Example sentences of "[adj -er] [conj] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Northern Foods shares are lower than they should be , because the stock market has got it into its head that competition is tougher than ever in the food business . |
| 2 | This routine can be carried out manually without any special equipment , but it is easier and quicker with an edit controller which takes over the operation of both machines from the one keyboard . |
| 3 | The tow held steady , but the weight of it was forcing him further and further off the wind . |
| 4 | As the years passed , I would watch his passion for adhering to the bedu principle remove him further and further from the society around him . |
| 5 | This menu is used mainly for keyboard operation as most operations are quicker and easier with a mouse . |
| 6 | Europe has voted for something new and something greener and closer to the community . |
| 7 | The salute and stamp of boot on bare floor were smarter than normally as a consequence . |
| 8 | The colour flooded her face , then receded , leaving her paler than ever beneath the surface tan . |
| 9 | Immediately Alec 's eyes filled with sweat again and he strained to hold the delicate balance of the bucket of fire as it moved lower and closer to the shape carved out of the ground . |
| 10 | His voice was pure seduction , drawing her deeper and deeper into the spell of passion , and she shook her head with a desperation born of fear — fear not of him but of what she would do if he continued this heady , drugging assault on her senses . |
| 11 | Everything may be getting bigger , brighter and better in the network world , but the most important single trend is probably standardisation . |
| 12 | The move up to verse can be made for the exit of a person from a lower but also for the entrance of one from a higher rank . |
| 13 | There is little point in reaching conclusions unless you do something better or differently as a result . |
| 14 | They take it in turns to crouch in a cardboard box — edging it closer and closer to the track . |
| 15 | And I do too , as it happens , although my place is smaller and further from the river . |
| 16 | Heavy Wealden clay made wet-weather travel an unenviable experience , but it was often little worse than much of the rest of England . |
| 17 | Yet since 1987 , the level of child sexual abuse diagnosed in Cleveland has been shown to be no higher than elsewhere in the country , and an increasing number of people locally take the view that she should be treated in the same way as myself — allowed to return to work as a paediatrician in Cleveland , but restricted from working in child abuse for the time being . |
| 18 | Relations between the Meskhetians and the Uzbek majority had been strained for some time , largely as a result of the poor housing and other conditions in which the Meskhetians had been forced to remain ( many still lived in shanty towns , and levels of unemployment were higher than elsewhere in the republic ) . |
| 19 | The general level of pain and fear for all gay men who call is now higher and just below the surface , as many of them seek to come to terms with the virus and its effect on their lives . |
| 20 | It started him thinking harder than ever about the woman who he was certain had borne his own child . |
| 21 | This design was not popular with the boatmen as it gave a less comfortable steering position — it was noisier and closer to the exhaust . |
| 22 | It is kinder and easier to the skin to freshen up your existing make-up , highlighting and exaggerating for the artificial light of night . |
| 23 | All first year pruning should be harder and closer to the base than in subsequent years . |
| 24 | There are players which sound sharper and clearer , and some ( though very few ) that sound warmer and easier on the ear . |
| 25 | I am getting thrown a little more , but I feel stronger and better with a lot more aggression . ’ |
| 26 | The rack-mounting multi-effects processor 's main generic competitor is the self-contained floor-standing unit , and the choice of the latter is now wider than ever with the arrival of Korg 's A4 . |
| 27 | That 's what they called Sean Walsh , who seemed to have become paler , thinner and harder of the eye since his arrival . |
| 28 | Here , the platform edge appears to have been controlled by a normal fault and the belt of shallow marine sediments is much narrower than elsewhere in the basin ( Clark and Tallbacka 1980 ) . |
| 29 | The sciatic notch is narrower and deeper in the male . |