companies getting into difficulty are tending to be larger . |
| 10 | T : I 've got a lot more respect for them now because I met one of them at a party once and he told me they 're going to be bigger than The Beatles — in all seriousness . |
| 11 | They 're going to be cheaper for the English market but they 'll have to put on their prices for the export market for those that are going out |
| 12 | Mid-June finds you thinking of changing your place of residence and by July you 're going to be happier than you have been in quite some time ! |
| 13 | cos they er they 're bound to be cheaper than they are in the shops . |
| 14 | Any time you do a record , or any time you practise anything new , you 're trying to be better at what you do . |
| 15 | if you went to Burton-On-Trent I think it 's Toyota , you ought to see the size of that blooming place , er it 's right huge where they 're manufacturing cars , eventually , well probably now parts of these are , are , are going to be cheaper . |
| 16 | On the other hand there are beginning to be larger , more profitable units specializing in market gardening , floriculture or cattle or pig production . |
| 17 | Lots of skirts are beginning to be longer , a berry pattern worn with a long lean cardigan would be splendid . |
| 18 | A crucial Keynesian assumption is that if holders of speculative money balances decide to hold their wealth in some other form , they are likely to purchase financial assets since these are taken to be closer substitutes for money than other types of assets . |
| 19 | When I am trying to be stricter than usual with myself , I plan a really busy week so that I am out more than is customary . |