Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arguably the blinder kinds of sexual radicalism , wherein sexuality is made the prime political mover , have tended to be mainly heterosexual , and in the case of Wilhelm Reich , overtly homophobic . |
| 2 | Flesh , starring the hunky Joe Dalessandro , was shot over two weekends at a cost of $4000 , and is arguably the better film . |
| 3 | Populism , however , is rarely the worse for sceptical assessment : particularly when it is equated with justice . |
| 4 | However , on striking up a conversation , Chalk , a little the worse for drink , became talkative and boastful . |
| 5 | He was a little the worse for drink and there had been an argument over a bottle of whisky that Drew had in his pocket . |
| 6 | Drab and perhaps a little the worse for wear , sedate in unpretentious boards or cloth , they are cherished far more than copies reclothed and bedecked in elegant calf and morocco . |
| 7 | But she ultimately reached the Rante and was lifted up the death-house steps looking little the worse for wear and , if anything , pinker with health . |
| 8 | She was very soon a little the worse for drink , her pale hair untidy and her features less perfectly exquisite than they should have been . |
| 9 | She had not been pleased to hear that the gentleman was a little the worse for drink ! |
| 10 | I left little the wiser as to what Kenyon wants to do with the network . |
| 11 | Unfortunately they leave us little the wiser about its essential nature . |
| 12 | The Department of the Environment survey confirmed the results of earlier work carried out by Bristol University School for Advanced Urban Studies ; that it was predominantly the better-off and middle-aged tenants who bought , usually with more than one wage-earner in the household . |
| 13 | Out-migrants from rural areas are predominantly the younger members of the adult population . |
| 14 | Monsieur le Curé said the sooner we buried them properly the better , he 's not going to tell anyone . |
| 15 | From this time onward the greater part of the effort is concentrated on the critical event that made the difference between a routine flight and a catastrophe . |
| 16 | When subjects are asked to judge which of two simultaneously displayed numbers is numerically the larger , irrelevant variations in the physical size of the digits influence response times when the numbers are printed in figures ( e.g. 9 ) but not when they are printed alphabetically ( nine ) . |
| 17 | Okay , income differentials , yes , so presumably the larger the differential between urban and rural wages , the er , the more , or the greater the incentive . |
| 18 | And was it mostly the bigger farms that wanted you |
| 19 | Was it mostly the bigger farms or did the peedie ones |
| 20 | Added to this was the fact that the clocks themselves were so erratic ; every so often they slowed down , so that time went more slowly the closer you were to them . |
| 21 | And on a more le local level you 're quite right the better trained people there are , the more they , the happier they feel the more work they have , the more job satisfaction they have . |
| 22 | This is why we do n't test at the ninety nine point nine nine nine nine nine percent confidence level because the higher you 'll , the smaller the probability making a type one error essentially er is significance level , right the larger the probability will make a type two error , right , a type two error denotes the power of the test . |
| 23 | Eventually the rarer genes will disappear and the genetic types leaving fewer offspring will become extinct . |
| 24 | They watched it clear the farther hedge and disappear into the wood beyond the river . |
| 25 | Effectively the shorter prologue to Lex Salica raises the question of the extent to which the law was royal and the extent to which it was customary . |
| 26 | This conservative response , led by the fiery Abbot Joseph of Volokolamsk , carried the day , and Ivan 's successors were unable even to halt effectively the further growth of ecclesiastical landholding . |
| 27 | More importantly the larger molecules manufactured inside the cell were later to be called the dna . |
| 28 | In my first six weeks here I had lots of battles — taking on the bigger ones . |
| 29 | As Wilfred Owen moves into the second stanza he takes on the bigger issue of what he is really trying to say . |
| 30 | Ideally , the community physiotherapist takes on the wider responsibility of not only teaching the carers , but also assessing and treating the patient 's particular problems through a progressive rehabilitation programme . |