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

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1 The Building Societies Act 1986 conferred a greater degree of freedom on societies to compete with banks for loans and deposits in the personal sector and to offer a wider range of services .
2 The Contempt of Court Act 1991 spreads a wider net over everyone who reports or handles news .
3 The Supreme Court on May 4 took a further step in the ongoing process of restricting the rights of prisoners convicted by state judicial systems to have their cases reviewed in federal courts .
4 The new season again brought some work on opera-ballet , with a new production of Die Fledermaus at Sadler 's Wells on 10 January 1949 giving a bigger opportunity than he had yet enjoyed in that genre .
5 India 's stock markets were closed on May 15 to prevent a further collapse in prices ; the previous day Mehta had been suspended from membership of the Bombay stock exchange and the police seized his assets .
6 The provisions on advocacy rights in the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 provide a further blurring of the distinction .
7 I suggested that they might allow Amnesty International to play a bigger part in investigating those accusations .
8 King William IV had a younger brother , the Duke of Kent , who had married Victoire , the sister of Leopold of Saxe-Coburg , but William disliked Victoire the mother of Victoria , born at Kensington Palace on 25th .
9 Congress on Feb. 4 approved a further extension of unemployment benefits which aimed to provide an additional 13 weeks of benefits to some 2,000,000 unemployed workers , many of whose benefits were about to expire .
10 A federal appeals court on Dec. 3 upheld a lower court ruling invalidating regulations introduced by the Bush administration ( and implemented from Oct. 1 ) which had prohibited staff at federally funded clinics , apart from doctors , from advising patients on the issue of abortion .
11 Leaving the door open to create a better fire-draught , he stood again in front of the still babbling , gasping Prophet .
12 Table 12–1 documents a fuller way to appreciate the notion of income .
13 The figures in Table 4.4 illustrate a further disparity between the share of all city capital expenditure and share of dwellings in the North Side .
14 Why is this coalfield likely to have a better future than that in North East England ?
15 Table 10.3 shows a further swing away from Thatcherite ideas towards caring and consensus government between 1983 and 1987 .
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