Example sentences of "[be] [adj -er] and [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Discussing the implementation of partnership in validation , the Sociological Studies Board , for example , heard concern about the ‘ apparent lack of sympathy which may exist in institutions ’ internal monitoring and validation procedures to academic developments in sociology , in that the views expressed may be harsher and more inhibiting than those expressed by the Board' . |
| 2 | Would they be tidier and more accessible hung on pegboards ? |
| 3 | Not only will the fish be happier , more colourful and likely to breed , but it will be healthier and less disease-prone if kept in its natural state . |
| 4 | Summers drops hints about murder , or suicide , but the truth may be simpler and more terrible : Hoover was not a breath more than his job . |
| 5 | Such a hybrid theory will almost certainly be simpler and more principled than a single amorphous and heterogeneous theory of semantics . |
| 6 | However , nothing can be crueller and more oppressive than one without love . |
| 7 | But you will find that , for such a person , recovery will be speedier and more complete . |
| 8 | Mrs Thatcher told her fellow summiteers that , in the end , it might be quicker and more secure if they worked with market forces in moving towards monetary union . |
| 9 | With an asset sale , the purchaser 's due diligence exercise should be quicker and therefore cheaper and it will probably be safer . |
| 10 | If they could be spaced out a bit , then it would probably be easier and less likely to be trouble . |
| 11 | The protests will be bigger and louder this time . ’ |
| 12 | Other firms may be bigger and more prestigious , but their clients are terrified of Pannone . |
| 13 | First , local authorities should be bigger and more uniform in size . |
| 14 | So I think , like Ellen Willis , that ‘ it would be clearer and more logical simply to acknowledge that some sexual images are offensive and some are not . ’ |
| 15 | Microsoft replies that the Windows of tomorrow will be smarter and more flexible , with little but its friendly on-screen appearance in common with today 's versions . |
| 16 | The phrase ‘ rehabilitation ’ denotes no more than the practice of helping individuals to function as well as they can in all areas of their daily life or , more simply , to be happier and more fulfilled people . |
| 17 | In a gesture worthy of King Canute they went further : ‘ It may become necessary to consider whether the community as a whole would not be happier and more stable if it abolished divorce altogether , ’ they wrote . |
| 18 | They even help the horse to be happier and more sensible . |
| 19 | Both assume that local intervention should be deeper and more fundamental than merely ‘ servicing capital ’ , and both also accept that it is necessary to change the structure of declining local economies if regeneration is to come about . |
| 20 | By the 1920s and 1930s , not to mention the years after the Second World War , the women formed an ageing group of unmarried women and widows , once more having little in common with the men at work , who by now would be younger and probably married . |
| 21 | Since ocean-floor basalt subsides as it cools while migrating away from the spreading axis , a faster-spreading ridge will be hotter and more buoyant over a larger area and hence will cause more displacement of sea water over the continents . |
| 22 | The Place ( 387 0031 ) Laurie Booth Terminus Terminux to Sat ; Compagnie Cre-Ange Noir Salle should be livelier and less self-indulgent than Emile Dubois ' much-hyped and absurdly over-long opening to Dance Umbrella ‘ 89 17-18 Oct . |
| 23 | Call hardly distinguishable , but tends to be shriller and less loud . |
| 24 | STRIVING to be better and more distinctive is not confined to the workplace for Francisco Fabrö Riera . |
| 25 | Indeed its user interface is judged by some to be better and more logical than AutoCAD 's . |
| 26 | Peter Clarke , in his Monday column ( 15 March ) , raises some ideas worthy of debate in proposing that new rural villages would be better and more popular than improving urban areas . |
| 27 | Fighting for a place in the Leeds United line-up must be better and more important than fighting for a place in Norway 's World Cup squad . |
| 28 | And if the worst does not arise — anything else must be better and therefore easier to handle ! |
| 29 | For the same reason , the sun appears to be whiter and less orange-coloured as the observer 's altitude increases ; this is because a greater proportion of the sunlight comes directly to the observer 's eye . |
| 30 | They may also be older and more experienced , and arrive on the breeding grounds earlier in the spring . |