Example sentences of "[adj -er] [conj] [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this context we may distinguish ( i ) the impartiality which is part and parcel of making moral or legal-judgments on the basis of formulating universal rules permitting or prohibiting certain types of conduct as distinct from making decisions only about particular persons and particular occasions : the impartiality not just of universalisability but of rules which actually are to be universalised ; ( ii ) the impartiality of being a non-involved person which is particularly relevant to the position of the person who is applying legal or moral rules to particular circumstances and which is directly to do with the characteristics of the judge who according to this standard must have no personal interest in the outcome of the case , but which may also be relevant in the process of legislation since legislators may have particular and personal interests in the outcome of the legislation in question ; ( iii ) there is the idea of impartiality as a norm of moral and judicial reasoning which has to do with giving due consideration to all relevant factors , a practice which may further but is not guaranteed by impartiality of the first two types . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This size-grading occurs because the coarser material generated by an eruption is heavier and is therefore deposited first . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It 's made the committee larger than is usually thought effective has n't it ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The gap between rich and poor countries is smaller than is generally thought |
| 8 | The Woodvilles ' personal following was thus smaller than is sometimes assumed . |
| 9 | The Woodvilles ' personal following was thus smaller than is sometimes assumed . |
| 10 | But in global terms , it will be far worse than is easily imagined . |
| 11 | However , the scope for publishing a defendant 's side of the story prior to trial is wider than is commonly believed . |
| 12 | Thus the social and political implications of design , it is suggested , are wider than is usually supposed . |
| 13 | 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 : |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | Similarly , the robustness of female Australian aboriginal bones may be far greater than is generally found in male pygmies . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | The costs of building refurbishment may be greater than is often assumed . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It is quite possible that the power of water to influence the structure of biological forms is much greater than is commonly realized . |