Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case they were quite clear where their own priorities lay : |
| 2 | His trunks , largely buried between the rolls of his stomach and thighs , were red-purple , a colour neither heavier nor lighter than his achieved flesh colour , which jangled the eye . |
| 3 | ‘ A highlighter — two tones lighter than your normal foundation — can define cheekbones , make eyes look bigger and slim down a nose merely by being blended into these areas . |
| 4 | The most flattering effect is no more than one to two shades lighter than your natural colour . ’ |
| 5 | Volkswagen 's Vario I and Vario II were much more interesting than their wacky bodywork would suggest . |
| 6 | Such stronger forms are available , as we shall see , and they are always more interesting than their weaker counterparts . |
| 7 | Far more interesting than your average conversation that involves people or a good old fashioned joke I do n't think . |
| 8 | Searchers not only express their subject needs in brief and concise terms but also tend to use a broad search formulation to access the bibliographic tool , i.e. , broader than their expressed topic . |
| 9 | It gives you a level of control over the configuration that is cleaner and quicker than anything DR-DOS offers in its question and answer CONFIG.SYS functionality . |
| 10 | Unless the Paris Club , which manages official debt to Western governments , proves much more generous than its past record suggests , a considerable slice of the new money will go merely to service the old loans rather than provide fresh finance for imports and investment goods to support genuine reform . |
| 11 | Thus , the richer States of the north and west should be more generous than their poorer contemporaries of the South , a conclusion that has been sustained empirically , e.g. Magull ( 1978 ) , Fenton and Chamberlayne ( 1969 ) . |
| 12 | On the Continent , station architects tended to be more restrained than their English-speaking colleagues , more prone to arches than towers , but they were not unaffected by the new aesthetic and clung to it longer . |
| 13 | He was taller than most of them , his nickname being ‘ Lofty ’ , and always looked a lot cleaner than his oil-stained gang . |
| 14 | Of course when we think and talk about computers , we generally have in mind something much more formal and more scientific than our own hands . |
| 15 | She might sound diffident , McLeish thought , amused , but she was n't , just more careful than his blunt Francesca about how she made her points . |
| 16 | Some things , then , were more reliable than his own twin likenesses in the school photograph . |
| 17 | As we said our goodbyes and hoped to meet up again soon , I could n't help thinking as I watched the column disappear in the distance that the Marines were not going to find the situation any easier than their last venue . |
| 18 | Alderly has had owners far more distinguished than its Georgian creator . |
| 19 | As a result of the centrifugal force of rotation it bulges at the equator and its polar radius ( 6378 km ) is 21 km shorter than its equatorial radius ( 6397 km ) ; thus the Earth is more accurately described as an oblate spheroid . |
| 20 | A small brownish butterfly with a lifespan of less than a week and a wingspan shorter than your little finger . |
| 21 | Jonathan cut his media molars as part time religious affairs producer at TFM Radio : the 30 seconds to which ITV Sport restricted the newcomer was slightly shorter than his usual address . |
| 22 | In any case , he 's almost certainly no more devious than his Celtic predecessors in the job . ’ |
| 23 | Even after years of marriage an ex-wife will get no benefit from this if her former husband dies . |
| 24 | The range of colours available is large , and a list of mail-order suppliers is given on page 118 if your local grocer or store does not stock them . |
| 25 | In any case , it is doubtful if its present followers would give much support to such an extension , for it is a religion which claims to confer privileges , including territorial ones , and privileges , by definition , can not have universal application . |
| 26 | A similar delay in Spain could mean something altogether different because there close family relatives take absolute priority and , no matter how important other business is , all non-relatives are kept waiting . |
| 27 | I could n't understand why he did this because his rebellious hair always sprang up like bristles on a brush and never stayed flat like Dad 's . |
| 28 | Our original intention in enacting regulation 72 was to facilitate the unlimited payment of arrears of benefits in cases of clear official — I hope that the hon. Member for Oldham , West will listen to this because his total distortion of the case — |
| 29 | And one of the 8-bit slots is unusable because its blanking plate carries the extra serial and games port . |
| 30 | I am afraid the above formulae are wrong because our new solenoids do n't look the same as the old one . |