Example sentences of "a [noun] [adj -er] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | See , now I deliberately sit , when I 'm out in a Land Rover , with one arm up a bit higher than the other and one leg a bit higher . |
| 2 | It 's also quite a bit heavier than a similar garment in , say , Polartek 300 . |
| 3 | And from Alan the new flats here , Norman helped by Dave and other members has been constructing substantial timber stroke hardboard flats although a bit heavier than the conventional canvas they will last for years and they really do provide superb sets as has been proved with all three plays presented this year . |
| 4 | They were a bit laxer but a lot of them were very very strict . |
| 5 | Obviously the City boys are a bit fussier than the country boys about when they play . |
| 6 | It 's a bit better than a hundred and one pound ninety two pence . |
| 7 | That 's a bit better because a gradient of one is forty five degrees and we s we said it should be more than that . |
| 8 | He 's just a bit cleverer than the rest , but willing to take advice with it , and is happy being the writer he always wanted to be . |
| 9 | So you said here to replace the two pipes , the sort of medium pipe and the small pipe you 'll have one that 's a bit bigger than the big pipe . |
| 10 | Mm Bit bit your 's will be a bit bigger than the average Chesapeake Bay Retrievers . |
| 11 | One leg was a bit shorter than the other , I think . |
| 12 | But ones a bit politer than the other that 's all . |
| 13 | Good idea wo n't be a bad idea mm , what I thought was the tough steak has turned out to be the , the one that 's not I cut the steaks about a bit , one was a bit fattier than the other the one that I had I thought would be dead tough , is tender it 's int it ? they look more like a sirloin steak to me than a rump , even though it went under the name of rump it looked like you can only tell the shape of it ca n't , oh God |
| 14 | yeah , but I need to be a bit skinnier and a bit taller |
| 15 | Mars takes a bit longer to revolve on its axis than the Earth , so a Mars afternoon would be a bit longer than an Earth afternoon . |
| 16 | Willie ‘ O ’ is a bit stronger and a lot younger than Mick so you have to give him a slight edge when it comes to form and fitness . |
| 17 | ‘ Sixteen or Seventeen — I was a bit younger than the others . |
| 18 | Also , I am a bit older than the rest of you , but you can perhaps understand that I do n't want to drop dead without a proper and public recantation . |
| 19 | They tend to they tend to be a bit noisier than the others , but actually they are very constructive , and on Banbury School Governors it 's not the political appointees that erm I 've seen as a problem particularly . |
| 20 | Is a computer better than a doctor ? |
| 21 | And there are very few marginals that the Conservatives retained with a majority smaller than the drop in the number of people registered — only four , in fact : Coventry South West , Kensington , Edmonton , and Eltham . |
| 22 | it 's like a foot bigger than a ni erm about four inches |
| 23 | The house next to Mrs. Sutton 's was of about the same age but as the pavement was almost a foot higher than the floor of the front room , it had two steps down inside the door . |
| 24 | This tiny car — it 's a foot shorter than a Mini — might be the breath of fresh air Europe 's choked and choking cities have been looking for . |
| 25 | Yet it seemed more terrible , a horror greater than the Abigails ' marriage or the treatment of the Dasses by their son , greater even than the death of Stephen 's mother because Stephen 's mother had sought peace and at least had found it . |
| 26 | ‘ In his profession he found a force stronger than the temperament he had inherited from his family ; instead of surrendering to his natural instincts he followed a clear , straight path , and did not slide into the wretched muddle in which all the other Rougons perished . ’ |
| 27 | These horses have a Jockey Club official handicap rating that merits carrying a weight lower than the minimum weight allotted for a race . |
| 28 | These horses have a Jockey Club official handicap rating that merits carrying a weight lower than the minimum weight allotted for a race . |
| 29 | During clamps a significant rise in plasma hormone concentration was defined as a concentration greater than the mean of the five baseline ( euglycaemic ) values plus two standard deviations in two or more consecutive samples . |
| 30 | More than 200 pages later Genet writes ‘ out of the crowd a glance swifter than a wink reveals two fedayeen as two lovers … |