Example sentences of "the [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of the leaner ore was left unworked . |
| 2 | Use fish or chicken more often , or the leaner cuts of red meat . |
| 3 | Saturated fat comes mainly from animal sources like ; fatty meat , ( and even in the leaner cuts of red meat ) , butter , lard , cheese , cream , whole milk , hard margarines and cooking fats , meat products , ( sausages , pies , hamburger , pates , salami , luncheon meat , pasties and mince ) , chocolate , cakes and biscuits . |
| 4 | The house itself was 1914 or a bit earlier , steeply pitched slate roofs and high chimneys : bijou Lutyens for the leaner purse . |
| 5 | Speaking at the annual general meeting of the British Association of Mountain Guides at the Ulswater Hotel , Collister lamented the way guides in the alps had over equipped routes for their own convenience at the expense of the clients share in the adventure . |
| 6 | ‘ Besides , you 'll probably have to face a full interrogation on the Monpazier bastide on Saturday . |
| 7 | And tomorrow she was supposed to be visiting the Monpazier bastide with him . |
| 8 | Behind private placements lies a simple premise : the fussier investors and issuers become about the design of their securities , the less they will want to deal in the standardised paper available on the public markets . |
| 9 | The angel 's song at the end of The Pilgrim 's Regress is in a different league from the unhappier patches of Spirits in Bondage or Dymer . |
| 10 | Pointing out difficulties is a very common behaviour but is one of the riskier ones because research shows that it is far from certain how people will take it . |
| 11 | If you still have some money to spare after this , then you might like to consider the riskier investments . |
| 12 | There is once again a significant difference between the correlations , z=2.18 , p<0.05 , for the riskier films r(22)=0.211 , while for the less risky films r(22)=0.711 , p<0.01 . |
| 13 | This type of BES has raised £340m this tax year compared with less than £50m in the riskier offerings . |
| 14 | The riskier loan was disappearing from the market . |
| 15 | The German middle classes and the German Catholics in particular knew that the Prussian Poles were no great threat to the state , yet in spite of their protests , the Junker-dominated Government found it essential to work through crude Völkisch opinion to maintain itself and divert the impending revolution . |
| 16 | Congressman Solarz also beavers away on the duller stuff that most of his colleagues see little point in pursuing . |
| 17 | The duller reaches of committee work he spent , not in pointless doodling like his colleagues , but in producing elegant little drawings of imaginary but perfectly possible churches . |
| 18 | The duller buildings blended with the desert , but others shone pink , blue and gold , edged with ornamental plasterwork in white . |
| 19 | So , without a Great Detective , or even a lesser detective of the fictional breed , you will find that the clearing up of the mystery , which still must be presented with an air of progress , will be carried out not largely by the processes of ratiocination ( that word invented by Edgar Allan Poe ) but by the duller process of the accumulation of facts , as in real life . |
| 20 | The seed corn left to accompany the dead could sprout again — as a boy , he had heard reports of successful experiments on damp rags in the dark — the coins for the ferryman , fallen among the collapsed lips and tongueless jawbones of the discovered dead , could be buffed and brightened until the curls in the hair of Demeter , caught up in rich ropes under a garland of corn floating with ribbons , gleamed glossily again , and the Cupid on Riba 's emblematic ship , facing out to sea with his drawn bow over the whorl of the prow , stood out in silver against the duller ground . |
| 21 | Molloy learned it from me at the Imperial Hotel , Blackpool , during one of the duller party conferences . |
| 22 | He heard the hollow thudding of hooves and the duller sound of feet constantly tramping the timbers of the drawbridge . |
| 23 | After hibernating through the winter months , a male sand lizard wakes up and sheds his old brown skin for a new green one which the duller female finds attractive . |
| 24 | The calibration is carried out by mounting the magnetometer core centrally in the coils and adjusting the peak-to-peak output while reversing the coil current , set to a constant value appropriate to the range being calibrated . |
| 25 | His actions had triggered full-scale rebellion by the hybrids and by the vaster Stealer brood of true-seeming humans . |
| 26 | For card subjects there are three independent variables — area , exposure and the radiometer reading — and one dependent variable — the A- measure . |
| 27 | An attempt to determine the relationship was described in Chapter 4 , and it was found that the A-measure varies roughly linearly with the radiometer reading over a wide range of exposures . |
| 28 | It is unexplained why the radiometer readings in Bands 6 and 7 are lower in the second series , when the illumination is greater , but this was taken as grist to the mill of the idea that the radiometer method would probably be less reliable than the imaging method . |
| 29 | The radiometer trials were also quite encouraging , and gave hope that the radiometer might be able to indicate temperature stress and growth . |
| 30 | It is unexplained why the radiometer readings in Bands 6 and 7 are lower in the second series , when the illumination is greater , but this was taken as grist to the mill of the idea that the radiometer method would probably be less reliable than the imaging method . |