Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [vb pp] a [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although bargaining is often very tough you 've always got a better chance if you know with whom you are dealing — it helps if you 've had the odd meal or drink together or a game of squash . |
| 2 | ‘ Here we are , ’ gushed the presenter of Gardeners ' World , ‘ we 're in my very favourite corner of the estate now , with its magnificent , sweeping views down to the river.just look at this superb example of Metasequoiaglyptostroboides , or Dawn Redwood to give it its more familiar name , I do n't think I 've ever seen a better specimen anywhere . |
| 3 | Well you 've probably got I 've probably got a better deal there . |
| 4 | Erm but maybe this , this issue is , is , could be important in the sense that you , you 've got tt er if you take China as a whole you 've probably got well in excess of a million villages erm you 've probably got a denser population in the south than the north so you 've got more than half a million villages in the south |
| 5 | Well I 've now , er I 've now arranged a further meeting with Environment Health District Council and the residents ' association . |
| 6 | I 've also got an early '60s L-series Strat and I 've never played a better Strat than that one , but I do n't use it live in case I lose it . |
| 7 | I 've never seen a blacker car in my life ! |
| 8 | ‘ I 've never seen a quicker boy . |
| 9 | ‘ You 've never said a truer word , Sergeant . |
| 10 | I 've never had a better incentive to hurry home . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've never had a better client , ’ she said then . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've never had a higher pulpit , ’ he said . |
| 13 | I have since received a further letter from on his return from hospital , following his fourth heart attack . |
| 14 | I have rarely seen a faster disappearance . |
| 15 | He pointed out that CCG now serve 150,000 sandwiches a year , made to our specification , and following customer research we have just introduced a bigger range of sandwiches . |
| 16 | I have always believed a greater range of expressions are possible through representations of the real world . |
| 17 | I have always believed a greater range of expressions are possible through representations of the real world . |
| 18 | New Yorkers have always shown a greater genius for putting up new buildings than for repairing old ones . |
| 19 | The Government and Labour have both urged a tougher approach to juvenile crime , but Dr Carey asked : ‘ Should we be tougher on children ? |
| 20 | The engineers from Wallingford have also built a larger model in Italy , which shows that the idea will work . |
| 21 | Ernst , García-Díaz and Hauser ( 1987 b ) have also found a simpler realization of the Geroch group of transformations relating colliding wave solutions . |
| 22 | Other studies have also found a lower prevalence of high EE ( High Expressed Emotion in families is considered to be a factor in relapse of schizophrenia ) in Third World countries . |
| 23 | Anglo-Welsh plc have now made a further offer for your Company which the Board continues to find unacceptable . |
| 24 | In a way I suppoise it was quite fortunate as we would have been without speed and wallace , who have now got a longer recovery period — as have all the other cripples that we 're carrying . |
| 25 | Secondly , familial cases have sometimes shown a lower age at onset than sporadic cases , which is consistent with aetiological heterogeneity . |
| 26 | One of the fundamental aims of the White Paper was to bring science and technology firmly into the political arena , and to affirm the importance given to them by the Government ; and indeed , science and technology have undoubtedly found a higher placing on the political agenda . |
| 27 | Unless the sound setting at the press show was a mistake , I have seldom heard a noisier film nor one which seems to require its stars ( Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd again ) to bellow their lines so startlingly over the din . |
| 28 | And although I have occasionally considered a larger tank in the house ( I have a 48″ × 15″ × 15″ ) , accommodating it would involve so much disruption that I have never bitten the bullet . |
| 29 | Lords Scarman and Simon have recently added a broader objective : " Whether or not judicial virtue needs such a spur , there is also another important interest involved in justice done openly , namely that the evidence and argument should be publicly known , so that society may judge for itself the quality of justice administered in its name , and whether the law requires modification … the common law by its recognition of the principle of open justice ensures that the public administration of justice will be subject to public scrutiny . |
| 30 | The club have never had a better side . |