Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [subord] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking these two elements together then , pay differentials are considered as only proper because someone with better qualifications and a longer service record may be expected to contribute more to the company . |
| 2 | The indictment of British nostalgia is more amiable than sharp , and the ideas are much less interesting than anything in Mackendrick 's films . |
| 3 | ‘ It is extremely serious when someone in a position of trust over women , to whom they go for intimate advice , education and examination , behaves in this way . |
| 4 | They were much taller than me with long brown arms covered with green leaves . |
| 5 | ‘ If anybody in the jury can explain that letter , ’ said Alice ( she was not afraid of anything now , because she was much bigger than everybody in the room ) , ‘ I 'll give him sixpence . |
| 6 | One rejoinder to this would be to cite cases like : ( 35 ) our new neighbours said they had had their old house painted mauve where it is perfectly possible that the house is much younger than anybody in the family . |
| 7 | Critics of the firm as a cooperative family have produced a more penetrating assessment of Japanese industrial relations which shows them to be less unique than they at first appear . |
| 8 | I am not claiming that meat is indispensable for good health ; it is only necessary to show that a diet to which it contributes can be no less healthy than one from which it is excluded . |
| 9 | I can diagnose tonsillitis , there 's an ENT surgeon who is far better than me at that ; I can diagnose appendicitis , hearts , whatever you can think of , there 's someone who is much better than me at it and these people are all now available to the population . |
| 10 | No he was n't as , as , strong-wise he was hitting as well as you , but he was he was n't as , much better than you at all . |
| 11 | Some " birds " nests are hemispherical , but only on the inside ; you must cut a honeycomb with a sharp knife if you want to see the accurate hexagons of its construction ; the geometry of spiders ' webs is astonishing but much less regular than it at first appears . |
| 12 | Rollover risk , though now small , is therefore less implausible than it at first appears . |
| 13 | One reason why the shift in emphasis to the broader question of determinism is less helpful than it at first appears is that ‘ the problem of determinism ’ itself lacks a clear formulation , and the difficulty of saying exactly what it consists in is reflected in attempts to relate it to holism . |
| 14 | In view of the overwhelming Palestinian demographic preponderance , this arrangement was a good deal less equitable than it at first seems . |
| 15 | He lives down near the bottom of Wind Street , got a shop he has , a well-to-do sort of man , better off than me at any rate . ’ |
| 16 | If the hon. Gentleman goes to France — a country he seems to admire more than ours — he will find that it has introduced a price formula that is far less tough than ours on BT because it knows that its nationalised industry would find it difficult to match the performance of BT . |
| 17 | ‘ So , with all my thoughts channelled of necessity elsewhere , ’ he continued , ‘ is it so surprising if something like the position of a needle on a petrol gauge does occasionally escape my attention ? ’ |
| 18 | Without conceding that the gentry of Tula , Smolensk , and elsewhere were justified in calling for an assembly which would give them a chance to vent their spleen , Alexander II seemed to be no less frightened than they by the enormity of the changes he had sanctioned . |
| 19 | I think this woman with the three grown-up sons is not younger than me at all , but almost certainly older . |
| 20 | Mr Brice , it turned out when he got to C4 , was not older than himself at all . |
| 21 | Demand was thus satisfied for HE as a whole , although clearly there would be unsatisfied demand for particular courses or institutions . |
| 22 | I think one can put forward fairly persuasive arguments that there are no life forms a good deal more advanced than ourselves in our galaxy , simply because I believe that social and environmental and sort of curiosity value factors would have led them to reveal their presence in various ways . |
| 23 | But they seem more alive than me in here . |
| 24 | The second wife and her two daughters hated Vasilissa because she was so pretty and obedient , because her father loved her best , and , above all , because she was much more skilful than they at making lace , at spinning , and at knitting stockings . |
| 25 | I mean , it 's much more serious when something like a church closes . |
| 26 | Dot knew it was more dangerous than anything in London , even during blackout and raids . |
| 27 | But I know it 's totally untrue because none of my sisters or my mother would ever call me Harry again . |
| 28 | ‘ With the number of firms working to full capacity still fewer than one in five it is difficult to be optimistic about any improvements in the short term , ’ he added . |
| 29 | A dedicated cook with a demanding job outside the home will probably need their kitchen to be that much more functional than someone with more leisure to shop — at least in the sense of providing good storage and extra quick cooking facilities , such as microwave oven and a freezer . |
| 30 | We did not believe that any of these should be the subject of charity or whim on the part of people more privileged than ourselves in this society . |