Example sentences of "[adj -er] [noun sg] [subord] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In general , the provincial circuit is a far tougher cookie than its metropolitan counterpart . |
| 2 | The trouble has been , however , that with the longer construction periods for nuclear stations and the further period before their cheaper running costs will allegedly show up , it can take a long time to see which way the scales really tip . |
| 3 | I am 6ft 2ins and stand much further back than his recommended distance of five feet , and from approximately 1- to 12 feet do not ‘ require an exaggerated upward movement of the head ’ . |
| 4 | As predicted , his offbreaks have proved as persuasive in the shorter game as his sublime strokeplay has been in the longer one . |
| 5 | Typically , old policies provided broader cover than their modern counterparts . |
| 6 | They came to Raasay House on the evening of Wednesday , 8 September , and stayed for four nights , a shorter stay than their first spell on Skye . |
| 7 | In France too , the Lumière Brothers operated on a much larger scale than their British counterparts and , by 1902 , Pathé-Frères had expanded to the point where it carried out all the functions relating to film production — from the manufacture of film stock to exhibition . |
| 8 | On the other hand teaching machines are one way of utilising the skilled teacher on a larger scale than his personal activity in the classroom . |
| 9 | ( b ) consolidate and divide all or any of its share capital into shares of a larger amount than its existing shares ; |
| 10 | A realistic budget will do three things for you : it will sort out the urgent essentials from the details which can wait ; make you feel good if you manage any or all of it at a lower price than your original estimate ; and inspire you to improvise , to consider if you could achieve an equally good effect and still fit in with what you can comfortably afford . |
| 11 | There will be no need for a further cut in UK interest rates , even if the Bundesbank decides to opt for cheaper money as its own recession deepens . |
| 12 | So that had she been able to take her history exam , she would have needed rather a good grade there , perhaps a better grade than her past performance suggested she would have attained . |
| 13 | What better place than their gloomy underworld could there be for such beliefs ? |
| 14 | It will print to laser or dot matrix and with a better quality than our 350.00 pound package does . |
| 15 | The notion that an English-man will cross the Channel to France to obtain credit in Calais because the formula under which French finance houses are allowed to quote the A p R enables them to advertise a cheaper rate than their English counterparts , and that the Common Market is thereby distorted , is too ludicrous to warrant a moment 's consideration . |
| 16 | Older children have a better prognosis because their immune system is better developed . |
| 17 | Many doctors reflect the ageist attitudes of the society in which they work , feeling that the medical problems of older people are a lower priority than their younger patients . |
| 18 | It was a faster car than their small Renault . |
| 19 | However , it was possible to invoke a strong emotional reaction by drawing attention to the obvious fact that the paying patient could get a better and faster service than his National Health counterpart . |
| 20 | ( c ) subdivide its shares , or any of them , into shares of a smaller amount than its existing shares ; |
| 21 | Labour 's Gordon Brown said Britain still had higher inflation than its main competitors . |
| 22 | If we can trust the figures which suggest that Christians tended to marry at a notably higher age than their pagan contemporaries , Christianity would appear to have reinforced these shifts towards marriage as a more personal and free partnership of equals . |
| 23 | There is little doubt that their handwriting skills develop at a slower pace than their linguistic skills . |
| 24 | IT IS now a little more than three years since four biologists caused a minor uproar among molecular geneticists by publishing in Nature two papers in which they argued that a substantial proportion of the DNA of animal cells may exist for no higher purpose than its own propagation . |
| 25 | These were ‘ asymmetrical cyclical troughs ’ because recovery of output was spread over a much longer period than its initial loss , and because many factories closed for good in the second recession . |
| 26 | It may be as low as 500 ( 3 branches per 100 carbon atoms ) in high-pressure polyethylene , which in consequence has a lower density than its linear brother — high-density poly-ethylene , which has a molecular weight between branches approaching 3000 . |
| 27 | His thumb rubbed sensuously along the swollen lower lip while his other hand undid his belt buckle . |
| 28 | Replace the shroud but leave the screw out of the centre of the lower panel as its locating point is now missing . |
| 29 | Second , the firm with the smaller financial backing will be the first to crack , even though it may be able to produce at slightly lower cost than its richer rival . |
| 30 | Some of the professionals believed that they had greater patience than their able-bodied colleagues , and often pointed out that their patients and clients had greater confidence in them and were more likely to take their advice . |