Example sentences of "[adj -er] [conj] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The object of radical legislation is to introduce a more refined and coherent form of gradation which will ensure , inter alia , that guilty defendants are not able to bargain their way into sentences which are far lighter than they deserve . |
| 2 | My legs were steadier than they had been the night before but they still dithered weakly . |
| 3 | Some of Britain 's rivers are now cleaner than they 've been for years . |
| 4 | Certainly Churchill and Eden found that their dealings with Eisenhower and Dulles were no easier than they had been with the Democrats : in fact they often thought them worse . |
| 5 | Some are easier than they appear but many others prove much more difficult . |
| 6 | Derek Hegarty says it 's been tougher than they expected because the winds up in Scotland were very strong and after a few days they had troubles with their knees but they 've managed to keep going … |
| 7 | Erm that would have been much much quicker if they 'd bothered and organized them but they had n't organized anything . |
| 8 | Lighter , and fainter until they float |
| 9 | ( They were agents who would find their work easier if they posed as Catholics . ) |
| 10 | it 's much easier if they have somebody attached to them |
| 11 | The Blue Arrows and Michael pages of the recruitment world have found it much easier because they have had a variety of products and services , and encompass a number of sectors . |
| 12 | Often this was easier after they had severed their links with the movement . |
| 13 | A pair of good cotton gloves make working with chocolate that much easier as they increase the length of time that you can handle the chocolate before it melts . |
| 14 | Northern could discover today that life in North Division One will be no easier as they visit Middlesbrough . |
| 15 | People do n't usually get taller or shorter when they eat cake . |
| 16 | They introduced ad hoc postulates , such as proposing that objects got shorter when they moved at high speeds . |
| 17 | Their horizons stretch even further as they seek to listen , respond to , and support , individual consumers world-wide . |
| 18 | O ! the cry did knock/Against my very heart ’ has turned these drowned wares into something subtler and stranger than they seem . |
| 19 | Although I recognise that for obvious reasons the Secretary of State will not want to be locked or painted into a figure of 512 as the maximum , which is what it would be , will he tell the House whether , in the light of last week 's discussions with President Yeltsin and the changes that have taken place since Christmas , the Government are now considering the minimum deterrent to be somewhat lower than they had previously considered it necessary to be ? |
| 20 | Also , although there were marked fluctuations in the number of admissions from year to year , it is clear that from about 1490 the numbers of those admitted at York were consistently lower than they had been from the mid 1380s to the 1440s . |
| 21 | It 's a complete turnaround from last year when reserves were lower than they had ever been recorded , standpipes were in the streets , and some rivers had run dry , notably at Bourton on the Water . |
| 22 | He said the miners were being asked to accept wages that were even lower than they 'd been before the war and that their working conditions were appalling . |
| 23 | On the face of it , such high commissions suggest a lack of price competitiveness , but as noted above , large institutional buyers are able to force distributors to share all or part of the selling concession , and prices may thus be lower than they appear . |
| 24 | Musical clergy , on the other hand , may find it hard to accept standards of choice and performance which are lower than they believe they could achieve themselves . |
| 25 | Since then they have recovered — but only slightly , standing 30 per cent lower than they did in 1979 . |
| 26 | ‘ Present values are lower than they have been for some time , and are sticking . |
| 27 | We 've heard in introduction Mr Mr say that the County Council would not like to see housing requirements any lower than they have proposed . |
| 28 | But such a response implies that next period their stocks of goods will be lower than they feel is optimal , and they will therefore want to build them up again by producing more next period than they otherwise would . |
| 29 | Also , the tempi in the original Bruckner scores are much simpler than they come to be in some editions . |
| 30 | The reason why some people take a long time to learn the Technique is because it is much simpler than they think . |