Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later he tried to change his mind by saying to me , ‘ Do n't you want to go somewhere quieter than that , where we can talk ? ’ |
| 2 | Their first single ‘ Mystery Train ’ is restructured with bleeps and beats to sound altogether moodier , while ‘ Senses ’ is one of those emotional anthems that sits at the end of the set . |
| 3 | Dismayingly , things got little better in the post-Ottoman period . |
| 4 | … real Christianity ( as distinct from Christianity-and-water ) goes much nearer to Dualism than people think . |
| 5 | But since it was established in 1775 to serve as a printer to Edinburgh 's legal , banking and ecclesiastical communities P&W has developed a strong position in financial printing , providing it with a coverage that goes much wider than ‘ Sketch and describe an electronic circuit . ’ |
| 6 | Back in Britain , they found themselves being treated much better as they grew in stature . |
| 7 | North American trials have shown that system offers much faster drying rates than with conventional swaths , reduced field losses and a higher fibre digestibility rate for livestock . |
| 8 | Buzzards will eat much smaller prey than rabbits , particularly in the winter when food is scarce . |
| 9 | We 're not going to have to wait much longer to learn which country and town have won AST Research Inc 's long-promised European personal computer plant . |
| 10 | But some people have to wait much longer for operations in some places than in others and the system can be insensitive to individual needs . |
| 11 | Others develop much larger ones . |
| 12 | The following question ( ExampleS ] ) produced much lower success rates . |
| 13 | This type of work , developed by Reid and Epstein ( 1977 ) , showed that even with relationship problems , short-term focused work produced much better results than long-term open-ended work . |
| 14 | She produced much better X-ray patterns , and , by introducing methods to control and vary the water content of the specimens , she was able to show that the DNA molecule could exist in two forms ( A and B ) , and to define conditions for the transition between them . |
| 15 | That tastes much better than that one ! |
| 16 | Trade around this period was approximately 3 million tons per annum and the new dock able to accommodate much larger vessels was to further increase this total over the next few years . |
| 17 | Lambswool is a natural insulator and always feels warm to touch so you 'll stay much warmer on cold frosty nights . |
| 18 | Advances in keyhole surgery and laser treatment mean much speedier recovery . |
| 19 | FATTIES make much better workers than fitness freaks , says a psychologist . |
| 20 | It will now be more difficult for anyone to claim that they misunderstood the law , as the Management Regulations — in giving more detail — make much clearer what is required . |
| 21 | Loretta reminded herself that telling stories was part of his job , and he had probably heard much worse than this in his time . |
| 22 | The dominant values of the past century therefore have cast doubt on the value of creating wealth and placed much greater emphasis on its redistribution . |
| 23 | Past gradients seem unlikely to have fallen much lower than this for substantial periods of time . |
| 24 | We would , therefore expect to see much greater lobbying in Congress than in the Commons , and so we do . |
| 25 | The nettle-rash got somewhat better in time , but it continued to bother him at regular intervals for the next 20 years . |
| 26 | The poetry got much better too . |
| 27 | He was making these trips at the suggestion of Lucas , the engineer to the GS&W ; , who said that if the distress got much worse , the government could hardly resist appeals to include authorized railways in the list of acceptable public works . |
| 28 | I was growing , but I 'm now , I never got much higher than about five foot one and I weighed eight stone for a many years . |
| 29 | " Afterwards my face got much brighter , but it [ the portrait ] was really me , very tired and charged with electricity as I was then . " |
| 30 | America produces much better statistics on mortgage arrears than Britain . |