Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | B.Butcher , the general secretary of one of the most stable and better run of the local seamen 's organisations of the time , made no bones about his own experience . |
| 2 | Fifty years ago , when the world was younger and sex was an altogether simpler if scarcer commodity , there was a popular song , the lyrics of which brooked no argument : ‘ Love and marriage , love and marriage , go together like a horse and carriage . |
| 3 | From her vantage point she watched them come in : serious-looking lads in duffle coats , earnest women in glasses and hand-knitted cardigans , the clerical students from the religious seminaries in their black suits all looking remarkably cleaner and neater than the other males not bound for religious life . |
| 4 | The rest of the island is much lower and flatter and is covered with deposits of sand , calcareous sandstone and clays . |
| 5 | In general the smaller libraries were more preoccupied with just achieving ‘ more ’ training , and were usually much less specific than larger libraries : |
| 6 | The technology necessary to produce films , and television and radio programs , is so much more advanced in the industrialised countries than in the LDCs , that it is frequently much simpler and cheaper to import material than to produce it in the Third World . |
| 7 | In the chest they may have a dry racking , teasing , hacking cough and so sore and worse ( < ) motion ; it is similar to Bryonia and Phosphorus . |
| 8 | Well when I come back to England today , as I do nearly every summer , it seems a fantastically rich and happier country than the one I grew up in . |
| 9 | Its compound eye resolves less detail and so the image would look both much coarser and grainier . |
| 10 | You had changed her mourning into joy , a joy much richer than she had wanted and much dearer and purer than she had looked for . |
| 11 | Due to its dire foreign exchange shortage — Zambia broke off relations with the IMF earlier this year — book-dealers can no longer afford to import less popular but better quality reading material . |
| 12 | Less gregarious than larger vultures . |
| 13 | There are , of course , those only too ready to malign my whole project and offer instead a much shorter and simpler account . |
| 14 | The plant is also much shorter and sturdier . |
| 15 | For structures which essentially have to support only their own weight , a much lighter and stiffer form of wood could prove advantageous . |
| 16 | It 's so much lighter and brighter now . ’ |
| 17 | Family rooms are useful to let the less well-behaved and noisier children run riot but they are frequently cold and characterless and , no matter how good the facilities may be , you often feel excluded from the main atmosphere of the pub . |
| 18 | Kelims are much quicker and cheaper to produce than pile rugs , and this is normally reflected in their price . |
| 19 | It was the time when he had to choose between , on the one hand , learning to limit the purely sensual pleasures offered him by his physical evolution , and on the other hand , accepting that failure to do so would either destroy or delay the enjoyment of the much broader and deeper pleasures which were becoming available to him by virtue of the developing emotions within him . |
| 20 | There were ancient papal letters too , preserved by Bede , which granted the archbishop ( in language less clear than later ages thought desirable , but still in words sufficient for men of good will ) an ecclesiastical authority over the wide territories of the British Isles . |
| 21 | How much easier and clearer it might have been if it had been possible to say that both parents and husband were equally concerned and that they might all talk together . |
| 22 | Audio tapes are much easier and cheaper to produce and use than video . |
| 23 | When his appointment as Secretary of State for Wales was announced , he told the House : ’ I look forward to explaining in Wales , as I have in England the way in which the community charge is a much fairer and simpler system ’ . |
| 24 | She looked a little less resentful than earlier , and — dare he hope it ? — even slightly anxious for him . |
| 25 | Arguably , she is already on the screen so much that further appearances only supplement the passionate irritation which she provokes even among those who have voted for her . |
| 26 | In winter upper parts much paler and greyer . |
| 27 | Thora is a strong supporter of Help The Aged , and highly indignant that older people are often treated differently the moment they become pensioners . |
| 28 | Secondly , wars which involved civilian targets were less dangerous and cheaper to organise , but very costly for the defender . |
| 29 | Pillar rose plantings do pose a special problem , because they will grow so much taller and wider , and thus need very much bigger and stronger staking . |
| 30 | A half point was awarded but Stevens fought his way back into the contest scoring with a spectacular sacrifice throw and almost arm locking the much taller and heavier Kokataylo . |