Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main disadvantage of this practice is its complexity ; it is easier and more comprehensible if the accounts reflect actual revenues and expenses , and the budget reflects budgeted revenues and expenses . |
| 2 | On this occasion guests could use all the other rooms in Eugénie 's suite , except for her library and study , and the atmosphere was easier and more agreeable because the number of guests was limited to five or six hundred : |
| 3 | Orange dwarfs are brighter than red dwarfs , but they are still fainter and less massive than the Sun . |
| 4 | But the reflection is likely to be more interesting and more challenging if the activity looks forward as well as over the shoulder , as it were . |
| 5 | Enid Blyton offers us the independent girl as something of a freak : ‘ George ’ , the independent girl as ‘ problem ’ , even if she is more interesting and more individual than the other characters . |
| 6 | She clung to him , and his mouth found hers , and she tasted as fresh and as new as the morning , and desire had exploded within him , and he thought that after all he had been wrong : once would never be sufficient , he wanted her for always , he wanted to be with her , to share everything with her . |
| 7 | He also introduced Corbett who felt many of the lords were too busy to acknowledge him though he noticed Bishop Wishart of Glasgow , a wizened little man with a face as brown and as wrinkled as a shrivelled walnut , studying him intently beneath heavy-lidded eyes . |
| 8 | It has actually raised and submerged its sulphurous head five times since its first appearance in 1925 , and when Lorne and I reached it in September of 1983 it was nearly 300 feet high and so active that the government had denied us landing permits . |
| 9 | When he was no more than knee high and as slender as a pencil , I dug him out of the wild river bank and planted him in a virginal garden , half an acre of island that consisted of nothing more luxurious or exotic than brick rubble , tilled chalk and grass seed . |
| 10 | They concluded Wolvertons ' method was quicker and more efficient than the Ordnance Factories ' . |
| 11 | He was as free and as single as a bird , as he made sure to tell her , and they clearly got along well . |
| 12 | Tonight 's gig encapsulates everything The Farm are good at — simple , terrace-anthem pop which can be entertaining and more affecting than a thousand Simon Dudfield pouts . |
| 13 | The life cycle is direct and usually non-migratory and the ensheathed L3 is the infective stage . |
| 14 | Even the Crêcy-Calais campaign cost only £150,000 , and the expeditions to Normandy and Brittany were significantly shorter and less expensive than the campaigns of the opening phase of the war . |
| 15 | Daphne recommends mustard-yellow S ‘ Crown of Rays ’ , shorter and less rampant than the weed-like S. canadensis , for house and garden . |
| 16 | However , today the standard colour is black-and-white pied and indeed many have Friesian blood but are much smaller , shorter and more compact than the Friesian and a great deal hardier . |
| 17 | The tongue was impossibly extended , pointed and wet and more alive than the rest of the thing . |
| 18 | On the whole the differences in prey availability between the continents is equivocal and less important than the differences between one location and another . |
| 19 | Some dragons banter words with you , more devious and less answerable than the Sphynx herself ; they spin word games which you must not play , and then in the end they come out and fight like men , until you can plunge your spear into the soft white spot where their plated armour is thin . |
| 20 | The heroes of Under the Net and Lucky Jim follow a broadly similar path , bemused at lit by false starts and coming by the end to see the social world as it is : various , unstereotypable , kaleidoscopic and as fast-shifting as the shades of an opal , but in the end a place to settle into and improve rather than a system to defy . |
| 21 | Tougher and more tenacious than the other three ; more streetwise ( and Fleetwise ) than the other three . |
| 22 | During the war over the Falkland Islands ( Islas Malvinas in Spanish and Ynysoedd Malfin in Welsh ) we too had a ‘ kith and kin ’ situation : rather different and more poignant than the more well-known situation between the English-speakers of London and those of Buenos Aires and Port Stanley . |
| 23 | It is very warm and rather bulkier than the old one , though the nice girl in John Lewis told me they get thin and tired after about nine years — and mine has done twelve , so it is going to go to for our use there . |
| 24 | Obviously , to take this to the end of the line is impossible and as pointless as a dog chasing its tail . |
| 25 | It was as if there was a wave of water and the wave turned a wheel and the wheel turned a cog and the cog turned a piston and the piston punched out a wave , bigger and more overwhelming than the first wave , turning a bigger wheel , a bigger cog , a bigger piston and then finally a wave that seemed enough to swallow everything in its path . |
| 26 | Looking at him as he stared into the night , she felt a surge of affection as pure and as uncomplicated as the flow of cold air against her face . |
| 27 | There is a mixture of indicators , but on the whole the adverse indicators seem heavier and more serious than the favourable ones , many of which are things such as confidence surveys , which do not tell one very much about what will happen . |
| 28 | ‘ With the current revival in the use of brass stair rods , the carpet made from black-faced Scottish wool is ideal for this purpose as it 's very hard-wearing and much cheaper than the traditional Brussels weave carpets . ’ |
| 29 | But so clearly visible and definitely new since the previous evening was a set of footprints , and looking around , a set of tracks , small hob-nailed boot tracks going up the staircase to the top and not coming down . |
| 30 | Suddenly , black movies became Malcolm X-rated and Richard Roundtree appeared , not as some hat-tipping descendant of Uncle Remus , but as Shaft , a dark avenger , unstoppable , sex-sharp , streetwise and as cool as a Harlem icebox in December . |