Example sentences of "[art] [adj -er] [conj] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The alternative electrostatic headphones are by nature precision assemblies and , like electrostatic loudspeakers , remain firmly in the upper price bracket except where the simpler and less costly electret principle with a pre-charged diaphragm or backplate has been used . |
| 2 | For this reason the simpler and more general Poisson calculations are used from now on in this book . |
| 3 | These arrangements work quite well , but some prefer the simpler and faster manual alternatives , partly because power-driven controls use up precious battery capacity . |
| 4 | Since most social scientists and the readers of their works belong to the middle class , this pursuit typically leads to the lower and more desperate edges of society . |
| 5 | There is however much to be said in favour of the dearer and more specific articulation of substantive principles to guide the exercise of administrative discretion . |
| 6 | However , Matza is anxious to avoid romanticising deviance ; he sees this as having an equally distorting effect by obscuring ‘ the seamier and more mundane aspects of the world ’ . |
| 7 | He had successfully led the School from the dark days of war , through a time of austerity thereafter , and on to the easier but still challenging years of the 1950s . |
| 8 | But amongst the easier and more obvious structures to count are the dendritic spines , and a graduate student of Mike 's , Sanjay Patel , did just that in the mid-1980s . |
| 9 | You drive along a narrow , twisting road half-way up a mountain of rocks and boulders , supporting nothing but scrub and heather plus a few of the tougher and more foolhardy breed of sheep , round a bend and then , suddenly , you look down and there is the valley , with its winding river , fertile fields , a village tucked away at one end , and a verdancy that knocks you for six with its lushness . |
| 10 | In this way Minton can be seen to have had an influence on the tougher and more abrasive realism that first emerged at the ‘ Young Contemporaries ’ exhibition at the RBA Galleries in January 1952 . |
| 11 | But for a while Mozart proved that life as a freelance was possible , and others after him — the tougher and more astute Beethoven , for example — took advantage of the possibilities opened up by Mozart 's mould-breaking career . |
| 12 | The broader and more difficult question remains . |
| 13 | The shorter and most effective from a literary standpoint survives in only one manuscript where it is attributed to Rolle . |
| 14 | More distressingly , we discovered that the Aru islands and the Greater Bird of Paradise were no longer on their trading routes and that for the last twenty years they had been pursuing the shorter and more profitable triangular passage between Celebes , Java and Borneo . |
| 15 | Many elderly people can remain in their own homes even if they are living alone , provided that they can get adequate help with some of the heavier and more awkward chores : cleaning high up , or low down , under furniture or in corners which have become inaccessible to them . |
| 16 | In Unforgiven — a brilliant but never-clarified title — Bill Munny , Eastwood 's screen character , is quizzed about the times when he was the most feared gun in the West , irresistibly evoking memories of the Man With No Name 's six-shooter holocausts in Sergio Leone 's Dollars trilogy ( A Fistful Of Dollars , For A Few Dollars More and The Good , The Bad And The Ugly ) and the mellower but still genocidal guerilla of The Outlaw Josey Wales . |
| 17 | Not just republican , we have loyalists as well and the loyalists have the potential for being the bigger and more effective of the two , and if we let the I R A to continue without interning them , you are going to have the situation deteriorating in the way which you do n't want and I do n't want , and you 're going to end up as the chief constable of the R U C said a few weeks ago with Dublin being bombed . |
| 18 | The bigger and more frequent the waves , the less scriptural the culture . |
| 19 | It is rather like something that I used to do as a young groundsman coming up through the ranks , when I applied for vacant jobs all over the place , the bigger and more prestigious the place the better , and more often than not without the slightest intention of taking the job if it had been offered ! |
| 20 | Daumier Drawings by Colta Ives , Margret Stuffmann and Martin Sonnabend ( £50 , $65 ) includes the rarer and less known drawings and watercolours , and accompanies an exhibition projected for the Metropolitan Museum of Art from February to May 1993 . |
| 21 | Oddly , the majority of books available about the cultivation of waterlilies tend to display pictures and descriptions of the rarer and more unusual varieties . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | Jobclubs are aimed at the younger and less skilled end of the market . |
| 24 | Since the 1920s concern has been expressed over the fact that it tends to be the younger and better qualified people who are 51 leaving the less dynamic North , thus undermining the ability of the latter to rejuvenate itself . |
| 25 | Only when it became totally apparent that she would never reform and was bent on self-destruction for both of them did he leave her for the younger and more stable Lauren Bacall . |
| 26 | He returned to London to find the chaos in the secret services growing , with talk among the younger and more foolish elements of resignation , betrayal , even suicide . |
| 27 | Graham said : ‘ It is a fascinating pastime which we enjoy at night and on weekends and the brighter and more colourful the topic , the better . ’ |
| 28 | So , for a curved design you can work solely with more subtle colours or , if you prefer the brighter and more vivid shades , use several of them in the picture for balance . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | There , four- and even five-year rotations , with only short grass leys between to restore soil structure and fertility , are quite normal on the ploughable land ; permanent grass or long leys are confined to the steeper or more difficult fields . |