Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [prep] a [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1 Write the following in a shorter form : |
| 2 | The turnout on Feb. 18 was 73.3 per cent of the 90,000,000 electorate , the highest in a lower house election since 1976 . |
| 3 | Both are now due to be replaced , the first by a lighter touch Independent Television Commission , the other by a new Broadcasting Bill that will be far more permissive . |
| 4 | And we are likely to abandon the sphere of the concrete to the positivists and that of theory to the essentialists , rather than to theorize the relationship of the two at a higher level . |
| 5 | And by 1830 in France the two currents had parted — the powerful and propertied recognized the unpropertied as a graver threat than what was left of the old order . |
| 6 | But that was not a pleasant thought and Erika firmly pushed it away , thinking of movement from a lower to a higher stage of development , as Marx taught , and such as was taking place now , she and her mother sitting together , no longer like mother and daughter , teacher and child , but more like sisters . |
| 7 | What is more , the table is remarkable in revealing a progressively better record for successively smaller sizes of factory ( although medium-sized factories ceased to fall in number in the mid 1980s , and all figures are influenced by contracting units moving from a larger to a smaller category ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Heat can not flow spontaneously from a colder to a warmer body . |
| 10 | It seemed to flow from a weaker to a stronger system , thus acting contrary to the Second Law of Thermodynamics . |
| 11 | This intuitive account would require , in an analogue of consciousness for which program-level reduction could provide a necessary condition , but no more , that there be access from a higher to a lower level of programming language in certain , yet to be specified , circumstances . |
| 12 | MORTALITY TRANSITION — The continuous decrease of mortality from a higher to a lower level , a component of demographic transition . |
| 13 | The key feature of all models of hysteresis is obviously present in the insider-outsider model : it is only during the process of adjustment from a higher to a lower level of employment that there will be significant downward pressure on the rate of increase of money wages and prices . |
| 14 | From the point of view of stress , the most important fact about the way we pronounce this word is that on the second syllable the pitch of the voice does not remain level , but usually falls from a higher to a lower pitch . |
| 15 | Moving tones are more common ; if English speakers want to say ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ in a definite , final manner they will probably use a falling tone — one which descends from a higher to a lower pitch . |
| 16 | Convergence ( not to be confused with phyletic convergence ) refers to the degree of resemblance of faunas in different regions increasing from an earlier to a later period , and divergence refers to the reverse phenomenon ( Fig. 18. 3 ) . |