Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [prep] [be] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Huge sums will soon have to be spent to relieve road congestion ; persuading a proportion of the public to travel by a convenient alternative has already proved to be cheaper than building more roads in many areas . |
| 2 | The effect of smoking did not seem to be greater in one group than the other ; the percentage fall was the same in both . |
| 3 | This is because females reared on larger hosts are able to lay more eggs , but males do not gain by being larger . |
| 4 | And , a a I mean I think we have , you know , to be feminists because we do n't want to be better than men , we just want to be equal . |
| 5 | I do n't want to be stronger . |
| 6 | If Eliot had only managed to be funnier , some had come to feel , he would also have been more accurate . |
| 7 | Yeah , you can choose any decimal , it does n't have to even start with numbers , cos it could start with zero , it does n't , does n't have , does n't have , it does n't have to be bigger than one , it can be smaller than one . |