Example sentences of "[vb infin] [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The practice of eating dead enemies probably arose from the idea that you could absorb the better qualities of the person who had died through eating their flesh . |
| 2 | A writer can choose any time and place to operate in , but The Innocent does not broadcast the colder , universal truths of the abstract . |
| 3 | The petite range is an extension of its existing stock , but styled particularly for women under 5'2 ’ , to fit and flatter the shorter figure . |
| 4 | Though this neatly solves the problem of how man can make history while at the same time history makes him , it does not answer the larger question of how a multiplicity of the products of individual acts , ‘ totalizations ’ , can themselves be totalized into the overall totalization required by the logic of dialectical rationality — rather than being the arbitrary , blind and self-cancelling movements of , say , Hardy 's immanent will . |
| 5 | People often worry about introducing a puppy into a home where there is already an aged Rottweiler , feeling that this will upset or unsettle the older dog . |
| 6 | Having identified the scope of the ‘ problem ’ the paper will cover the wider issues which all organisations or companies will need to face regarding the status and role of e-mail records . |
| 7 | The sample was picked from telephone directories which did not cover the poorer segments of the electorate . |
| 8 | Hitler 's policy was clever : to keep Romania and Hungary in competition with each other to see which could make the greater territorial gains . |
| 9 | Who would make the better monarch ? |
| 10 | Perhaps Alice would make the better wife . |
| 11 | As a member of one of the two departments into which the direction politique of the foreign ministry was then divided , he found that he and his colleagues spent much of their time playing draughts and that there was considerable rivalry between the two as to which could make the better " five o'clock tea " . |
| 12 | May I make the further suggestion that when it is all over on 9 April we get the right hon. Gentleman a new job — a walk-on part in a re-run of ’ Crossroads ’ or as a substitute for Ken Barlow . |
| 13 | This was one way in which astute owners could circumvent the earlier statutory provisions ; a building could be neglected to such an extent that demolition was unavoidable , thus giving the owner the possibility of reaping the development value of the site . |
| 14 | There 's a twin pack here or will she want the bigger pack ? |
| 15 | Do you want the bigger one ? |
| 16 | I did n't want the heavier introduction stressing the relatively-new filtration . |
| 17 | This is true in the sense that electors want stability and do not much want the higher thought . |
| 18 | He 's a chef and does n't want the younger children to get to his knives . |
| 19 | Norbert Wiener 's basic view is that the ideas of individuals can trigger the larger processes that lead to innovation by their influence on the ‘ intellectual climate ’ in which science , the arts and technology all develop . |
| 20 | But if you can produce 28 seconds that actually exists as a piece of entertainment and makes people laugh , nobody will ever think the worse of you for it . |
| 21 | My father told me one evening that neither he nor my mother would think the worse of me if I did not go . |
| 22 | ‘ Do n't you think the slighter the better , and better still , not at all ? ’ |
| 23 | There is even the new risk that undue stress on the ‘ truth ’ of APRs may give people the wrong idea about the actual money cost of their credit , so that if , for example , they compare six-month credit with two-year credit they may think the shorter loan five times as costly — in comparison with the longer one — as it really is . |
| 24 | Do you think the younger generation are in a worse position than what you were in when you started work ? |
| 25 | The suggestion that the typical science enthusiast was Anglican and not politically radical does not of course affect the wider generalization that Protestant cultures were more amenable to freedom of thought . |
| 26 | ‘ It slows the autonomic nervous system to the barest limit of operation , but does n't affect the higher brain functions . |
| 27 | Joint-ill can affect the older foal so any lameness should be treated with suspicion . |
| 28 | Both Judge Holland and Charles Cole , Alaska 's attorney-general , insist that rejection of the criminal fine need not affect the larger civil settlement . |
| 29 | The addition of the provincial press , therefore , does not much affect the earlier conclusion about concentration among the nationals . |
| 30 | Moreover , the responsibility to implement will itself affect the earlier stages of project promotion and analysis through the way those due to implement the project expect to be rewarded or punished . |