Example sentences of "[art] [adj -er] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know that as the younger by a year or two I looked up to Andrew ; after all I was an inexperienced young man from a small prairie town , while Andrew had been to Europe ! |
| 2 | Joan is the younger by a year but , being of similar height and appearance , the girls are as twins . |
| 3 | Both blades can be locked at 90 degrees to the grip , the smaller to serve as a pick the larger as a form of mattock . |
| 4 | He is all the better as a witness , since one can not doubt that he genuinely sought instruction . |
| 5 | Frankie Dettori , smitten with his five-year-old mare , is expected to get the better of a battle for early supremacy with Willie Carson aboard inconsistent but occasionally very useful July Cup winner Hamas . |
| 6 | Kevin ( Macaulay Culkin ) manages to get the better of a couple of adult villains . |
| 7 | Darlington over eight rinks just had the better of a Nottinghamshire county side . |
| 8 | He had been the weaker of a hatching of two males and would almost certainly have died within a few days if local ornithologists had not taken him from the nest and reared him themselves in the hope that a home might finally be found for him as worthwhile as the Zoo … |
| 9 | Swindon Town 's disappointing start to the season has taken another turn for the worse with a cup defeat at first division Portsmouth … |
| 10 | After removing ten to fifteen worms from the upturned roots the piece of lawn is returned to its original position , patted down firmly and is none the worse within a week or two . |
| 11 | The drink , whatever it might be , would be all the sweeter after a run , and maybe the relative peace of Wimbledon Common on a mild and gentle spring evening would bring a measure of tranquillity to my mind . |
| 12 | Similarly , if you had n't been lucky in the market , one lucky bet could send you home the richer by a season 's takings , if you could spot an outsider . |
| 13 | Lingerie that doubles as clothing is all the rage : a bustier under a suit ; a bra as a bikini . |
| 14 | Futre 's mood was no better after a £5million transfer from Atletico Madrid to Benfica , though he was recalled to the team who lost to Italy . |
| 15 | I know Alan Harding , the choreographer , well and a meeting in Nottingham earlier in the week has brought us no closer to a decision . |
| 16 | The next afternoon found Kate lying on a lounger beside a pool in the Algarve . |
| 17 | In Johnson and Bloy ( Holdings ) Ltd v Wolstenholme Rink Plc [ 1989 ] IRLR 499 the Court of Appeal granted an injunction to the plaintiffs to prevent the defendant from disclosing or using the information that two specified ingredients might be used in combination in the manufacture of a drier for a printing ink and from manufacturing or arranging for the manufacture of printing inks containing therein a drier containing the two ingredients . |