Example sentences of "of [pron] the [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | , Norman Hector Leifchild ( ‘ Nathaniel ’ ) ( 1893–1976 ) , humorous columnist , was born 31 May 1893 at 4 Somerset Road , Ealing , Middlesex , the only surviving son ( there were also three older daughters , of whom the younger two were twins ) of William Gubbins , commercial traveller , formerly an Oxfordshire farmworker who had run away to London at the age of twelve to sell groceries , and his wife Marie Cecile Richards . |
| 2 | The experienced practitioner carries in his head the names of the best works on the subjects with which he usually deals , and the sooner the student gets to know some of them the better . |
| 3 | Because that way it stays on if you do it the other way it 'll drop off it 's as simple as that , okay , cover the pad and as you spiral up the arm all you need to do is to cover about two thirds of what you 've just done before , just like a spiral , you find the bandages , the more you use those roller bandages of yours the worse they get to control because they lose their , you know , nice and stretchiness , so you just do , cover up the pad at the top , tie always on the top of the arm never underneath here . |
| 4 | The Duchy of Cornwall , where Charles had promised to apply the lessons of organic agriculture , is one of the largest estates in Britain , about 130,000 acres in all , of which the greater part is on Dartmoor . |
| 5 | It is most important to remember that no double-stop can be played of which the higher note is lower than since this would require both notes to be stopped on the same string simultaneously . |
| 6 | This fed directly into the large 40 foot high chimney that formerly graced the mill and of which the lower dressed masonry section remains . |
| 7 | Some of Thomas Hardy 's leading characters are relentlessly pursued by fate ; they come to grief through sequences of evil coincidences no less remarkable than those by means of which the earlier heroes of Evangelical literature had been saved . |
| 8 | On 14 and 15 October — the latter date was the 150th general congregation — there was a touch of drama over the document on the Jews , or , more correctly , the Declaration on Non-Christian Religions , of which the earlier declaration on the Jews now formed a part . |
| 9 | These are of different dates — of which the earlier works are the best — but all have a gold background . |
| 10 | The quicker he got rid of her the better . |
| 11 | If what we have seen in this election is the real world , then the sooner we find a way out of it the better . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've got something , all right , and the sooner I can get rid of it the happier I 'll be . |