Example sentences of "[adj -er] [coord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a pipe has frozen , it can be thawed out with a hairdrier or by wrapping towels soaked in hot water around it . |
| 2 | If , in addition , they could hire for private patients the very expensive facilities in the way of X-ray machines , operating theatres and the like , to be found within the National Health Service , this too made their lives very much easier and in many cases made their private practice a possibility . |
| 3 | Simone , a good foot shorter and with sweat trickling down her temples , mutely nodded . |
| 4 | Perversely , as it must have seemed to penal reformers , the opportunities offered by borstal training , with its reformative aims , were all too often spurned by young offenders , many of whom preferred a prison sentence to borstal training on the grounds that it was usually shorter and for a more certain period . |
| 5 | I felt really good a few pounds lighter and with a tan , and I wanted to stay like that and surprise everyone when I got back , especially my boyfriend , who might have been wishing I was thinner . |
| 6 | We fought to make the work quotas lighter and for salary rises , for a free midday meal , for women and children to get a full salary . |
| 7 | But the architect had agreed with her that it would make the room much lighter and in the end Matthew had assented . |
| 8 | ‘ Ana will be easier but with Mitch arriving every other weekend you may have to lay down the law a little . ’ |
| 9 | The invention of printing , a key technical stage in the technology of distribution , had remarkable early effects in that it made technical distribution much easier but in conditions of relatively unaltered social distribution . |
| 10 | We have tried to develop the drifter further but without much success . |
| 11 | It is probable that oil demand in Canada will fall no further but by conservation and energy efficiency may be kept at its present level to the end of the century without inhibiting economic growth . |
| 12 | Zach , Tom discovered , was a voluble , curly-haired boy a few months older than Willie , only taller and in bad need , so he thought , of a haircut . |
| 13 | The hon. Member for Dagenham wants not only to recreate a GLC but , as my hon. Friend the Member for Harrow , West said , for it to be bigger and for it to control the police , which the old GLC never did . |
| 14 | The concept had greater effect upon the building of suburbs , which became leafier and of lower building density than before . |
| 15 | The change has been adopted as a prior year adjustment , so pre-tax profits for 1991/92 are £4.3m lower and for 1990/91 , on a restated basis , £3.8m lower . |
| 16 | The country to the north and north-east of Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port is much lower and for that reason more cultivated . |
| 17 | So maybe , it would have been better if you could have even got down a bit lower and to , to , to get more of it from the horizon . |
| 18 | Inevitably difficult calvings cause a whole range of problems and here Mr Barwise-Munro remarked : ‘ Up to 2.5 per cent of first calving heifers involved in such circumstances die but with those which survive , many will suffer up to a 10 per cent drop in milk yield and consequently weaning weight of calves will be lower and of course there can also be major fertility problems in getting the cows back in calf . ’ |
| 19 | much larger , dearer and with varied heads , |
| 20 | She could afford to , being twenty years younger and with her gynaecological problems , if any , taken care of by Dr Fletcher for free . |
| 21 | You would cheer me up , for you are ten years younger and at my age the years once again begin to tell . ’ |
| 22 | Renters were younger and at an earlier stage in the developmental cycle . |
| 23 | He was wearing a grey suit with a light polo-neck sweater which made him look younger and at the same time more intimidating than he had the day before . |
| 24 | The breeding females are maturing younger and at smaller sizes than ever before , enabling them to reproduce before they are caught . |
| 25 | They were confronted , by contrast , by Prime Ministers of the calibre of Pitt the Younger and by the time Victoria ascended the throne executive power had effectively shifted away from the throne and into the Cabinet room . |
| 26 | In 1882 a larger and at that time healthier site was purchased on Wandsworth Common , and the new school opened with 271 boys — most of them boarders , but 80 day-boys . |
| 27 | Old Bolingbroke , now no more than a picturesque small village but once much larger and with a castle , was the birthplace of Henry IV |
| 28 | NASA warns that the depletion was " much larger and of considerably longer duration " than previously observed . |
| 29 | Harem-masters are always conspicuously different in appearance from their females — frequently they are larger and in many cases they have special male weapons on their heads . |
| 30 | And how about yourself , you obviously were n't that happy playing at left back for Oxford United , and you 've slotted into the central defence , playing a lot happier and of course , driving forward when you can for these goals ? |