Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | B.Butcher , the general secretary of one of the most stable and better run of the local seamen 's organisations of the time , made no bones about his own experience . |
| 2 | Fifty years ago , when the world was younger and sex was an altogether simpler if scarcer commodity , there was a popular song , the lyrics of which brooked no argument : ‘ Love and marriage , love and marriage , go together like a horse and carriage . |
| 3 | In general the smaller libraries were more preoccupied with just achieving ‘ more ’ training , and were usually much less specific than larger libraries : |
| 4 | Well when I come back to England today , as I do nearly every summer , it seems a fantastically rich and happier country than the one I grew up in . |
| 5 | Due to its dire foreign exchange shortage — Zambia broke off relations with the IMF earlier this year — book-dealers can no longer afford to import less popular but better quality reading material . |
| 6 | Less gregarious than larger vultures . |
| 7 | There are , of course , those only too ready to malign my whole project and offer instead a much shorter and simpler account . |
| 8 | For structures which essentially have to support only their own weight , a much lighter and stiffer form of wood could prove advantageous . |
| 9 | Family rooms are useful to let the less well-behaved and noisier children run riot but they are frequently cold and characterless and , no matter how good the facilities may be , you often feel excluded from the main atmosphere of the pub . |
| 10 | It was the time when he had to choose between , on the one hand , learning to limit the purely sensual pleasures offered him by his physical evolution , and on the other hand , accepting that failure to do so would either destroy or delay the enjoyment of the much broader and deeper pleasures which were becoming available to him by virtue of the developing emotions within him . |
| 11 | There were ancient papal letters too , preserved by Bede , which granted the archbishop ( in language less clear than later ages thought desirable , but still in words sufficient for men of good will ) an ecclesiastical authority over the wide territories of the British Isles . |
| 12 | When his appointment as Secretary of State for Wales was announced , he told the House : ’ I look forward to explaining in Wales , as I have in England the way in which the community charge is a much fairer and simpler system ’ . |
| 13 | Arguably , she is already on the screen so much that further appearances only supplement the passionate irritation which she provokes even among those who have voted for her . |
| 14 | Thora is a strong supporter of Help The Aged , and highly indignant that older people are often treated differently the moment they become pensioners . |
| 15 | A half point was awarded but Stevens fought his way back into the contest scoring with a spectacular sacrifice throw and almost arm locking the much taller and heavier Kokataylo . |
| 16 | A half point was awarded but Stevens fought his way back into the contest scoring with a spectacular sacrifice throw and almost arm locking the much taller and heavier Kokataylo . |
| 17 | A slight body shift by the defender is undoubtedly the best form of defence against a strong punch from a much bigger and heavier opponent , though the defender should always have a backup block ready , in case the attack is only diverted , not completely sent off course . |
| 18 | The foxhound is a much bigger and stronger animal than a fox : the leading hound or couple bowl the fox over and kill him . |
| 19 | At the basis of his outrageous talent and inevitably the root of his temperamental insecurities , was his diminutive height and the almost vindictive treatment he received at the feet of much bigger and stronger opponents . |
| 20 | The new system , which could be in use before the end of the decade , would use much bigger and brighter signs to feed the driver with information supplied from a central control room . |
| 21 | With the wind dead on their stern , he had changed the genoa for a much bigger and lighter cut . |
| 22 | They were much less likely than younger people to be interviewed by job centre staff , and , if interviewed , they were more likely to be told their prospects of getting work were nil . |
| 23 | Older workers ( aged 55 and over ) in the After Redundancy study were less likely than older workers as a whole to be economically active . |
| 24 | This is caused by a much larger and heavier engine , which also means you need a rudder trim , conveniently supplied in this range . |
| 25 | Facing a much larger and heavier opponent , the mantis would make lightning strikes from its claw-like front limbs , then beat a hasty retreat out of harm 's way when the grasshopper retaliated . |
| 26 | In some much larger and loftier room on the first floor , with net curtains at the window and the mulberry tree at the back of the Scottish Office just beyond , Tite waves him to a seat . |
| 27 | In winter , when breast greyish , differs from Sanderling ( p. 129 ) in contrast between grey-brown upperparts and whiter underparts and no black shoulder spot , from much larger and greyer Knot ( p. 129 ) by white sides of rump and tail . |
| 28 | His best result was a fine second place in the 1300cc race , against much larger and faster machines . |
| 29 | When she came to Switham House , a much larger and better-kept establishment than Merchiston Lodge , she found Rosalia Alderley to have quite another motive . |
| 30 | Even if we restrict the process to include only lagged values of s and f , it is highly likely that longer lags in s and f will have an effect on their current values . |