Example sentences of "[conj] [adj -er] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consider the argument of Nicos Poulantzas who asserts that nations are as old as or older than class society ( as if the two modes of analysis are not mutually reinforcing ) , will persist after the State disappears , and possess a ‘ transhistorical irreducibility ’ . |
| 2 | Was it better than school or worse than school ? |
| 3 | At its most ludicrous , this makes the ‘ Envoi ’ to Hugh Selwyn Mauberley suspect , or worse than suspect , simply because it alludes to Edmund Waller , whereas the okay authors from Waller 's period , among pedestrian readers of Eliot 's essays , are taken to be Donne and Marvell . |
| 4 | The number of printable characters since the last new-line ( COUNT ) is compared with X. If X is equal or greater than COUNT , sufficient spaces to make them equal are printed . |
| 5 | Charnos have taken the microfibre story and turned it into different leg looks — shiny , matt and suede — using the softer , finer handle and textures now available , the products can achieve that smoother than silk feel . |
| 6 | It has argued that greater than forecast levels of infill demonstrate the soundness of the Structure Plan strategy ; reflect the real nature of the needs of the housing market and thereby m materially contribute to the adequacy of the regional five year land supply . |
| 7 | Further problems arose because the aisles were narrower and lower than nave or choir , and it was difficult to reconcile these variations with the use of a semi-circular arch . |
| 8 | The first replicators were probably cruder and simpler than DNA . |
| 9 | Influenced by Chicago house as well as the unlikely European sounds of Kraftwerk , Yello and Depeche Mode — Saunderson , May ( who uses the names Mayday and Rythim Is Rythim ) and the original techno-master Atkins ( Cybortron and Model 500 ) , created a music that was sparser , leaner and harsher than house . |
| 10 | ‘ On a milky , fatty , meaty diet British girls and boys became taller , fatter , and broader than nature intended . ’ |
| 11 | Hide : the skin of a full grown animal from which a leather is produced that is heavier and tougher than calf . |
| 12 | Trent let go jib sheet and halyard ; the heavy canvas flashed free , disappearing into the rain curtain as if lighter than tissue paper . |
| 13 | Dyneema fibres are ten times stronger than steel and lighter than water . |
| 14 | The penalty for all this housekeeping is that the files generated by the program do tend to get bigger and bigger as time goes on . |
| 15 | These became taller and steeper as time passed . |
| 16 | ‘ Like the man , the house and its contents are bold and larger than life , ’ said Sotheby 's director James Miller . |
| 17 | Yes , my Aladdin 's cave in Finchley road was certainly a treasure chest full of wonderful lessons , and larger than life characters . |
| 18 | Because the data were easily convertible into numerical form , it was a straightforward exercise to seek correlations and larger than chance differences in perception between first and third year students , and student and employer samples . |
| 19 | Firstly , companies became larger and larger as wealth became concentrated in the hands of a small number of firms . |
| 20 | In general terms it is suggested that determination by expert is quicker and cheaper than determination by arbitrator . |
| 21 | Metal garden furniture has an ageless quality , and usually looks better and better as time rolls on . |
| 22 | Far more clear in my mind were recurrent pictures of Victor trembling as if with fever ; Elizabeth , fair and beautiful and composed ; Justine , pleading without effect for her life before a room full of people covertly eager for her blood ; and the creature Frankenstein had made — that gigantic figure without a face , striking fear and worse than fear wherever it went . |
| 23 | There was no answer anywhere , no solace for him anywhere , not in the pronouncements of the other clergy , nor in the speeches of politicians , and certainly not in the daily litany of murder and worse than murder that the newspapers carried . |
| 24 | And if Portland is colder and wetter than Palm Beach , change your route and head for Florida . |
| 25 | They are generally thicker and harder-fired than wall tiles , to enable them to stand up to heavy wear without cracking . |
| 26 | Sensed somewhere below the thinking mind , somehow older and wiser than consciousness , there is … |
| 27 | And their Roman Candle was brighter and longer-lasting than Standard 's . |
| 28 | Of these only hippopotamus teeth , which are denser and harder than ivory and of a gleaming whiteness , featured in any of the ancient civilizations . |
| 29 | It grew warmer in the hall , and noisier as beer and wine loosened throats . |
| 30 | Walnut 's harder and shinier than satin wood . |