Example sentences of "[verb] [adj -er] [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must be with the tail hanging lower than the nose . |
| 2 | As you are all too well aware , last year continued in the same dire vein as 1991 and got tougher as the months went on . |
| 3 | I only hoped , as the sun sank lower and the breeze grew cool , that I was not going to be obliged to use it . |
| 4 | This was considered fairer because the amount of advertising time would be small and expensive , which could favour the wealthiest clients . |
| 5 | Our voices grow fainter as the mist tucks itself in above us . |
| 6 | Close to the mill is a large and attractive half-timbered mill house , which is still inhabited , as well as a substantial dove cote , dated 1741 , which stands taller than the mill itself . |
| 7 | Consequently , such a word can be identified only after the subject has heard phonemes occurring later than the target phoneme , and so reaction times will be long . |
| 8 | The implications of these terms are considered later but the use of terminology in this study text needs to be made clear at the outset . |
| 9 | The visible ones grow larger as the fog reflects up at them ; their voices become bullhorns . |
| 10 | The female in these drawings looks brighter than the male . |
| 11 | It grips better than the Corrado on the fast sweepers , but , on tight and bumpy lower-gear corners , the VW leaves the Calibra scrabbling to get a grip on the road surface . |
| 12 | Erm , since the wider range investments on the whole tend to increase in value more rapidly than the narrower range investments , then as the investments in the normal course of management are bought and sold , the proportion which you have invested in the wider range tends to increase faster than the proportion that you have invested in the narrower range . |
| 13 | The lights , too , appear dimmer than the Calibra 's . |
| 14 | And as we grow older and the villages and tents and armies of this world fade , we will see with Hamza , the white cities beyond the senses shine more brightly by day and by night . |
| 15 | — I can jump higher than the Empire State Building . |
| 16 | Marcus thought of normality as a complex pattern on tracing paper , peaks , rounds , interlocking jigsaw parts , which , when slid over the mess of the actual graph or representation of what was , produced a thickened shifty outline , a jigging blurring worse than the original . |
| 17 | For example , some of the countries of East Europe and Costa Rica , rank higher than the United Kingdom and the United States ( Estes , 1988 ) . |
| 18 | The Mason 's voice shouted stronger than the rest , ‘ Let me in ! |
| 19 | As a matter of interest , Dr Jean Valnet and other doctors in the field of clinical aromatherapy have discovered that blends of certain essential oils are not only more powerful than when used singly , but that the mysterious factor of synergy is at work — the whole becoming greater than the sum of its equal parts . |
| 20 | The man who had planted it would want time to get clear before an explosion occurred greater than the blasts which had flattened Hiroshima and Nagasaki . |
| 21 | In its centre , etched finer than the lines surrounding it , were two lines of bead-like figures spiralling about each other , forming the double-helix of heredity , symbol of the Dispersionists . |
| 22 | In Whitehall , Smith was pleased with the progressing organisation built up by Verity , but in 1949 it became clearer that the bottlenecks were not only on site steel but in the inadequate response of the pipework and boiler manufacturers . |
| 23 | No investment having a DCF yield lower than the company 's cost of capital would normally be accepted . |
| 24 | No investment having a DCF yield lower than the company 's cost of capital would normally be accepted . |
| 25 | ‘ Invariably , the team scores lower than the individuals . |
| 26 | The old system had its flaws , but nevertheless , it seemed fairer than the poll tax . |
| 27 | It seemed bigger than the sun and it sailed with a peculiar swiftness up into the heavens , growing paler and brighter as it did so until it lit up the plain with a dull , yellow light . |
| 28 | It whined deep in its throat , as though in pain , and he saw the body grow paler as the fur sloughed away into nothing . |
| 29 | All these emotions vanished when Richard came bounding towards him with scarlet cheeks and shining eyes , looking happier than the detective had ever seen him . |
| 30 | His attitude towards me was one of dumb , doglike devotion , which I found tiresome , but in the circumstances he seemed better than no boyfriend at all . |