Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [art] [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My own belief is that while the ordinary , naive world of facts is real , so are the emotional , the transcendent and the ideal worlds which are only a newer form of perception or area of thought and have scope for limitless extension . |
| 2 | ‘ In Ambleside there are several lodging houses , but it is a matter of surprise to the writer that there are not a greater number , as during the travelling season , when all such houses are full , more are enquired for by those who wish to see the country apart from the bustle , not to speak of the expense , of an inn . |
| 3 | We are just a grander version of that beetle bashing its head in a box at the sound of a tapped pencil . |
| 4 | Its just a pity there s not a better song to really get at the SCUM supporters , that does nt perhaps offend the older generation who WERE alive at the time . |
| 5 | Three hundred and we 're only the lower card ! |
| 6 | ‘ Or maybe you 're just a better policeman than you think you are , ’ said Rohmer . |
| 7 | ‘ If anything , I am probably a better player . |
| 8 | For a young baby who has several more months of formula to come , the hydrolysates are probably a better choice than soya formulas , therefore . |
| 9 | Thus he explains that the lower part of active life consists in the works of mercy and charity in society , the higher in the activities involved in penance and meditation which are also the lower part and the groundwork for contemplative knowledge of God who is beyond the ability of man 's active faculties to comprehend . |
| 10 | The oldest of the money markets is the discount market , but there are also the newer sterling and foreign currency markets . |
| 11 | Less than half these Vs have had repeats , and the names of the first ascensionists are often a better guide to a route 's difficulty than its published grade . |
| 12 | On the way here this morning , the picture of the Carrie he had once known and played with … and loved , had been plain in his mind ; and the nearer he had come to the house where she now lived , he imagined the Carrie he expected to see would be merely an older replica of the one who had run out of his life the day his mother had hit him and knocked him out . |
| 13 | Cultural evolution will probably be much the faster process of the two . |
| 14 | But I 'm still the champion , and I 'm still a better fighter than he is . |
| 15 | It will be both a richer world and a less expensive one . |
| 16 | If you are a woman your goal weight should be nearer the lower figure ; for men , depending on build , it should be towards the higher end of the scale . |
| 17 | Palled by the bleak , dusty nooks of outer Dublin ( my mother told me once that eventually , in some parts , all cities look like Brooklyn , and I 'm beginning to see her point ) , I expect the hospital to be yet a stranger place . |
| 18 | There had been virtually no further expansion after the fifty years of extraordinary growth in the first half of the sixteenth century . |
| 19 | Commius was forced to flee to Britain and he established himself as King of the British Atrebates which were presumably an earlier migrant group of the Gallic tribe of the same name . |
| 20 | He allowed her more freedom of choice than many of his clients who were perhaps a better advertisement for his dressmaking skills . |
| 21 | The last time they played at Worthing — when Alton were in Division II South — the then skipper Alan Fleetwood broke an ankle and after being easily the better side , Alton lost by just one point . |
| 22 | Although the first half had been surprisingly passionless , it was Liverpool who were easily the better side , and had Ronnie Rosenthal seized three opportunities , they would have been comfortably in front by half time . |
| 23 | SUDBURY were always the better team and would have considered themselves unlucky to have drawn , let alone lose . |
| 24 | We were probably the better side for long spells whereas we played second fiddle to Portadown the entire match . |
| 25 | Sayer clearly wishes to move beyond explanation to transformation but the problems that realism poses for me derive from its confinement in practice to being simply a better system of explanation . |
| 26 | Here Ipswich were unquestionably the better side , but Southend 's football was skilled enough to have beaten most teams in the Second Division . |
| 27 | Believing that private meetings were potentially a greater threat to order than public gatherings for recreation , in 1618 James I 's government intervened in these cultural conflicts by publishing the Book of Sports , which enjoined the laity to participate in a range of sporting and leisure activities on Sundays . |
| 28 | But it could be better , and it was promising to be so ; and for every member in the household , God bless them , for there were never a better master nor mistress . |
| 29 | Comedy , what is more , is arguably a higher skill , as many a performer knows . |
| 30 | Flesh , starring the hunky Joe Dalessandro , was shot over two weekends at a cost of $4000 , and is arguably the better film . |