Example sentences of "a [adj -er] [coord] a " in BNC.

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1 Determined to experience life as a catwalk photographer , I swapped my pen and notebook for a Canon Eos camera , 200mm lens with a doubler and a monopod ( bravely loaned by Michel Arnaud ) and squeezed into the ‘ gun emplacement ’ at the back of the Salle Sully .
2 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 .
3 They also go about with a galvanometer and a Geiger counter to measure ‘ sources of power ’ .
4 So she was n't a stranger but a friend : one of the friends of Lili 's London afternoons ; a woman dressed in black wool with silver hoop earrings .
5 Out of this splendid , imperishable lantern the deep eyes glared as though a stranger and a savage inhabited the dwelling an angel had abandoned .
6 It is best to acknowledge that " style " , like " meaning " , is a word which can be used either in a broader or a narrower sense .
7 Then I heard the snap of a lighter and a cloud of blue smoke came out of the doorway , followed by a rattle sound .
8 There is usually a better and a worse spot to stand and fight .
9 Some fundholders did switch hospitals for some specialties where they were promised a better or a cheaper service .
10 Now that has nothing to do about whether our children will get a better or a worse education if the school is opted out .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 This reply comes in a stronger and a weaker form , but in either form it has clearly got some point .
15 Is it a longer or a shorter ?
16 A sadder and a wiser man ’ , Coleridge , The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ( 1798 ) , pt. vii .
17 This definition breaks away from the previous categorisations of handicap and attempts to introduce a subtler and a more relative concept .
18 Though covenants were made between equals , the religious use of the term always referred to a relationship between a greater and a lesser partner .
19 Or in a greater or a less Degree .
20 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 .
21 Each of these organisations is , to a greater or a lesser extent , involved in transferring technology to an end user .
22 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 .
23 His newest toy , a Toyota Land Cruiser with Gumbo Monster Mudder tyres so big that oxygen is required when you reach your seat , has CB , a radio telephone , an anenometer and a Loran radar set fixed in to transmitters on Greenland , Iceland and Norway .
24 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 .
25 Am I right in thinking I have seen an earlier and a later version .
26 Orwell and Waugh , older by a generation , belonged to an earlier and a sparer tradition .
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