Example sentences of "the [adj] [conj] the [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was agreed by Mrs Buckingham , who had always resisted the false belief about the pain in her daughter 's back , that Harriet should stop lying around on the hall seat and go to a school founded in the 1840S for the further education of gentlewomen . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , ’ Harry said , through teeth clenched against the cold and the deeper cold of fear . |
| 3 | Most initiatives arose from the ‘ movement left ’ — that amorphous network of local groupings , cultural ventures and autonomous campaigns that was the legacy of the libertarian revolts of the late 1960s and early 1970s — rather than from within the existing labour movement ( apart from the Institute for Workers ' Control , which in the mid-1970s looked as though it might become a major national forum for the newer movements of the 1970s and the earlier generation of intellectuals and trade unionists who had quit the Communist Party after 1956 ) . |
| 4 | It is well positioned to deliver further improvements in its operating performance in both the short and the longer term . |
| 5 | And so began this friendship of 35 years , between the older and the younger man ( Layton is 20 years senior to Leonard ) ; between the master and the apprentice . |
| 6 | From the outside it looks the same as the broader opportunity garden , but once through the gates the entrant sees that it is only a narrow strip . |
| 7 | ‘ As Jenny Marx said in 1872 , ’ she observed , ‘ 'in all these struggles the harder because the pettier part falls to women . |
| 8 | It was only from the 1880s that the larger Canadian cities sprouted stations that would match their rapidly growing civic pride . |
| 9 | And so into the last , and smallest , of the three Basque provinces , La Soule , itself divisible into two parts , of the Upper and the Lower Soule , the first hard against the barrier of the high mountains to the south , the second relatively flat and bordering on Béarn . |
| 10 | As I have remarked , Culler 's Structuralist Poetics encouraged some readers to think in terms of rapprochement between the New and the Newer Criticism . |
| 11 | ‘ In the narrower or the broader sense ? ’ |