Example sentences of "a [adj -er] [conj] [art] " 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 | For why should anyone involve themselves with a stranger when the one thing that everybody had in plenty was trouble ? |
| 6 | ‘ You 're quite a stranger and no mistake , ’ he greeted his brother over his shoulder . |
| 7 | Out of this splendid , imperishable lantern the deep eyes glared as though a stranger and a savage inhabited the dwelling an angel had abandoned . |
| 8 | Almost 100 new companies had been formed , and Schach had been able to secure over a million pounds in bank guarantees to finance not only such expensive disasters as Dreaming Lips , Love from a Stranger and The Marriage of Gorbal , but even films that were never made . |
| 9 | No one stepped forward , no one seemed to be on the lookout for a stranger and the other passengers quickly dispersed . |
| 10 | It is best to acknowledge that " style " , like " meaning " , is a word which can be used either in a broader or a narrower sense . |
| 11 | Then I heard the snap of a lighter and a cloud of blue smoke came out of the doorway , followed by a rattle sound . |
| 12 | Nor could she then justify employing a cleaner and the odd-job man who kept all the local gardens more or less under control . |
| 13 | SHILDON Strollers retained their leadership of the Durham Second Division at a canter when a weakened Wingate failed to offer any real threat despite the incentive of moving into third place with a win that would have toppled the home team from the No 1 spot . |
| 14 | Too late then , surely , to change him for a better if the word goes against him . ’ |
| 15 | There is usually a better and a worse spot to stand and fight . |
| 16 | Some fundholders did switch hospitals for some specialties where they were promised a better or a cheaper service . |
| 17 | Now that has nothing to do about whether our children will get a better or a worse education if the school is opted out . |
| 18 | The piece prepared by the six young musicians includes a crisp packet being scrunched , playing cards flicked with the skill of a sharper and the zip on 14-year-old Sunjeev Singh 's bag buzzing backwards and forwards . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Galerie Jahnhorst & Preuss provides a platform for a calmer but no less original artist . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Naturally , my master bowed and I had to follow suit , reminding myself with a secret smile that Wolsey was only a commoner and no better than me . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | This reply comes in a stronger and a weaker form , but in either form it has clearly got some point . |
| 25 | Is it a longer or a shorter ? |
| 26 | ‘ A sadder and a wiser man ’ , Coleridge , The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ( 1798 ) , pt. vii . |
| 27 | This definition breaks away from the previous categorisations of handicap and attempts to introduce a subtler and a more relative concept . |
| 28 | Though covenants were made between equals , the religious use of the term always referred to a relationship between a greater and a lesser partner . |
| 29 | Or in a greater or a less Degree . |
| 30 | 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 . |