Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [adv] a [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is clearly a better place to sell razor blades than Azerbaijan , where the men say they shave only once a week , or , if they want to look their best , every other day . |
| 2 | This is clearly a further curbing of local authority financial control . |
| 3 | This is obviously a safer course than renewing the writ although it was said in Sisknys v Hanley ( 1982 ) The Times , 26 May that the fact that the plaintiff 's solicitor could have but did not use this substituted service procedure was not a good reason for refusing renewal . |
| 4 | ( This is obviously a better way of measuring recall than merely counting the number of words remembered , although it does have the disadvantage of being a less objective method since the actual wording used by a subject may be very different from that used in the passage . ) |
| 5 | This is usually a better solution for draining the cistern as it leaves a cold supply at the kitchen sink . |
| 6 | But the tales that were told were not only gruesome but frightening — in fact sickening is probably a better word — of what happened to you if the desert Arab got hold of you and handed you over to his womenfolk . |
| 7 | The Boeing 707 was now a safer aeroplane , but it was felt in AIB that some important matters of principle and practice needed to be changed so that the same sort of thing could not happen again with a different type of aircraft . |
| 8 | Technical Manager or Production Engineer — the latter title is the more popular of the two , in practice , although the former is probably a better description of the role . |
| 9 | That would have reduced exposure ; but it is so small a step from cutting the level to removing it altogether that perhaps that is now a wiser move given the shift in public opinion . |
| 10 | The proposals for small businesses are quite radical , but that is always a longer game . |
| 11 | Cos that is , cos that 's just a better idea then . |
| 12 | But by and large that 's just a further clarification of some aspects and it 's not a quantum change of policy , all it did is collect together wholesalers of circulars etcetera er and and present them in a in a slightly er more concise way . |