Example sentences of "be [adj] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The standards it sets on promotion are lower even than Britain 's . |
| 2 | Banks ' base rates are lower now than they were in September 1992 , though their cost of funds is unchanged . |
| 3 | Example sentences are corpus-based so that students will learn the most popular and up-to-date usage of words |
| 4 | Because so many of our boundaries are economic rather than administrative , it is most important that the patterns of settlement at different periods are identified and the likely land uses within them postulated . |
| 5 | Many of these sections are descriptive rather than prescriptive and contain sentences such as ‘ Most legislators are not lawyers , however , and need to rely on skilled advice ’ . |
| 6 | If , despite that , there is very little direct democracy in most contemporary societies , the reasons for that are political rather than practical or technical : those who occupy positions of power and authority simply do not want it , and actively resist any attempt to bring it into being . |
| 7 | It helps , though , if the conclusions are specific rather than global or ‘ motherhood ’ . |
| 8 | Nearly all the foregoing are in some measure examples of transgressions against the laws of the country , and subject to punishment , but are rife mainly because the forces of law and order are stretched beyond capacity , and do not get the help they should from that all-important first line of defence against evil , the constraints of the individual conscience . |
| 9 | The court said obiter that the accused would have been guilty even if the police had shot dead an innocent bystander , though the actual victim was innocent too . |
| 10 | Either the physical limits of the item are wide , so that the design and production of the mating parts become difficult and expensive , or they are narrow so that they can only be produced by expensive processes . |
| 11 | Either the physical limits of the item are wide , so that the design and production of the mating parts become difficult and expensive , or they are narrow so that they can only be produced by expensive processes . |
| 12 | Meantime IBM Corp 's first quarter figures are due today and analysts are generally predicting an operating loss of about 50 cents a share on a decline in turnover of 10% or more — with a swingeing 20% or more decline in mainframe business : a year ago , IBM reported net of $1.12 a share before an accounting gain . |
| 13 | For each item included in creditors due after one year , disclose separately : amounts payable otherwise than by instalments more than five years hence amounts payable by instalments any of which are due more than five years hence , and the total of such instalments |
| 14 | amounts payable by instalments any of which are due more than five years hence , and the total of such instalments |
| 15 | Links with tradition and superstition are strong here and weddings , often still arranged marriages , are particularly impressive in the Albanian villages of the Sila . |
| 16 | Apart from Simon Hughes 's redoubt in Southwark and Bermondsey , the Liberals today are strong only where the Liberals were strong in the '50s and '60s — in Scotland , the West Country and parts of Wales . |
| 17 | Men who can cling to overhanging rocks thousands of feet above their companions , men who climb into perilous situations in the knowledge they are inches from death , men who are strong enough and man enough to meet any physical challenge , these are the men who call for their mum when they find they left the jungle Formula back in the car . |
| 18 | The second , smaller but also growing band , will be teachers who are strong enough and courageous enough to stick their necks out publicly . |
| 19 | Erm he then goes on to talk about erm eliminating banditry erm wh which basically erm where the peasant associations are powerful enough erm , you know , where the people rise up bandi bandits do n't exist because the people have risen up and you know are , are , are strong enough because they 've got swords , because they 've got spears , they 've joined together to , to get rid of the bandits . |
| 20 | Errors in searching are possible only if the searcher chooses the wrong subject heading in the published lists ; this too is regarded as an unlikely event . |
| 21 | Some of them are frail physically but are as bright as a button in their minds . |
| 22 | ‘ Charles ’ had been friendly ever since Hazards Ltd had got him out of a jam in the D Saceur affair . |
| 23 | SIR JACOB : " T would have been strange indeed if someone had not translated this fine flower from the dunghill to the garden , Madam , let me tell you you are the first lady I have seen who has exceeded expectation . |
| 24 | The evaluators have identified eight events which are attributable mainly if not exclusively to the project and its panel . |
| 25 | The 102nd Russian submarine fleet at Petropavlovsk has been alert ever since the international courts overruled the Soviet appeals and gave GenTech the right to conduct its surveys in the area . |
| 26 | In sum , as far as employment is concerned , ethnic minorities are disadvantaged even if there are differences between different minorities . |
| 27 | The appeal of natural beauty may have been strong precisely because it was free of argument and doctrine ; it became a common denominator in the drive for moral and spiritual recovery . |
| 28 | According to the Police Federation Anna McGurk might well have been alive today but for the Bail Act of 1976 . |
| 29 | ‘ I could say without doubt that this lady would have been alive today if she had not taken drugs at that party . ’ |
| 30 | Low interest rates are inflationary only when they coincide with an overheating economy as they did in 1987–8 . |