Example sentences of "[adv] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Haydn Gwynne , looking uncannily like Meryl Streep , makes a rather better-groomed Robyn than expected , versatile , spirited and wholly watchable . |
| 2 | There 's a forest fifty miles off , it 's outside our window because it 's not in this room and to come a little nearer home ther there 's a campus outside our window but we ca n't exactly see very much of it but we know it 's there and it 's got some birds in it , it 's probably got some little insects in it and there 's a woodpecker |
| 3 | The final studies to be reviewed in this chapter help , we believe , to take us a little nearer understanding that paradox , as well as offering more convincing evidence than that considered so far that the connection between creativity and psychosis is indeed genuine . |
| 4 | A rather unhappier experience awaited the researcher who flew to Paris to interview Jodie Foster — she caught food poisoning on the plane and was ill throughout their meeting . |
| 5 | I took a rather simpler route than Balboa — the Pan-American highway out of Panama City . |
| 6 | This , on reflection , is interesting : it reveals quite sharply what might have been apparent earlier — that this particular decision rule is of a rather simpler structure than the optimal output rule . |
| 7 | Williamson 's romanticism and nature worship , on a rather lower level of theoretical conceptualisation , was to owe much to the books of Richard Jefferies , in particular the sunlight imagery of much of his work . |
| 8 | He found that the Devon , although it was small , gave him good quantities of good beef and rather lower quantities of very creamy milk . |
| 9 | When allowance is made for the rather lower gravity of Venus than of the Earth , and the consequent lower degree of internal compression , then the uncompressed densities of the Earth and Venus would be similar . |
| 10 | The island of Hawaii alone seems to have a long-term average rate of construction of over 0.4 km 3 a- 1 , while Iceland has sustained a rate of about 0.13 km 3 a- 1 during historic time , and a rather lower average of 0.06 km 3 a - 1 over the past 16 Ma . |
| 11 | Teachers were always busy , and many schools put GIST on a rather lower priority than dealing with the impact of unemployment , school reorganization , discipline or curricular problems . |
| 12 | It appears that black males and females of West Indian origin have a strikingly lower prevalence of both hypercholesterolaemia and hypertriglyceridaemia compared to those of Asian or European extract ( Pacy et al , 1985 ) . |
| 13 | Major award schools , on the other hand , started from a conspicuously lower threshold of library provision and use . |
| 14 | In character he was very different from his dead elder brother . |
| 15 | Local music is an altogether healthier picture , according to the group , who see it as a friendly club where bands from all divisions of music can work together without competition . |
| 16 | Painful chest especially in the right lower zone , better ( > ) for pressure . |
| 17 | The caecum was considered to be reached only if the light of the instrument was seen in the right lower quadrant , the base of the appendix was visualised , and the ileocaecal valve was seen . |
| 18 | The same evening the filling — a huge one — came out of backmost right lower jaw tooth . |
| 19 | Affects the right lower chest with stitches through to the back ( like in Kali carb . ) . |
| 20 | Positive findings were decreased air entry in the right lower chest and a distended abdomen with tenderness and guarding , mainly in the suprapubic region . |
| 21 | A chest radiograph was normal , but a ventilation-perfusion lung scan showed a matched defect in the right lower lobe . |
| 22 | But when diminishing marginal returns set in in 1983-4 , further increases in duty deterred consumption leading to falling sales and eventually lower tax revenue for the Treasury . |
| 23 | DANCE MUSIC from a marginally less cynical and altogether simpler era . |
| 24 | The resultant prostaglandins may have a natriuretic or renal vasodilatory effect and thereby lower blood pressure ( Galli , 1980 ; Iacono et al , 1981 ) . |
| 25 | As the deep black shadow in Glen Keltney closed over them , they moved slowly nearer home in a trance of fatigue . |
| 26 | However , if one has a black hole around , there seems to be a rather easier way of violating the second law : just throw some matter with a lot of entropy , such as a box of gas , down the black hole . |
| 27 | Its brightest stars are Alpha and Beta ( each 4.1 ) ; with the rather fainter Gamma , Delta and Theta the little semicircle is characteristic enough . |
| 28 | But instead of concentrating on treating waste , research was needed into fundamentally cleaner processes that conserved water and reduced waste . |
| 29 | She played little further part as a combatant , stalling later British requests for reinforcements and providing minimal naval assistance in the Mediterranean . |
| 30 | However , when Cromwell fell from power in 1540 , a conservative backlash ensued ; several purges of heretics followed and little further progress towards religious reform was made until after Henry 's death . |