Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] [adj] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blue eyes , as light and as frozen as ice , stared into hers before his glance moved slowly downwards , deliberately insulting . |
| 2 | Crushing batches of eggs on stems or leaves is quicker and more efficient than spraying . |
| 3 | The reasons for it were as old and as primal as mankind itself . |
| 4 | Although this procedure ( known as bonorum distractio ) was both fairer and more convenient than bonorum venditio , it had none the less been admitted only in exceptional cases under formulary procedure . |
| 5 | Prevention is always more sensible and less costly than cure . |
| 6 | Naturally this crisp geometrical profile becomes softened and less perceptible as scoria cones grow older and are subjected to the normal processes of erosion . |
| 7 | And for both , morbidity statistics are less accessible and less reliable than mortality data . |
| 8 | There was a smell of wood smoke and flowers , and the house felt as warm and as kind as summer . |
| 9 | And most of us have a general sense that things are pretty gloomy for people in the Third World : we might remember that Sudanese women must walk hours in search of firewood , that Brazilian peasants are still going hungry , that children are dying all over the world of something as simple and easily treatable as diarrhoea . |
| 10 | It 's safer , less violent and more pleasant than booze — and jailing people is one hell of a way of fucking up their lives . |
| 11 | It 's safer , less violent and more pleasant than booze — and jailing people is one hell of a way of fucking up their lives . |
| 12 | ‘ You 're as pure and as good as gold . |
| 13 | They were heavier and more noisy than wood — and quite hard on the tummy when they were pushed into the ground . |
| 14 | His own voice was low and as cold as steel . |
| 15 | First we can be aware of the unnecessary layers of paper , cardboard and plastic used to make products larger and more glamorous than life , and avoid them . |
| 16 | She though the place well-named , for the hall was bleak and comfortless and as cold as winter in High Tor . |
| 17 | ‘ There 's two sides to you , you know , Aggie , and one 's unfair and as bitter as gall . ’ |
| 18 | The marital relationship was very tense and often violent so mother wanted Suzy well out of the way when her husband was angry . |
| 19 | Graphically the game is top-notch , the character sprites are large and nicely detailed while movement is fluid and looks very believable . |
| 20 | This mean reversion effect became stronger in both countries as delivery approached , and this is consistent with arbitrage becoming less costly and less risky as maturity declines . |
| 21 | I sit in front of the television and impress my girl-friend by pointing out all the faults of the players ; it is much more comfortable and less dangerous than participation , and my girl-friend thinks I am wonderful . |
| 22 | CSC is much cheaper and more flexible than video conferencing , which requires special rooms and expensive phone lines . |
| 23 | 1972 : Mesarovic & Pestel 1976 ) , actually becomes cheaper and more plentiful as technology finds and creates new resources and uses existing ones more efficiently . |
| 24 | Firstly , since free labour was cheaper and more productive than slave labour , East Indian sugar could be sold , if allowed to compete on equal terms , at a lower price than West Indian in both the British and European markets . |
| 25 | Adam 's eyes were closed , in some state that looked colder and more complicated than sleep . |
| 26 | The glycocalyx of platelets is thicker and more dense than surface coats of other blood cells and is rich in glycoproteins ( Berndt & Phillips , 1981 ) , which is not surprising bearing in mind the number of receptor functions and transport mechanisms active at the platelet surface . |
| 27 | Even the most modern dental cements are very much weaker and more brittle than tooth substance . |
| 28 | These deep and very broad rivers are characteristic of the Empire , where travel by boat is often faster and more practical than travel along the primitive roads . |
| 29 | Fiber channel proponents claim the low-latency technology is probably faster and more cost-effective than challenger FDDI . |
| 30 | Although the engines are more complicated and finely engineered than petrol counterparts , they are also longer-lived , and mileages considerably in excess of 100,000 should be possible . |