Example sentences of "[adj -er] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It had been anticipated that this group of fit and well motivated patients would have fared better , and allowed full assessment of the advantages of this technique , particularly as the patients were younger , median age 63 ( range 33–77 ) and fitter ( lower ASA grade ) .
2 Worried for his family 's safety in the epidemic , Jesty resolved to provide immunity by giving his wife and two elder sons cowpox .
3 Thanks to a brilliant surgeon , and good nursing ; also untiring care and encouragement twenty-four hours a day from his devoted wife Henrietta , and their two elder sons Lord Howland and Lord Robin Russell , happily he has survived and made a miraculous recovery .
4 The party was really planned and given by his two elder sons Andrew Howland and Robbie Russell , who decided to keep it very simple , like a children 's party .
5 Intestinal crypt cells are known to have a higher adenylate cyclase and a lower guanylate cyclase activity than differentiated villous cells .
6 For instance , Corbett , in support of the observation that Swift uses abnormally long sentences in A Modest Proposal , cites a much lower sentence length from a sample from A Tale of a Tub .
7 With lower taxes and a smaller distortion there would be a lower dead-weight burden .
8 Lower level rules are only used if the standard grammar is unable to cope with the input .
9 An essential inheritance hierarchy to indicate the inheritance of properties ( attributes ) automatically by lower level objects from higher ones through ‘ isA ’ relationships .
10 The research Jarvis embarked on for his book took him into the lower level concourse at Bond Street .
11 The lower level components of textual divisions are parameterized by means of another mechanism which characterizes the whole TEI scheme : the use of parameter entities which are specified by the particular base in use .
12 This group aggregates all the bundles from the lower level groups .
13 Norman saw the Restoration as a revolution carried out by lower level samurai acting against the frustrations of their position .
14 Microsoft said the calls , being much lower level functions , are not comparable to APIs .
15 HWIM and Hearsay-II segment the input and then try to fit the lower level hypotheses into predefined sequences .
16 Crompton and Jones claim that employers use the grade structure to encourage loyalty and dedication from employees , but in reality many of the lower level management and administrative jobs are little different to clerical work .
17 This means that in certain regions of advanced capitalist societies ( such as , in the British case , parts of Scotland , the North East , South Wales ) are becoming pools of cheap labour and lower level management , while other regions ( London and the South East in Britain ) have a disproportionately high number of senior managers or ‘ service class ’ personnel .
18 BR 's corporate planning was reformed to fit in with the new structure by devolving responsibility for planning largely to the five businesses and by developing ‘ action plans ’ to commit lower level management to business objectives ( Heath 1984 : 221 ) .
19 This activation of a hypothesis through connections to any part of it is enough in itself to recover the missing information , but TRACE II also has feedback from the higher level which can increase the activity of all the lower level descriptions which support it .
20 Proportions of workers having good mental health persistently decreased from higher to lower level occupations for each of three educational categories separately .
21 About two-thirds of all temporary workers put themselves into the seasonal , temporary or casual category , though the proportion was much higher amongst those in lower level occupations and much lower amongst those in more skilled , and particularly in " professional " occupations [ see Table 2.4 ] .
22 A lower level route is also a good option for days when you 're not feeling up to making it across the tops .
23 The lower level route passes through Newlands , a wonderful valley surrounded by shapely fells , while the high level choice is an excellent undulating ridge walk .
24 Even the lower level route climbs above 2,500ft and is a long march through a wild empty mountain landscape .
25 Problems with a terminal or page printer would be considered a lower level problem than a problem with the disk units or processor for which we have no spares .
26 Moreover , it affects only certain types of staff , primarily lower level managers and supervisors , occasionally also skilled chefs .
27 It follows , therefore , to a certain extent that initiative and creativity are not very important characteristics for lower level managers in this organisation .
28 CrossScript , which offers lower level programming support and combines features of C , C++ and C-shell , also manages the CrossLink network agents and directly connects them to the user interfaces .
29 Down the steps in the lower level rooms 1–8 are displays of natural history and archaeology … and skeletons .
30 In this theory , wants and needs are " pre-potent " , that is potential higher level needs emerge and influence purchase behaviour only after there has been an opportunity for the satisfaction of lower level needs .
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