Example sentences of "[adj -er] [conj] [pron] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His trunks , largely buried between the rolls of his stomach and thighs , were red-purple , a colour neither heavier nor lighter than his achieved flesh colour , which jangled the eye . |
| 2 | ‘ A highlighter — two tones lighter than your normal foundation — can define cheekbones , make eyes look bigger and slim down a nose merely by being blended into these areas . |
| 3 | The most flattering effect is no more than one to two shades lighter than your natural colour . ’ |
| 4 | Searchers not only express their subject needs in brief and concise terms but also tend to use a broad search formulation to access the bibliographic tool , i.e. , broader than their expressed topic . |
| 5 | He was taller than most of them , his nickname being ‘ Lofty ’ , and always looked a lot cleaner than his oil-stained gang . |
| 6 | As we said our goodbyes and hoped to meet up again soon , I could n't help thinking as I watched the column disappear in the distance that the Marines were not going to find the situation any easier than their last venue . |
| 7 | As a result of the centrifugal force of rotation it bulges at the equator and its polar radius ( 6378 km ) is 21 km shorter than its equatorial radius ( 6397 km ) ; thus the Earth is more accurately described as an oblate spheroid . |
| 8 | A small brownish butterfly with a lifespan of less than a week and a wingspan shorter than your little finger . |
| 9 | Jonathan cut his media molars as part time religious affairs producer at TFM Radio : the 30 seconds to which ITV Sport restricted the newcomer was slightly shorter than his usual address . |
| 10 | Fen was much taller and broader and his swarthy colouring was not something that had appealed to her hitherto . |
| 11 | Less advanced learners would want something much shorter because their limited command of the language also limits their attention span . |
| 12 | A second body was the Protestant Dissenting Deputies which had been founded in 1732 and was , by the end of the nineteenth century , healthier than its older friend although The Christian World noted in 1901 that it ‘ seems to have fallen on evil days ’ . |
| 13 | The rules on incorrect scores are simple and Draconian : if you sign for a score which is lower than your actual score you are disqualified ; if you sign for a higher score than your actual , the higher score stands . |
| 14 | A hush — he was talking — Cameron and Menzies strained to hear but caught only his tone , several notes lower than his sharp pitch of command . |
| 15 | Lisa slept like a stone in the big double bed — far comfier than her own bed at home — and awoke to find Emily already up and dressed , pulling on her green rubber wellies . |
| 16 | Often makers try pulling a fast one by giving a tractor a number that 's bigger than its actual horsepower . |
| 17 | This can be represented by a context called Title with a property that its font is two points bigger than its containing font . |
| 18 | Instead they simply enlarged until , by the time that the caterpillar was full grown , they were vastly distended and many thousand times bigger than their original size . |
| 19 | Wilma finished the session by cantering into four foot fences and popping over them as if they were no bigger than our two foot nine ones — which made me realise how far we have to go . |
| 20 | Furthermore , by broadening his own identity from leader of the London dissidents to leader of the whole French Resistance , internal as well as external , he remained , in a sense , bigger than his own organization . |
| 21 | But the negatives , each no bigger than his little fingernail , were totally meaningless to the naked eye . |
| 22 | ‘ I opened Keith 's shirt and saw a bullet hole just a little bigger than my middle finger nail . |
| 23 | Italian dessert cheeses tend to be creamier than their French counterpart , and therefore higher in calories . |
| 24 | She was slightly taller than her dark companion , and had fair , fluffy hair that blew across her face . |
| 25 | Inside , I was barely able to stand upright at the highest point , for I was head and shoulders taller than my sinister host ; and it did not escape my notice that the roof at its highest point was infested with cobwebs , in the corners of which sat large square spiders . |
| 26 | In ewes the prevalence of infection is lower and their larval output smaller . |
| 27 | Calder 's face was turning an incredible shade of pink — but it could not be any pinker than her own face ! |
| 28 | With its magnitude of -1.5 it is well over half a magnitude brighter than its nearest rival , Canopus , and about 1½ magnitudes superior to Alpha Centauri , which is no. 3 on the list . |
| 29 | White heat is hotter than yellow , which in turn is hotter than red ; thus the white Rigel in Orion is hotter than our yellow Sun , while the orange-red Betelgeux and Aldebaran are decidedly cooler . |
| 30 | Boys are three years younger than their actual age . |