Example sentences of "[pron] [adj -er] and [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I swung majestically from the very end of the crux traverse on Gimmer Crag 's Kipling Groove , in from of an audience I half expected to hold up marks for style , and had to allow my younger and less experienced partner to show me how it should be done . |
| 2 | Perhaps Dmitri would find someone younger and more beautiful while on tour abroad , and would defect . |
| 3 | Someone younger and more handsome and with a little more stature in the world . |
| 4 | Because she was so certain that she wanted someone older and more experienced to look after her baby than a young girl straight out of college , Celia had not bothered to mention Edna 's letter to Brian . |
| 5 | Advantages : Students open up a vast network of potential sitters , and pensioners are usually reliable , so there should n't be many last-minute hitches ; it can be fairly cheap ; you 're leaving the children with someone older and more responsible than an experienced teenager . |
| 6 | Roman weapons used the bow as their mechanical basis , but the medieval ones tended to use the sling , which made them heavier and more cumbersome . |
| 7 | But the interest in the sale lay in its younger and more international image , partly due to the inclusion of forty lots from the estate of Swedish collector , Frederik Roos . |
| 8 | There can be little doubt that there are many people in this country who would welcome such a change , as is evidenced by the customers who flock to stores to shop on Sunday when they are given the opportunity to do so ; but it might not be so popular with small retailers who could find it more difficult to open their shops regularly on Sundays to remain competitive with their larger and more powerful rivals . |
| 9 | They particularly enjoy dealing with Orcs as it gives them a chance to outwit their larger and more brutal cousins . |
| 10 | I can hardly remember why I stopped going out with some of my exes but that does n't mean that I brood about them and their later and surely unsatisfactory relationships with men unable to hold a candle to myself . |
| 11 | It might also imply ( what in wartime is plausible at any period of history ) that the executive , in the shape of the panel of the generals , a tight group of only ten at maximum allowing for absentees , gained power at the expense of its larger and more unwieldy constitutional master , the Assembly . |
| 12 | One is the way in which selective migration tends to lead to cumulative effects on the origin and destination areas , respectively the vicious circle of decline for those places being denuded of their younger and better qualified people and the virtuous circle of growth resulting from the acquisition of young couples and the upgrading of the labour force . |
| 13 | For if it relates to the BBC per se then it conveniently overlooks its seedier and more questionable aspects , whilst if it relates to some imaginary institution it ignores the real pressures on institutions which make them somehow less ideal than one would desire . |
| 14 | The impression that a simple one-sided morality is of itself nobler and more clear-headed than a complex one is false . |
| 15 | as of disturbing something rarer-nesting and more hesitant |
| 16 | The temptation for teachers to cut off at this point and move on to something easier and less controversial is great , but the real value of RE lies in following the development through . |
| 17 | If we 'd been looking for an easy acquaintance with nature , we would have chosen a different landscape : something lusher and more intricate , not this bleak and famished hillside on the Atlantic 's edge . |
| 18 | I felt I was poised on the edge of something bigger and more unknown than anything I had encountered in life , and the mystery of what was about to happen added to the attraction . |
| 19 | Corinthian philistinism , more real though less notorious than Theban , is part of something deeper and more disturbing : she had no ideology to offer , nothing that is like Athenian paideia or Spartan agoge , ‘ culture ’ and ‘ discipline ’ respectively . |
| 20 | The human subject is conceived in terms of an essential , intrinsic lack ; it is a fragment of something larger and more primordial , whose existence is dominated by the desire to recover its missing complement ( The Subject of Semiotics , 152 ) . |
| 21 | As he grinned and pulled her towards him , kissing her in a gentle , careful , comradely fashion on the forehead to seal their agreement , she knew that her crush on Dr Tom Russell was over , and something else — something better and more real , she hoped — had taken its place . |
| 22 | Bell is happy to cultivate the impression that he was the Svengali who transformed Thatcher 's harsh , strident public persona into something softer and more voter-friendly . |
| 23 | ‘ A Story in an Almost Classic Mode ’ aims both at analytical biography and , as its title implies , at something grander and more generalised . |
| 24 | No , lust was n't ugly ; many of her friends ' affairs and marriages were founded on mutual lust and a few had stayed that way , neither foundering nor developing into something richer and more complex ; but for her it could never be enough , even in the context of a mere beginning , and , after the depressing end of the relationship in Wellington , she knew that even if it had been allied to liking or affection , it still would n't have been enough . |
| 25 | It gives us something subtler and more valuable : understanding of principle . |
| 26 | So I think caution is erm very important in buying a computer , and if you wait a couple of months erm you wo n't have done any harm , because something newer and more beautiful is always on the way . |
| 27 | The hatred was enough , answer to the strange , stifling power that Luke Scott had over her , but now a new suspicion preyed on the edges of her consciousness of it , the shadowy suggestion of a conviction that the hatred had its genesis in something darker and more complex than the realities she was calling to mind . |
| 28 | Their first attempts to invent an anti-hero strong enough to vie with the popularity of Tarzan and Superman , and soft enough to melt the hearts of children , did not quite come off : ‘ I drew him bigger and more handsome . |
| 29 | The trend was driven by the need to cut costs through regional consolidation and by the prospect of changes in the banking regulations which would make it easier and more profitable for banks to operate across state lines . |
| 30 | Many women find it easier and more convenient in the long run . |