Example sentences of "[art] [adj -er] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Some were for the better but a lot were for worse . |
| 2 | All the better that the operation rehabilitated the credibility of the police who 'd been having a bad press in the early years of the decade . |
| 3 | Terry Philpot , in the second of two articles , suggests how the situation could be changed for the better and the profession portrayed more positively |
| 4 | However since proper scientific strength analysis is a recent affair , much the older and the commoner is that of maintaining the quality of materials . |
| 5 | In January 1859 , however , the cause of press reform took a turn for the worse when the tsar appointed a Committee on Press Affairs which smacked of the committee of 1848 . |
| 6 | Time and time again families were identified with a particular farm or tenement , a link that was all the stronger because the home was also the place of work , the spot where an individual spent most of his time . |
| 7 | The longer that a person is deprived of oxygen the bluer a person becomes . |
| 8 | The longer that the muon sticks to the helium , the less time is left for it to catalyse further fusions . |
| 9 | The enthusiasm for canal stock in the 1790s may have been the greater because the yield on Consols had not been very gratifying between 1784 and 1792 . |
| 10 | The sensitivity of a market to changes brought about by acquisitions and mergers is likely to be all the greater where the market itself is stagnant and without perceived prospects of overall growth in consumer demand . |
| 11 | The sadness is the greater as the Act comes at a time when the accumulated wisdom from attempts to improve schools was establishing a consensus on how schools might more effectively meet the needs of all pupils . |
| 12 | Determined to experience life as a catwalk photographer , I swapped my pen and notebook for a Canon Eos camera , 200mm lens with a doubler and a monopod ( bravely loaned by Michel Arnaud ) and squeezed into the ‘ gun emplacement ’ at the back of the Salle Sully . |
| 13 | His first excursion from the house took him no farther than the garden . |
| 14 | So she was n't a stranger but a friend : one of the friends of Lili 's London afternoons ; a woman dressed in black wool with silver hoop earrings . |
| 15 | ‘ You 're quite a stranger and no mistake , ’ he greeted his brother over his shoulder . |
| 16 | Out of this splendid , imperishable lantern the deep eyes glared as though a stranger and a savage inhabited the dwelling an angel had abandoned . |
| 17 | Almost 100 new companies had been formed , and Schach had been able to secure over a million pounds in bank guarantees to finance not only such expensive disasters as Dreaming Lips , Love from a Stranger and The Marriage of Gorbal , but even films that were never made . |
| 18 | It is Easter weekend in Paris and , while his wife is away , middle-aged Jacques ( Stephen Moore ) brings home Julie , a sexy little bimbo played by Leslie Ash in a mini-skirt that is no broader than a cummerbund . |
| 19 | Then I heard the snap of a lighter and a cloud of blue smoke came out of the doorway , followed by a rattle sound . |
| 20 | Elsewhere , I would recommend Ride 's brave stab at ‘ The Model ’ and Vic Reeves ' ‘ Vienna ’ is certainly no sillier than the original . |
| 21 | Orcs vary in height and their physical appearance more than humans — some are no taller than a man but most are substantially larger and the biggest Orcs stand well over seven feet tall . |
| 22 | For a moment he knelt beside the boy , looking down at him ; again , as in the dream — the reality of it no clearer than the vision he had had . |
| 23 | Hell , under all that gook on his eyelids , he was probably no blinder than a hawk . |
| 24 | A tiny black wallet no bigger than a child 's hand . |
| 25 | Well it , I mean let's face it it is n't gon na be no bigger than a clock is it ? |
| 26 | That evening in their room a low table no bigger than a music stool was set with food . |
| 27 | Little Billy shifted his position and placed one eye right up against the square hole that was no bigger than a postage stamp . |
| 28 | Under her left breast , whose pale skin was only just beginning to give up its bloom to death , was a tiny , dark-red blob , no bigger than a sand flea . |
| 29 | ‘ And so will her son , though he 's no bigger than a rabbit . ’ |
| 30 | Called the ‘ Pond Protection Kit ’ , it 's a mini-electric fence system powered by four Duracell batteries housed within a plastic box no bigger than a pint pot . |