Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can take our students beyond that stage of technical feedback and on to the levels of self-enlightenment and self-emancipation , through encouraging ever-wider and higher levels of self-criticism . |
| 2 | It may be possible to devise a system for including greater objectivity into descriptions , and Dr Peacock has been very helpful in laying down guidelines , which it is hoped will be published before long , but this is only a step in the right direction towards a fuller understanding of manufacturing processes , marketing and distribution , and the size and historical development of each industry . |
| 3 | Brontosaurs had spatulate ( spoon-shaped ) teeth for eating coarser leaves , largely from the ferns and horsetail plants . |
| 4 | Pressure on time was , it was said , part of the reason for allowing greater flexibility and choice because pupils over the age of 14 would then be able to study three separate sciences , an extra modern language , classics or vocational subjects . |
| 5 | This allows more scope for using softer materials and complicated designs but it also means that the outer fabric can get wet , though you stay dry inside . |
| 6 | Although much has been learned in England about producing better wine from the Müller-Thurgau , it is in Germany where profits have financed research into better grapes for northern climates . |
| 7 | The doctor had dismissed his troubles airily , diagnosing ‘ Dotty 's Collywobbles ’ , a fairly common Lulling complaint , and had warned him about accepting further hospitality at that lady 's hands . |
| 8 | For taught higher degrees tick box TM91 . |
| 9 | The intention was to see what sorts of problems seemed to be occurring and then to create automatic procedures , where possible , for gathering further information . |
| 10 | The Court referred the case to the Director of Public Prosecutions to see whether the students involved should be prosecuted for breaching earlier court orders . |
| 11 | The individual values for resting sphincter pressure are shown in Figure 2 . |
| 12 | Subsequent internal contraction could find such faults a ready site for producing further movement . |
| 13 | This approach leads directly to various methods for generating further exact solutions . |
| 14 | Driving to a knitting meeting with Bryan our Club President , I happened to mention that I had acquired an old Empisal 100 for knitting thicker yarns and slub cottons . |
| 15 | Of biotic arguments for explaining greater tropical diversity , one of the most familiar is that there are more ‘ niches ’ than in temperate latitudes , arising from more habitats or more resources , but these hark back to environmental arguments ultimately . |
| 16 | This is bound to have competitive implications for the UK banking sector , which is already heavily rationalized and has therefore little scope for gaining further economies of scale . |
| 17 | For these various reasons our own use of full life stories for understanding later life both in the past and today remains exceptional . |
| 18 | Many of the concepts explained might have appeared self-evident but a thorough grasp of these basic points is essential for understanding later sections of the book which deal with international banking and finance . |
| 19 | Oxford admissions were even more complicated then than now , and the preferred route was by taking scholarship examinations after completing Higher School Certificate . |
| 20 | Bernadette 's fifteen year old son Patrick died a year and half ago after sniffing lighter fuel . |
| 21 | The miners were opposing company plans to introduce a continuous working day but finally called off the strike after accepting higher pay and bonuses . |
| 22 | After opening firmer , the dollar lost ground on expectations of an imminent easing of monetary policy by the US Federal Reserve but strong demand pushed it 0.80 pfennigs higher at DM1.8925 . |
| 23 | Governor Bill Clinton appears to have sewn up the presidential nomination by winning a plurality in New York on Tuesday , but only after suffering further humiliation . |
| 24 | Goodway has been playing with consistent brilliance there this season , scoring 18 tries , but he will now be out for a month , and Hanley is no stranger to the position after spending earlier periods of his career mostly at centre or stand-off . |
| 25 | Red and white signs , showing an izard 's head , are the only indication that you are entering it , the izard being a sort of chamois native to the Pyrenees which is now doing well there again after having earlier been hunted almost out of existence — its survival has been put down to the First World War , when men turned to killing one another and the animals had an armistice which enabled them to breed again . |
| 26 | Homeowners will have less money to spend in their pockets after making higher mortgage repayments and will be even less inclined to borrow at today 's high rates . |
| 27 | Later , after plotting further distribution maps , this interesting conglomerate was expanded to include the swastika design , the tattooing of women 's chins , ear-piercing , head-deformation , serpent-worship , the deluge myth and couvade — quite an assortment ! |
| 28 | After attacking earlier plans , he laid the foundation stone of the National Gallery extension |
| 29 | The Government propose to Brussels that the same upper limits be set on dosages of dietary supplements for ordinary consumers buying off the shelves as for professional practitioners of alternative medicine , even though such practitioners may have good reasons for recommending higher doses to their patients . |
| 30 | Two days later , according to the Anonimalle Chronicle , the commons assembled in the Chapter House of Westminster Abbey , and a knight from the south country opened the debate on the subsidy with an attack on the government for misspending earlier subsidies . |