Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ail these questions — and there are many more — also suggest to me another bigger question , the one that Victoria had noted , the extent of my own involvement . |
| 2 | And erm I er did my Scottish Higher Leaving Certificate . |
| 3 | Indeed , even going into a war was a welcome escape from my poorish Higher Certificate results . |
| 4 | This would actually be my preferred lower route if it was n't for the traffic on the Wrynose Pass road . |
| 5 | His one younger brother works in the furniture business . |
| 6 | Nor are all bruises evidence of battering : I have vivid memories of my own older daughter 's accident-proneness in her earlier years ( she is possibly the only individual in the country to have given herself two black eyes by collision with a holy-water stoup ! ) and on one or two occasions her appearance would inevitably , today , have landed her on the " At risk " register . |
| 7 | Her trouble-prone younger brother Griffin , 27 , was sentenced to a year in an alcohol and drug rehabilitation centre and her mother Joanna Moore lost two fingers in a car crash . |
| 8 | Arguments over the female narrative voice in the Shipman 's Tale have too often directed attention away from its usual and final context in the Canterbury Tales and its only certified narrator towards its hypothetical earlier association with the Wife of Bath . |
| 9 | ‘ Look , Mummy , I 've got another wobbly tooth , ’ Sarah pulled her rosy lower lip down and demonstrated the tooth 's instability with her finger . |
| 10 | Joan grew up feeling that she was loved less than her prettier younger sister . |
| 11 | For these reasons , I agree that these appeals should be allowed , although I can not agree on the main issue , for the discussion of which this further hearing was arranged . |
| 12 | So , while growth of the welfare state hardly loosened the compulsion on workers to work , it did undermine dependence on any particular employer and provided an additional source of conflict , in the course of which such greater independence could be exercised . |
| 13 | And its separate lower ground floor was ideal as Jon 's studio . |
| 14 | Almost any spirited teenager who lived in Detroit wanted to move to its bigger busier neighbour Now a lot of people would beg to differ that Chicago is more exciting ; Saunderson would most probably be one of them . |
| 15 | For hinged windows , the best choice is self-adhesive epdm rubber foam , which unlike earlier foam types , deteriorates only slowly on exposure to sun and rain . |
| 16 | His alternative , ‘ perpetual servitude ’ , is chosen because of its supposed greater effectiveness as a general deterrent rather than its lesser cruelty : |
| 17 | Her soft lower lip was caught between her teeth , stifling the sobs that shook her body intermittently . |
| 18 | Wood Group Industrial Controls completed the Sizewell contract early in the year and resumed its previous lower manpower levels . |
| 19 | Wood Group Industrial Controls completed its Sizewell contract early in the year and resumed its previous lower manpower levels . |
| 20 | Oissel is the first stop ; then Le Vaudreuil — ville nouvelle ; Gaillon ( Aubevoye ) , with its Grand Marnier warehouse . |
| 21 | Agnes bit her fleshy lower lip and stared anxiously around . |
| 22 | Biting her full lower lip hard between her teeth , she crossed her arms quickly over her breasts , but not before the glimmer of recognition in Guy Sterne 's enigmatic eyes . |
| 23 | Then there were the stories of her rows with her jealous younger sister Dannii and her painful ordeal suffering from the slimmers ’ disease anorexia nervosa . |
| 24 | The case , however , moved to trial only after Mr Garcia himself proposed the use of military courts against guerrilla suspects , because of their alleged greater efficiency . |
| 25 | She hardly remembered ever feeling this before about her ragged younger sister . |
| 26 | This approach made it inherently possible for the Jews to claim to have been the teachers of the Greeks owing to their own greater antiquity . |
| 27 | It is surely time that students , as adults in part responsible for their own higher education , were formally accorded the rights and academic respect they deserve , and the social relations between teacher and taught were made more equal . |
| 28 | Moreover , independent taxation applies equally to the age-related additions ( formerly known as age allowance ) and both husband and wife are now eligible for their own higher tax allowance from the age of 65 ( and more generous still after age 75 ) . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , there is concern that if wealthy individuals are able to purchase their own higher-priced coverage , a two-tiered health system will develop . |
| 30 | Some of them tried to make amends for their own earlier contribution to this state of affairs and moved to include me more fully in the life of the school — a few even started to invite me back home for meals and things . |