Example sentences of "[verb] [adj -er] [conj] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was considered fairer because the amount of advertising time would be small and expensive , which could favour the wealthiest clients . |
| 2 | The implications of these terms are considered later but the use of terminology in this study text needs to be made clear at the outset . |
| 3 | As a matter of interest , Dr Jean Valnet and other doctors in the field of clinical aromatherapy have discovered that blends of certain essential oils are not only more powerful than when used singly , but that the mysterious factor of synergy is at work — the whole becoming greater than the sum of its equal parts . |
| 4 | His attitude towards me was one of dumb , doglike devotion , which I found tiresome , but in the circumstances he seemed better than no boyfriend at all . |
| 5 | He preferred the slow , peaceful life of the Devon countryside to the frenetic bustle of the metropolis : playing for Exeter seemed better than the likelihood of being very small fish in the big Arsenal pool . |
| 6 | And since Felicity — that 's my wife — ca n't now experience what 's happening five years ago — because it 's receding faster than the speed of light , and the speed of light is a constant which , as we know from Einsteinian physics , can not be exceeded … |
| 7 | But the account of the meeting of Esau and Jacob goes deeper than the story of the purchase of Sarah 's burial plot . |
| 8 | The issue of curriculum and subject choice goes deeper than the portrayal of women in school textbooks , however . |
| 9 | Some early work in the United States ( Feldstein , 1975 ; Clotfelter , 1985 ) has suggested that the scale of charitable donations increases faster than the reduction in tax revenue and that the level of giving increases sharply if tax reliefs are given . |
| 10 | However , the region over which this Minkowski frame matches actual space time would be small because of the intense curvature and would become smaller as the centre of the black hole is approached . |
| 11 | You get feeding better than the rest of us you do . |
| 12 | Discounts , buy-backs , chainbreaking , free carpets , mortgage subsidies — the list gets longer as the stock of unsold new homes rises . |
| 13 | She said Jeremy turns his amp up — so his guitar sounds louder than the rest of them . |
| 14 | The sky was getting darker and the silhouette of the Chateau was casting a long shadow of gloom over the scene . |
| 15 | As population grew so , in parts of Castile , the farm unit became smaller and the number of strips or fields that comprised the unit minute . |
| 16 | The report makes for fairly depressing reading , as it describes how the capital fares worse than the rest of the country in many areas of service . |
| 17 | Some then went off to the latrines behind the back of the hall , which Charlie thought smelled worse than the middle of Whitechapel Road on a steaming summer 's day . |
| 18 | But it never seemed right ; she would kiss him , for not very long , at the end of each meeting , and he could hold her , feel his arms around her narrow back , his body briefly against hers , but he could feel her tense if his hands went lower than the small of her back , and when he tried to kiss her more deeply , or hold her tighter , she would break away , shaking her head . |
| 19 | Suddenly the skip , even though it was empty , felt heavier than a cartload of corpses being heaved off a battlefield . |
| 20 | In the case of public housing , financial control from the centre has — as we have seen — become stronger and the opportunity for local variation has been reduced . |
| 21 | Disregarding the cases when the electric field is very large or the conductor is very hot ( beyond the scope of this course ) the electrons can not get farther than the boundary of the conductor . |
| 22 | The proportion of one parent families dependent on supplementary benefit/income support has been increasing faster than the increase in the number of one parent families . |
| 23 | But with four nuclear powers , six pairs could quarrel , while five powers provided ten possible pairs and so on , the likelihood of war increasing faster than the number of nuclear players . |
| 24 | Yet the utility of those services to the public is out of all proportion greater than the continuation of prescriptions free or at one shilling each would have been . |
| 25 | It all smells fishier than a barrel of stale salt-herring . |
| 26 | What he has to come out with is not initially clear , but it becomes clearer when a taste of gay night-life turns him off , and he trails back to his dull wife . |
| 27 | The viewer 's eye is also kept happier if the centre of attention is in the same position within the frame before and after each cut . |
| 28 | He could n't understand why his father had been elected Burgermeister or the head of the theatre committee . |
| 29 | Once musicians ' royalty income becomes greater than the cost of their recording time and personal advances from the record company , they start receiving royalty statements . |
| 30 | He thought of himself , stunning them all by running and swimming and riding and shooting better than the lot of them , and them all eating their words and cheering and him being cool , man . |