Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [to-vb] a [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition it made some recommendations to BRAC , one of which was to encourage BRAC to make a greater effort to cooperate with the local village practitioners . |
| 2 | To work hard to get a better class of degree was regarded as the mark of a gray man — ; the worst epithet in the Oxford vocabulary . |
| 3 | USL needs OSI to make a better showing to justify the large investment , worth many person/years of effort , that it has poured into the technology since 1987 . |
| 4 | The rhetorical theorist would not dissent from a single word , but would feel impelled to add a further remark . |
| 5 | But the emergence of a strong , secular republic in the south could do much to encourage a better neighbourliness in the north . |
| 6 | ‘ With the environment under threat , it seemed appropriate to develop a cleaner running , more economical version of our range , ’ says Smith . |
| 7 | ‘ I wanted to be a primary teacher , and you have to teach so many different things at that level that it seemed better to study a broader range of subjects , ’ she says . |
| 8 | As more of Lully 's ballets undergo individual scrutiny , it will become easier to achieve a broader view of his instrumental and vocal practices and to transform the notes on the page into sound . |
| 9 | Men may suffer just as much when a relationship fails , but they seem able to make a cleaner break . |
| 10 | Presumably , the Met only wants to put a limited number of TAFs on the system in order to save money and work ( it costs more to have a larger number of pages for your ‘ area ’ on the Prestel database ) . |
| 11 | They would also move closer to have a better look . |
| 12 | These are tasks which pupils could investigate practically ; the second task at least seems likely to yield a higher success rate in a practical mode . |
| 13 | The province 's two unionist MEPs , DUP leader Ian Paisley and Ulster Unionist Jim Nicholson , were also accused of not doing enough to obtain a greater say in the Brussels corridors of power . |
| 14 | This process enabled some to see a simpler method ( e.g. pupil 1 ) . |
| 15 | After a certain stage , children become able to use a greater variety of linguistic devices to express certain sorts of clausal relations and this makes them less reliant on dependent-clause structures . |
| 16 | Although the line drawn on my map is straight , I occasionally deviated up-sun to get a better picture of a particular feature . |