Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adj -er] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In general terms it is suggested that determination by expert is quicker and cheaper than determination by arbitrator . |
| 2 | The first replicators were probably cruder and simpler than DNA . |
| 3 | An underwater world , new and exciting and richer than surface communication . |
| 4 | At the outset , no doubt , the problem was examined in purely personal terms : on the one hand , the contrast between the life of his father and the life of the intellectual elite of the ENS ; on the other , the reluctance to accept the logical outcome of the bourgeois educational system , integration and assimilation within the provincial middle-class teaching profession , a fate considered by Nizan as worse than death , a form of protracted suicide in which an individual is slowly asphyxiated within the drab grey tedium of bourgeois life . |
| 5 | These became taller and steeper as time passed . |
| 6 | They all got hotter and redder and shinier and fatter . |
| 7 | Gradually , the cracks in the limestone became bigger and bigger and water began to flow through them . |
| 8 | He says it 's going to get bigger and bigger and alot of our pasture land is going to be cannabis plantations and they 're going to be legal ones because they 've been granted licences to possess and grow it . |
| 9 | The penalty for all this housekeeping is that the files generated by the program do tend to get bigger and bigger as time goes on . |
| 10 | Hide : the skin of a full grown animal from which a leather is produced that is heavier and tougher than calf . |
| 11 | Influenced by Chicago house as well as the unlikely European sounds of Kraftwerk , Yello and Depeche Mode — Saunderson , May ( who uses the names Mayday and Rythim Is Rythim ) and the original techno-master Atkins ( Cybortron and Model 500 ) , created a music that was sparser , leaner and harsher than house . |
| 12 | Firstly , companies became larger and larger as wealth became concentrated in the hands of a small number of firms . |
| 13 | And their Roman Candle was brighter and longer-lasting than Standard 's . |
| 14 | The lower levels get hotter and hotter and store energy which can be used to generate power . |
| 15 | Poppy oil colours are short and buttery and slower-drying than linseed colours . |
| 16 | Poppy oil colours are short and buttery and slower-drying than linseed colours . |
| 17 | The number of printable characters since the last new-line ( COUNT ) is compared with X. If X is equal or greater than COUNT , sufficient spaces to make them equal are printed . |
| 18 | Metal garden furniture has an ageless quality , and usually looks better and better as time rolls on . |
| 19 | NGVs are also popular with drivers , who comment that they are smoother and quieter than petrol or diesel powered vehicles . |
| 20 | And if Portland is colder and wetter than Palm Beach , change your route and head for Florida . |
| 21 | They are generally thicker and harder-fired than wall tiles , to enable them to stand up to heavy wear without cracking . |
| 22 | ‘ Like the man , the house and its contents are bold and larger than life , ’ said Sotheby 's director James Miller . |
| 23 | Sensed somewhere below the thinking mind , somehow older and wiser than consciousness , there is … |
| 24 | European race feldeggii looks smaller and slenderer than Peregrine and differs also in its browner ( but not so brown as the Saker ) upperparts , pinkish underparts , rufous or buff crown and nape and much narrower moustachial stripe ; also has longer tail and blunter wings . |
| 25 | Armour is beautifully made from a myriad of tiny metal scales making it lightweight and very flexible but stronger than steel . |
| 26 | Of these only hippopotamus teeth , which are denser and harder than ivory and of a gleaming whiteness , featured in any of the ancient civilizations . |
| 27 | Everyone 's n model was longer and lower and fancier , as if squeezed underfoot . |
| 28 | Walnut 's harder and shinier than satin wood . |
| 29 | ( A few degrees cooler or hotter and water changes in state , to ice or steam . ) |
| 30 | Compost , leaf mould and rotted manure all derive from varied sources and the residual content will therefore be greater and wider than peat . |