Example sentences of "[adj -er] [conj] [adj] [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pierre-Michel Hennin , later as premier commis an important figure in French foreign policy , was given such permission in 1749 . |
| 2 | but I do n't know if that was five pound a bag , I think that was cheaper than five pound a bag . |
| 3 | Measured in dots per inch , the greater the number of dots , the more smoother and cleaner appearance the character/image will have . |
| 4 | As to ‘ harming no one ’ , I have presented arguments elsewhere to the effect that ‘ harm ’ , being a rule-dependent concept , is indeterminate unless and until moral principles or legal rules are brought into play to define with greater or lesser precision the legitimate interests and the general good . |
| 5 | But in another variety of comic crime fiction you can take as a chief character , as indeed your detective , a person who is to a greater or lesser extent a figure of fun , someone prone to fall victim to more or less ridiculous circumstances . |
| 6 | Different professional institutions may define to a greater or lesser extent the modes and their mix . |
| 7 | To greater or lesser extent the debate hinges on the faith participants have in the ability of market forces to work effectively . |
| 8 | With the " novel " element displacing to a greater or lesser extent the " detective " element , you will probably find that you need a less complicated murder to be the subject of the logical deduction which will eventually reveal it for what it is . |
| 9 | For every book-collector , and every bookseller , is in greater or less degree a bibliographer . |
| 10 | Crime and Punishment takes its place in a perfectly obvious and open fashion among the international classics of naturalism ( or realism ) , and it is the first of his novels to do so : the earlier and great book The House of the Dead walks so close beside personal history as to rule itself out in this connection ; formally it is a freak , so I argued , a quasi-novel ; and as regards fact and fiction , since he is recounting not ‘ prophesying events ’ , Dostoevsky can not have found much in the Dead House to get excited about . |
| 11 | The range of objectives to be met , and potential opponents , are narrower and this time the ground has already been well and truly broken by a predecessor . |