Example sentences of "[verb] in [adj] [conj] [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have full jurisdiction to say : ‘ We are satisfied that there is a nuisance here , but we are not going to order you to do what the local authority say you are to do because we think it can be done in another and cheaper way or in a more effective way ’ . |
| 2 | The hours expanded in deeper and deeper heat , until the air split and the rain was all but blinding . |
| 3 | Hersh argued that resale rights would help stabilise artists ' incomes and such stability , he maintained , ‘ would probably result in more and better art from artists freed from some of the anxiety of performing on a tightrope without a safety net ’ . |
| 4 | The new ruck-maul law , rather than resulting in quicker and cleaner ball , could end up with the sort of pile-up seen here when New South Wales took on Fiji in the recent Super Six Series as defending players desperately try to stop the ball coming out of the rucks or mauls . |
| 5 | But what they did to me was give me a metronome and a theme which you play in quicker and quicker note values : triplets , eighths , sixteenths , and so on . |
| 6 | Crawford , at 24 , displays a plastic face and an elastic grace — comic credentials that should allow him to travel in faster and funnier company . ’ |