Example sentences of "is a [adj -er] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That is a worse reproach to me than any that she ever uttered . ’ |
| 2 | And possibly either after that or simultaneously with that or to transfer there , he might go up to live in his father 's house up in Yorkshire , Mytholmroyd er er I du n no but it seems to me that if there is a worse place to be unemployed than Wolverhampton , West Riding has got ta be erm a competitor |
| 3 | However , there is a simpler way of comparing variations in readers with variations in readings . |
| 4 | A fourth case where planning helps occurs when the real task involves a deep subtle search and there is a simpler simulation of it . |
| 5 | ChemWindow Classic is a simpler version of the program recommended to users who have less powerful systems . |
| 6 | It was argued that it allows litigation which would otherwise not be brought , that the lawyers involved act more conscientiously on behalf of their client because of the mutual financial interests , and that it is a simpler method of payment . |
| 7 | There is a fuller description of the Framework in the ‘ Quality Development Programme Policy Paper ’ , a copy of which has been sent to all centres . |
| 8 | The time-dependent form is shown to be Applying the Laplace transform to both sides gives so that the transformed bulk modulus There is a fuller discussion of these topics in ( MP ) and in references ( Ferry 1980 ) , McCrum , Read & Williams 1967 ) including the representation , due to Gross ( 1953 ) , of the relaxation functions as Laplace integrals . |
| 9 | Apart from the stray references to external events in the letters between Helen and Edward , the incomplete Fiction is a fuller guide to the decisions Thomas was making between Easter 1895 and the summer of 1896 than reinterpretation of the Morgans novel . |
| 10 | This question will be approached in two stages : this chapter develops the conceptualisation of social collectivities and the relations between these and political forces , and attempts an historical outline of the development of these relations in Britain since 1945 , while the following chapter is a fuller essay in the analysis of the specific relationships between economic class structure , social collectivities and political forces in the period of emergence of Thatcherism and of Thatcher 's government 1979–1982 . |
| 11 | His speeds are not so driven as Rattle 's , the energy level is lower ; but there is a clearer sense of the cunning in the music . |
| 12 | But there is a bigger caveat about what Mr Major did , a caveat about tax philosophy . |
| 13 | The crystallographic results show a good correlation which the modelling results , both for the extreme B I and B II states and for the intermediate transition region , although there is a bigger scatter of ε values in the B II zone than the modelling would suggest . |
| 14 | We have to face the fact that there is a bigger risk of nuclear proliferation at present than the world has ever known . |
| 15 | Instead , businessmen should cheer the fact that the rapidly growing developing economies are richer than they thought : a bigger economy is a bigger market for rich-country exports , after all . |
| 16 | Apple is a calmer horse by nature , he finds his medium/extended trot rather difficult , but hopefully as his general self-carriage and balance improves , the bigger trot will come through . |
| 17 | Less than a mile from the turning for the Lac de Bious-Artigues , but on the other side of the road , is a lazier way of gaining real altitude and tremendous views , by taking the cable-car ( it goes regularly only in summer and during the skiing season ) up to the Pic de la Sagette , at almost 7,000 feet . |
| 18 | The practical significance of this distinction is that in the first group of cases there is a greater likelihood of the necessary information being passed rapidly to the defendant , and that will in turn meet the objective of the Convention 's authors and also the standards set by ‘ due process ’ tests . |
| 19 | In the case of British archaeological remains , if there is some doubt whether a robust brachycephalic skull is of Neolithic or Bronze Age date , one may say that there is a greater likelihood of it being Bronze Age , for most Neolithic individuals were noticeably long-headed , whereas many Bronze Age invaders were very short-headed . |
| 20 | Although the pH/pCO 2 method overcalculates the alkali content of oesophageal fluid by about 25% , there is a greater error in salivary alkali determination by the pH/pCO 2 method probably attributable to the higher pH . |
| 21 | THE European Commission is a greater threat to the Lake District 's native hill sheep , the Herdwick , than a cruel winter on the high fells ever could be , according to farmers in the area . |
| 22 | The American auctioneer 's style differs slightly from that of his London counterpart — there is a greater element of showmanship — and it is interesting that most of the transplanted English auctioneers have developed a technique that combines elements of both styles . |
| 23 | It 's part of a new study which it 's hoped will determine once and for all whether there is a greater incidence of cancer in the families of radiation workers . |
| 24 | One of the things I 'd like to see happen is a greater exchange across all the businesses of what they 've learnt and how they 've gone about quality programmes . |
| 25 | For example , table 6.6 suggests that there is a greater tendency in Braniel than in Andersonstown for speakers to adopt raised , rounded realizations . |
| 26 | Here there is a greater emphasis on the police violence . |
| 27 | Allied to this is a greater emphasis on comfort , leading to the use of cotton and ‘ elastan ’ fabrics which are proving popular in sports and activity bras . |
| 28 | Practical fusion needs a combination of high temperature — to hurl the nuclei together against their electrical repulsion — and/or pressure , so that there is a greater density of them and so the chances of bumping rather than missing are increased . |
| 29 | There is a greater problem in relation to Estonia and Latvia , where there are substantial numbers of ethnic Russians . |
| 30 | For education , on the other hand , there is a greater degree of constancy in what it aims to do — a constancy , underpinned by philosophies and political ideals of long-standing . |