Example sentences of "[adj -er] [conj] [adv] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The treatment of the two sisters as objects for possession and domination is given a further and perhaps more insidious turn by their mother , Eleonora , who by ‘ serpentizing Fraud ’ uses her daughters to gain political advantage . |
| 2 | ‘ Exactly , ’ said David , grinning at her , ‘ and I shall go on trying to show him that Socialism is a fairer and much more just system than Capitalism . ’ |
| 3 | Indecency is a much broader and more widely used category of offence . |
| 4 | Some cultures emphasize the values of cooperating with others , conciliating opposing views , and being prepared to compromise and submerge one 's own ideas in a broader and more popularly acceptable solution . |
| 5 | It will fail to ask the rather broader and much more important question about retailing : how is the great British public likely to be doing its shopping in five or 10 years ' time ? |
| 6 | But whereas the administration likes to talk about a greener and more internationally competitive car industry , Detroit wants to spend any available support on overcoming bread-and-butter engineering obstacles in complying with environmental legislation . |
| 7 | Here is a slightly shorter but much more informative version of the same release : |
| 8 | A nicer and generally more caring bunch of people it would be hard to find , and to quote an old cliche in a genuine sense ‘ it has been a real pleasure talking to you ’ . |
| 9 | Some things have , however , changed at a simpler and much more direct level . |
| 10 | Some of them I had already encountered in Tanglewood Tales I and II , which I 'd read in the class library at a younger and less sexually conscious age , but the power of those stories also lay in what was only half-knowable . |
| 11 | In other words it is a part of the larger and even more complex issue of the relevance of current cost accounting . |
| 12 | Small numbers of French had been parachuted into Indochina under SEAC auspices before the Japanese coup but a much larger and perhaps more effective intervention by the French Corps Léger d'Intervention , a specialist unit of some five hundred men recruited and waiting in Algeria , was frustrated for various nominal reasons ; the effective one being that the US , until the very last moment , was unalterably opposed to French units participating in the war against Japan , and especially , if this involved Vietnam . |
| 13 | Yet the expectation has persisted that Handel ought to have been shown next to some larger and more recognizably worthy instrument . |
| 14 | Commenting on the change at St. Anne 's to become a mixed college she writes ‘ The college is distinctly noisier , socially livelier and rather less academic work is done over all ’ . |
| 15 | There are hints of a deeper and more subtly disturbing film , when Hawn 's character pauses to wonder if any woman really knows her husband — but , all too abruptly , it 's on with the show . |
| 16 | To a large extent relationships and contacts with the media appear to be related to information giving and receiving , but there is a deeper and perhaps more significant aspect . |
| 17 | This immense task formed the basis of his first major work : Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family [ 1870 ] and was incorporated in his later and much more ambitious book Ancient Society [ 1877 ] , which established a series of stages through which mankind was supposed to have proceeded . |
| 18 | However , during the 1680s and 1690s it is difficult to distinguish his parliamentary activities from those of his younger but politically more significant cousin , Sir John Lowther of Lowther , first Viscount Lonsdale [ q.v . ] , |
| 19 | Far more cool , calm and level-headed than his 22 years should allow , he is one of the new breed : intent on restoring a live , funkier and altogether more sincere approach to modern dance music . |
| 20 | However having spent so long on Tolkien 's powerful and complex image of evil , it is time to turn to his portrayal of the ( in appearance ) often weaker and much more limited power of good . |
| 21 | In the same period , a smaller but nonetheless very important gap was also opening up between Barth and Brunner . |
| 22 | The autistic child may have any of these abilities to a considerably greater degree than a child of higher or even very high intelligence . |
| 23 | Good did not overcome evil simply because we knew more — technological progress merely raised that struggle to a higher and potentially more devastating level . |
| 24 | With masterly understatement , the Stock Exchange report says that , compared with 1986 , firms now have ‘ higher and possibly more rigid cost structures . ’ |
| 25 | erm Partly out of the same kind of wave of public sympathy , but was much slower and much more long-drawn-out process in America . |
| 26 | Peloponnesian and Cretan sculptors work at first not in marble but in local limestones ; later sometimes in marble imported from the Cyclades , but the softer and more readily available stone is long used everywhere for building and for architectural sculpture . |
| 27 | Jesus was and is the new Adam : not the unfallen Adam of innocent humanity restored , but the first of a redeemed and resurrected humanity — a greater and more gloriously human humanity than ever the first Adam knew . |
| 28 | " We in Christian Aid are proud to have been in at the start of this magazine which campaigns relentlessly for a better , fairer , environmentally purer and politically more aware world . |
| 29 | Like many others from the 1960s and before , I am fortunate that I missed the modern way and so view science as a richer and altogether more fulfilling experience . |
| 30 | Consequently , there is a trend towards a wider and rather more secular choice of repertoire . |