Example sentences of "[adj -er] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was tanned and her hair was fairer at the roots . |
| 2 | The ideal tasting glass should be broader at the base than the top , so that the aroma concentrates around the rim — this makes it easier to appreciate . |
| 3 | However , A. griegi can be distinguished by the following characters : the oral papillae tend to be more triangular with a broader base , the arm spines are thicker , broader at the base , the dorsalmost become flattened and have a blunt rounded tip , those of A. otteri are thin and pointed . |
| 4 | The styles of the lotus buds which occupy opposite arms of the saltire are different — the one at the " bottom left " is broader at the base and more heavily drawn than the other , although they possess identical stems both of which meet a small rhomboid , with equal precision . |
| 5 | Sergeant Graham Ellery was pictured on a sunlounger at the villa in France where Fergie canoodled with Texan boyfriend John Bryan . |
| 6 | When , after some twenty minutes , the Inspector had failed to arrive , Golby set off in the direction from which he anticipated Drewitt would appear , after his meet with PC Shorter at the turnpike at Folly Crossroads . |
| 7 | Sometimes the fabric keel is replaced in outline by a pair of bridle lines , shorter at the front , longer at the rear . |
| 8 | I will say it 's cut shorter at the back . |
| 9 | The farmers of Devon and Somerset around Exmoor and in ‘ soft ’ country wanted a stick-and-dog beef animal and selected the lighter types among the Red Wessex , heavier at the rear and lighter in the forequarters . |
| 10 | In addition since the rats on the low fibre diet were heavier at the end of the study , although food intake measurements at 12 weeks showed no difference between the two groups , it is possible that the differences in morbidity were due a variation in calorie intake since caloric restriction is known to prolong life in rodents . |
| 11 | Both the P-E Inbucon annual survey of executive salaries , and the much smaller Jonathan Wren city salary survey , confirm that salary increases have been bigger at the top end of business and the City than at the bottom . |
| 12 | Oddly , it might seem , running the signal through this electronic sausage machine can make it clearer at the far end . |
| 13 | mm er yeah they should be done by Friday I should think cos if all they 're doing is putting a coping edge on it 'll make it look nicer at the back . |
| 14 | On a note of caution , it should be pointed out that the people involved in minor marriages were considerably younger at the time of the formalization of the marriage than those involved in the major marriages . |
| 15 | In this respect the arrival of William Pitt the Younger at the Treasury in 1784 was significant . |
| 16 | Does the trunk come straight out of the ground with parallel or straight sides , larger at the bottom ? |
| 17 | Although τ varies only slowly , and each vary rapidly , the former being much larger at the wall than in laminar flow but becoming very small away from the wall , the latter being large away from the wall and zero at the wall . |
| 18 | Well it 's bit brighter at the coast , and |
| 19 | Topaz was no happier at the convent after four weeks incarcerated within its walls , but she was growing used to many things . |
| 20 | Her cheeks burned hotter at the thought . |
| 21 | I 'm meeting him later at the disco after his work . ’ |
| 22 | They 're in Nottingham tonight and they 're later at the Ritz at Lincoln but they 've just heard that they 're number one in the hit parade with their new video . |
| 23 | My training had started to get better at the back end of the summer . |
| 24 | No one , not even Fenna , could actually stand up against Rachel when she had once got the bit between her teeth : she was better at the game of controlling , containing , winning , than anyone else that Maggie knew . |
| 25 | The people who moved the instruments each day to the studio had a vested interest in persuading us that the Philharmonie was no good ; people even said privately that the change must be resisted at all costs because the coffee was so much better at the church ! |
| 26 | Some will be noticeably better at the one than the other . |
| 27 | This was some compensation for the fact that she was almost certainly no better at the piano . |
| 28 | Armed with this information they can design molecules that are even better at the job . |
| 29 | It was pretty flat stuff , but we knew no better at the time . |
| 30 | The frog makes a respectable showing , the flea , however , is better at the high jump ! |