Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early experience in exploring the environment at home should precede this , and will not only be stimulating as an activity in its own right but a helpful and positive preparation for coping with the wider and more varied situation of school . |
| 2 | Fred Jowett , who nevertheless remained with the ILP , " believed that it was fundamental for the ILP to continue to keep in the main stream of working class life through its mass organisation in the Labour Party and the Trade Union Movement " .37 After the " clean break " of 1932 the ILP could only alleviate its isolation by working with the smaller , though more militant , groups on the Left . |
| 3 | Italy could also perform better than the EC average of 3% as could Spain — with the admitted advantage of starting from a smaller base . |
| 4 | These rare but vivid glimpses of the extraordinary variety of life experience among the older generation in the early twentieth century are not only precious in themselves , but suggest the dangers of generalizing about the earlier past to make up for the lost history of ageing . |
| 5 | The pupils from Sutton gained from the experience of mixing with a wider range of pupils than they normally encounter . |
| 6 | He felt that they had an opportunity of spreading to a greater extent than ever before . |
| 7 | A good game to play is ‘ Kim 's game ’ [ p.60 ] with items that are relevant to the cowboy theme and , in doing so , it will give you an opportunity of explaining to the younger ones the relevance of some of the items . |
| 8 | Looking at the act of speaking in a broader way , we can see that intonation can signal to the listener what is to be taken as ‘ new ’ information and what is already ‘ given ’ , can suggest when the speaker is indicating some sort of contrast or link with material in another tone-unit and , in conversation , can convey to the listener what kind of response is expected . |
| 9 | We rejoined the footpath just in front of the hill 's ridge and followed its famous curving terrain before embarking in a straighter downward path back into the valley . |
| 10 | Darwin 's own Descent of Man , published the previous year , also marshalled evidence to show how the growth of moral faculties like self-control , love and altruism were key elements in progressing towards a higher moral culture . |
| 11 | Rationing and controls in general were not regarded by the public as desirable elements in planning for a better Britain but as irksome and restrictive consequences of the war which should be got rid of as soon as better times allowed . |
| 12 | Philip Roth 's article refers to this issue in referring to the later book If not now , when ? — Levi 's ‘ Eastern ’ , an adventure story of Jewish partisans during the closing months of the war , led by the Communist fighter-fiddler Gedaleh . |
| 13 | They contrast with the ‘ reluctant commuters ’ of more limited means , forced to live in villages for the sake of buying at the cheaper end of the housing market . |
| 14 | This was followed by weeks of bargaining with the smaller parties over ministerial posts and policies . |
| 15 | The whole process of planning for a better future has become discredited . |
| 16 | I had the temerity to object to these insertions , because I knew full well from years of grubbing in the darker recesses of the phylum that the changes were in the mind rather than in the matter . |
| 17 | Aim for a margin of safety by allowing for a further two to three minutes ' ‘ sudden death ’ extension after that . |
| 18 | For old people living alone or together , there will be risks which they and others may feel is a price worth paying for a richer and more fulfilling life . |
| 19 | Withdrawal was necessary because the American war in Vietnam appeared to the General to be on the verge of widening into a larger conflict . |
| 20 | Such examples ( and they are legion in Scotland and throughout the rest of the world ) serve to reaffirm the points made by Kirkpatrick : that existing local institutions and personnel matter crucially , and that the outcomes of projects and their relationship with planning in the broader sense may either establish their continuation or sound a death-knell for their future existence . |
| 21 | Resource-based learning can last as little as ten minutes : a child 's scrutiny of a repeating film-loop which teaches him a concept or skill he will need for the next part of his programme ; a short programmed exercise that enables him to test his grasp of an idea or piece of knowledge before embarking on a larger exercise ; a work-card unit giving practise in loading a projector or using a subject catalogue . |
| 22 | Also there are the problems of disintermediation , as customers switch their borrowing away from those banks short of liquidity , and the problem of banks resisting the squeeze on liquidity by operating with a lower liquidity ratio . |
| 23 | Early indications that importers are having difficulty in passing on the higher costs of imports , and the latest savings ratio of 11.6 per cent in 1992 , compared with 9.7 in 1991 and 12.4 in 1981 , caused little surprise . |
| 24 | Lacking experience of that kind , casual listeners may have difficulty in responding to the finer musical distinctions that make an individual performance unique . |
| 25 | The projector projects , not onto a screen but onto another film of , usually , the same size as the projected film , eg 35mm , though there is some advantage in terms of reduced graininess in projecting from a larger to a smaller stock , such as 65mm or VistaVision to 35mm . |
| 26 | The little border town of Ludlow may well be a twelfth-century example of planning on a smaller and more rudimentary scale , but the most notable examples come from the thirteenth century — Salisbury , New Winchelsea , the five bastide towns laid out by Edward I in North Wales , and part of Kingston-upon-Hull , laid out by Edward from 1293 onwards . |
| 27 | Among attractions of a combined survey is the economy of mobilising for a larger survey with fewer turns for the ship . |
| 28 | A special committee , the resource allocation working party ( RAWP ) , was convened to establish ways of moving towards a fairer distribution system . |
| 29 | And as family members we have seen and felt at close hand some of the most intense pains and also pleasures of later life : on the one hand , bereavement and loss , but on the other , the continued mastery of old skills , the creation of new pursuits and interests , the discovery of new friends and of new ways of contributing to the wider community . |
| 30 | Once our boats had been destroyed , we had no means of communicating with the greater world . |