Example sentences of "[adj -er] [coord] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tow held steady , but the weight of it was forcing him further and further off the wind . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Europe has voted for something new and something greener and closer to the community . |
| 5 | Without this first step there is no beginning , and every subsequent step in the search takes one further but always in the same direction . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They are marginally larger and instead of the pale yellow head-plumes are adorned with bright golden-yellow plumes which meet over the forehead . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Everything may be getting bigger , brighter and better in the network world , but the most important single trend is probably standardisation . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They take it in turns to crouch in a cardboard box — edging it closer and closer to the track . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And I do too , as it happens , although my place is smaller and further from the river . |
| 16 | The general level of pain and fear for all gay men who call is now higher and just below the surface , as many of them seek to come to terms with the virus and its effect on their lives . |
| 17 | The severe depression of 1878 — 83 , which was longer and deeper in the coffee-growing Central Province than elsewhere , had little effect on cattle stealing ( Table 3.6 and Figure 3.1 ) . |
| 18 | This design was not popular with the boatmen as it gave a less comfortable steering position — it was noisier and closer to the exhaust . |
| 19 | It is kinder and easier to the skin to freshen up your existing make-up , highlighting and exaggerating for the artificial light of night . |
| 20 | All first year pruning should be harder and closer to the base than in subsequent years . |
| 21 | There are players which sound sharper and clearer , and some ( though very few ) that sound warmer and easier on the ear . |
| 22 | She heard it before she saw it , murmuring louder and louder with the squeals of gulls cutting shrilly across the regular soft booming of the waves . |
| 23 | That 's what they called Sean Walsh , who seemed to have become paler , thinner and harder of the eye since his arrival . |
| 24 | He exhibits a number of adjectives which differ in precisely the way required while maintaining the same or essentially the same lexical value ( we modify his examples slightly where it is possible to do so without damage to his case , so as to make the distinction sharper ) : ( 19 ) visible stars vs stars visible the only navigable rivers vs the only rivers navigable a handy tool vs are your tools handy ? guilty people vs people guilty As it happens , the examples which Bolinger uses employ words which can make the distinction a rather subtle one , with perhaps the exception of visible stars ( a group recognized astronomically ) beside stars visible ; but it is quite easy to produce further instances which seem to confirm his view : ( 20 ) a complaining visitor vs a visitor complaining the eligible bachelor vs the bachelor eligible In other cases , the divergence of lexical value between the two positions may be greater but still with the characteristic value for the former , and the occasion value for the latter : ( 21 ) the responsible man vs the man responsible a sorry sight vs the girl is sorry He notes that the acceptability of an adjective in pre-adjunct position may apparently depend on whether or not it can be regarded as indicating a relatively enduring characteristic of what is expressed by the noun , as in : ( 22 ) the faint girl vs the girl is faint an asleep man vs a man asleep This possibility of course depends not only on the adjective itself but also on the nature of the noun being qualified , so that " when one scratches one 's head the result is not *a scratched head but when one scores a glass surface the result is a scratched surface " . |
| 25 | The sciatic notch is narrower and deeper in the male . |