Example sentences of "[prep] [adj -er] [subord] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hitch was on top throughout and was probably worth better than the two-round winning margin given to him by Darlington referee Arnold Bryson . |
| 2 | The palazzo itself will be dealt with later when the trip reaches its frontage , but it is worth a long look as you move past . |
| 3 | The social worker is not usually involved in the early stages following the patient 's stroke , but may be called in later if the patient is fairly severely disabled , or is an old person likely to need long-term support at home . |
| 4 | ‘ Few people can judge what shape a particular horse is in better than the smith who shoes him . |
| 5 | These requirements were not satisfied in Schroeder because the contract was imposed on the plaintiff by a defendant who had greater bargaining power which he used oppressively . |
| 6 | A shame , a shambles , a fiasco and a farce ; that 's the damming verdict on this year 's Grand National and the arguments about what went wrong and why will be running for longer than the race . |
| 7 | But the existing offspring may benefit more , may need a little bit of extra milk , so the existing offspring may try to erm , demand more milk , or at least milk for longer than the mother to supply . |
| 8 | But she knew that telling things the way you wanted them to be rather than the way they were did n't change anything for longer than the moment of the lie . |
| 9 | Even if they were noted , they might not survive for longer than the solution of the particular case or point . |
| 10 | I heard him scramble to his feet and his metal-tipped boots took him down the stone corridor at better than the track record . |