Example sentences of "[adv prt] the [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my first six weeks here I had lots of battles — taking on the bigger ones . |
| 2 | As Wilfred Owen moves into the second stanza he takes on the bigger issue of what he is really trying to say . |
| 3 | Ideally , the community physiotherapist takes on the wider responsibility of not only teaching the carers , but also assessing and treating the patient 's particular problems through a progressive rehabilitation programme . |
| 4 | The boy 's body will take on the squarer , more muscular appearance of manhood . |
| 5 | Ideally , these are taken from an Economy 7 controller , which automatically brings on the lower ( or longer ) element at night and provides for a short ‘ topup ’ during the day with the upper ( or shorter ) element . |
| 6 | If the vehicle should become stationary , the timer is allowed to run and , after one minute , it switches on the flasher circuit to operate the l.e.d . |
| 7 | Matthew Spender ( son of the poet Stephen ) has taken on the harder task of writing about Tuscany from within . |
| 8 | Thus the right hemisphere is well-placed to undertake the early parallel , preconscious scanning of large amounts of information , the left taking on the later function of conscious elaboration of selected items . |
| 9 | Some of these , along with others to be taken on the lighter mornings will be sent to the Highways Department and to the Edinburgh Evening News with an accompanying letter . |
| 10 | I walked to him and , as he pulled down the lower part of the head-wrap from across his mouth , he introduced himself as Idris . |
| 11 | She sluiced down the lower half of his body in the bath , rinsed the nappy and carried him back into the bedroom . |
| 12 | Tilting the head back , aiming accurately and pulling down the lower lid were other areas of difficulty . |
| 13 | Unstable rock , high on the left flank , periodically cascades down the lower section of the route . |
| 14 | Guillamon leaned forward and pulled down the lower lid of his eye . |
| 15 | After a few months he could strip down the simpler engines , service and reassemble them . |
| 16 | The drive was tree-lined , so they went down the farther side , only visible now and then . |
| 17 | As the hydrogen bonds break down the denser liquid phase is thus formed ( see section 2.2 ) . |
| 18 | Beneath the point lies Krander 's whirlpool , a notorious navigational hazard , powerful enough at times to drag down the smaller prahus , so most sailors steer well clear of it . |
| 19 | As Tamar placed him in his grandmother 's arms , tears rolled down the older woman 's cheeks . |
| 20 | Perhaps now is the time to run down the older methods and , if this is not the case , maybe some additional training is required . |
| 21 | Also going down the lighter weight waterproof path are Mountain Equipment with their new Alpine Suit in Gore-Tex and 2-ply Taslan . |
| 22 | Face rubbed against face , the taller ones squelching down the shorter ones , the darker ones overshadowing the lighter ones . |
| 23 | When the brew is at your preferred strength , just push down the plunger to halt the brewing process and strain the leaves . |
| 24 | That said , there is a playful yet authoritative personality here , which makes the quasi-erotic experience of pressing down the plunger ( an action that the semiotician of coffee Pierre Beaudidlez has described as having an ‘ ecstatic rightness ’ ) especially piquant . |
| 25 | Once the topics are agreed , questions will be asked which will fill in the finer points of the hypotheses . |
| 26 | In recently enclosed country we have instead an open regular mesh of by-roads , and a few field-paths and bridle-roads to fill in the larger spaces between the villages . |
| 27 | Our role has been to put forward practical suggestions — and sometimes to rein in the larger ambitions of our partners . |
| 28 | Very limited entrepreneurial ambitions , conspicuous consumption and a tendency to spread their thin investments over many ventures [ the ‘ group of companies ’ mentality ] , a tendency … to only scratch the surface of innovation , the aversion to teaming up with others , all these and other motivational factors are likely to continue to limit the growth of Nigerian enterprises even in those spheres which are exclusively reserved to them and to postpone the day when they may hope to take over the higher reaches of enterprise . |
| 29 | This might suggest that France won the War of the Spanish Succession but nobody in Britain and not many people in France saw the result this way ; it was regarded more as a struggle in which the British asserted themselves militarily on the continent of Europe and began to show signs of a policy of taking over the smaller colonies of other European powers by conquest . |
| 30 | It was very tempting to just stay put but the longer we put it off the worse it would be . |