Example sentences of "and [adj -er] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The percentage of work-satisfied housewives is higher in the group with a high specification and lower in the group with a medium or low specification . |
| 2 | … his wretched father , who had each year sunk lower and lower in the underworld , had been a gentleman once , a man who had been familiar with good manners and had been educated in the customs of good breeding . |
| 3 | I believe it to constitute one of the clearest lines of demarcation between upper and lower in the working class . ’ |
| 4 | The taxi drove along the quiet country roads , and the sky turned pink and purple as the sun got lower and lower in the west . |
| 5 | One benefit was that players looked cleaner and smarter in the field without the now familiar red smears . |
| 6 | In the course of the drama , Gwen Watford 's venerable Countess seems to get perceptibly older , whiter-haired and stiffer in the joints , as though her son 's behaviour towards Helena and the news of his other derelictions has slackened her hold on life . |
| 7 | Consequently , as the stakes become bigger and bigger in the playing of the game , the scruples will become smaller and smaller when it comes to the back-alley work of player recruitment . |
| 8 | we had no idea how big the story was to become , it started off as just a robbery and just got bigger and bigger in the following weeks |
| 9 | It was closer now , and clearer in the pre-dawn light . |
| 10 | The unifying aim with which CERN was born in post-war Europe could be rekindled , larger and brighter in a post-cold-war world . |
| 11 | The overlap is great in the case of realistic fiction , and smaller in the case of fantasy . |
| 12 | ‘ Obesity is one of the most common , important and avoidable causes of ill-health in the middle-aged and older in the civilized world . ’ |
| 13 | In addition , some diplomats based in Switzerland predict riots and worse in the camps of Hong Kong if more Vietnamese are sent back against their will . |
| 14 | Most parts of Australia are expected to become hotter and wetter in the next 40 years ; more open water lying on the surface is likely to increase the risk of insect-borne diseases such as Ross River fever , Dengue and Bluetongue now confined to Northern Australia spreading throughout the country . |
| 15 | ‘ I am disappointed because I finished fresh and fifth where I would have rather been exhausted and higher in the list . |
| 16 | Further north and higher in the mountains , where most of the Tibetans lived , the land was virtually barren and people had been forced into trade . |
| 17 | I will remember forever the satisfying feeling of lying in the smooth grass in the large field , listening to the larks flying higher and higher in the sky and singing the most beautiful song , which made my soul fresh . |
| 18 | So reported earnings would be lower in the first year and higher in the remaining four years with the declining balance method compared with the straight-line method . |
| 19 | Next turning south , it ascends the wooded approaches to the attractive Hasli valley which becomes barer and wilder in the ascent . |
| 20 | This conflict of values in which neither side has an absolute monopoly of truth has rumbled on , becoming louder and louder in the English countryside . |
| 21 | Father 's voice got louder and louder in the next room , but the children and Mother could not hear what was said . |
| 22 | The sacrum is longer and narrower in the male , this difference being clearly expressed by the sacral index . |
| 23 | Now you are stronger , wiser and finer in every way — more concerned with doing than dreaming and no longer a people-pleaser . |