Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | B.Butcher , the general secretary of one of the most stable and better run of the local seamen 's organisations of the time , made no bones about his own experience . |
| 2 | Fifty years ago , when the world was younger and sex was an altogether simpler if scarcer commodity , there was a popular song , the lyrics of which brooked no argument : ‘ Love and marriage , love and marriage , go together like a horse and carriage . |
| 3 | Well when I come back to England today , as I do nearly every summer , it seems a fantastically rich and happier country than the one I grew up in . |
| 4 | Due to its dire foreign exchange shortage — Zambia broke off relations with the IMF earlier this year — book-dealers can no longer afford to import less popular but better quality reading material . |
| 5 | There are , of course , those only too ready to malign my whole project and offer instead a much shorter and simpler account . |
| 6 | For structures which essentially have to support only their own weight , a much lighter and stiffer form of wood could prove advantageous . |
| 7 | When his appointment as Secretary of State for Wales was announced , he told the House : ’ I look forward to explaining in Wales , as I have in England the way in which the community charge is a much fairer and simpler system ’ . |
| 8 | A half point was awarded but Stevens fought his way back into the contest scoring with a spectacular sacrifice throw and almost arm locking the much taller and heavier Kokataylo . |
| 9 | A half point was awarded but Stevens fought his way back into the contest scoring with a spectacular sacrifice throw and almost arm locking the much taller and heavier Kokataylo . |
| 10 | A slight body shift by the defender is undoubtedly the best form of defence against a strong punch from a much bigger and heavier opponent , though the defender should always have a backup block ready , in case the attack is only diverted , not completely sent off course . |
| 11 | The foxhound is a much bigger and stronger animal than a fox : the leading hound or couple bowl the fox over and kill him . |
| 12 | With the wind dead on their stern , he had changed the genoa for a much bigger and lighter cut . |
| 13 | This is caused by a much larger and heavier engine , which also means you need a rudder trim , conveniently supplied in this range . |
| 14 | Facing a much larger and heavier opponent , the mantis would make lightning strikes from its claw-like front limbs , then beat a hasty retreat out of harm 's way when the grasshopper retaliated . |
| 15 | In some much larger and loftier room on the first floor , with net curtains at the window and the mulberry tree at the back of the Scottish Office just beyond , Tite waves him to a seat . |
| 16 | In winter , when breast greyish , differs from Sanderling ( p. 129 ) in contrast between grey-brown upperparts and whiter underparts and no black shoulder spot , from much larger and greyer Knot ( p. 129 ) by white sides of rump and tail . |
| 17 | When she came to Switham House , a much larger and better-kept establishment than Merchiston Lodge , she found Rosalia Alderley to have quite another motive . |
| 18 | With so much more volatility in markets , it is perhaps inevitable that greater stress will be put on senior executives as they strive to adapt to , and cope with , ever faster changes . |
| 19 | He then introduced a new type of 4–4–0 express locomotive , with a leading bogie which gave much smoother and safer negotiation of curved track at speed , and these ran for fifty years from their entry into service in 1876 . |
| 20 | See if you can get a similar report significantly quicker elsewhere and then make a decision as to whether a less powerful but quicker report will do . |
| 21 | The new vehicles , a Swedish make , are considerably less polluting than older double-decker buses , which in many cases caused pollution well above European Community standards . |
| 22 | The Princess had known Andrew since childhood and had always been aware that beneath the brash , noisy mask was a much shrewder and lonelier character than he or his family would admit . |
| 23 | Days Mill was based on the site of a much older and smaller mill , probably built some time during the 16th or 17th centuries . |
| 24 | Two of the old Bunch ( Burroughs and Sperry ) merged into Unisys ; Digital Equipment ( DEC ) and Hewlett-Packard provided increasingly severe competition in the minicomputer range and as the main beneficiaries of ‘ down-sizing ’ ( in effect producing mainframe-level computer power on a much smaller and cheaper machine ) . |
| 25 | Today — such muddles often happened — she was wearing a cardigan of matted grey wool belonging to a much smaller and slighter inmate , a long brown skirt , brown stockings that wrinkled round her still-narrow ankles , and blue check carpet slippers . |
| 26 | But any individual market or island may experience somewhat higher or lower demand than average , those with lower than average demand cancelling out those with higher than average demand . |
| 27 | But the sheer warmth and solace of the strong arms about her were so reassuring that a few moments later she drifted off into a much calmer and deeper sleep . |
| 28 | They do not tell us why the level is set at its current average rather than some much higher or lower figure . |
| 29 | Generally they give a good wash-fastness and provide a much wider and brighter spectrum of colours . |
| 30 | For this reason the whole of Chapter II of The Hague Convention , while providing much fuller and clearer guidance than the earlier 1954 text , is subject to optional clauses and rights of reservation . |