Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps my Occulobe organ grants me keener micro-eyesight than yours ? |
| 2 | Women tend to cover their mouths while laughing , and males show true merriment ( and true anger ) mainly after hours when their culture allows them greater freedom of behaviour while drinking alcohol . |
| 3 | A specialist creative package like Factual Design Painter allows you greater control over the way the brushes , pens and ‘ comms ’ operate , as you can see from the Brush Behaviour palette at the bottom left corner |
| 4 | When the absurdly naive theatricals by which the clerks seek to cloak their scheme for preventing the miller 's stealing — which has increased from the " curteis " to the " outrageous " with the illness of their college 's manciple — reveal their design to him , he determines to steal yet more , out of pride , and out of his own version of measure for measure , but not out of covetousness : As soon as the two clerks can stop and consider the trick that has been played on them , we see that the miller 's action , motivated by his pride , hits directly at the pride of the clerks : Another offence to John 's pride leads him later to attempt to bed the miller 's wife , hearing the success of Alayn with the daughter ( 4199 – 209 ) . |
| 5 | She can hear their conversations , in cars , in bedrooms , in restaurants , at other parties , as time draws them nearer to her , to one another , to her house . |
| 6 | Now , Colonel Bumford is very typical of the type of regular officer , who is so orthodox and cautious , he finds it safer to put off making decisions rather than risk wrong ones . ’ |
| 7 | She finds it easier to say to herself , ‘ He might never have died , if only … ’ . |
| 8 | You may be the kind of person who finds it easier to have sex than to talk about it , whether with new or regular partners . |
| 9 | Apart from the difficulty of chambers , the ordinary person who has no special connections normally finds it easier to get some kind of start on the common law side , where there is a great deal of small work , in county courts and the criminal courts ; on the Chancery side there is no criminal work and all the civil work tends to be fairly important . |
| 10 | This means that the user generally finds it easier to use and data from one program can be easily transferred to another , a feat requiring skill and patience on machines like the PC . |
| 11 | He finds it easier to live without property . |
| 12 | In too many cases the draughtsman finds it quicker to design a new part than to search through hundreds of drawings for one that fits his task . |
| 13 | Branagh , too , talks like a winner , and Henry V offers him better than any other play in the repertoire what might be called a yuppie dynamic , a mythology of success and self-definition rather than of struggle . |
| 14 | ‘ I know about her , ’ she tells him later . |
| 15 | Ray Wilkins rates him better than Gazza . |
| 16 | ‘ She tells it better than I would . |
| 17 | The booklet tells us further ‘ Butter is a healthy food , there 's no evidence to the contrary . ’ |
| 18 | It gives them greater job mobility but also a large number of people aged in their 20s who would not have had a pension now have them . |
| 19 | Firstly , this gives you greater flexibility in distributing the data around the devices and directories on your system , and secondly , it is useful administratively — for instance , if one project finds that LIFESPAN is giving them data corruption alarms , you will need only to validate their particular Storage Directory , rather than the whole database . |
| 20 | So I think you know the more you train people , that really gives you greater power does n't it ? |
| 21 | Nobody gives you better value for money . |
| 22 | This gives you better control — and it stops you having to keep putting your hands into the tank . |
| 23 | Gradgrind 's becoming an MP in Hard Times gives him further opportunity for satire : Parliament figures as ‘ the national cinder-heap ’ ( HT ii 11 ) where the MPs , ‘ the national dustmen ’ , get up ‘ a great many noisy little fights amongst themselves ’ ( HT ii 12 ) , and the image recurs in Our Mutual Friend when CD apostrophizes the nation 's legislators : ‘ My lords and gentlemen and honourable boards , when you in the course of your dust-shovelling and cinder-raking have piled up a mountain of pretentious failure , you must off with your honourable coats for the removal of it , and fall to work … or it will come rushing down and bury us alive ’ ( OMF iii 8 ) . |
| 24 | A third witness , you understand , adds no further dimension but only spreads it thinner , and a fourth thinner still , and the more witnesses there are the thinner it gets and the more reasonable it becomes until it is as thin as reality , the name we give to the common experience … |
| 25 | I think that all that this policy does is make that more explicit , it gives it greater clarity . |
| 26 | ‘ Italy needs to vote in a system which gives it stronger political groups , ’ he added . |
| 27 | ‘ A student whose education enables him later in life to earn a higher income should return some of that income . ’ |
| 28 | He is a ‘ movie ’ man ; and nothing does him greater credit than his energetic campaign to get Kodak to mend their stock , so that colour-films of the past do not automatically fade and turn green . |
| 29 | How come the garage sells it cheaper ? |
| 30 | But does he , does he fancier her ? , no |