Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj -er] [coord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er like i we if I saw a vase that was a little bit bigger and a bit more expensive than what you 'd have |
| 2 | yeah , but I need to be a bit skinnier and a bit taller |
| 3 | Now , as far as my health is concerned these days it could be a little bit better but a bonny sight worse . |
| 4 | They were a bit laxer but a lot of them were very very strict . |
| 5 | The front wings were less exaggerated , the rear overhang shorter and the tail a little taller . |
| 6 | An inch higher and a thought quicker , and he could have climbed back down the rocks vindicated and free , with all his debts paid . |
| 7 | Lymphocytes can be activated using a combination of a phorbol ester or a permeant DAG analogue to activate PKC and an ionophore to mimic the calcium-mobilizing action of InsP 3 . |
| 8 | The slopes of his eyelids were infinitely dark , making the stare louder and the smile more furtive . |
| 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 | The food was not too good , nor too plentiful , so when I returned I was a lot lighter and a lot fitter . |
| 11 | It has made me a lot tougher and a lot more businesswise . ’ |
| 12 | It has made me a lot tougher and a lot more businesswise . |
| 13 | Now , the reason why we 're getting a fairly high test statistic is that er , that distribution , although it looks normal on the left hand side , it does n't look particularly normal erm on the right and that we are missing some observations , we are missing some values of the residuals er in one area of the graph , nevertheless if we had a larger sample , right we probably erm , right it does n't look , that looks quite encouraging in actual fact , those residuals do seem to be er normally distributed er what the test statistic is doing er it 's saying it 's performing a , it 's a kiescraper two test , it 's making two restrictions , one of which is saying , is the distribution of these residuals symmetric er and also it 's testing whether there 's one of the tails is a lot larger or a lot longer than the other tail of the distribution and er test statistics fairly high but we would n't reject the null of normality at the five percent level so our test statistic is four point zero eight and the critical value is five point nine nine and that the five percent significance level , so we 've got reasonably er robust residuals . |
| 14 | He could have been a lot worse but the whole thing will upset him a lot . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ We were just shocked after the robbery but felt that it could have been a lot worse and no great harm had been done to anybody . |
| 16 | Almost all accidents start with a simple error on the part of the pilot that leads to a chain of events , each of which makes the situation worse and an accident more and more difficult to avoid . |
| 17 | A slap often makes the situation worse and the child 's cries louder while parents ' shouting only increases the general noise level . |
| 18 | It sounds a lot louder and a lot prettier . |
| 19 | The six-cylinder lay-out , of course , makes for smooth engine performance and that , combined with plenty of sound-proofing measures , means that the BMW diesel is a lot quieter and a lot more refined than any other diesel I 've driven — without exception . |
| 20 | Helped by gearing that 's a trifle lower and a torque peak shifted down to 3,200rpm , the Legacy can be booted around on little throttle ; engine response to small pedal movements is swift and crisp . |
| 21 | In longer courses , notably those which lead to postgraduate qualifications , not only is the view longer but the intellectual breadth is also wider . |