Example sentences of "[adj -er] and [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor could she then justify employing a cleaner and the odd-job man who kept all the local gardens more or less under control . |
| 2 | Lave and Omenn ( 1981 ) claim long-term trends conceal that during the 1970s ‘ dirty air got cleaner and the clean air got a little dirtier ’ , for it was not until the 1977 Amendments that the EPA had the authority to prevent the worsening of air quality in pristine areas . |
| 3 | The rooms are back to normal , but much tidier and a good deal cleaner . ’ |
| 4 | Today , she wore no hat and her face looked younger and a different shape . |
| 5 | If the motor is to operate at a higher speed then the induced voltage is larger and the applied voltage must also increase , so that current flows into the winding over the extended speed range . |
| 6 | The age-incidence curve is steeper and the average age of onset older than in any other form of cancer . |
| 7 | The sides of the valley grew slowly steeper and steeper and the marked path ( white-yellow-white markers ) criss-crossed the river . |
| 8 | If this were the case , the drop in population in the first half of the period could have been deeper and the subsequent recovery slower than existing replacement figures suggest . |
| 9 | ‘ We are counting on positive developments , that things will get better and the federal government will work effectively . ’ |
| 10 | I think there are many American teachers who would agree with me , but those kinds of ‘ packs ’ have an unfortunate way of creeping onto the desks of teachers who do not know any better and the resulting work may not only be irrelevant but harmful . |
| 11 | In the first case the haulier and the other party undertake to carry out certain obligations ( typically the haulage of goods for an agreed price ) and the contract is made by exchange of these promises . |
| 12 | But breed any faster and the self-styled Queen of Hamsters has a real problem on her hands . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm not in the habit of seducing drunken teenagers ; I prefer my women a little older and a damn sight more sober . |
| 14 | My Lords er the the er th the point r really abou about all this I think is a fairly , a fairly simple one that we are agreed I think in general , that police authorities are better if they are smaller and the real point that is concerning er N |
| 15 | The minimum hardware requirements for InstaPlan are 640k of random-access memory ( RAM ) , MS-DOS 2.0 or higher and a floppy disk . |
| 16 | S6 There are currently two sets sitting or resitting Higher and a large number of pupils sitting Sixth Year Studies in Papers 1 , 2 , 3 and 5 . |
| 17 | Those two years had also made her wiser and a darn sight more wary so , vulnerable or not , there was no way she would risk another close encounter of the erotic kind . |
| 18 | ‘ We were just shocked after the robbery but felt that it could have been a lot worse and no great harm had been done to anybody . |
| 19 | No the situation was getting worse and the only way that they we er that it was gon na be made better was by violence and , cos the violence is the only way |
| 20 | She could n't think of anything worse and the old man looked gloomy . |
| 21 | FAMILIES in Northern Ireland spend least on holidays , while men in the south-west of England make their underwear last longer and the Welsh love their cuppa . |
| 22 | Mescaline and LSD make colours seem more intense and time much slower ; the reverberations are stronger and the conscious present lasts longer . |
| 23 | Though covenants were made between equals , the religious use of the term always referred to a relationship between a greater and a lesser partner . |
| 24 | If you menopause early , either naturally or through hysterectomy , your risk of osteoporosis is far greater and the National Osteoporosis Society recommends you stay on it longer . |
| 25 | ( Other standards like fruit and ornamental trees will be thicker and the sacking strip will need to be wider and the actual tie bigger , but the principle remains exactly the same . ) |
| 26 | As they climbed higher the air became cooler and a light breeze rustled the gorse beside the track . |
| 27 | The distances between the idstal or proximal end of the lower oesophageal sphincter and the mucosal junction are observed in Table IV . |
| 28 | If a further offence is committed , the offender will be punished , certainly and surely , both for the earlier and the subsequent offence . |