Example sentences of "[adj -er] [conj] [art] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it 's too long for you , just let me know and I 'll find something shorter and a bit easier . ’ |
| 2 | The month of berries , harvests and the autumn equinox , with the days getting noticeably shorter and the nights longer and cooler |
| 3 | He sometimes toyed with the idea of going to live in an EC country , where the streets were cleaner and the wages even higher , but he would n't be able to speak the language . |
| 4 | It has made me a lot tougher and a lot more businesswise . ’ |
| 5 | It has made me a lot tougher and a lot more businesswise . |
| 6 | The grass is greener and the flowers more beautiful just because we nearly lost them . ’ |
| 7 | It is so much easier when the business actually comes through the letter box . |
| 8 | Stranger than the truth perhaps but tireless , happy go lucky , organised , a friend at all times — these are the boys and girls that really will ensure you get to make the most of your holiday . |
| 9 | But is still some £20m lower than a year ago , and interest earnings fell 27 p.c. to £6½m . |
| 10 | In general , the failure rate of franchises is dramatically lower than the equivalents outside — though that sort of statistic is highly affected by definitions . |
| 11 | If the target word in the position had a recognition score lower than the threshold then it was omitted . |
| 12 | Situations vacant in particular showed a very , a very big drop and erm , and in fact we , the yield was lower than the year before , but we 've er , continued with our pac press rationalization programme and er , I think as I mentioned at the interims , the Basildon Evening Echo is now printed on the F T's presses , which incidentally has got the contract to and is printing er , . |
| 13 | The laundry doorway was slightly lower than the doorways upstairs , and Tom had cracked his head sharply on the lintel . |
| 14 | Sockets are bigger than the chips normally so |
| 15 | On the buzzer I rolled over quite a large flathead , but it missed , and that was a fish much bigger than the flatheads both Kate and Ben were catching with great rapidity on fish portions . |
| 16 | The crowd was always bigger than the crowd before . |
| 17 | It 's nicer than a satsuma really . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | Particularly in the business of softer drugs , where the taxes can be lower and the restrictions less onerous , and where the first trial steps towards legalisation should take place , it would undermine the ‘ risk premium ’ that provides drug cartels with their profits . |
| 20 | NB When using pile fabrics which can not be ironed in the same way , cut the bump 2.5cm ( 1in ) larger than the buckram all round . |
| 21 | The oral papillae are slightly flattened and the distalmost papillae may be widened at the free end or in some specimens larger than the others almost opercular . |
| 22 | The original bivariate effect would have been larger than the effect once sex is controlled in this case , because once more it will contain a spurious component . |
| 23 | In the third and final phase the area of dispersal is larger and the distribution more dense . |
| 24 | But Nicol suggests the side-effects are getting rarer and the benefits more pronounced . |
| 25 | The day grew hotter and the flies more troublesome . |
| 26 | As the novel approaches its end , spaces between its verbal segments grow larger and larger until the text finally recedes into a blank white page . |
| 27 | ‘ Is it meaner than a place so foul that you ca n't bear to touch your own skin except to brush off the things crawling over you ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Is it meaner than a dungeon so dark that you ca n't see your hand in front of your face ? ’ |
| 29 | An eagle flies better than a pelican even though they 've both got wings . ’ |
| 30 | They had made love that morning and it was better than the day before . |