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Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [adj -er] and " in BNC.

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1	An oval-shaped wreath can look very effective if it follows the lines of its oval frame , and you can make a similar style of garland in a heart-shaped design , whether small ( see p. 85 ) or much bigger and bolder and enclosed in a square frame .
2	The solution is to take the stake a foot ( 0.3m ) or more higher and to loop branches to it so that the head can not be turned over .
3	and up the steps out of the underground there was this lass there and I , I ca n't help it I mean I 'm always aware of the fact of having this twenty five year old child , so offspring and there was a girl roughly about his age or slightly younger and she was grey you know that translucent look your skin gets when you 're not eating properly you know that grey sort of pallor and I had an overnight bag in one hand and a briefcase and a handbag in the other and I remember I walked past her and she was begging and I had gone to the sleeper and I 'm sitting there and I 'm thinking you bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep , you could of put briefcase down , overnight bag down , handbag down and got some money out .
4	Tales from Lavender Shoes ( TS405 — two cassettes ; 1 hour 50 minutes ) read by Jill Shilling is from the pen of Alison Uttley , a favourite writer for several generations of children , who enjoy her stories from the age of five or even younger and go on enjoying her for years .
5	The tone of the celesta is very clear , and much rounder and less tinkling than that of the glockenspiel .
6	You had changed her mourning into joy , a joy much richer than she had wanted and much dearer and purer than she had looked for .
7	Now they were thinner and leaner and much dirtier and all they were taking with them were the torn and grubby clothes they stood up in .
8	And as Stavrogin describes his search after new and ever stronger and more bizarre sensations , and as he laments his boredom , and as suicide is touched on , tracts of Crime and Punishment open up again : but without the astral , feathering humour of America , anatomy , and ordinary ghosts .
9	Nevertheless Stavrogin does contemplate suicide , and the notebook entry ‘ to be or not to be ’ bears the date 16 August , so it belongs to the summer when the ‘ tendentious ’ political story gets tugged back into great-sinner orbit , growing physically and imaginatively larger and more formidable all the time .
10	A lot of the younger officers tended to be very career orientated , and far heavier and aggressive .
11	‘ women generally , and particularly older and black women , feel it is necessary to restrict their behaviour and avoid certain situations as a precaution against crime .
12	The publisher , traditionally , needs to sell at least a thousand copies of that to be worth even advertising it , but this means that you can print an extra copy whenever you want and this then implies perhaps and even larger and larger growth and more and more specialised information , which only computers can manage , and one hesitates to work out where the end of all this is .
13	The publisher , traditionally , needs to sell at least a thousand copies of that to be worth even advertising it , but this means that you can print an extra copy whenever you want and this then implies and even larger and larger growth in more and more specialised information which only computers can manage , and one hesitates to work out where the end of all this is .
14	Then she started going on about her new red tap-shoes , and how the music nun wanted to teach her violin because she had such good pitch , and we all joined up in a long line , each with a hand stretched out on to the should of the one in front , and we began to march round her , chanting very softly , " How green you are , how green you are , how green you are , how green … " and then louder and louder as we danced away from her still in our long Indian file , till we got right to the top of our street where we played another game altogether , totally ignoring the yells of fury from the lamp-post , and when our mums called us in to tea we all ran in and forgot about her .
15	My feelings have changed over the years as the system acquired first more memory and then bigger and faster processors .
16	As a result the south is economically and politically stronger and most large industry is established there .
17	With an asset sale , the purchaser 's due diligence exercise should be quicker and therefore cheaper and it will probably be safer .
18	The rooms are back to normal , but much tidier and a good deal cleaner . ’
19	Like a small pale Peregrine , of which it may be only a race , but much paler and more rufous , with crown and nape very rufous. 15–18 in. ( 38–45 cm ) .
20	My eye followed the light cloud of her smoke , now here , now there , above the plain , according to the devious curves of the stream , but always fainter and farther away , till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda ( 6 ) .
21	But the trend in the motor industry at large has been in quite the opposite direction to the Chapman philosophy ; cars have not become lighter over the years but noticeably heavier and more complex .
22	Very like Snipe , but slightly darker and heavier in flight , axillaries and under wing coverts more heavily and darkly barred ; bill shorter ; more often on drier ground .
23	This brief discussion should also illustrate the point that we have , implicitly , adopted a very broad definition of industrialization , taking the term to include not simply the adoption of new techniques of production ( factories and corporations ) but also wider and related changes such as the development of industrially-based cities , migrations to these cities , the growth of bureaucracies and , perhaps , less tangible changes in values .
24	Measuring 14.5 cubic feet , the boot in the Mercedes is very wide ( up to 58 inches ) but considerably shorter and the sill height of around 31 inches could make it awkward to load heavy cases .