Example sentences of "[adj -er] [adv] [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The farther it goes from the entrance before it dances , the farther away is the flower that it has discovered . |
| 2 | Rarer still are the officials entitled stratores consularis , known from the small town at Irchester and the port at Dover . |
| 3 | Worse still was the Tories ' refusal year after year to make the essential commitment to the productive base of the economy — education and training , research and development , science , transport and communication . |
| 4 | Worse still was the fad that his apparently aggressive policy had upset the other European powers , not least Britain . |
| 5 | Worse still was the permanent flapping of the scarecrow on point duty , directing traffic . |
| 6 | Worse still was the offering from Stuart Hall . |
| 7 | Worse still was the realisation of how close she 'd come to making love with him . |
| 8 | Sadder still are the references to death — Bonnard 's brother in early 1941 and his wife , ‘ ma pauvre Marthe ’ , in January 1942 . |
| 9 | It was a sad time for English cricket ; sadder still was the tact that , apart from one series , things would simply continue to get ever worse . |
| 10 | Rather grander still was the villadom of the well-to-do . |
| 11 | Owning a home of his own was a huge pleasure , but greater still was the pleasure of having a garden of his own . |
| 12 | The Royal Commission on the Distribution of Income and Wealth documented all these and showed that the higher an employee 's wages or salary , the greater too is the benefit derived from such schemes , not only in absolute amounts but in relative terms as well . |