Example sentences of "be the [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am the older generation . ’ |
| 2 | The fade has always been the safer shot as Ben Hogan — another who , for long , was haunted by a hook — so thrillingly and chillingly exemplified . |
| 3 | This is likely to have been the lower valve , and fossils are sometimes found in ‘ life position ’ , which confirms this . |
| 4 | The fittest in British society should therefore have been the lower class and the immigrant , both of whom had higher birth rates than the upper classes . |
| 5 | A crucial factor had been the tighter safety regime introduced by the regulatory authorities following first , the notorious 1975 fire at the Brown 's Ferry plant , and then the 1979 Three Mile Island accident . |
| 6 | In the past , Oxford have been the heavier but this year , on average , they 're nearly a stone a man lighter . |
| 7 | One of the consequences of the uncertainty in the region has been the closer identification of Hong Kong Chinese with British links and the formation of a Hong Kong branch of Convocation . |
| 8 | However , it has been the closer integration of the European Community which has dominated the economic development agenda . |
| 9 | The interesting feature for me has been the wider range of climbers active on the hard classics . |
| 10 | And yet Eliot had always been the subtler and more complicated man , shrewd enough to make his peace with an age to which he did not truly belong . |
| 11 | ‘ We 've played Bristol three times this season and they have been the better side each time . |
| 12 | He added that Mr Kinnock would have been the better orator , but that he would have won on detail and facts . |
| 13 | The opinion polls said that the Shadow Chancellor would have been the better man to defeat the Conservatives . |
| 14 | Mason fears death might have been the better part , and asks Gray to contribute to the benefit on his behalf . |
| 15 | But Sara 's idea had obviously been the better one , he told himself , though without believing a word of it , for where would they all be now without ‘ Mama 's business venture , ’ as his stepson warmly pointed out to him on a walk round the garden this afternoon . |
| 16 | The sudden tenseness of his jaw suggested that discretion would have been the better part of valour , and so it should have been , if he had n't taunted her about her sexual uncertainty . |
| 17 | I think you know it 's hard you g got to go with Leicester at the moment because they 're in the pole position and I have for my money been the better side but er Forest do look capable of snatching an equalizer . |
| 18 | Especially as we have been the better side 3 out of 4 matches . |
| 19 | It was all set up by , got the touch and gets the final touch with twenty four minutes gone and Notts deserve it , they 've been the better side in the early stages , but that will settle their nerves and give the Italians a little more to think about . |
| 20 | The enthusiasm for canal stock in the 1790s may have been the greater because the yield on Consols had not been very gratifying between 1784 and 1792 . |
| 21 | The men behind this ordinance seem to have been the greater merchants , who hoped to control the trade more strictly in their own interests , but the new system was never wholly enforced . |
| 22 | In this country , where the concept of science has always been the narrower one associated with the paradigm of the natural sciences , there is still in most institutions a very firm institutional demarcation between arts or humanities on the one hand and the social sciences on the other , a demarcation which will be explored later . |
| 23 | Also it has been the larger institutions that have benefited from low dealing commissions since the ‘ big bang ’ in October 1987 . |
| 24 | To say that it has been the poorer for it is not to denigrate the work that was done . |
| 25 | My mother always kept letters in their envelopes and a lot of other people must have done the same or the stamp business generally would have been the poorer . ’ |
| 26 | It is not clear however that it has been the stronger adversary which has done so , rather than a weaker party with its back to the wall . |
| 27 | I have been the weaker vessel . |
| 28 | Celia , the younger by ten minutes , had always been the weaker , but it was Dermot who 'd come home from school first , complaining of a sore throat . |
| 29 | He had been the weaker of a hatching of two males and would almost certainly have died within a few days if local ornithologists had not taken him from the nest and reared him themselves in the hope that a home might finally be found for him as worthwhile as the Zoo … |
| 30 | But it had been the older sister he had gone there with , and had apparently abandoned in favour of the younger , more exciting girl . |