Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] [adj -er] [conj] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oliver had never seen a dirtier or more miserable place . |
| 2 | If cycling is to be made a safer and more attractive mode of transport , it is , as Hudson 's classic book has advocated , essential that planning principles are established and followed . |
| 3 | John Wilson , Cambridge coach , who was with the victorious Oxford camp last year , considers he has produced a fitter and more professional crew for the four-and-a-quarter-mile . |
| 4 | In many ways I 've had a fuller and more satisfying life since then , and I know that my children still need me in lots of ways . |
| 5 | Not only is the relation in the latter between Homeric ‘ myth ’ and modern novel one of irony and transformation ; in it the ‘ myth ’ , oddly enough , is given a higher and more assured status as something less sophisticated , more archetypal , closer to the holy and the divine . |
| 6 | NO HORSE was ever given a better or more fitting name than Nijinsky and few have paid their namesake more graceful compliments . |
| 7 | Since the heady days of Henson it had become a duller and more local object . |
| 8 | In 1936 Robert Wagner had maintained that Charlie 's pictures are always ‘ proletarian ’ but by this time the politicization of criticism had already assured a wider and more varied critical response to Chaplin . |
| 9 | It is interesting to find , therefore , that in certain systems there has evolved a tighter and more centralised system of control with curriculum units established and housed within ministries of education . |
| 10 | The attainment of his majority would naturally have heralded a larger and more independent following , but Gloucester 's early influence was in areas where there was an established network of royal servants and this shaped his developing retinue . |
| 11 | The attainment of his majority would naturally have heralded a larger and more independent following , but Gloucester 's early influence was in areas where there was an established network of royal servants and this shaped his developing retinue . |