Example sentences of "[art] [adj -er] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this is probably the easier of the Tories ' tasks . |
| 2 | It is made none the easier by the differences in approach used to analyze the nature of the problem . |
| 3 | She saw the taller of the boys hesitate , then touch the arm of the other and lean close to whisper something . |
| 4 | Bliss made the introductions , beginning with the taller of the men , both of whom wore the nondescript dark suits traditionally favoured by high-ranking police officers . |
| 5 | Night had descended quite suddenly , and , as neither of them had bothered to switch on any lights , the house was in complete darkness , a darkness made all the heavier by the remnants of the storm outside . |
| 6 | For a British army encamped on ancient Carthaginian ground , it was perhaps natural to enjoy without too many qualms some at least of the diversions which Livy suggested had got the better of the Carthaginians . |
| 7 | It was at this critical moment that good sense got the better of the others , Big Pat was calmed down and a semblance of order was restored . |
| 8 | This is another sign that , so far at least , the Opposition is rather getting the better of the ratings ' war . |
| 9 | Which is the smaller of the portables ? |
| 10 | But first they had had a late tea in the smaller of the drawing-rooms . |
| 11 | Their job is to try and keep up with the train on nearby roads and hopefully help catch the faster of the trespassers fleeing from their colleagues on the trackside . |
| 12 | The officers are backed up by four police cars whose job is to try to keep up with the train on nearby roads and help catch the faster of the trespassers fleeing from their colleagues on the trackside . |
| 13 | " Mr Gillman 's ready for you now , " she said to the older of the women , and helped her gently into the consulting room . |
| 14 | This from the older of the policemen . |
| 15 | Thus he explains that the lower part of active life consists in the works of mercy and charity in society , the higher in the activities involved in penance and meditation which are also the lower part and the groundwork for contemplative knowledge of God who is beyond the ability of man 's active faculties to comprehend . |
| 16 | If economic agents do not arrive at the solutions indicated by the economic model ( or if foreign policy decision-makers do not choose the strategies recommended by game theory ) , that is , one might say , so much the worse for the agents . |
| 17 | For this he was profoundly grateful and it stopped the worse of the panics . |
| 18 | On the other hand , by far the commonest qualification of clauses is by single property words , and whenever there is a choice of form available , English shows unambiguously that these take the adverbial form , used in property qualification , and not the adjectival form needed for entity qualification : ( 71 ) the baker , finally successful , produced a wonderful cake ( 72 ) her final success was all the sweeter after the failures ( 73 ) finally , the droschke was repaired ( 74 ) final , the droschke was repaired |
| 19 | It was no easier for the mourners , at Kelly 's parish church of St Mary 's , in Newent , Gloucestershire , with Once In Royal David 's City and the poignant The Colours of the Day . |
| 20 | We realized that we needed a letting agent who would not only take the bookings but generally oversee the properties , plus a cleaner for the days on which they changed hands . |
| 21 | They got off to a blinder against the Sharks … catching them napping repeatedly in the first period to put six past them . |
| 22 | There are two types : a smaller one in the mountains and a larger in the valleys ( the bulls stand at 141cm and weigh 800–1,200kg , the cows 130cm and 540–600kg ) . |
| 23 | The fact that she had expected to be cosseted by the subjects of her own journalistic attentions in the past had made her no warier of the reporters she was inviting . |
| 24 | Assuming that Sophronia is an upper servant , the poem draws no closer to the owners than a description of the room where Biron sleeps and where , Timon-like , he keeps his unread books . |
| 25 | Bearwood is so designed that the ladies get no closer to the offices than the door between the transverse and the butler 's corridor . |