Example sentences of "[adj -er] [adv] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most Asian and Afro-Caribbean men and women were drawn into low-paid occupations which placed them at the lower rather than the upper limits of these widening inequalities . |
| 2 | This shape would work in either a rectangular frame , as in this case , or a square diamond would fit into a square mount , although it would have to be shorter rather than the elongated shape I have used here . |
| 3 | It 's nicer still if the table changes in the word processor when you make an alteration to your original spreadsheet . |
| 4 | But this face was bigger ; swollen and bigger still than the horror in the car . |
| 5 | The traffic was heavier now but the Germans were disciplined to respect a fast-moving car . |
| 6 | Bernice noted that the air was clearer here and the mist thinner . |
| 7 | ‘ Bigger even than the Bank of America . |
| 8 | Buying a size larger just because the shoes feel too tight only means a narrow shoe that slips off ! |
| 9 | He was a good deal younger than Mary Adelaide Flock , and probably a lot younger still than the late Ted Mosse , but a limp suggested rheumatism and the reason he was known to the chemist . |
| 10 | Obviously many arts teachers are not entirely happy that the arts are examined at all , but in my interviews the majority of teachers were generally happier now that the new examination had replaced the old system — the most obvious benefit being the removal of the need to discriminate between the two former examinations . |
| 11 | At the long wavelengths he observed , the Galactic Centre turned out to be the brightest object in the sky , brighter even than the Sun . |
| 12 | It is one of the world 's fastest growing industries and if it maintains its present rate of growth it will be the world 's biggest industry by the year 2000 — larger even than the oil industry . |
| 13 | The great grey is one of the largest of the forest owls of Scandinavia , larger even than the snowy owl of the Arctic tundra , and one species we had little hope of finding unaided . |
| 14 | This was a much larger cut than the government had planned , larger indeed than the announced cuts that had caused so much controversy in 1976 . |
| 15 | The WRU has to arrange such matches — the more the better so that the selectors can see up-and-coming players in the proper environment . |
| 16 | ‘ I have felt better physically but the notable improvement has been my state of mind . |
| 17 | It grew colder still as the night fell , a crackling frost under a sickle moon , but the coldness did not reach into the Norderns ' flat and it would not have done so even had the central heating broken down , the joy and relief of the family generating enough warmth to melt the polar ice-cap if necessary . |
| 18 | We felt that it could have been better still if the weather had been kinder to us . |
| 19 | When she was much more enlightened er , and the where the learning standard er , simp was much better simply because the girls were cared for . |
| 20 | Hearing the noise of a car 's engine , she looked up to see approaching headlights , and a feeling of dread , colder even than the snow , settled over her like a heavy cloak . |
| 21 | Also , the cost of living 's cheaper here so the money goes further . ’ |
| 22 | She thought again what a point of defence the tower was , commanding the countryside , and then she saw that there was a back road leading away from the tower , narrower , bumpier even than the drive to the front door , which snaked quickly down the hill and out of sight . |
| 23 | Disguising his real feelings he wrote cheerfully , telling them that it was better here than The Hague , as if to say that nothing could be worse than the hell of being unloved . |
| 24 | Equally , breeders are passing over animals which they now feel are no better genetically than the dairy replacements they have at home . |
| 25 | Avgas works out at abut twenty per cent cheaper there than the UK , but at around 34 litres per hour for a C172 or a AA5 , that accounts for only some £4 of the differential . |
| 26 | Well it it 's not that much dearer now than the |
| 27 | Yet I have lived many thousands of years , and am no older now than the day my lord left me . |
| 28 | Egypt offers dazzling contrasts of desert and rich pastureland , architecture older even than the mud-built villages where life continues much as it did in Biblical times . |
| 29 | Powys is the extreme example : with an area comparable to the larger English counties , it has a population smaller even than the Isle of Wight ( Table 3.3 ) . |
| 30 | The spermatozoon is much smaller even than the ovum and , although it is a single cell it consists of a " head " and long tail , which propels the sperm by quivering . |