Example sentences of "a [adj] but [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the deeply painful and depersonalizing situations in our society come about as the direct result of a broader but lower valuation of sex and sexual relationships . |
| 2 | Wake , junior ABA champion and defending his schools title against the boy he beat last year , Roger Campbell , of Hampshire , found it hard going against a shorter but stockier opponent and had to survive being hurt in a tough second round before being given a majority decision . |
| 3 | I 'd been muttering unhappily to a couple of friends about how hopelessly disorganized a particular campaign I 'd got involved with seemed to be when a strange man next to us started a similar but louder tirade about how useless Switchboard was , how everyone knew they were ripping off money from their fund raising and what a lousy job they did in his ( extremely small and third-hand ) experience . |
| 4 | Thomson , and a reformist journalist called Adolphe Smith , set out to produce a similar but better document on urban poverty , this time using photography for more accurate illustrations . |
| 5 | In Ireland a similar but slower growth reflected both the political circumstances of the country and the slower rate of economic growth and urbanisation ( Roche 1982:Ch. 4 ) . |
| 6 | It is taking a particular interest in proposals in Britain , such as a pilot road-charging scheme in Cambridge which could be introduced in 1994 , a similar but smaller scheme underway in the London Borough of Richmond , and a highway-pricing plan for Edinburgh . |
| 7 | Alf and Bessie lived in Cricklewood , and would receive visits from time to time from Bessie 's sister Minnie who , having worked alongside her father at Curry Rivel School for a while , later became headmistress of a similar but smaller establishment in Newton St Loe , Somerset . |
| 8 | The iron road bridge over the Thames , originally built in 1831 , is a fine suspension bridge designed by William Tierney Clark , who subsequently built a similar but larger bridge across the Danube in Budapest . |
| 9 | With rhythmic variations 11 and 76 years long now identified in the measurements of solar diameter , it seems straightforward to interpret the longer trend as part of a similar but longer cycle , which would pose no real problems for astrophysicists ' and geologists ' faith in the long-term stability of our nearest star . |
| 10 | Non-commissioned officers like Zukov and Mubarak went through a similar but briefer course , and Rostov felt able to nod confidently . |
| 11 | For cellulose acetate there is a transformation from a hard brittle state below 273 K to a softer but tougher type of polymer at temperatures above 273 K. For poly ( methyl methacrylate ) the hard brittle characteristics are retained to a much higher temperature , but it eventually reaches a soft tough state at about 320 K. Thus if the requirements of high rigidity and toughness are to be met , the temperature is important . |
| 12 | Repeated extractions using small portions of solvent are more efficient than using a single but larger volume of solvent . |
| 13 | The next 10 years , Mr Davison said , would see a steady but slower growth rate ( around 1% ) for the Big Six . |
| 14 | Yet governments ought to resist the temptation to dismiss peace movements as representing only a minority opinion , for it is in the nature of a wider but vaguer anxiety about the issue that it can hardly be organized or form the basis of a coherent campaign . |
| 15 | There is the sweet temptation to add , however , that there is a bad but better argument of the same form . |