Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adj -er] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Station staff called the police , but the fighting became fiercer and reinforcements had to be sent for . |
| 2 | The Middle-earth of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings is full of chaotic half-glimpsed independent lives , ears in the forest , fell voices on the wind , enemy powers older than Sauron and unconnected with him . |
| 3 | I have put pen to paper sparingly , aware that pictures speak louder than words . |
| 4 | Its principle is simply that light travels faster than sound . |
| 5 | As the fighting gets wilder and feet jab out |
| 6 | Not many people had the nerve to climb higher than shelf fifty . |
| 7 | As we approached Tromsø the snow grew thicker and Nathan asked , as casually as he could manage , whether they would clear the runway . |
| 8 | With Egypt out of the fray , Israel and the United States felt stronger while Syria and the Soviet Union felt more threatened . |
| 9 | This process analysed by Hindess runs deeper than disagreement over policy . |
| 10 | Seen from above in flight , primaries appear paler than rest of wing . |
| 11 | There is , of course , a sense in which all our actions or deeds speak louder than words , and that everything we do — or fail to do , for that matter — is open to interpretation and therefore counts as a communication . |
| 12 | Several other European countries look better than Britain , either because they are in the ERM or because they are trimming budget deficits ( or both ) . |
| 13 | As the child gets older and time orientations lengthen , the reward may be delayed ; gratification may occur days , weeks , months or even years later , and this may result in a ‘ work ethic ’ style in which persistence becomes a sub-goal in itself . |
| 14 | Lady after lady breathed heavier when Pen dashed in and out , and on the days when Wilson was a little late with the supper — which she now undertook to provide — on account of having been delayed taking tea with Mrs Browning there was not a word of complaint but only a diffident enquiry as to how the venerable poetess had seemed . |
| 15 | child screams louder and demands more ↓ |
| 16 | The film ended as poor Eddie met his Maker in a way unmemorable except in visual terms : he sat at his piano becoming lighter and lighter in tone . |
| 17 | For there to be a Europe-wide common standard of emissions , there must also be a common standard for fuel , as some types of fuel smoke worse than others . |
| 18 | It made the room look bigger and lighter and altogether different . |
| 19 | ‘ I am sure that as classes get bigger and lectures replace the old tutorial and seminar systems , books will take on a higher perceived value as they become more central to the course . ’ |
| 20 | The rain grew heavier and thunder rumbled over the mountains . |
| 21 | Prospects : Possible as a short-term measure , but increasingly implausible for the longer term as the cracks become wider and resources for papering them over become more scarce . |
| 22 | Things got worse when ITN Royal reporter David Chater , 39 , fired a question at her . |
| 23 | ‘ Are you that bloody idiot who does golf for the News ? ’ was his opening salvo ; and things got worse when Toby , never able to turn the verbal cheek , even to a large and extremely aggressive drunk , proceeded to tell him his opinion of Scottish golfers in general and of unwelcome Scottish drunks in particular . |
| 24 | However , the level of conversation that really deepens and strengthens a relationship goes deeper than facts , ideas and opinions . |
| 25 | Do not actions speak louder than words ? |
| 26 | Judaism is a practical religion , with practical solutions , where actions speak louder than words . |
| 27 | In any event the user 's opinion of a product is reflected in the standard achieved so actions speak louder than words . |
| 28 | They say that actions speak louder than words . |
| 29 | Actions speak louder than words : at the age of seventy he climbed to a house |
| 30 | He added that he , unlike his opponents , did not apply for exemption from military service — actions speak louder than words ' . |