Example sentences of "[vb past] a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes as they fly , they tilt their bodies so that their tails dip into the water , and beat a further few strokes , renewing their impetus and extending their flight . |
| 2 | Hearing of his difficulties from Greta Burkill , the College contributed a further £50 and the Self-Aid Society for Refugees another £50 . |
| 3 | Lee Evans , the controversial black Olympic sprinter , contributed a further element to Kane 's model when he added : ‘ Then , on the plantations , a strong Blackman was mated with a strong Blackwoman . |
| 4 | NATIONAL Savings products contributed a further £219 million to Government funding in January , bringing the total contribution for the financial year to date to nearly £4 billion . |
| 5 | Most humiliating of all when he did intervene on the record he only contributed a further nuance to the policy confusion under way . |
| 6 | This provided a richer and more varied diet and a grander life style for those in the middle and upper ranks of society than would have been possible if they had been dependent only on the products of a self-contained peasant economy . |
| 7 | The mixture of ten herbs , gin and salts consumed by a York woman provided a cheaper alternative at 10d a pint . |
| 8 | Although their long galleries and multitude of rooms provided a greater degree of privacy for the gentry families , the homes were still very much public places , the more so according to the rank of the owner . |
| 9 | The ‘ network structure ’ of control , authority and communications provided a greater commitment on the part of the workforce and made it better able to respond to change . |
| 10 | Ireland provided a clearer division . |
| 11 | He provided a better place , which the uneasy partner did not even want to look at , but admits could not be better . |
| 12 | Everyone agreed that the loss of eyesight was a consequence of the animals taking up residence in an environment with no light , but the Lamarckians argued that the inherited effects of disuse provided a better explanation of the process than natural selection . |
| 13 | In spite of the reduced and indeed reducing turnover that we have had in the past 12 months , 1992 provided a better financial result than the previous year . |
| 14 | Crawford had already clashed with Sherrin when told one week that Lewis and Dobereiner 's script was , unusually for them , not up to standard and , although he would be paid , he would not appear unless they provided a better one . |
| 15 | It seems clear that epidemics of the bubonic type became increasingly limited to the towns , which provided a better habitat for the plague-carrying black rat . |
| 16 | It is a pity that she could not have elaborated on several points , and provided a fuller answer to the question she herself raises on p. 101 : " When is it … perfectly appropriate to tell jokes and play with words ? " |
| 17 | Perhaps the bay window provided a wider range of entertainment . |
| 18 | The canal provided a shorter sea route for steamships , which enabled them to reach their destinations before the clippers . |
| 19 | Nikki 's solos were delicate , usually starting in the middle of the keyboard and moving steadily higher , but also , when needed , she provided a bouncier sound as on Bobby Timmons ' This Here . |
| 20 | A group of Free French troops provided a further source of manpower . |
| 21 | While the election of an authoritarian central government in 1979 resulted in cut-backs for local councils , it also provided a further stimulus for more community-oriented municipal projects . |
| 22 | The Anglican Henry Dannett provided a further fall-back epistemological basis for vindicating antislavery perceptions of the moral order by arguing that even ‘ if scriptural decisions should appear to contradict our ideas of right and wrong we are still bound to follow those ideas because we can not be so certain that we rightly understand and justly limit those scriptural decisions as we are of our own ideas of right and wrong ’ . |
| 23 | This was provided through " Help the Aged " who donated £6,500 to the cost and the volunteers , staff , carers and donations provided a further £6,500 . |
| 24 | The transition from diplomatic and economic pressure on Iraq to direct offensive military action provided a further confirmation of the US leadership of what US statements described as " the 28-member international coalition " , since " coalition forces " would come under the operational command of the commander of US forces , Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf , in consultation with Saudi Defence Minister Prince Sultan ibn Abdul Aziz . |
| 25 | Defoe provided a further , more useful categorisation in 1728 . |
| 26 | In the northern part of Russia , never very suited to extensive grain farming , peasant farms displaced estate production of hemp , flax and other intensive crops , while handicrafts provided a further market for the peasantry . |
| 27 | The Saturday Review said that there were only four entries that it deemed to be good enough to be designated Gothic , but Clarke 's catalogue listed a further fourteen Gothic schemes . |
| 28 | It seems likely that the condition of the roads had begun to grow uneven after Aberdeen : today , upon leaving the main road , the castle , now ruined , may only be approached on pockmarked and muddy lanes , and if these approximate to the surfaces upon which Johnson had to travel once he entered a remoter Scotland , his pace may be understood and excused , and his courage further applauded . |
| 29 | With the advent of Enterprise Training , providing a range of skills , including financial management , staff management , technical management , as well as craft skills , training entered a wider framework and came closer still to the Advisory Services , and the farmer would , in time , come to look on the service of the Agricultural Training Board in the same way as he currently looked on the service of his bank or advisory service . |
| 30 | LABOUR promised a better future for British women yesterday at the Northern launch of the party 's magazine for women . |