Example sentences of "a [noun] [adj -er] [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were a bit laxer but a lot of them were very very strict . |
| 2 | Obviously the City boys are a bit fussier than the country boys about when they play . |
| 3 | That 's a bit better because a gradient of one is forty five degrees and we s we said it should be more than that . |
| 4 | He 's just a bit cleverer than the rest , but willing to take advice with it , and is happy being the writer he always wanted to be . |
| 5 | One leg was a bit shorter than the other , I think . |
| 6 | But ones a bit politer than the other that 's all . |
| 7 | yeah , but I need to be a bit skinnier and a bit taller |
| 8 | Mars takes a bit longer to revolve on its axis than the Earth , so a Mars afternoon would be a bit longer than an Earth afternoon . |
| 9 | Willie ‘ O ’ is a bit stronger and a lot younger than Mick so you have to give him a slight edge when it comes to form and fitness . |
| 10 | ‘ Sixteen or Seventeen — I was a bit younger than the others . |
| 11 | Also , I am a bit older than the rest of you , but you can perhaps understand that I do n't want to drop dead without a proper and public recantation . |
| 12 | They tend to they tend to be a bit noisier than the others , but actually they are very constructive , and on Banbury School Governors it 's not the political appointees that erm I 've seen as a problem particularly . |
| 13 | Is a computer better than a doctor ? |
| 14 | And there are very few marginals that the Conservatives retained with a majority smaller than the drop in the number of people registered — only four , in fact : Coventry South West , Kensington , Edmonton , and Eltham . |
| 15 | The house next to Mrs. Sutton 's was of about the same age but as the pavement was almost a foot higher than the floor of the front room , it had two steps down inside the door . |
| 16 | This tiny car — it 's a foot shorter than a Mini — might be the breath of fresh air Europe 's choked and choking cities have been looking for . |
| 17 | Yet it seemed more terrible , a horror greater than the Abigails ' marriage or the treatment of the Dasses by their son , greater even than the death of Stephen 's mother because Stephen 's mother had sought peace and at least had found it . |
| 18 | ‘ In his profession he found a force stronger than the temperament he had inherited from his family ; instead of surrendering to his natural instincts he followed a clear , straight path , and did not slide into the wretched muddle in which all the other Rougons perished . ’ |
| 19 | During clamps a significant rise in plasma hormone concentration was defined as a concentration greater than the mean of the five baseline ( euglycaemic ) values plus two standard deviations in two or more consecutive samples . |
| 20 | More than 200 pages later Genet writes ‘ out of the crowd a glance swifter than a wink reveals two fedayeen as two lovers … |
| 21 | There were no houses , no people , no hills , and not a rock bigger than a cricket ball . |
| 22 | the measure of damages awarded to a plaintiff who was obliged to incur hire charges following a road traffic accident could include ( i ) the cost of hire of a car larger than the plaintiff 's own ( ii ) the cost of hire after completion of repairs pending receipt by the plaintiff from the defendant 's insurer of funds to meet the repairers bill . |
| 23 | The eastern half was a warehouse , a storey higher than the mill and built later , around 1890 . |
| 24 | A fate worse than a cookbook |
| 25 | On the average cost basis , the taxpayer would be treated as receiving a benefit greater than the amount charged to the public . |
| 26 | Need a good scientist who say that last July went and discovered a planet larger than the earth in another solar system and now said , oh it was all a mistake ! |
| 27 | Even seated he was still almost a head taller than the Han . |
| 28 | His hand moved again , found her , touched her with a knowledge older than the world , making her whole being convulse in sudden startled pleasure . |
| 29 | But his stable revealed that the 10-year-old could be diverted to the Hackett Chase at Cheltenham tomorrow over a distance just over half a mile shorter than the Mackeson . |
| 30 | Such was the speed that Dancing Brave showed when winning the General Accident Two Thousand Guineas at Newmarket that some felt that the Derby — half a mile longer than the Guineas — might not be his race , but he took his chance at Epsom and started 2–1 favourite . |