Example sentences of "[adj -er] [conj] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 THE Big Apple 's the location for a special programme where inventions are even wackier than here in the UK .
2 ( BBC 1 , 7.30pm ) THE Big Apple 's the location for a special programme where inventions are even wackier than here in the UK .
3 The Northern Foods shares are lower than they should be , because the stock market has got it into its head that competition is tougher than ever in the food business .
4 This routine can be carried out manually without any special equipment , but it is easier and quicker with an edit controller which takes over the operation of both machines from the one keyboard .
5 The tow held steady , but the weight of it was forcing him further and further off the wind .
6 People who had driven him further and further into the woods that slope down from the Common towards the mam road to the south-west .
7 As the years passed , I would watch his passion for adhering to the bedu principle remove him further and further from the society around him .
8 This menu is used mainly for keyboard operation as most operations are quicker and easier with a mouse .
9 Europe has voted for something new and something greener and closer to the community .
10 Without this first step there is no beginning , and every subsequent step in the search takes one further but always in the same direction .
11 The salute and stamp of boot on bare floor were smarter than normally as a consequence .
12 The colour flooded her face , then receded , leaving her paler than ever beneath the surface tan .
13 She looked around for somewhere to sit , but the bed looked bigger than ever in the cramped room and his jacket lay discarded on the only chair .
14 In frightening contrast fitzAlan looked tough and completely immovable , and bigger than ever in the confined space of the alehouse .
15 Immediately Alec 's eyes filled with sweat again and he strained to hold the delicate balance of the bucket of fire as it moved lower and closer to the shape carved out of the ground .
16 He seemed larger than ever under the low ceiling , and when he strode out through the street door , the saloon bar seemed quite empty without him .
17 They are marginally larger and instead of the pale yellow head-plumes are adorned with bright golden-yellow plumes which meet over the forehead .
18 In 1844 Youatt described two types of Sussex : one closer to the Devon stock , being smaller , light and agile , the other larger and more like a Hereford except that its coat colour was whole .
19 His voice was pure seduction , drawing her deeper and deeper into the spell of passion , and she shook her head with a desperation born of fear — fear not of him but of what she would do if he continued this heady , drugging assault on her senses .
20 Everything may be getting bigger , brighter and better in the network world , but the most important single trend is probably standardisation .
21 The move up to verse can be made for the exit of a person from a lower but also for the entrance of one from a higher rank .
22 There is little point in reaching conclusions unless you do something better or differently as a result .
23 Although a bit of a nuisance , it is usually cheaper and safer in the long run to run both systems together until you are 101 per cent sure that your new computer is ready and able to handle what you want it to .
24 They take it in turns to crouch in a cardboard box — edging it closer and closer to the track .
25 I know people say well oh it 's , of course it 's changed ownership , well things change ownership and it can be for the better as well for the worst ca n't it ?
26 Either way it was the inspiration for the academic success that took him faster and further from the streets of his childhood than even his mother 's success in business had .
27 As we grow older and closer to the unanswerable questions concerning our own mortality , it 's hardly surprising that most of us cling more strongly to that which we know and become set in our ways .
28 Should your goals be made smaller and then into a longer list ?
29 And I do too , as it happens , although my place is smaller and further from the river .
30 Consciousness of all these pressures did not improve Michael Banks 's concentration and , together with fatigue , ensured that the lines were worse than ever on the Friday afternoon run .
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