Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adj -er] [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only objects smaller than the hole can pass through it . |
| 2 | The problem only becomes worse where the end results — the rate of pay , or the hours worked , or the promotion achieved — are easily quantified and compared . |
| 3 | The price of petrol thus has to reflect the cost of a single-occupant trip by bus or rail , so that private motoring only becomes cheaper if the car has more than one occupant . |
| 4 | The bond thus becomes weaker and the bond enthalpies decrease . |
| 5 | The viewer 's eye is also kept happier if the centre of attention is in the same position within the frame before and after each cut . |
| 6 | Unlike the Japanese martial art of karate , kung fu employs very few kicks , and those that are used rarely go higher than the waist . |
| 7 | The development of banks ' off-balance business was a source of concern for regulators in the 1980s and early 1990s , but the problem may well become larger if the credit risk of the banks is further undermined and the banks no longer act as intermediaries in a growing number of capital market transactions . |
| 8 | Already Robin 's fingernails are growing and blood is flowing through the hand , although he has little feeling higher than the base of his palm . |
| 9 | But this sort of arrangement too became rarer as the century went on . |
| 10 | Powell has never felt worse than the year after he won , when he fell on Stearsby . |