Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , differential profitability may reflect differential exploitation of labour : in this case a left government could intervene to the advantage of enterprises which were less profitable because of less intensive and oppressive working and/or better wages by , for instance , minimum wage legislation or fostering union organisation in the more oppressive enterprises . |
| 2 | The 1987 General Household Survey found that 22% of people aged 60–69 , and 13% of those of 70 or older , were participating in voluntary work . |
| 3 | The jaws are as a broad or broader than long . |
| 4 | If power is represented as being ‘ middle class ’ , or a member of the ‘ party apparatchik ’ , the consequence is the same , the distribution of educational opportunities is progressively in its favour , with more of its children attending secondary education and even more attending tertiary or higher education . |
| 5 | Those pupils wishing to continue their education have either to transfer to a school which does have a sixth form or to a sixth form college , or to move outside the secondary school system into a tertiary or further education college ( see below ) . |
| 6 | Transistor TR2 needs to have an H f e of at least 500 or greater and a BC109C was chosen here . |
| 7 | Perhaps , say the researchers , a large-eyed person is assessed by an iguana as being nearer or larger than he or she really is , or perhaps a large-eyed person simply looks more threatening . |
| 8 | The sequence is probably preserved in a fault-bounded trough in an area long thought to comprise only Triassic strata resting on Cambrian or earlier basement . |
| 9 | The study of something for its own sake , for the sake of knowing , understanding , grasping it and for nothing else , is an essential characteristic of education , lower or higher , though more obviously of higher education . |
| 10 | Either lower or higher doses are then injected serially until the weal or the symptoms disappear . |
| 11 | I think our survey showed it could be as high as fifty per hectare in fact , er but we did n't have a full response to the survey and er there 's nothing er in the results that would lead us to a conclusion that it should be lower or higher , so we 're quite happy to accept that assumption . |
| 12 | The basic sequence was clear enough , and to most nineteenth-century naturalists and geologists it was self-evidently a progressive development from lower or simpler forms of life to higher or more complex ones . |
| 13 | One 's overall sense of The Possessed absolutely refuses to confirm any such duality , and one can pay the novel no simpler or fuller tribute than by saying so . |
| 14 | The new coal is expected to be used primarily for blending with higher-sulphur or dirtier types . |
| 15 | Although Irix 5.0 conforms to the Mips ABI , Mips computer users running Risc/OS 5.0 or lower will have to recompile applications for the new release . |
| 16 | For risk ratings of eight or lower there does not appear to be any relationship , recall being consistently rare , this of course constitutes the bulk of the data , 983 of the 1,120 situations scored . |
| 17 | Social species will frequently surround and protect a wounded or younger member of their clan , regardless of who the parents are . |
| 18 | If the pebble moves on the desert floor new facets may be formed , giving rise to the three-crested or dreikanter form , the importance of which was probably exaggerated in earlier literature . |
| 19 | The markers can be in the form of the shorter and/or longer chromosomes produced by induced , unequal reciprocal translocations , or spontaneously arising metacentric Robertsonian fusions in laboratory or feral populations . |
| 20 | To boost your chances of a close encounter move quietly through the countryside and wear clothing which is n't noticeably lighter or darker than the surroundings . |
| 21 | All other colours are formed by mixing together various amounts of these colours and by adding black or white to make lighter or darker versions . |
| 22 | Besides , the easier or higher any one 's fortune is , this duty rises in proportion . |
| 23 | The first claim insists that once a crisp decision has been made by a body sanctioned by convention , and the content of that decision is fixed by conventions about how such decisions should be understood , judges must respect that decision , even if they think a different one would have been fairer or wiser . |
| 24 | In waters where bream breed prolifically , spawning every season to a lesser or greater extent , the shoals of small bream — skimmers as they are commonly called — can run into thousands . |
| 25 | Each of these has a different editorial policy and , to a lesser or greater degree , a political bias . |
| 26 | Whether it was approved or not — and usually it was not — it was understood on all sides that democracy meant , to a lesser or greater degree , popular power , popular sovereignty , popular participation . |
| 27 | The minister will generally have to decide only whether the period required for retribution and deterrence is that recommended by the judge , or by the Lord Chief Justice , or is some lesser or greater period . |
| 28 | One is therefore , of necessity , confined to such outcomes as income , type of occupation , reading and writing achievements , and the passing of examinations , all of which are quantifiable to a lesser or greater extent . |
| 29 | All governments , to a lesser or greater extent , will also be anxious that the rates of taxation do not undermine work incentives . |
| 30 | I am sure that it will be fully appreciated by the people of Scotland when they assess the parties ' policies at the election , including the policies of those who advocate a lesser or greater degree of Scotland 's separation from the rest of the United Kingdom . |