Example sentences of "[noun] [adj -er] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously the City boys are a bit fussier than the country boys about when they play . |
| 2 | One leg was a bit shorter than the other , I think . |
| 3 | This tiny car — it 's a foot shorter than a Mini — might be the breath of fresh air Europe 's choked and choking cities have been looking for . |
| 4 | She closed the front door , and from her rocking walk Jess realized that one of her legs must be a good deal shorter than the other . |
| 5 | There were no houses , no people , no hills , and not a rock bigger than a cricket ball . |
| 6 | This dual emphasis on the reader and on analysis of texts in units larger than a sentence seems to offer the beginnings at least of a new approach to text research , one which moves beyond a correlational approach to readability and starts instead to identify causal relationships between aspects of texts and difficulties in comprehension . |
| 7 | Exactly the same issues arise in relation to the task of spelling non-words to dictation , and here again it appears that this not done solely by phoneme-grapheme rules , but that some role is played by units larger than the grapheme ( Campbell , 1983 ) . |
| 8 | the measure of damages awarded to a plaintiff who was obliged to incur hire charges following a road traffic accident could include ( i ) the cost of hire of a car larger than the plaintiff 's own ( ii ) the cost of hire after completion of repairs pending receipt by the plaintiff from the defendant 's insurer of funds to meet the repairers bill . |
| 9 | By keeping the lower vee steeper than the other , we introduce what might be called a ‘ tail-effect ’ , so keep this in mind when you are practising for that first Rokkaku Challenge . |
| 10 | To provide foundations for the walls , we formed a toe around the outside , 75mm deeper and a shovel width ( like a moat ) , and skimmed off the sharp corner . |
| 11 | Since a right visual field advantage was still found when the word in the right field was exposed 20 msecs. later than the word in the left field it was subsequently concluded that temporal factors were not importantly involved ( McKeever and Huling , 1971 b ) . |
| 12 | The partridge cost £9 — just £1 cheaper than the pear tree . |
| 13 | More than 200 pages later Genet writes ‘ out of the crowd a glance swifter than a wink reveals two fedayeen as two lovers … |
| 14 | Jay gags , this is where love has brought me , rooting through the bins like a vagrant , looking for a sheet of high-gloss photographic paper and a bad profile shot of Lucy smaller than a postage stamp . |
| 15 | For this reason , and because of the limited use for such general data-types , the only data-types smaller than a word which are at all commonly provided for in the instruction set are half-words , characters , and decimal digits . |
| 16 | Investment over the 1992–1994 period at £5.4 billion is forecast to be 22 p.c. down on the 1989–91 levels after allowing for inflation and the lowest since 1984–86 but still 30 p.c. higher than the depth of recession in 1981–1983 . |
| 17 | But things grew a great deal worse as the century wore on . |
| 18 | ‘ In his profession he found a force stronger than the temperament he had inherited from his family ; instead of surrendering to his natural instincts he followed a clear , straight path , and did not slide into the wretched muddle in which all the other Rougons perished . ’ |
| 19 | Both sides have a point : some foxes kill lambs , poultry and game , and some foxes are guilty of no crime greater than the dispatching of mice and earthworms . |
| 20 | During clamps a significant rise in plasma hormone concentration was defined as a concentration greater than the mean of the five baseline ( euglycaemic ) values plus two standard deviations in two or more consecutive samples . |
| 21 | In the queue stands six-year-old Hussein Ibrahim — his legs thinner than the walking stick he holds in his hand . |
| 22 | They formed a proportion of new schools greater than the proportion of children they served ( though this may have been because they were more likely to have suffered from bombing in city centres ) . |
| 23 | Er like i we if I saw a vase that was a little bit bigger and a bit more expensive than what you 'd have |
| 24 | But with a very , very heavy star — several times heavier than the Sun — the gravity would be so strong , nothing would be able to resist it . |
| 25 | To predict the universe , you 'd need a computer many times bigger than the universe . ’ |
| 26 | A hyaena 's nasal membranes have a surface area fifty times bigger and the richness of the information they can gather is so great and varied that it is difficult for us to appreciate it . |
| 27 | New brickwork , where visible , is several tones lighter than the original , to distinguish the building 's newest section . |
| 28 | Zip , about 3cm shorter than the length of one side ( excluding seam allowance ) . |
| 29 | Where peasants were already working areas larger than the maximum , landowners were allowed to trim their holdings . |
| 30 | ARJ files were between 10% and 20% smaller than the equivalent . |