Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is he or she getting worse ? |
| 2 | In return the chief sales executive may be wary of the manager , because he or she seeks higher overt status and the manager is blocking this . |
| 3 | In ninety-nine cases out a hundred , he or she knows better than you , whether you believe it or not . |
| 4 | Applicants who are uncertain as to the validity of their qualifications or of their present course of study , or who wish further information on any aspect of their application , are advised to write at the earliest opportunity to the Associate Dean for Admissions , Faculty of Arts Office , David Hume Tower , George Square , Edinburgh EH8 9JX . |
| 5 | For the credit marketer who is looking either to reach higher volumes of target customers throughout the country , or who needs higher volumes of names for a rolled-out marketing campaign , this restriction forms and important limitation . |
| 6 | By 1668 Fromanteel himself had moved to The Hague , where he had earlier trading and perhaps family connections . |
| 7 | After years of abusing students , minsters are clearly now hoping that nothing washes whiter than a government 's attempt to get re-elected . |
| 8 | Traditional building materials such as mud will have a role to play only when the national objective is to ensure that everyone has better housing now . |
| 9 | ‘ It is simply that I expected better service , ’ he snapped . |
| 10 | I mentioned this to no one for two practical reasons : one was that I loathed swimming , and if I pretended that I was still menstruating , signing the little red book every four weeks , I should be able to evade an unpleasant experience for at least one week out of four ; the other was that I feared further reprisals might be taken against me . |
| 11 | The people are very tolerant and it has been overheard that I speak better Portuguese than I do English . |
| 12 | To accurately imitate what I can see will require that I use smaller shapes than those used in other parts of the painting . |
| 13 | To accurately imitate what I can see will require that I use smaller shapes than those used in other parts of the painting . |
| 14 | The Committee has asked that I seek further information on the way in which the Society is developing its campaign and the nature of the second report . |
| 15 | I went reinforced too by all I had been doing for myself and with the knowledge that I felt better than I had felt for some time and that that growth towards well being appeared to be increasing with each day . |
| 16 | It 's because my cousin makes me forget that I feel better when I 'm with her . ’ |
| 17 | What is absolutely erm essential is that we do more to provide good quality support teaching materials and advice and that the grant that I mentioned earlier is made full use of , so that specialisms and co-ordination can be much improved in primary schools . |
| 18 | I see , on re-reading this minute , that I promised further sections on the weekend and holidays . |
| 19 | She is worried about me not eating , she is worried that my periods have stopped , that I look thinner and thinner , that my hair has gone dry and flat and rasps like paper when you touch it , but she also admires me . |
| 20 | She wanted to kiss him , to soften him , to diminish him in some way so that she felt safer , more human . |
| 21 | Surkov rang Masha from the lobby and learnt that she felt better ; we could come to her room . |
| 22 | Summoning all her reserves , she swam forcefully down the whole length of the pool , and back again , gradually realising that she felt fitter than she had done for ages . |
| 23 | If his parents bought her a present he was always comparing and felt that she had better things and more things than he did . |
| 24 | This time , she was wearing a hat , which pulled her face back , somehow , and made a line round it , so that she looked older than she had the other night . |
| 25 | It seemed to me that she looked older than she was , using her age as a shield against unwelcome advances which she might secretly long for but would never permit . |
| 26 | She even pretends that she has higher principles than many of the other characters in the play : |
| 27 | The important thing is to be able to let your partner know what sort of sex you want and that you want safer sex . |
| 28 | It 's always wrong to want a special friendship with someone just so that you feel better about yourself or so that others are impressed . |
| 29 | Explain that , as you know more about HIV , you no longer want to risk unsafe sex and that you see safer sex as a way of taking care of each other . |
| 30 | People still think the greatest compliment they can pay you is to say that you look younger than your age . |