Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [verb] a [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually I had a better bite and to my surprise I hauled in a roach of 11b 5oz . |
| 2 | The higher up the curtains are tied back , the more light you will admit , but by fixing the tie band lower down you obtain a fuller drape in the fabric . |
| 3 | Only you meet a better class of people . ’ |
| 4 | So you make a better door than a window ? |
| 5 | I thought we would be lower mid-table in a comparatively comfortable position , but when you get 15 little things and you lump them together you get a better idea why we have n't done so well . |
| 6 | So we need a better way to practise our scales where we can relate to a key area from any one of the seven notes in the scale . |
| 7 | Lenders fell into two camps , depending on how much they fear a further drying up of already moribund mortgage demand . |
| 8 | So they have a higher income . |
| 9 | Well it 's not the grate , it 's the I think when we 've cemented it together it wants a bigger fireplace for that |
| 10 | Thus we fabricate a deeper sense of being red in which an object is red only if it is red in a stable fashion in the perceptual fields of all observers and which is therefore treated as part of the real world which exists independently of us . |
| 11 | Hence they permit a greater range of interests to be accommodated and help prevent the emergence of an over-centralized bureaucratic tyranny . |
| 12 | Later he had a sterner challenge to face , one which more closely affected his personal sense of honour . |
| 13 | Two days later he paid a further $78.1 million for Renoir 's Au Moulin de la Galette , and so occupies numbers one and two spots on the all-time auction hit parade . |
| 14 | And now she took a better look at him , Folly could n't help noticing the strong , muscular lines of the broad back under that white shirt . |
| 15 | Now we have a clearer image of the boys ' war to destruct things and the theme is emerging already . |
| 16 | The tents were straw-coloured , ranked in orderly rows , and every so often they passed a larger pavilion which Rostov guessed belonged to some kind of nobleman or senior officer . |
| 17 | Now he wants a bigger say in how the money he gives is spent . |
| 18 | She had been a top model — her legs alone were insured for a five figure sum and he had enough hanging on him to bankrupt a smaller company . |
| 19 | ‘ Why do n't you make a smaller unit ? ’ said Hans Hermansson , one of Volvo 's managers . |
| 20 | Do n't you think a better class of sportsman , whatever their intellectual abilities , would give the University a higher profile ? |
| 21 | But if he killed Harry , would n't you expect a greater amount of soaking ? ’ |
| 22 | Then someone said , ‘ Should n't you like a closer look at your little brother ? ’ and she realized oh , make it not true — that he was her brother … |
| 23 | Today we print a further selection received from Merseysiders and people from all over the country as well as abroad … |
| 24 | Here we have a further reason why defining democracy simply in terms of government is unsatisfactory . |
| 25 | If the ovaries are removed , ovaries stop working there is treatment there to prevent us having disease , why should n't we take it and why should n't we have a better life ? |
| 26 | ‘ But if they wanted to kidnap you , why did n't they make a better job of it ? ’ asked Jack . |
| 27 | It can be seen that human sweat is actually hypotonic ie it contains a lower salt concentration than the plasma . |
| 28 | A horse 's sweat is hypertonic ie it contains a higher concentration of salts than the plasma from which it is derived . |
| 29 | I think he got on er , quite well down there , because he 'd spent a few days up here he had a better idea of what he wanted to ask , and what he wanted to talk about and so on , but erm , only because his deadline 's and |
| 30 | Then I laid a paler colour into the gaps left for the highlights and took it back over the previous work as well to unify the colour . |