Example sentences of "is [art] [adj -er] [conj] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pinnock 's coupling is the rarer and more generous too , the Yorkshire Feast Song , composed in 1690 for an ‘ otherwise obscure annual gathering of York nobility . ’ |
| 2 | At first sight the outcome may seem to depend on which of the combatants is the stronger or more skilled . |
| 3 | The Dee Hall is the larger and more tourist-orientated of the two , with a substantial business clientele , and it remains the group 's ‘ flagship ’ . |
| 4 | Yes , they were very exciting times and the amazing fact is the harder and more unreasonable the senior management acted the more the ‘ masses ’ strived to please . |
| 5 | There is a sort of self-regarding coldness about these bravura pyrotechnics that brings Martin Amis to mind , although Conrad is the brighter and more perceptive writer , as well as possessing the maturer mind . |
| 6 | The Optical Mark Reader , produced by Johnson and Pinnock , at £5,000 to £6,000 , is a cheaper and more effective way of keeping track of students . |
| 7 | This is true right down to the detail of how we use electronic mail , for example , in which , until we discover or are shown otherwise , we start from the assumption that this is a cheaper and more rapid method of writing the sort of letters we always wrote , and that those letters should have the same status , and be stored and referred to in the same way , as the written or typed ( and duplicated ) paper missive . |
| 8 | It is a cheaper and more reliable way of getting information about jobs or workers . |
| 9 | Elmer , David McKee 's patchwork elephant , also likes jokes and tricks but his is a subtler and more attractive humour . |
| 10 | If the presence of the trespasser is known to or reasonably to be anticipated by the occupier , then the occupier has a duty to the trespasser , but it is a lower and less onerous duty than the one which the occupier owes to a lawful visitor . |
| 11 | The G-MEX venue of the 1992 Exhibition is a better and more accessible venue , with all the exhibitors being in one giant hall , rather than being spread between two small halls as has been the case in previous years . |
| 12 | This is a larger and more active membership than most other all-party groups can claim . |
| 13 | Cheque book journalism is a broader and more complex issue than the confiscation of the proceeds of crime and is bound up with the more general question of media reporting of the criminal justice system . |
| 14 | The water start uses the force of the wind to pull you out of the water and , when performed properly , is a faster and more efficient means of starting on all types of board . |
| 15 | Mediation ( see Chapter 11 ) is a faster and more flexible process where internal negotiations have broken down . |
| 16 | But we need not pause to examine its defects , since there is a stronger and more interesting move with which it may be confused . |