Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj -er] [conj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While every clothes store carries a petite range , there is n't one range for the taller than average woman . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's terribly important that a proper alternative market for the smaller and medium-sized business is now found . |
| 3 | BRITAIN 'S unemployment soared above 2.6 million for the first time in over four years yesterday after a bigger than expected surge in the number of people out of work . |
| 4 | It was because of the greater than normal demand for electricity that a powerplant was installed in the auxiliary car . |
| 5 | The first capacitor is connected through a switch to the extremity of the lower or upper primary of the detector transformer depending on whether the impedance Z being measured is capacitive or inductive . |
| 6 | Later , as the sac-like evagination develops , the bases of the epithelial cells become drawn out into long processes , so imparting a spongy texture to the tissues of the wing-pad , and the basement membranes of the lower and upper epithelia become apposed for most of their area so as to form the so-called middle membrane ( Fig. 30 ) . |
| 7 | Coal Measures ’ coals are the accepted gas source , the highest frequency of which occur in the Westphalian A and B sequences of the Lower and Middle Coal Measures . |
| 8 | The so-called ‘ Grey ’ Measures of the Lower and Middle Coal Measures contain only thin sandstones of delta plain and top delta origin . |
| 9 | There now exist community groups of a greater or lesser degree of militancy which have eschewed political parties as the main vehicle of their demands ( although they often have to use them in the later stages of campaigns ) . |
| 10 | Although these differences are now widely known , there is so far no satisfactory explanation nor do particular penal philosophies , or the adoption of deliberate policy choices in favour of a greater or lesser use of custody , necessarily seem to have expected or intended effect on one jurisdiction or explain why its of imprisonment differs from that of another jurisdiction . |
| 11 | His firm conviction in the existence of a higher or hidden principle underlying the life process is not idle speculation but a well defined reality , with his published work appearing in prestigious journals of physics , such as Lamp , the Swiss International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics , and Italy 's Il Nuovo Cimento . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Many readers will be aware that because of a lower than expected settlement for the civil service in the Chancellor 's 1990 Autumn Statement , higher than expected inflation , and exchange rate effects on international subscriptions , SERC has announced that certain activities will have to be curtailed if the Council 's programme is to stay within its budget . |
| 14 | That government made standards in education a principal plank in its election platform and the action undertaken by that government in relation to curriculum and assessment is part of a wider and coherent strategy on standards in education . |
| 15 | It is recognised that in the Catholic school they will also be seen within the context of a wider and life-long catechesis . |
| 16 | I would have preferred black pipework to white , for its unobtrusiveness but , more to the point , the hopper itself could have been made of a darker and heavier-gauge material . |
| 17 | Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton , the Democrats ' blue-eyed boy , is still in the lead , despite a better than expected boost to George Bush 's campaign at the recent Republican convention . |
| 18 | As was common with branch lines , engines of an older and secondary nature would be used ; thus , Sturrocks 0 — 6 — 0 tender engines were known to operate on the goods and sometimes the passenger trains . |
| 19 | It is impossible to tell which is earth and which is sky , though eastward what looks like a whiter than usual cloud must surely be snow on the fells of Furness . |
| 20 | This was the main message behind a worse than expected slump in interim pre-tax profits from £30.9m to £16.2m and the likelihood of a full year pre-tax loss , after incurring exceptional costs estimated at a cool £50m , to £55m . |
| 21 | ‘ It will be handsome when uniforme , ’ said Palladio about his houses , ‘ because a building should be like an entier and perfect body where each member agrees with the other. , |
| 22 | ( For a further and graphic description of the lives women lead in this kind of environment , see Campbell , 1984 . ) |
| 23 | But what if your last job was as a cleaner or temporary postman , just because it fitted your circumstances — say to work within school hours ? |
| 24 | and trading with them as a happier and satisfied customer . |
| 25 | With the additional staff available , Clinton maintains that transfer pricing abuse can be remedied , and the additional revenue raised , without any change in the existing law but through a better and enhanced mechanism for the enforcement of the internationally accepted arm's-length standard for transfer pricing . |
| 26 | Together with the lower than expected flotation price , the 10 companies have been given an attractive yield averaging as much as 8.55 per cent . |
| 27 | Together with the lower than expected flotation price , the 10 companies have been given an attractive yield averaging as much as 8.55 per cent . |
| 28 | However , the lack of any service history is a major drawback when buying a six-year-old car with a greater than average degree of mechanical complexity . |
| 29 | They all had their own finger of dock with a greater or lesser craft . |
| 30 | On the night I turned up in my red leotard and dippy skirt with a heavier than usual coat of paint on , to find , to my horror , that Cleo Roccas of Kenny Everett fame and a young lady much featured on Page 3 , called Gilly , I think , were already up on the stage , surrounded by a sixty-strong swarm of Street of Shame photographers , all climbing up each other 's anoraks and screaming ‘ Lean forward , Cleo — a bit further , give us a smile , lick your lips , Gilly — lovely , lovely — hitch that skirt up a bit … ’ |