Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [vb pp] the [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was then still some twenty minutes short of midnight , though they seemed to have devoured the greater part of the night already in this improbable interview . |
| 2 | The Peckham trucks are said to have given the better ride , but being built up from a number of separate parts , required more frequent maintenance than the Brill trucks , whose main component was a solid forging . |
| 3 | There were no longer any grave differences of principle between him and the king , but there must have been many routine tasks after so long an absence , and these seem to have occupied the greater part of 1107 . |
| 4 | But what seems to have played the greater part is that he was the local candidate , whereas his rival , Stasys Lozoraitis , was seen as an incomer . |
| 5 | Sadly , this principle does not seem to have informed the later research . |
| 6 | He had to have travelled the better part of five miles cross country and another two from the edge of town in order to reach the Cathedral . |