Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj -er] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously the City boys are a bit fussier than the country boys about when they play . |
| 2 | One leg was a bit shorter than the other , I think . |
| 3 | This tiny car — it 's a foot shorter than a Mini — might be the breath of fresh air Europe 's choked and choking cities have been looking for . |
| 4 | She closed the front door , and from her rocking walk Jess realized that one of her legs must be a good deal shorter than the other . |
| 5 | There were no houses , no people , no hills , and not a rock bigger than a cricket ball . |
| 6 | the measure of damages awarded to a plaintiff who was obliged to incur hire charges following a road traffic accident could include ( i ) the cost of hire of a car larger than the plaintiff 's own ( ii ) the cost of hire after completion of repairs pending receipt by the plaintiff from the defendant 's insurer of funds to meet the repairers bill . |
| 7 | By keeping the lower vee steeper than the other , we introduce what might be called a ‘ tail-effect ’ , so keep this in mind when you are practising for that first Rokkaku Challenge . |
| 8 | More than 200 pages later Genet writes ‘ out of the crowd a glance swifter than a wink reveals two fedayeen as two lovers … |
| 9 | Investment over the 1992–1994 period at £5.4 billion is forecast to be 22 p.c. down on the 1989–91 levels after allowing for inflation and the lowest since 1984–86 but still 30 p.c. higher than the depth of recession in 1981–1983 . |
| 10 | But things grew a great deal worse as the century wore on . |
| 11 | ‘ In his profession he found a force stronger than the temperament he had inherited from his family ; instead of surrendering to his natural instincts he followed a clear , straight path , and did not slide into the wretched muddle in which all the other Rougons perished . ’ |
| 12 | Both sides have a point : some foxes kill lambs , poultry and game , and some foxes are guilty of no crime greater than the dispatching of mice and earthworms . |
| 13 | During clamps a significant rise in plasma hormone concentration was defined as a concentration greater than the mean of the five baseline ( euglycaemic ) values plus two standard deviations in two or more consecutive samples . |
| 14 | Er like i we if I saw a vase that was a little bit bigger and a bit more expensive than what you 'd have |
| 15 | A fate worse than a cookbook |
| 16 | The eastern half was a warehouse , a storey higher than the mill and built later , around 1890 . |
| 17 | The revenue has no answer to the anomalies which arise when the cost of providing a loss-making facility means that the average cost basis results in the taxpayer being treated as receiving a sum by way of benefit greater than the cost of buying that benefit on the open market . |
| 18 | On the average cost basis , the taxpayer would be treated as receiving a benefit greater than the amount charged to the public . |
| 19 | And that the distance P X ir greater than the distance R X. |
| 20 | There was a cause for panic greater than the office silence at five o'clock on a Friday afternoon . |
| 21 | In a show of unity rarer than a dodo sighting , the US Big Six have issued a joint statement of position in an attempt to focus attention on the ‘ epidemic of litigation ’ that is beginning to threaten the very existence of many American firms . |
| 22 | yeah , but I need to be a bit skinnier and a bit taller |
| 23 | In addition the Budget made the tax on diesel supplied by firms for employees ' private motoring lower than the tax on petrol . |
| 24 | BY NO stretch of the imagination is the new Council Tax fairer than the Community Charge , which at least provided equal treatment . |
| 25 | He 's still young , could go into club management after a spell with England , and I bet he 's probably the *peoples choice * which would make his job easier as the press would think twice before having a go at him . |
| 26 | Need a good scientist who say that last July went and discovered a planet larger than the earth in another solar system and now said , oh it was all a mistake ! |
| 27 | Along with the servants has gone much of Sir Charles 's sense of responsibility to a local community larger than the household . |
| 28 | But this , of course , makes no serious claim at all about the notion of consciousness , in the sense in which the word is normally used : it simply sets up a definition of the term on which virtually any organism higher than an amoeba is conscious , as would be many existing computers . |
| 29 | It was the magical hour after the lunch shift , when everyone had gone away and there was no sound louder than the hoover . |
| 30 | He 's just a bit cleverer than the rest , but willing to take advice with it , and is happy being the writer he always wanted to be . |