Example sentences of "[noun sg] be the [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The monotheistic forms of religion are the higher , for they more clearly and purely bring the God-consciousness to expression , ‘ and all others are related to them as subordinate forms , from which men are destined to pass on to those higher ones ’ . |
| 3 | The grand characteristics of this remedy are the worse ( < ) from first movement and better ( > ) for continued movement with better ( > ) heat and worse ( < ) cold . |
| 4 | It is also a curious fact that the older the remains of industry are the better they are regarded . |
| 5 | Running through her mind were the earlier protests from the light beams : ‘ Not fair ’ ; ‘ Keep still ’ . |
| 6 | Ellmau is the larger of the two resorts and there is plenty to appeal to all tastes . |
| 7 | And when you look at the price of hiring thirty seconds of advertisement time on television and organising a mass demonstration with some gratuitous violence which will get thirty seconds in a T V news broadcast , erm then I think the cost-efficiency graph shows that the erm violent demonstration is the better way , in those terms . |
| 8 | Clare 's view of the heathland is the truer one , for it is the peasant 's view from the inside , born in it and part of it . |
| 9 | To be set against the longitudinal study is the greater cost although , of course , the basic need to define population and sample is common to both . |
| 10 | To choose , I have to judge that here and now , for me , one alternative is the better , and to make my choices consistently I have to add to ‘ Face facts ’ other principles to which I ascribe an imperative force , and ensure that they are logically compatible . |
| 11 | The Newmarket trainer had favoured yesterday 's Christmas Hurdle at Kempton for Royal Gait 's comeback , but the Irish alternative is the softer option . |
| 12 | Bentham would say that the one which produces more pleasure is the better action , but Mill would say that it need not be , if the quality of the pleasure which is lesser in amount is sufficiently much higher in quality . |
| 13 | Std Error ; this is the standard error of the beta estimate and the lower this figure is the better the estimate of beta . |
| 14 | In 150 healthy infants aged <3 months 88% to 89% saturation was the lower limit of normal . ) |
| 15 | In the north , Cheddar Gorge cuts through the Mendip Hills — to the south are the gentler slopes of the Quantocks . |
| 16 | Several DCSLs , commenting on Minor Project schools in general , observed that a number of committees had lapsed since their initial involvement in the project , and that those which had operated without the benefit of a committee were the weaker for it . |
| 17 | Where manufacturers produce both an artists ' and a students ' paint , the artists ' range is the larger of the two , with the basic colours repeated in both ranges . |
| 18 | Where manufacturers produce both an artists ' and a students ' paint , the artists ' range is the larger of the two , with the basic colours repeated in both ranges . |
| 19 | Peter Foster tells the tale of this rise and fall , but his description of the family 's fall is the better-told part and , inevitably , the more gripping . |
| 20 | One needs to focus on what one is trying to achieve even in brief interactions for all social work is the better for being planned and evaluated . |
| 21 | Now , using Carbonflo , consumption is 24 mpg on unleaded and is improving Another very real benefit is the greater power — a fact , not just opinion . |
| 22 | This second benefit is the harder to achieve . |
| 23 | One of the major anxieties about the new NHS and Community Care Act is the further fragmentation of services , with health services even more isolated and hospital-bound , yet still consuming massive resources . |
| 24 | And since the firm 's value depends on future cash flows , LIFO is the better measure for valuing inventories ( in terms of the income statement ) . |
| 25 | The Dee Hall is the larger and more tourist-orientated of the two , with a substantial business clientele , and it remains the group 's ‘ flagship ’ . |
| 26 | On a superficial level then , the SuperCut is the safer tool , slipping whenever problems arise , though there is concern about the chain breaking . |
| 27 | The older the child is the harder it is for him to overcome his difficulty , but there are courses and there are techniques available which definitely do help children to overcome their problems with reading and with spelling and with language as a whole . |
| 28 | Actual trading in the labour market will be determined by whichever quantity is the smaller , the supply of labour or the demand for labour . |
| 29 | Among the first victims of the reform were the larger German-owned estates that now fell within Poland . |
| 30 | Emigration and tourism have long been the main contributors to the economy of Madeira , emigration being the older . |