Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | While I had liked the Colonello very much , because of his courteous way of talking to me , I never really took to Camino — who seemed more English than the English with his stiff upper lip — although subsequently he behaved very well . |
| 32 | Then he said : ‘ I 'm more interested than the rest of you to know whether he killed himself . |
| 33 | Betting is one of Britain 's top leisure activities , even more popular than a trip to the pub or eating out . |
| 34 | Once again it is clear than the concept of bureaucracy can not be used in blanket terms . |
| 35 | And hope is less clear than the dew of the morn |
| 36 | These skills are again evident when Tamburlaine successfully manages to woo Zenocrate with lines such as : ‘ Zenocrate , lovelier than the love of Jove ’ and ‘ Fair is too foul an epithet for thee ’ . |
| 37 | Therefore spreads are usually less risky than a position in a single futures contract . |
| 38 | Many married women whose husbands sign on for the family find themselves forced to seek work in the black economy in order to make ends meet ; this is often seen as less risky than the possibility of their husbands being caught . |
| 39 | It was no more painful than a ring through a punk 's nose . |
| 40 | Apart from the infiltration of the local anaesthetic , when the patient will feel a prick in the back , less painful than the anaesthetic for dental work , all that is felt is a pressure on the lower spine with occasionally a faint ‘ tingle ’ in one leg which simply signifies that the needle is in the right place . |
| 41 | The transition from symbol to politician was to be far more protracted and painful than the transition from soldier to symbol had been in 1940 . |
| 42 | Thoughts of the bills returning to Gomez 's alligator-skin billfold were unpleasant , but less unpleasant than the thought of being shot in the head . |
| 43 | Of course the environment is very much more simple and unpleasant than the environment from which you 've just come . |
| 44 | After the sober belches of the shoe-gazing clique ( itself a knee-jerk reaction to the brash swagger of baggydom ) , The Franks came across like circus clowns pissing around in a casualty department , all charmingly naive , astoundingly cheerful and dafter than a boardroom of brushes . |
| 45 | Recent history has , for example , a mass character more marked than the history of earlier times . |
| 46 | The fronting of objects and complements is much more marked than the fronting of adjuncts in English because objects and complements are fairly restricted in position . |
| 47 | For me , this job is easier than a game of croquet … |
| 48 | ‘ She 's tougher than the rest of us put together . |
| 49 | Ah , no , I mean cos violence and drugs is more harmful than a load of girls , you know , doing stupid things on s street corner . |
| 50 | Also his playing career with us was far shorter than a lot of these blokes . |
| 51 | Zip , about 3cm shorter than the length of one side ( excluding seam allowance ) . |
| 52 | Cut the gripper strips about 40mm shorter than the width of the stair carpet so that edges wo n't show , and do the same for the underlay , which should fit from the end of each strip on the tread , over the nosing , up to the edge of the next strip on the riser . |
| 53 | If the text is shorter than the width of the block reduce the width to that of the text by dragging the handles in before you copy the text . |
| 54 | In Fig. 4.2 , for example , the three-phase currents are quickly established at the maximum value because the phase winding time constants ( 1 ins ) are much shorter than the period of each excitation ( 20 ms at a speed of 50 steps per second ) . |
| 55 | Hence his argument that ‘ the knowledge of history is no more historical than the knowledge of sugar is sweet ’ . |
| 56 | Admission is free although a commitment of a specified number of counselling/ training hours per week will be required on completion of the study . |
| 57 | The love-sick dog went completely off his food , finding his loveable lump more appetising than a bowl of doggy chunks in gravy and soon he was reduced to skin and bone , a mere shadow of the beast his family had grown to know and love . |
| 58 | Wenger ( 1984 ) identified that the death of a sibling or friends may be harder to get over than the death of a spouse , perhaps because the longevity of the relationship goes back to earliest years . |
| 59 | Since British research in the 1 980s has consistently found that the use of cannabis , amphetamines , psychedelics and inhalants is much more prevalent than the use of opioids ( see Chapter 8 ) , the present findings imply that users of the former drugs are far less likely than opioid users to develop ‘ officially recognised ’ problems ( with the exception of legal problems , for example being prosecuted for possessing drugs ) . |
| 60 | It just shows that there 's more to demo-making than a bunch of programmers having fun . |