Example sentences of "[be] [art] [adj -er] [conj] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet Eliot had always been the subtler and more complicated man , shrewd enough to make his peace with an age to which he did not truly belong . |
| 2 | The other argument says that we are a higher and more socialised form of beast and that our urges are informed by something more subtle than base instinct . |
| 3 | Although they are a larger and less tightly-knit group , this might well also apply to agency secretarial workers . |
| 4 | Since the 1920s concern has been expressed over the fact that it tends to be the younger and better qualified people who are 51 leaving the less dynamic North , thus undermining the ability of the latter to rejuvenate itself . |
| 5 | There could be no grander nor more characteristic view of the mountains capes of these Atlantic Pyrenees than the one you see from the road or the slopes around Ahusquy . |
| 6 | Adjusting to small changes is always easier than adjusting to large and the whole aim is that the school should be a nicer and more effective place for everyone . |
| 7 | In the long run , that would be a cheaper and more effective way of dealing with the issue . |
| 8 | The group have been told that European funds are available for the next stage , which will be a further and more detailed study . |
| 9 | Although I had considerable doubts as to whether Lord Goodman would on the whole be a happier and more contented human being than Mr Goodman , or whether in fact it would not be a prefix that would be more of an incubus than a blessing , vanity as always prevailed . |
| 10 | The result will be a stronger and more prosperous IBM . ’ |
| 11 | Not just republican , we have loyalists as well and the loyalists have the potential for being the bigger and more effective of the two , and if we let the I R A to continue without interning them , you are going to have the situation deteriorating in the way which you do n't want and I do n't want , and you 're going to end up as the chief constable of the R U C said a few weeks ago with Dublin being bombed . |
| 12 | There were no warmer or more enthusiastic supporters than the BDDA in the reconstitution of the Institute , and there has always been harmonious co-operation between the two . |
| 13 | Pinnock 's coupling is the rarer and more generous too , the Yorkshire Feast Song , composed in 1690 for an ‘ otherwise obscure annual gathering of York nobility . ’ |
| 14 | At first sight the outcome may seem to depend on which of the combatants is the stronger or more skilled . |
| 15 | The Dee Hall is the larger and more tourist-orientated of the two , with a substantial business clientele , and it remains the group 's ‘ flagship ’ . |
| 16 | Yes , they were very exciting times and the amazing fact is the harder and more unreasonable the senior management acted the more the ‘ masses ’ strived to please . |
| 17 | There is a sort of self-regarding coldness about these bravura pyrotechnics that brings Martin Amis to mind , although Conrad is the brighter and more perceptive writer , as well as possessing the maturer mind . |
| 18 | For every session of primal thrash therapy there 's a slower and more contemplative series of ideas — for each bout of mental health histrionics there 's a potential hit single . |
| 19 | Mine are a new style that 's a wider and more practical fit on the calves . |
| 20 | The Optical Mark Reader , produced by Johnson and Pinnock , at £5,000 to £6,000 , is a cheaper and more effective way of keeping track of students . |
| 21 | This is true right down to the detail of how we use electronic mail , for example , in which , until we discover or are shown otherwise , we start from the assumption that this is a cheaper and more rapid method of writing the sort of letters we always wrote , and that those letters should have the same status , and be stored and referred to in the same way , as the written or typed ( and duplicated ) paper missive . |
| 22 | It is a cheaper and more reliable way of getting information about jobs or workers . |
| 23 | Elmer , David McKee 's patchwork elephant , also likes jokes and tricks but his is a subtler and more attractive humour . |
| 24 | If the presence of the trespasser is known to or reasonably to be anticipated by the occupier , then the occupier has a duty to the trespasser , but it is a lower and less onerous duty than the one which the occupier owes to a lawful visitor . |
| 25 | The G-MEX venue of the 1992 Exhibition is a better and more accessible venue , with all the exhibitors being in one giant hall , rather than being spread between two small halls as has been the case in previous years . |
| 26 | This is a larger and more active membership than most other all-party groups can claim . |
| 27 | Cheque book journalism is a broader and more complex issue than the confiscation of the proceeds of crime and is bound up with the more general question of media reporting of the criminal justice system . |
| 28 | The water start uses the force of the wind to pull you out of the water and , when performed properly , is a faster and more efficient means of starting on all types of board . |
| 29 | Mediation ( see Chapter 11 ) is a faster and more flexible process where internal negotiations have broken down . |
| 30 | But we need not pause to examine its defects , since there is a stronger and more interesting move with which it may be confused . |