Example sentences of "[is] [art] [adj -er] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The true moral seems to be that a choice is difficult not because we can not decide which is the better but because we can not bear to give up the one that has not been chosen . |
| 2 | To compare the two speeches , it is immediately assumed that Antony 's is the better because it has put a cover over everything Brutus had said . |
| 3 | I know that in the mundane , the thought of never having been understood or recognised rankles ; but the transcendent joy is the greater and I get instead the hidden flowers of sorrow of my own soul with their scent and their beauty . |
| 4 | The sadness is the greater as the Act comes at a time when the accumulated wisdom from attempts to improve schools was establishing a consensus on how schools might more effectively meet the needs of all pupils . |
| 5 | The value of the proposition is the greater because , outside anecdote , the word is sufficiently vague to give room for any prejudice . |
| 6 | The risk is the greater because , when you are working down that deep , in order to remove the soil from the spade the dig must be angled forward towards the rabbits . |
| 7 | The poignancy of this catastrophe is the greater when it is realised that Andrew Carnegie , the greatest benefactor the British public library system has ever known , was himself a cotton man who started life as a boy in a cotton mill . |
| 8 | The first , which is the simpler and the one used not in Northern Ireland but in the Republic , is to sort all of Paisley 's papers into " sub-parcels " , one for each second-preference candidate , and then to give to each such candidate a number of votes calculated in accordance with the following formula : the surplus divided by the total number of transferable votes , multiplied by the number of papers in each sub-parcel . |
| 9 | Pinnock 's coupling is the rarer and more generous too , the Yorkshire Feast Song , composed in 1690 for an ‘ otherwise obscure annual gathering of York nobility . ’ |
| 10 | Of the two , Last of the Summer Wine ( E1 5b ) is the finer and better protected ; continually interesting with the crux just where it should be — at the top . |
| 11 | At first sight the outcome may seem to depend on which of the combatants is the stronger or more skilled . |
| 12 | The property is not to be sold until : ( i ) ( a ) the youngest child attains the age of eighteen years or ( b ) the youngest child shall cease full time education whichever is the later or ( ii ) the death of the Petitioner or ( iii ) the Petitioner shall remarry whichever shall first occur The above type of order is commonly known as a Mesher order ( after Mesher v Mesher and Hall [ 1980 ] 1 All ER 126 ) , and whilst it has been criticised ( see Mortimer v Mortimer [ 1986 ] 2 FLR 315 ) the court is still of the view that such an order might provide the best solution ( see Clutton v Clutton ( 1990 ) Times , 14 November ) . |
| 13 | The Dee Hall is the larger and more tourist-orientated of the two , with a substantial business clientele , and it remains the group 's ‘ flagship ’ . |
| 14 | Kreuzlingen is the smaller and adjoining Swiss cousin of Konstanz . |
| 15 | Yes , they were very exciting times and the amazing fact is the harder and more unreasonable the senior management acted the more the ‘ masses ’ strived to please . |
| 16 | There is a sort of self-regarding coldness about these bravura pyrotechnics that brings Martin Amis to mind , although Conrad is the brighter and more perceptive writer , as well as possessing the maturer mind . |
| 17 | It 's a better and deeper grave than any I 've seen . |
| 18 | For every session of primal thrash therapy there 's a slower and more contemplative series of ideas — for each bout of mental health histrionics there 's a potential hit single . |
| 19 | Mine are a new style that 's a wider and more practical fit on the calves . |
| 20 | That 's a fitter and that 's a fitter so I might as well |
| 21 | When I first loaded up the pack I really thought it would be a bit top heavy — it 's a longer and slimmer pack than most British models — but I was delighted to discover that my fears were unfounded . |
| 22 | ‘ He 's a larger than life person with the character to put it all behind him . ’ |
| 23 | Judit 's cassette-filled bedroom is no bigger than a standard bathroom . |
| 24 | And even if I did have and had a mustard seed here , you still would n't be able to see it for a mustard seed is no bigger than a pin head . |
| 25 | The digital AC motor speed controller is no bigger than a filofax . |
| 26 | The risk of explosion is no greater than in the average car . |
| 27 | Its waste production probably is no greater than that of other extractive industries , but as its production has increased so has the amount of waste . |
| 28 | But conventional management buy-ins , which are becoming more common as the supply of normal MBO transactions dries up , involve more risk , since the knowledge of the target 's internal workings is no greater than that available to a trade buyer . |
| 29 | Intangibles included in the first two components may be capitalised as assets , provided that the company 's directors and auditors are satisfied that the amount at which they are capitalised is no greater than their recoverable amount . |
| 30 | Presumably it can be done only where the essential core of each subject is no greater than half the total ; or where the subjects overlap in some way ; or where students are prepared to do more than 100 per cent of the work . |