Example sentences of "of [noun pl] is [adj -er] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it 's not all doom and gloom — the number of vacancies is higher than it was a year ago . ’ |
| 2 | see , but I er , I think creative use of spotlights is better than , than specialized lighting effects , which A , cost a fortune , but B |
| 3 | The proportion of recipients is greater than the proportion of income they hold except at the ‘ anchor points ’ on the axes . |
| 4 | In their planning they retain the large central school-room , but the provision of classrooms is greater than the norm established by the church schools . |
| 5 | The glycocalyx of platelets is thicker and more dense than surface coats of other blood cells and is rich in glycoproteins ( Berndt & Phillips , 1981 ) , which is not surprising bearing in mind the number of receptor functions and transport mechanisms active at the platelet surface . |
| 6 | Full colour TV cameras are now available that are smaller than a packet of Polos whilst the definition of monitors is better than ever . |
| 7 | Their catalogues contain fewer items , but the range of publications is wider than at the turn of the century . |
| 8 | The meaning of a connected set of sentences is greater than the sum of their individual meanings . |
| 9 | There are obviously certain groups of people from whom there is a greater risk of catching a disease just as there are certain areas of the world where the prevalence of diseases is higher than others , but , wherever you are , it is the change of sexual partner that is the crucial risk-producing move . |
| 10 | In particular , it is sometimes argued that , when the amount paid on exercise of warrants is lower than the fair value of the shares issued , there is an additional , implicit consideration that needs to be reflected in the financial statements . |
| 11 | In fact the data presented by Guy seem to conform to general statistical laws ; if the number of tokens is lower than 10 , there is a strong likelihood of random fluctuation , while a figure higher than 10 moves towards 90 per cent conformity with the predicted norm , rising to 100 per cent with 35 tokens . |
| 12 | Numbers are serially ordered ( 1,2,3,4 … n ) as are the differences between numbers so that , for example , the distance between any pair of numbers is greater than , equal to , or less than the difference between any other pair of numbers . |
| 13 | Furthermore that while the history or literature of the past is re-read — and the impression given that the position of women is better than one might have expected — the more fundamental questions which need to be asked are not tackled . |
| 14 | A wide range of responses to this question was noted , and most of these involved combinations of two errors , i.e. not knowing the number of centimetres in a metre , and holding the view that " any number of millimetres is smaller than any number of centimetres " . |
| 15 | As the tensile strength of rocks is lower than the compression and shear strengths it is most likely that rock will be shattered during cooling and contraction . |