Example sentences of "[conj] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By eluting self-peptides from HLA-B53 we identified a sequence motif for bound peptides and have synthesized 60 octamer , nonamer or decamer peptides bearing this motif from the four pre-erythrocytic-stage P. falciparum antigens that have been cloned and sequenced : each of these antigens has been used in or is currently awaiting human vaccine trials . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If a problem ( or a proof ) seems too difficult as it stands one can try looking at a special or simpler case . |
| 4 | The Scots fear discrimination most in the livestock sector where lower limits on qualifying numbers for production subsidies would be particularly painful . |
| 5 | The Burger King neighbourhood restaurant : ideal as a low-cost investment where lower turnover is projected . |
| 6 | The Burger King kiosk ; occupying only 120ft2 , it is ideal where retail space is at a premium , and provides a positive return in investment where lower volumes are anticipated . |
| 7 | This works well when demand is well ahead of supply , and where lower costs will encourage people to buy . |
| 8 | She said that she felt that children aged between seven and 11 were at particular risk of being cloned by their elder brothers or elder friends into people with the same offending habits . |
| 9 | The father or elder brother makes important decisions for the whole extended family even if members are widely separated geographically . |
| 10 | Bruch suggests that a significantly large proportion of anorexics are eldest or elder daughters . |
| 11 | Oh , younger men are more likely to use coarser tones and be more explicit erm although they would n't use those sort terms to their father or elder men , and the women are more likely to use euphemisms like Spend a penny , Powder your nose and things like that . |
| 12 | Though small on a world scale , these shifts represent milder or harsher winters , more or less precipitation , longer — or shorter-lasting snow-cover , each shift reflected in substantial ecological changes . |
| 13 | But in any event , in the way shown above , this concentration on squeezing the largest possible instalment payments into the confines of a weekly budget based on weekly pay-packets leaves the deep pitfall that people then have no leeway to cope with unexpected or higher-than-usual expenses which crop up 12m . |
| 14 | Accordingly , the subjects should get more ‘ choosy ’ with higher values of a or lower values of k , in the sense that they should have higher reservation values . |
| 15 | I might well never find out where it was , but it would certainly contain some pupils whom the teacher had chosen because she thought they were bright and co-operative and others would almost certainly have been excluded because of their uncooperativeness or lower intelligence . |
| 16 | Basse-Navarre , or Lower Navarre , was originally the French end of the kingdom of Navarre , the larger part of which lay on the far side of the Pyrenees , in Spain . |
| 17 | In this condition , the sufferer experiences either constipation or diarrhoea , often in association with excessive abdominal bloating and sometimes pains , usually cramp-like and situated either in the middle or lower part of the abdomen . |
| 18 | It will highlight text in both upper or lower case letters , and whether or not any of the text to be replaced forms part of another word . |
| 19 | You can choose between creating an upper or lower case letter , although the easiest shape of all must be a C , as it is exactly the same as the standard curved design ( see pp. 72–3 ) . |
| 20 | In some systems the input script is restricted to upper case unconnected letters , or lower case unconnected characters . |
| 21 | Call it something short and descriptive , like Bold Centre — you can use up to 24 characters in upper or lower case , including spaces and numbers . |
| 22 | It follows from this that a reader who has just identified a particular letter will not be able to tell whether it was in upper or lower case on the basis of the information from the letter detector level . |
| 23 | The type in each four-page ‘ forme ’ ( four type pages wedged tight inside an iron frame , ready for the press ) was cleaned and ‘ distributed ’ when finished with — the pages were broken up , and each individual piece of type was returned to its proper compartment in the compositor 's upper or lower type case . |
| 24 | If the market price subsequently rose or fell , that is irrelevant , even if the seller actually sold at that subsequent greater or lower price . |
| 25 | In some cases it may be difficult to gain entry to the channel unless the product is somehow differentiated by way of uniqueness or lower price than those products already established in the channel . |
| 26 | This result spills over onto the optimal output decision : since one can expect better sales prices with a higher σ or a lower k , one should accordingly produce more output with a higher σ or lower k . |
| 27 | Essentially , these organs comprise three pairs of appendicular jaws , the anterior mandibles followed in turn by the maxillae and a second pair of maxilla-like Structures that fuse medially during embryonic development to form the labium or lower lip . |
| 28 | We have yet to see a patient whose iron deficiency arose from a problem in the rectum or lower sigmoid in the absence of observed rectal bleeding , a change of bowel habit , or abnormality on digital examination . |
| 29 | These variable data give us a basis for examining processes of change , since they suggest initially that either the higher or lower variants are innovatory , or — more properly — that the direction of change is either raising or lowering of /Ε/.; |
| 30 | With the STV they do not , for some voters are allowed the effective use of votes of second or lower preference and some are not . |