Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [conj] [adv] [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She walked up a gravel drive crowded with large cars , past an old-fashioned wooden pavilion and two clay tennis courts , ignored the adult game going on in front of her and started around the boundary to the second and much smaller game in the far corner . |
| 2 | One of the major demands of the RENFE unions , achieved in 1984 , was the inclusion of the 1,500 or so higher management staff within the scope of annual collective agreements . |
| 3 | In their turn , the stronger and financially sounder tenant farmers , or lairds , would extract money and labour from those a step lower down the scale . |
| 4 | The other and perhaps stronger motive for regional bloc-building is the hope of increasing collective bargaining power . |
| 5 | He no longer made conventional bread with all the kneading and rising stages , but soda bread , which is a simpler and much quicker process . |
| 6 | They also have a slim but slightly better chance of winning a vote for a referendum . |
| 7 | Sites at Gwithian in Cornwall include a medieval and possibly earlier chapel , a medieval farm , and pre-Norman fields , as well as many prehistoric sites . |
| 8 | But in the ‘ new ’ version , Blade Runner The Director 's Cut , due out at the end of the month , Scott opts for a different and even darker conclusion . |
| 9 | The sociology of such developments is at a different and much broader level than that of cultural formations . |
| 10 | ( Indeed , the latter in his resurrection seems to point directly to this alternative , and we should not forget that such a comparatively late example as this had a clear and much earlier precedent in the resurrection of Osiris . ) |
| 11 | Les Perdris , " The partridges " , is a shorter and rather gentler tale . |
| 12 | In it , you mentioned that you would be willing to write to an official in support of the building of a proper path between Bloomiehall Park and Muirwood Road , to give children a shorter and potentially safer route to school avoiding the Lanark Road . |
| 13 | The warm reception given to Project 90 , designed by John Heffernan and Ken Greenley , provided positive proof to Ward that he was on the right track in his long-term strategy of building a separate and much stronger image for the Bentley marque . |
| 14 | Needing 361 to avoid the follow-on , England find themselves in a similar but even tougher position than in the first Test at Calcutta where they lost by eight wickets . |
| 15 | A thousand years ago , humans used a similar but much cruder system which relied on the strongest part of the pattern , a band of polarised light arcing the sky . |
| 16 | Dr Dan Wright , research officer , says : ‘ Our findings contrast very much with a similar but much smaller study in the US which showed that almost 100 per cent of the study remembered exactly what they were doing when Kennedy was killed . ’ |
| 17 | A similar but apparently stronger effect is seen in children hospitalised with measles , with a reduction of 66% , although this was not significantly different from the 30% seen in developing country community settings . |
| 18 | A similar though perhaps simpler procedure is expected to be used in assessing expenditure needs for the allocation of central funds to Local Government under the proposed ‘ community charge ’ . |
| 19 | It is a simple and much cheaper method . |
| 20 | Instead of one large corporate body , like the BBC , ITV comprised a dozen or so smaller production companies , all making , and prerecording , programmes for sale to each other and overseas . |
| 21 | Like them , they are made from a 50% cotton , 50% polyester mix , though the result is a thicker and slightly stiffer material — undoubtedly more hardwearing , but not as comfortable in texture . |
| 22 | Instead with every open-mouthed kiss , with every fevered touch , each lifted the other on to a higher and increasingly higher plane of ecstasy . |
| 23 | Finally , in the mid-twentieth century , the empires fragmented into a new and much wider State system . |
| 24 | An easier and much cheaper alternative would be to let the earth 's upper atmosphere serve as a detector . |
| 25 | But there is an additional and even stronger ground for impeaching it . |
| 26 | Notice also that there is an alternative and syntactically simpler way of expressing the second version , which is : ( 12 ) Haberup angered his golem We can see exactly the same type of ambiguity in : ( 13 ) Reg ran the engine dry The adverbal adjective version of ( 13 ) corresponding to the question what did Reg do to the engine ? tells us that Reg reduced the engine to a certain unsatisfactory state ( though he may at least have had the sense to stop at that point ) . |
| 27 | Improving the outlook for patients will require either diagnosing cancer at an asymptomatic and presumably earlier phase or offering more effective treatment for those with advanced disease . |