Example sentences of "a [adj -er] [coord] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may be written off as a malingerer or a neurotic or , perhaps even worse , as someone who must be gently humoured back to health . |
| 2 | It is best to acknowledge that " style " , like " meaning " , is a word which can be used either in a broader or a narrower sense . |
| 3 | There is usually a better and a worse spot to stand and fight . |
| 4 | Now that has nothing to do about whether our children will get a better or a worse education if the school is opted out . |
| 5 | Some fundholders did switch hospitals for some specialties where they were promised a better or a cheaper service . |
| 6 | However , a safer and a wiser idea is to take up what I began with : Phyllis Bottome telling how Pound , when they were both young , tried to turn her as a writer from an amateur into a professional . |
| 7 | But McMahon and Greene 's model predicted that there was an ideal between these two extremes , a surface at which the runner would be deflected more quickly than on either a harder or a softer track . |
| 8 | In any intimacy between a stronger and a weaker personality the weaker is inclined to yield even when he has the means to prevail , from a compulsion to see through the eyes of the stronger . |
| 9 | This reply comes in a stronger and a weaker form , but in either form it has clearly got some point . |
| 10 | Is it a longer or a shorter ? |
| 11 | ‘ A sadder and a wiser man ’ , Coleridge , The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ( 1798 ) , pt. vii . |
| 12 | Though covenants were made between equals , the religious use of the term always referred to a relationship between a greater and a lesser partner . |
| 13 | They will all tend to put a stress on the system and depending on our health or susceptibility we will be affected to a greater or a lesser degree . |
| 14 | Each of these organisations is , to a greater or a lesser extent , involved in transferring technology to an end user . |
| 15 | Or in a greater or a less Degree . |
| 16 | So bear that in mind , even the beginning of this story look at that first paragraph it 's in a darker type it 'll make me filthy , a darker and a larger size . |
| 17 | It originates from considering , for example , the situation where an older and a younger person would benefit equally from treatment but resources allow only one to be treated . |
| 18 | Orwell and Waugh , older by a generation , belonged to an earlier and a sparer tradition . |
| 19 | Am I right in thinking I have seen an earlier and a later version . |