Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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1 | Article 118A also allows majority voting in the Council , so offering obvious political attractions to the Commission and to the European Parliament who are thereby given greater powers over the legislation . |
2 | At the 1981 Census 16.3 per cent of its employed men had successfully completed higher education , with the next highest region — the South West managing only 13.3 per cent and the Northern Region lowest at 11.5 per cent . |
3 | Materials were collected in advance and stored in anticipation of their use ; powder slowly got cheaper in the course of the fifteenth century ; while many towns employed one or more men to supervise the effective use of artillery in case of attack . |
4 | Whether TI eventually produces higher performance Tsunamis remains to be seen . |
5 | Iron boats eventually became cheaper to build as the technology for iron production improved . |
6 | A similar situation applies to emissions of oxides of nitrogen , although gaseous oxides of nitrogen have a low dry-deposition rate , thereby allowing greater proportions to be converted to nitrate aerosols which are finally removed by rainout and washout . |
7 | Micro Twist incorporates the ability to disable the link integrity test , thereby allowing older Starlan equipment to be integrated into the 10BaseT environment . |
8 | There he was particularly concerned with such questions as the size of convoys , which he successfully made larger , and the concerted offensive against U-boats in the Bay of Biscay on passage to and from their shore bases . |
9 | One of the most interesting effects of the new technology ( significantly called ‘ high ’ ) may be to modify the pure/applied distinction , and thereby bring higher education and industry naturally closer together . |
10 | Properly applied better-off tests would have highlighted how the lack of competition in an internalised link imposes extra costs . |
11 | Limitations on the output of the most efficient will prevent them from taking advantage of technology and size , thereby inhibiting further productivity gains . |
12 | Then it comes from within to go higher . |
13 | Powerful voluntary organisations such as MENCAP ( the Royal Society for Mentally Handicapped Children and Adults ) and the Spastics Society have helped to raise political and public awareness of the needs of children with disabilities and have fought hard and on the whole successfully to secure better services for them and for their families . |
14 | After nearly five minutes , Louise started to calm down , her breathing slowly becoming shallower and more regular . |
15 | Also , in the gung-ho days of M&A in the mid to late 1980s , banks rarely considered smaller deals — those under $50m were ‘ left ’ to the accountancy firms . |
16 | Renton also discussed the situation with Lord Whitelaw , the deputy leader of the party , who was one of its most widely respected elder statesmen and a person renowned for the loyalty he had shown to Mrs Thatcher . |
17 | Children in the congregation watched the diamonds slowly grow squarer , less elongated , as the sun moved down the sky . |
18 | Yet beer — good beer — is a highly complex product and one that arguably needs greater skill to produce than wine . |
19 | Psychiatrists rarely visited younger patients at home unless a compulsory admission appeared necessary , but community psychiatric nurses were in close touch , often through their administration of regular depot injections . |
20 | Merely using stronger chemical bonds will have a small effect upon the strength of a cracked material by comparison with the stress concentrating effect of the crack and this is why diamond and sapphire are brittle and usually not especially strong , in spite of their hardness and high chemical bond energies . |
21 | In 1913 and 1914 , after all the most important discoveries had been made , Cubist painting naturally became freer and more decorative , but the same simple subject-matter was retained . |
22 | The explanation suddenly became simpler . |
23 | An amazing difference occurred ; the guitar suddenly became cleaner , clearer when played acoustically and through an amp , plus I still had full use of the tremolo unit . |
24 | This target looks realistic because Corning is only just starting to reap the rewards of patiently pursuing earlier long-term investments . |
25 | — entirely reflecting higher output and tighter cost control . |
26 | This will be used at random times and locations to measure vehicle speeds , naturally targeting faster moving traffic . |
27 | Furniture not only became cheaper and more plentiful : many more objects could be presented to the eye and dispersed about the room as the Argand lamp was succeeded by gas lighting . |
28 | Many countries of the world could not only make better use of wastes , but increase agricultural production of the crops of which surplus produce could best be used to manufacture fuels . |
29 | Subsequent meetings with David Wood , far from resolving the enigma of Rennes-le-Chateau , only revealed greater complexity as new geometry was discovered . |
30 | Far from invoking a sense of wakeful alertness , the essence seemed only to induce further drowsiness . |