Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Indeed , the latter in his resurrection seems to point directly to this alternative , and we should not forget that such a comparatively late example as this had a clear and much earlier precedent in the resurrection of Osiris . ) |
| 2 | An easier and much cheaper alternative would be to let the earth 's upper atmosphere serve as a detector . |
| 3 | Sites at Gwithian in Cornwall include a medieval and possibly earlier chapel , a medieval farm , and pre-Norman fields , as well as many prehistoric sites . |
| 4 | Similarly , they can persuade other holders of bills to exchange them for time deposits in banks , by offering a higher rate of interest on time deposits ; something they can do if the demand for advances is high and hence higher interest rates can be charged on advances . |
| 5 | Les Perdris , " The partridges " , is a shorter and rather gentler tale . |
| 6 | In it , you mentioned that you would be willing to write to an official in support of the building of a proper path between Bloomiehall Park and Muirwood Road , to give children a shorter and potentially safer route to school avoiding the Lanark Road . |
| 7 | Flying off water takes different and rather greater skill than boring ground-bound aviation , and while sometimes it is slightly less practical , it is always immensely more rewarding — and much more fun . |
| 8 | But in the ‘ new ’ version , Blade Runner The Director 's Cut , due out at the end of the month , Scott opts for a different and even darker conclusion . |
| 9 | Berlin modernism , meanwhile , was an altogether different and surely stranger brew . |
| 10 | The sociology of such developments is at a different and much broader level than that of cultural formations . |
| 11 | At a distance many species look similar and only closer examination reveals the difference . |
| 12 | Giant leaps into the unknown are dangerous and therefore wiser counsel may preach limited change from the existing position . |
| 13 | But there is an additional and even stronger ground for impeaching it . |
| 14 | She walked up a gravel drive crowded with large cars , past an old-fashioned wooden pavilion and two clay tennis courts , ignored the adult game going on in front of her and started around the boundary to the second and much smaller game in the far corner . |
| 15 | It is a simple and much cheaper method . |
| 16 | It is a partly early and partly later concept . |
| 17 | The warm reception given to Project 90 , designed by John Heffernan and Ken Greenley , provided positive proof to Ward that he was on the right track in his long-term strategy of building a separate and much stronger image for the Bentley marque . |
| 18 | He no longer made conventional bread with all the kneading and rising stages , but soda bread , which is a simpler and much quicker process . |
| 19 | The surface was gleaming with pure white and even purer gold . |
| 20 | We used peach shades , moving on to pink and white and then darker crimson and purple . |
| 21 | Again the Monkey-boy together with a rather fragile-looking , unusually pretty and even smaller friend , ‘ 'Artley ’ , proudly led away the horse . |
| 22 | DANCE MUSIC from a marginally less cynical and altogether simpler era . |
| 23 | In so far as the population of Africa , and especially that of Somalia , is clearly at risk from internal conflict and where the aid agencies can not deliver any assistance because of that conflict , is it not time for the British Government to urge the United Nations to take a more interventionist and far stronger role in resolving those disputes ? |
| 24 | Notice also that there is an alternative and syntactically simpler way of expressing the second version , which is : ( 12 ) Haberup angered his golem We can see exactly the same type of ambiguity in : ( 13 ) Reg ran the engine dry The adverbal adjective version of ( 13 ) corresponding to the question what did Reg do to the engine ? tells us that Reg reduced the engine to a certain unsatisfactory state ( though he may at least have had the sense to stop at that point ) . |
| 25 | Like them , they are made from a 50% cotton , 50% polyester mix , though the result is a thicker and slightly stiffer material — undoubtedly more hardwearing , but not as comfortable in texture . |
| 26 | However , M33 is a much smaller and much looser system . |
| 27 | Improving the outlook for patients will require either diagnosing cancer at an asymptomatic and presumably earlier phase or offering more effective treatment for those with advanced disease . |
| 28 | Instead with every open-mouthed kiss , with every fevered touch , each lifted the other on to a higher and increasingly higher plane of ecstasy . |
| 29 | In their turn , the stronger and financially sounder tenant farmers , or lairds , would extract money and labour from those a step lower down the scale . |
| 30 | The picturesque thirteen-arched stone bridge would be dwarfed by the modern bridges and the new road would encourage greater and much faster traffic . |