Example sentences of "[adj -er] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a much broader one this time , a smile of pure pleasure . |
| 2 | One fact should be firmly grasped with regard to the tutti , and that is that the simpler its musical structure is , the more telling and sonorous will be its effect . |
| 3 | How much nicer her own house was . |
| 4 | Success in meeting the deadline means a stiffer one next time . |
| 5 | The younger her youngest child is , the less likely a mother is to have any employment , full or part-time , as Figure 2.6 shows . |
| 6 | The residual precession is greater the closer the planet to the Sun and the larger its orbital eccentricity . |
| 7 | According to a posthumous account of Mozart 's last months , he and Constanze drove out to the Prater one fine day at the end of October , during which Mozart told his wife that he was convinced he was writing his own Requiem . |
| 8 | So th , the , this , you know , this main thing of really , a picture 's worth a thousand words , and the more you can block out time in this way , and protect yourself , er , the better your overall time management will be . |
| 9 | Even with healthy Siamese , however , there is a problem for the pedigree exhibition cat , because as an animal grows older its general body temperature begins to fall very slightly , causing its body fur to darken little by little . |
| 10 | As he grew older his favourite view was that of the omnibuses which descended the rue du Bac and crossed the Pont Royal , for it gave him a chance to see the people with whom , for most of the time , he was denied closer contact . |
| 11 | As he grew older his own life began to have more centre to it and he gave up yearning so hungrily after his mother 's attention . |
| 12 | We had , well when we got , when , as we got older us younger ones our business got larger . |
| 13 | However , the longer you are infected and the weaker your immune system becomes , the more likely it is that you may become ill . |
| 14 | Don Mini walked over to it and once again a curious twittery conversation took place , a much longer one this time , with Don Mini doing nearly all the twittering and the swan nodding and nodding . |
| 15 | At the bottom of the steps was another corridor , a much longer one this time . |
| 16 | The greater their satisfaction and loyalty , the more the bank can rely on a future stream of income from them , and hence the greater its own value today . |
| 17 | Third , the less ‘ verbish ’ the verbs in the poem are , the greater their lexical power tends to be , lexical power being in inverse proportion to the number of different terms with which a given term is habitually associated ( ‘ the fewer the items with which a given item is likely to collocate … the more ‘ powerful ’ it is said to be ’ ) ; and the more powerful , and less ‘ verbish ’ , words are ‘ items of violence ’ , such as ‘ staggering ’ . |