Example sentences of "[conj] [adj -er] [conj] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thrill of sex with someone taller or blonder than the wonderful man I 've got ? |
| 2 | In either case , at the borders and with slight variation in the illumination , it is possible that the exposure is slightly higher or lower than the optimum value for the current conditions . |
| 3 | The sieve mesh sizes , raw weights , weight percentages and cumulative percentages , finer or coarser than the specific sieve , may be displayed . |
| 4 | The minimum hardware requirements for InstaPlan are 640k of random-access memory ( RAM ) , MS-DOS 2.0 or higher and a floppy disk . |
| 5 | Some people from both the Libyan Jewish and Slovakian foci of inherited prion disease have been found to carry the mutation at codon 200 and yet remain unaffected at ages similar to or greater than the upper age at onset in most affected relatives.Such incomplete penetrance has not been reported in other types of inherited prion disease . |
| 6 | Yet for many employment offers social satisfaction as great or greater than the financial reward . |
| 7 | If you make PAGE less than its original value or greater than the original value of HIMEM , you will get a " Bad program " error when you try to enter a program line and you may well crash BBCBASIC(Z80) . |
| 8 | Nobody forces you to consume the equivalent of halfa dozen eggs at one meal , but it is very easy to do so , so if you have eaten a mousseline of scallops , red mullet , and écrevisses floating in a lake of sabayon sauce , then do not follow it with a honey ice cream or one of those ali baba affairs nor with a peach charlotte containing five egg yolks , but rather with a tarte fine chaude aux pommes acidulées , which is nothing more outlandish or richer than an old-fashioned apple tart made on a base of puff pastry . |
| 9 | The institute found that the global average temperature , although cooler than the previous year , was still well above the average from 1951 to 1980 and in line with values for the 1980s . |
| 10 | These findings do not confirm fears of an overall increase in the number of old people looked after in institutions , and the proportion of 4.7% remains commendably low by international standards ( and lower than the national average of 5.1% in 1971 ) . |
| 11 | Then he changed into a selection of dry clothes she 'd found in Marlin 's wardrobe , though Gentle was both taller and leaner than the absent lender . |
| 12 | yet the gear change itself is quicker and lighter than the long throw , rubbery device that spoils the Vauxhall . |
| 13 | That 's an amazing 1,639,369 EXTRA copies over the three days — more than the whole circulation of the Daily Express and bigger than the combined sale of the Daily Star and Today . |
| 14 | The sides of the valley grew slowly steeper and steeper and the marked path ( white-yellow-white markers ) criss-crossed the river . |
| 15 | In the latter case , small , metal discs slightly larger and thicker than a large coin , hold pictures , drawings , etc onto the board and in that way avoid the need for drawing pins . |
| 16 | Any diagnostic system that is quicker and cheaper than the present system would be of use . |
| 17 | The curved tooth cuts faster and smoother than the usual block-shaped TCT tooth . |
| 18 | It was April , and after a warmer in Poosie Nansie 's , another West of Scotland custom , we thrashed away on the Ayr , casting amongst chunks of ice floating down the river ; frozen stiff , getting colder and colder as the grey day grew older and older . |
| 19 | It is cheaper and faster than a daisy-wheel printer . |
| 20 | Then comes the slapping sound of the belt-joining clips whipping round the iron pulleys , getting faster and faster as the whole machine gathers speed . |
| 21 | But again , actually he does n't , and I quote Cole 's piece : ‘ The fact is that starvation will get worse and worse unless the rich world contemplates a real assault on the causes of third-world poverty , rather than the occasional crisis management . ’ |
| 22 | It begins strong , and louder than a sick person could make ; the second cry is lower , but not less doleful but rather more so ; the third yet lower , and soft , like the groan of a sick man almost spent and dying . |
| 23 | The florist was closed , and they 'd put the fresh stock away , so that when Boy looked in through the first window the flowers he saw were of silk ; all artificial , but so good that they were better and fresher than the real thing , and certainly more expensive . |
| 24 | In terms of use , the status of e-mail messages ( excluding mailed WP documents ) , in most companies , is somewhere higher than a telephone call or a hand-written note but lower than a formal memo or report . |
| 25 | The truth as observed at the Royal Albert Hall on Wednesday is that it would be exceedingly foolish for admirers to think of Mason as better than a developing apprentice in a punishing trade . |
| 26 | He comes across as whiter than the driven snow . |