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

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1 The strongest impetus , he said , comes from museums ' reassessment of their role in society which the profession sees as far broader than even a decade ago .
2 The time for planning and making arrangements will be much shorter and therefore the nurse must ensure that she obtains adequate information from the patient ( or family ) on admission .
3 Organisers of the 1994 World Cup finals admit they face an uphill battle in winning the support of US television viewers for a sporting event that to the rest of the world is bigger than even the Olympics .
4 ‘ It 's become a big problem , bigger than just the problem facing us , ’ said a Williams team insider last night .
5 It has to pick its way through the minefield of NT and Unix and estimate whether COSE is bigger than just the desktop .
6 It has to pick its way through the minefield of NT and Unix and estimate whether COSE is bigger than just the desktop .
7 Our country , as a nation , has a spirit and will — it is much bigger than merely the mechanisms of markets .
8 Particularly with such beefy recording that absence makes them seem heavier than either the Dorati ( Decca ) or Marriner ( Philips ) , both of which use harpsichord continuo to leaven the textures .
9 The areas where we put in most effort were Reed Tool the drill bit company where there were redundancies earlier in the year and in particular the U S operations of Redder and also the U S operations of Camco Products where in fact in the U S part of it , there are now thirty eight percent less people employed than there were a year ago .
10 Bare granite peaks towered over the south all day and the pools and falls seemed to grow bigger and better every mile .
11 Denys Zacharopoulos , one of its three curators , says : ‘ The museum is like a voodoo fetish , the artist a sorcerer but also a prisoner
12 The redder the light , the farther and faster the galaxy .
13 As he gets nearer and nearer the jungle in which he will begin hunting , he comes near to a large bush .
14 The slab side of the executive transporter loomed like a cliff out of the white fog , getting larger by the second as the shock wave from the explosions which had set it adrift in the first place propelled it nearer and nearer the executive transporter bay wall .
15 Most young children luckily will respond to the authority of a stranger and so the task is not as daunting as it sounds .
16 It is unlikely that any of the missing diamonds had been picked up by persons involved in the rescue or who visited the site later as only an expert would have been able to identify them as precious stones .
17 What is much better than just the security levels is the User Definable menus .
18 It comes on two CDs which makes it cheaper than either the Philips or Harmonia Mundi sets , and has a choir in Collegium Musicum 90 who for clarity of diction , and intense musicality , surpass all other versions with the exception of Eliot Gardiner 's Monteverdi Choir .
19 The far side crust is thicker and therefore the basins gave rise to less weakening there , and consequently far less lava emerged into those basins than into those on the near side .
20 The crowds are the biggest the bookshop has seen and the book is selling faster than any the publisher has known .
21 His heart beats faster and once a trembling goes through his slender body like unbearable expectation .
22 But Hawley says : ‘ Jason is more like Hanley in his general play — even though he is much smaller and basically a scrum-half .
23 The median pepsin output in the H pylori positive duodenal ulcer patients ( 29 , 19–60 ) was higher than both the H pylori positive ( p<0.005 ) and negative ( p<0.001 ) healthy volunteers .
24 And after the barbed wire was another fence that was higher and again the floodlights played and caught on the cutting edges … and after the high barbed wire was a wooden fence that was three yards high .
25 As the resistance gets higher and higher the current goes down .
26 The further downstream one goes , the higher and better the banks must be : skilful siting and engineering are obviously required .
27 Because the racket has a diagonal string pattern , spin shots ( top spin and slice ) become easier to play , basically because the strings on such a pattern are longer and therefore the ball rests on them for longer .
28 For larger loads the time taken to reach the first step position is longer and therefore the time between successive step commands is automatically adjusted to allow for the slower rate of acceleration .
29 From his earliest experience of Parliament , where he sat , as a commoner and then a peer , from 1689 until his death ( with one short interval in 1698–9 ) , he ‘ always made an agreeable figure ’ without ever establishing a reputation as an orator .
30 As the hon. Gentleman knows , the Bill in question goes a good deal wider than just the matters that he has been addressing .
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