Example sentences of "[adj -er] [conj] [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Although individuals vary widely , the bones of the average female skeleton are smaller and lighter than the male . |
| 32 | Although individuals vary widely , the bones of the average female skeleton are smaller and lighter than the male . |
| 33 | The impression I got was that Leeds started off REALLY well with a totally dominant mid-field , that West Ham started to make a game of it but that the weather got worse & worse and the game just degenerated . |
| 34 | A second would make it irregular for the start to be higher or lower than the finish by a factor of more than one metre for every kilometre of the distance . |
| 35 | The ABV of a beer may be similar to its OG — for example 3.6% ABV and 1036%degree ; OG but the ABV can be higher or lower than the OG according to the amount of sugar left in the finished beer . |
| 36 | Alternatively , a high SD indicates that more scores from the sample were substantially higher or lower than the mean . |
| 37 | The figure was worse than expected and the company does not anticipate any improvement in the overall year results . |
| 38 | Demand for the service is 25pc higher than expected and the company has bought a new aircraft which will enable it to run extra flights . |
| 39 | pitch it higher and thinner till the kestrel treads air . |
| 40 | ‘ All our drivers , of course , are trained to deal with an emergency situation too ’ , says Reg Jones , ‘ Standards are getting higher and higher and the majority of drivers who work for P&O Roadtanks not only have a City & Guilds qualification in dealing with hazardous chemicals , but will have attended further training courses to improve the service they can offer the customer . ’ |
| 41 | The waves get higher and higher and the water washes over and almost sinks Kevin . |
| 42 | As well as being kind to your skin , regrowth is slower and finer and the wax has a slight exfoliant effect by removing dead flaky cells , leaving it clean and glowing . |
| 43 | Udders are both softer and warmer than a sow 's hindquarters . |
| 44 | And worse and worse as the morning wore on . |
| 45 | Scotland 's major canals were built across the country to link the western and eastern coasts providing a route which was safer and shorter than the sea passage around the northern coast . |
| 46 | ENO performs the five-act version which includes the opening Fontainebleau scene , but this is longer than usual because the prelude and opening chorus about the privations of the French populace have been reconstructed from Verdi 's cuts by Andrew Porter ( whose excellent translation is used ) and Sir Charles Mackerras . |
| 47 | Well , I think I ca n't stretch the secretary 's report much longer than one and a half |
| 48 | Though stronger and brighter than the eye colours of recent seasons these shades can still be found naturally if you study the greys , blues and blacks in the iris of your own eyes . |
| 49 | Eventually , if given enough care and space , the new cuttings will grow stronger and larger than the mother plant herself . |
| 50 | Thus investment spending by firms may be greater or less than the volume of saving , government spending may be greater or less than tax receipts , and exports may be greater or less than imports , but it must be the case that a deficit or surplus in one sector is exactly offset in one or more of the other sectors . |
| 51 | The direction of the correction depends on whether the demand elasticity , , is greater or less than the elasticity of factor substitution in the corporate sector . |
| 52 | The windows were fairly clean — well , you could see through them — the layer of dust on the woodwork was thinner than usual and the compartment was reasonably warm . |
| 53 | When he does that again but as he keeps doing it he gets louder and louder and the bang goes louder and louder . |
| 54 | When the two sides had carefully sounded each other out , and all parties had ordered two rounds of drinks , they had what the agent called ‘ a very in-depth substantive discussion about very sensitive material ’ , which grew louder and louder as the band did ; in the end they could scarcely hear each other when they leaned across the table and shouted . |
| 55 | An ‘ orthopaedic ’ bed is just another way of describing a bed that is firmer and harder than the average and certainly is n't necessary for a lightweight child . |
| 56 | At lower birth orders , however , the risk of a still birth seems to be greater if less than a year elapsed since the previous birth , although there are two few cases in most birth order groups to make this finding statistically significant . |
| 57 | This will normally be wider and higher than the range associated with the valuation since the likelihood of a buyer seeking a subsequent price reduction during the negotiating process will need to be anticipated . |
| 58 | Along with other novelists , playwrights and poets , the three coronation novelists represent something plainly wider and looser than a coterie , though a Movement was promptly announced by a nameless journalist . |
| 59 | It 's Your pipes get clogged up and the bore down the middle gets thinner and thinner so the water sort of hardly trickles through . |
| 60 | The sides always seem thinner and shorter than the back . |