Example sentences of "an [adj] or [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The child must not only remedy the situation caused by his or her negligence or transgression but also ‘ overcorrect ’ it to an improved or better-than-usual state .
2 A leaseholder ( unless prohibited by his own lease ) can himself grant a lease for any term less than that which he holds ; a grant for an equal or greater term would be merely a transfer of his own interest .
3 The club badly need a manager of quality and stature and only two current First Division managers have an equal or better success rate , Liverpool 's Kenny Dalglish and Brian Clough at Nottingham Forest .
4 The club badly need a manager of quality and stature and only two current First Division managers have an equal or better success rate , Liverpool 's Kenny Dalglish and Brian Clough at Nottingham Forest .
5 Credit may be given when determining your commencing salary for completed years of nursing service in an equivalent or higher grade than before the break .
6 You can choose between creating an upper or lower case letter , although the easiest shape of all must be a C , as it is exactly the same as the standard curved design ( see pp. 72–3 ) .
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