Example sentences of "[adj -er] and [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , the policing of a community by means of a consensus is always easier and therefore more desirable than a policy of coercion , which relies simply on greater strength . |
| 2 | That question raises a further and even more interesting one about the status of different kinds of accounts . |
| 3 | The treatment of the two sisters as objects for possession and domination is given a further and perhaps more insidious turn by their mother , Eleonora , who by ‘ serpentizing Fraud ’ uses her daughters to gain political advantage . |
| 4 | We found that regardless of the subject labels adopted , the curriculum in practice consisted of a further and perhaps more influential ‘ core ’ of ten generic activities ( writing , using apparatus , reading , listening , drawing or painting , collaboration , movement , talking to the teacher , construction , talking to the class — see Table 3.1 ) . |
| 5 | But every stroke took her further and further away . |
| 6 | She was unaware of the words she uttered , the encouragement ; was only aware of his hard male body , warm and competent on hers , the driving thrust that pushed her further and further away from reality . |
| 7 | Expertly his hands began their slow , feverish exploration of her bare skin , tormenting as they sought to inflame her further and further so that she forgot everything but the pleasure he could bring her . |
| 8 | My eye followed the light cloud of her smoke , now here , now there , above the plain , according to the devious curves of the stream , but always fainter and farther away , till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda ( 6 ) . |
| 9 | I 'll be quicker and much more useful . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Dying on your partner ’ , he said ‘ is much fairer and more financially beneficial to them than divorcing them . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Exactly , ’ said David , grinning at her , ‘ and I shall go on trying to show him that Socialism is a fairer and much more just system than Capitalism . ’ |
| 12 | As with due diligence , the warranties in an asset sale are likely to be far shorter and hence quicker and cheaper to negotiate than in a share sale . |
| 13 | Although not all that familiar : her oval face was leaner now , her light ginger hair cut shorter and more clearly styled . |
| 14 | Duller than neighbouring colours and lacking in shading , the red coat was shown by X-ray analysis to cover a slightly shorter and far more finely draped garment in the same green as the man 's sleeves . |
| 15 | The hon. Member for Teignbridge can not argue simply that nuclear power is cleaner and environmentally more safe and that it should therefore always take precedence over coal , because we can do things to coal that would make it environmentally far more acceptable . |
| 16 | The best way to clean gold is to use a specially formulated cleaner and then gently brush with the soft brush provided , to remove any grease or dirt . |
| 17 | If it still happens , then try a smaller main hook , which will be lighter and more easily sucked into the barbel 's mouth . |
| 18 | Plus they 're now lighter and more easily absorbed . |
| 19 | The chamois , another mountain specialist , is much lighter and consequently much more agile than the mountain goat . |
| 20 | Indecency is a much broader and more widely used category of offence . |
| 21 | Some cultures emphasize the values of cooperating with others , conciliating opposing views , and being prepared to compromise and submerge one 's own ideas in a broader and more popularly acceptable solution . |
| 22 | It will fail to ask the rather broader and much more important question about retailing : how is the great British public likely to be doing its shopping in five or 10 years ' time ? |
| 23 | Thanks to the changing critical climate , the new ideas circulating among filmmakers and the relaxation of the censorship rules , the British films made at the end of the 1930s were much tougher and more emotionally charged , than anything that had gone before . |
| 24 | But whereas the administration likes to talk about a greener and more internationally competitive car industry , Detroit wants to spend any available support on overcoming bread-and-butter engineering obstacles in complying with environmental legislation . |
| 25 | The trees seemed taller and closer together ; the spaces between them darker and more forbidding . |
| 26 | He moved across to them , and when he was standing next to André she noticed how much taller and more powerfully built he was . |
| 27 | I also came upon a mysterious animal I had not seen before : much larger than the herring , redder and infinitely more expensive . |
| 28 | Birds from N Africa and the Middle East , erlangeri and tanypterus , are paler and much less heavily marked with streaks on crown , bars above and spots below . |
| 29 | Fossilized orang-utan teeth — most of what zoologists know of ape evolution comes from the study of fossil teeth — reveal that half a million years ago the orang 's ancestors were far bigger and probably twice as heavy as the modern animal . |
| 30 | In generation 11 , the same " flower " shape has become bigger and slightly more complicated . |