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

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1 Determined to experience life as a catwalk photographer , I swapped my pen and notebook for a Canon Eos camera , 200mm lens with a doubler and a monopod ( bravely loaned by Michel Arnaud ) and squeezed into the ‘ gun emplacement ’ at the back of the Salle Sully .
2 A simpler and clearer instance of the way in which a consideration of grammar leads to metaphysics is the case of the metaphysical concept of Being .
3 It was a simpler and better story .
4 Now Lucy Netzer and Jacob Sagiv , from the Weizmann Institute of Science , Rehovot in Israel have developed a simpler and quicker technique for preparing monolayer films that relies simply on the chemical properties of the starting materials .
5 Jejeunoileostomy has now been largely replaced by a simpler and safer operation in which the capacity of the stomach is considerably reduced by placing a row of surgical staples across it .
6 He no longer made conventional bread with all the kneading and rising stages , but soda bread , which is a simpler and much quicker process .
7 MicroHenry is a simpler and cheaper off-line version of Henry , which should start shipping in the summer .
8 Some things have , however , changed at a simpler and much more direct level .
9 A simpler and more pleasant way of achieving the same end was to use jade vessels for food and drink .
10 Most of the schemes provide a simpler and cheaper route than resort to a court of law , without taking away the right of consumers to go to law if they should wish to do so .
11 Snell has been criticized for causing a decline in handwriting by promoting his dull copperplate style , but his practice and teaching of a simpler and standardized mode of handwriting most effectively met the needs of clerks in the growing number of commercial houses .
12 An alternative to a cording set is a draw rod , which is a simpler and cheaper method of operating curtains without handling them .
13 As this inhibition was less than the accompanying inhibition of PGE 2 it was possible to argue that some substrate diversion might have occurred , although weak inhibition of the 5-lipoxygenase enzyme by indomethacin seems a simpler and more plausible explanation .
14 The European variety has the advantage of a simpler and better understood theory of pricing , but it is a less flexible instrument .
15 But conventionalism can not be justified on the sole ground that surprise is inefficient or undesirable in these ways , because conventionalism does not protect against surprise as well as a simpler and more straightforward theory of adjudication would .
16 ‘ We have concluded that future growth opportunities can best be exploited by a simpler and more efficient organisation than exists today and we will be making a significant capital investment to increase production efficiency at our Kirkliston site as well as increasing our marketing effort worldwide . ’
17 Suitable candidates for M are a dynamic-programming-type alignment score ( 16 ) of π , π m or a simpler and faster scoring scheme based on the numbers of pairs of mapped probes which are adjacent in π m and are separated only by unmapped probes in π .
18 Braque 's interest in space gives his work an ‘ overall ’ quality , which has ever since remained one of the main features of his style , whereas in Picasso 's painting the attention is usually riveted on the subject while the background or surround is often treated in a simpler or more cursory fashion .
19 In March 1990 Iain Vallance , its chairman , announced a reorganisation programme called Project Sovereign , aimed at achieving ‘ a leaner and more supple organisation , structured to meet the differing needs of all our customers .
20 Models were rationalized , a kanban system of inventory control was introduced and within five years a leaner and fitter Mazda emerged .
21 We , at least , are a leaner and , I hope , a healthier organisation because of the changes we were forced to bring about in the workshop .
22 He said Hong Kong could face a ‘ period of political siege for the next four years followed by an abrupt transition to a harsher and more repressive regime . ’
23 You may be written off as a malingerer or a neurotic or , perhaps even worse , as someone who must be gently humoured back to health .
24 And it 's , it 's , it 's more of a number than minus one .
25 A number than went for him and it was then Mr Johnson brandished a kitchen knife .
26 Since the heady days of Henson it had become a duller and more local object .
27 However , in 1957 some bonds were redeemed by the Club at less than par , so perhaps the President was successful after all , possibly by inviting bondholders themselves to suggest a lower than par price .
28 ‘ Mentally handicapped ’ is the most common term used in Great Britain to describe a section of the public who possess a lower than average level of intelligence .
29 If they are not replaced , then the victim will become hypovolaemic ( having a lower than normal total blood volume ) and may die from the consequent reduction in circulating blood supply to the vital organs .
30 This , together with the addition of six big new unnamed customers and a lower than usual number of client losses , led to an 11% rise in turnover to £4.5m from the bureau and facilities management services division .
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