Example sentences of "[conj] [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a problem ( or a proof ) seems too difficult as it stands one can try looking at a special or simpler case . |
| 2 | The Burger King neighbourhood restaurant : ideal as a low-cost investment where lower turnover is projected . |
| 3 | The father or elder brother makes important decisions for the whole extended family even if members are widely separated geographically . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | In some systems the input script is restricted to upper case unconnected letters , or lower case unconnected characters . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If the market price subsequently rose or fell , that is irrelevant , even if the seller actually sold at that subsequent greater or lower price . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The fiction was that they could be honestly and legitimately equalized at the same quota figure , even though Haughey had nearly three times as many first-preference votes as Brady , and even though almost half of the votes by which Brady reached the quota were votes of second or lower preference , culled by transfers from nine other candidates in nine counts . |
| 18 | Moreover the potential of all votes , whether of first or lower preference , varies between constituencies , because these differ considerably in magnitude ( a term that usefully serves to denote the size of a constituency 's electorate as distinct from the area it covers ) . |
| 19 | While purists may question the editing of documents , with younger age groups or lower ability , some simplification is justifiable ; pupils must be able to understand a source before they can make use of it . |
| 20 | The majority of degree courses lead to the honours classifications of first , second ( upper or lower division ) , or third class . |
| 21 | Allocating them to niches of higher or lower favour on a cabbalistic tree , they claimed to detect some principle of metamorphosis . |
| 22 | As to ‘ its effect upon national character ’ , Pearson thought that ‘ whether we are changing in the direction of a higher or lower morality is … the point that is most really at issue ’ . |
| 23 | A curious system prevailed whereby the Library could beat offenders but the housemaster could not : he had to refer the matter to his Library or , for really serious offences , to the Headmaster or Lower Master . |
| 24 | In addition , the Cabinet in approving a proposal may give a higher or lower degree of priority to it . |
| 25 | The upper or lower strand , alternatively , of this DNA duplex was 5'-endlabelled with [ 32 P ] as indicated by asterisks in the header of Figure 5 . |
| 26 | The essential principle of this Lift ( which is to be used in lieu of a flight of locks ) is floating of the barge or vessel into a tank and the conveying of that tank with its floating load broadside up or down a slope or inclined plane to a higher or lower pond of the canal respectively into which it is floated from the tank , which is left ready for another barge going in the opposite direction . |
| 27 | As gastrointestinal symptoms or signs may be non-specific two or more features related to either the upper or lower tract were considered necessary to suggest the site of possible disease . |
| 28 | If the sales mix and the profit margins of the two products are different this causes problems because while overall sales volumes targets may be achieved total contribution will vary depending upon whether the higher or lower margin product dominates the sales mix . |
| 29 | Two aspects need consideration : the tendency of workers to lessen their weekly amount of work at times when higher money wages or lower food prices allowed them to meet their customary expectation of comfort from fewer hours of labour , and secondly , the ability of home-based out-workers to control their own pace of work , compensating , if they so chose , for a slack early week with a bout of late-week intensity . |
| 30 | Legislative authority is vested in a popularly elected bicameral Diet which is composed of a 512-member House of Representatives ( or Lower House , elected for up to four years ) and a House of Councillors ( or Upper House , whose 252 members are elected for six years , with half being due for re-election every three years ) . |