Example sentences of "[adv] [adj -er] [subord] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Polymers do not form perfectly elastic solids , as a limited amount of bond rotation can occur in the glass which allows slight plastic deformation ; this makes them somewhat tougher than an inorganic glass . |
| 2 | This is a very compact plane , not much bigger than a smoothing plane , weighing in at 1.6kg . |
| 3 | Each drawer , not much larger than a small matchbox , held the body of a wasp which had been through the Factory . |
| 4 | A Roman legion was somewhat larger than a modern peacetime brigade in the British Army — six thousand troops . |
| 5 | But , even allowing for the conditions , Luxton and David Pears were never much better than a lumbering link . |
| 6 | If you 're going away , wear clear or pale nail varnish — it will look much better than a dark colour with a tan . |
| 7 | Well , the studies that I 've been involved in , the computer has performed certainly as well as a consultant , and at times much better than a junior doctor in the particular situation that I 'm talking about . |
| 8 | Legalised exports of waste from rich countries to poorer ones are much better than a black market . |
| 9 | Now we 've got a company secretary he is er , an F C I S Chartered Institute Secretaries that 's much better than a chartered accountant , they 're no damn good as secretaries , right ! |
| 10 | You will need the smaller 2″ diameter template supplied with Warhammer — the catapult is much smaller than a regular stone thrower so the template is smaller too . |
| 11 | The Germans had no idea who she was and the villagers from whom she had been begging food had not betrayed her ; she was allowed to go without suffering anything much worse than a slapped face and an hour 's sarcastic , sneering interrogation . |
| 12 | At the same time both syllabus and materials would emphasise that the primary curriculum is seen as something much wider than a mere list of topics to be covered in class . |
| 13 | For instance , a page with an illustration on it — a solid page with a picture — the men charge as solid type and if the page is a little bigger than an ordinary page , they will charge extra for putting that page in , besides charging it as setting up so many thousand letters … |
| 14 | Your learned friend very fairly set the sort of orders one would expect in the case of this sort , erm , can I only add one thing which erm there is still a , failing erm his right there should have been an adjournment this morning that the question of a structured settlement could be investigated , all these people who have indeed , it must be from the plaintiff 's point of view as well , desirable that those investigations be erm carried out , with the greatest , greatest speed possible , obviously it takes time to er instruct the and so on and erm , it seemed er to me that it would be appropriate to include some of the I happen to discuss with my friend , erm providing for the matter to be brought back not later than a certain time |
| 15 | This recognition , combined with the notion that life has to be somehow larger than a physical notion , meant that this approach has been broadened . |
| 16 | The piece of wood , hardly bigger than a large rhubarb leaf was lightly aground . |
| 17 | Most proteins , on which all the functions of Earthly life depend , are denatured — which essentially means ‘ cooked ’ — if their temperature is raised above about 45°C ; hardly hotter than a hot bath . |
| 18 | There was always better than an even chance of something like this happening . |
| 19 | A p-channel transistor , relying on hole mobility , is usually slower than an n-channel device . |
| 20 | Our most disastrous Rannoch cottage was little better than a derelict shack , owned by an hotel in Aberfeldy . |
| 21 | Only 1,860cc , it produces — on a good day — all of 38 hp , swings a prop only marginally bigger than a self-important toothpick , and makes the most incredible racket whilst it 's running . |
| 22 | Then there is the fishing cat Felis viverrina , meaning the ferret-like cat , which frequents swampy ground , has slightly webbed feet and can , as its name suggests , hook fish out of shallow water with its claws ; the flat-headed cat , Felis plamiceps , of Malaya , Borneo and Sumatra which preys on frogs , fish and small birds and the marbled cat , Felis marmorata , which lives in Sumatra and Borneo and is only slightly larger than a domestic cat . |
| 23 | Oh a great help to sandwiches and a sit down meal at dinner at table with the family , it was far better than a dry sandwich eaten in the barn . |
| 24 | Even with the cost of detailed research , a set of reconstruction drawings of a site is usually far cheaper than a physical reconstruction ; in any case , such detailed drawings are generally needed as preparation for a physical reconstruction . |
| 25 | It probably works out cheaper than a conventional carphone . |
| 26 | It is often better than a standard learner , such as the Boltzmann algorithm , because the genetic algorithm keeps note of a large set of states , one for each string . |
| 27 | Either he had perfected the performance over the years to ward off sympathy from the able-bodied , or he was hiding something far worse than a self-destructive youth . |
| 28 | Policies to reduce the real wage rate in the face of Keynesian unemployment could make matters far worse since a common feature of temporary equilibrium models is the positive functional dependence of consumption expenditure on the real wage rate . |
| 29 | Yeah right blacker than a black man . |
| 30 | And to a penitent soldier a crusade was even better than an unarmed pilgrimage . |