Example sentences of "[adj -er] [conj] [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This size-grading occurs because the coarser material generated by an eruption is heavier and is therefore deposited first . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It 's made the committee larger than is usually thought effective has n't it ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The gap between rich and poor countries is smaller than is generally thought |
| 7 | The Woodvilles ' personal following was thus smaller than is sometimes assumed . |
| 8 | The Woodvilles ' personal following was thus smaller than is sometimes assumed . |
| 9 | But in global terms , it will be far worse than is easily imagined . |
| 10 | However , the scope for publishing a defendant 's side of the story prior to trial is wider than is commonly believed . |
| 11 | Thus the social and political implications of design , it is suggested , are wider than is usually supposed . |
| 12 | 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 : |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | Similarly , the robustness of female Australian aboriginal bones may be far greater than is generally found in male pygmies . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | The costs of building refurbishment may be greater than is often assumed . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It is quite possible that the power of water to influence the structure of biological forms is much greater than is commonly realized . |