Example sentences of "[subord] [noun sg] and [adv] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its flickering epidemic relish at the expense of clerks and governesses and expectant mothers is wilder than irresponsibility and more furious than Saturnalian record . |
| 2 | Chill Pads , which maintain chilled products at temperature , are claimed to be longer-lasting than ice and more effective than eutectic plates . |
| 3 | ‘ It is the people hereabouts that I like , ’ said Mr Crump , feeling the silence as censure and well aware that he ought to play a proper part in the conversation . |
| 4 | Audubon , however , was outraged : ‘ Here there are at present three Works publishing on the Birds of Europe ’ , he wrote to his friend Rev. Bachman , from London in 1835 , ’ — one by Mr Gould and the others by no one knows who — at least I do not know — Works on the Birds of all the World are innumerable — Cheap as dirt and more dirty than dirt … ’ |
| 5 | Is C&W as weird and as rubbish and as world-threatening as all this ? |
| 6 | Her writing is as whole as sculpture and as steady and unobtrusive as breathing . |
| 7 | As she looked up into his face Lisa was aware of eyes as black as ebony and as cold as the sea bed . |
| 8 | But the enthusiasm , she had the Reverend Nicholson 's word for it , was ‘ as honest , as questing and as pious as m- any man I have ever met ’ . |