Example sentences of "[to-vb] an [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE former Club Havana once the centrepoint of Teesside 's youth dance scene is set to attract an older clientele . |
| 2 | I decided to find an easier way , and this is it . |
| 3 | In our lives as Christians , the circumstances of life often change , the congenial we look forward to , the onerous we shy from , trying to find an easier path to tread . |
| 4 | It can be a real privilege to meet an older person who has experienced considerable loss in their life and has come to terms with it . |
| 5 | It does indeed enshrine a quantitative metaphor , because it exists to counter an older picture which used one . |
| 6 | These moves convinced Pope Paul III that Henry 's disobedience was serious , and in an attempt to activate an earlier bull of excommunication against the king , he lent his support to the Northern rebels during the Pilgrimage of Grace . |
| 7 | An awkward bulge must be overcome to reach an easier corner , and a little higher a tiny stance . |
| 8 | However , what we 've noticed is how much more expensive it is to decorate an older house . |
| 9 | The village hall was a disused chapel bought for the use of the village by Sir Godfrey MacDonald , the local squire at the time , to replace an earlier public hall which was destroyed during the war . |
| 10 | He was , along with ( Sir ) Charles Arden-Clarke and Edward ( later Baron ) Twining [ qq.v. ] , one of the ‘ young guard ’ of governors , carefully picked by the Colonial Office to replace an older generation like Arthur Richards ( first Baron Milverton ) and Sir Philip Mitchell [ qq.v. ] who , in the eyes of such architects of decolonization as ( Sir ) Andrew Cohen [ q.v. ] and his master , Arthur Creech Jones [ q.v. ] , were too rooted in pre-war attitudes to adapt enthusiastically to the new spirit of social engineering and transfer of power . |
| 11 | At the behest of Marcos ' family , Vice-president Salvador Laurel , Mrs Aquino 's estranged deputy and now head of an opposition party , and a group of ‘ loyalists ’ will today attempt to reverse an earlier Supreme Court ruling to uphold Mrs Aquino 's decision to prohibit Marcos ' return . |
| 12 | A group of Marcos loyalists yesterday filed a petition to the Supreme Court seeking to reverse an earlier ruling that upheld Mrs Aquino 's decision to bar Marcos 's return . |
| 13 | The problem is availability , for he is also a talented musician and had to miss a match to fulfil an earlier musical commitment . |
| 14 | And it 's got ten funtime activities like a spinning teddy , clicking dog and musical wheel to help an older baby 's eye to hand co-ordination . |
| 15 | When the order came she reached down to help an older woman to her feet and passed her the well-wrapped bundle , then she turned her back on the men and was swallowed by the mass of female prisoners . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , methods were being developed to allow the mounting weight of Bomber Command to inflict an ever-deeper mark accurately on the allotted targets . |
| 17 | He is then asked to assume that the true date will be before the p0·5 date and asked to nominate an earlier date that would again divide the range into two 50/50 bets . |
| 18 | He is then asked to assume that the true date will be before the p0.5 date and asked to nominate an earlier date that would again divide the range into two 50/50 bets . |
| 19 | I mean to give an earlier example , when at the beginning of this century , Mendel 's laws of genetics were rediscovered and an enormous growth of genetics took place and indeed is still taking place , initially Mendelism was seen by it 's practitioners and by biologists as a whole as a challenge to Darwinism , as an alternative to Darwin , and great fights took place for twenty years or so between the Darwinians and the Mendelians . |
| 20 | They even tried to arrange an earlier flight home — but were told they would have to stay . |
| 21 | If a killer is faced with a quiet prey rather than one that is resisting violently , it will simply be able to enjoy an easier meal . |
| 22 | A call to implement an earlier proposal for a blacks-only society , amended by the leadership , was defeated by 3,363,000 to 2,715,000 Black activists were heartened by the support of the TGWU for a blacks-only body . |
| 23 | It is only if we can read that record that we can discover some very important biological characteristics of human beings , since ( to repeat an earlier point ) it is through convention , convention that has a history , that human nature is expressed . |
| 24 | I could n't type , we had n't got anybody doing the office work in the detective staff , the Detective Sergeant used to do most of it , if he was not available I used to have to get an older detective to type a report out for me , and because I was a junior , they were not so careful in typing my reports as they were theirs . |
| 25 | Not only will it make you and your baby happier it will also help you to have an easier and enjoyable birth . |
| 26 | Apart from these and some other editions and issues remarkable in one way or another , the collector can expect to have an easier time financially than in many other fields of collecting . |
| 27 | ‘ Are n't you pleased to have an older sister ? ’ |
| 28 | But then he 'd , apparently he seemed to have an older brother with him |
| 29 | If you do want to portray an older figure , it would be preferable to try Hermione in The Winter 's Tale — she is a more fantastical character , without the added complications of historical authenticity , and so allows for greater flexibility of characterisation . |
| 30 | Also involved with the Hoptons was Philip Bothe of Coddenham ( Suff. ) a second generation emigrant from the north west who suddenly rose to local prominence after 1483 — which seems to imply an earlier connection with Richard . |