Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I mean , I 'm a bit cynical about great conferences , they 're important if you 're trying to set a tone , and they 're important if you want the press and the media involved , but actually it 's a smaller fora on the local basis , which actually produces much better results , in my opinion , but that 's the sort of thing I have in mind . |
| 32 | Short breaks in concentration help you to sustain much longer conversations . |
| 33 | The company says that while it expected somewhat lower revenue in the first quarter because of seasonal factors and a product transition to R4000-based systems , the revenue decline was principally down to deferrals in customer orders and licensing activity as a result of the announcement of the proposed merger deal . |
| 34 | For instance , many grasses remain much thicker than most pressed flowers , and very interesting pictures can be created with different layers and textures , perhaps only with leaves and grasses , and therefore with no need for flowers . |
| 35 | Above all , it will reduce tit-for-tat politics and introduce much greater stability into government , allowing individuals and businesses alike to plan for their future with confidence . |
| 36 | ‘ Through proper application of existing technology , we are already seeing much higher rates of penetration . ’ |
| 37 | From 1968 onwards , the growth targets became somewhat lower but continued to be too optimistic . |
| 38 | The election of July 1966 at least returned Labour to power with a large majority , while government economic policy soon became somewhat tougher . |
| 39 | I do so because he made much clearer the philosophical basis of such a position than Milton Friedman does in , for example , Capitalism and Freedom . |
| 40 | They also made much greater use of other health care professionals , such as nurse practitioners ( Drummond & Maynard , 1988 ) . |
| 41 | Hypnotherapy is also useful , except with those susceptible to depression , since this can be brought on or made much worse by hypnosis . |
| 42 | ‘ He made much worse cuts in the ‘ Scenes aux champs ’ of Berlioz 's Symphonie fantastique and in the last movement of Martinů 's Sixth Symphony , though these seem to have been made in live performances only . ’ |
| 43 | Christopher Petrie and Jane lived for a year as neighbours : he in the manor and she in the stables-converted cottage , which she made much cosier and more inviting than the manor — one reason perhaps why Christopher spent so much time there . |
| 44 | As a result the design was modified to include much greater fire resistance , adding £50,000 per car to the basic cost of £200,000 of the initial design . |
| 45 | The Alexander Technique , by giving a means to release the excessive build-up of tension , helps you to perform much nearer to your maximum ability with the minimum amount of effort . |
| 46 | Until this year , the three independent review bodies which make recommendations for nurses , doctors and the professions allied to medicine have given much higher awards than the Whitley Councils . |
| 47 | However , by 1986 it had become evident that the collapse in manufacturing had been so severe that alternative approaches based on tourism and retailing should be given much greater prominence ( MDC , 1986 ) . |
| 48 | Cooling samples with liquid nitrogen , for example , increases CL efficiency in some minerals such as quartz , producing much greater luminescence intensity for a given beam energy . |
| 49 | For example the pattern recogniser could make much better use of partial information , and more accurate information is needed from higher levels of analysis . |
| 50 | But we will make much better use of the medium if we seek to use it differently and for different reasons . |
| 51 | I have noticed in the past , of course , that most conversations would make much better sense if you ran them backwards . |
| 52 | But for a big landscape , a plane is a major advantage because you can cover much greater distances . |
| 53 | For the more complex general case of the analogous time-dependent form may prove unwieldy and in any case involves much deeper consideration of non-equilibrium thermodynamics . |
| 54 | ‘ There should be some form of grading , like a golfing handicap , allowing you to drive only smaller cars at the lowest level . |
| 55 | And Smith , who has jumped much higher than his rival this summer , responded : ‘ They 'll be making a big mistake if they do n't pick me . ’ |
| 56 | In general the work in the fields is done by men ; women usually harvest only lighter crops , tend the animals and do the fatiguing work of cooking and carrying food to the fields for their men ( in other words servicing labour ) . |
| 57 | The new digital telephone lines now becoming common have higher band width while special data links have still bigger band widths allowing much larger amounts of data to be transmitted per second . |
| 58 | I think that crowd behaviour has improved , the clubs are catering much better for families . |
| 59 | It does seem an anachronism that the Australian government could in theory be sacked by the Queen in London , particularly as both countries are devoting much greater attention to their regional interests . |
| 60 | Adult females experienced much lower mortality rates whereas adult males searching for females had even higher mortality rates . |