Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adj -er] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although yet greater extremes of poverty might be expected to exist in bigger towns , an outstanding feature of Chichester was the clearly higher level of wages effective there , with many artificers assessed at 40s. a year , though these were sure to have been balanced by an anonymous mass of recorded paupers . |
| 2 | Much larger than the other black-necked geese , and distinguished from Barnacle especially by longer neck , generally brownish plumage and much smaller extent of white on face . |
| 3 | More disaggregated spatial data is not yet available though earlier studies ( e.g. Padoa-Schioppa 1987 ) suggest that the range of disparity may well be of similar if not greater orders of magnitude . |
| 4 | Why do prisoners repeatedly risk the dire consequences — weeks or months segregated in punishment blocks , if not further sentences of imprisonment — which their participation in prison disturbances generally leads to ? |
| 5 | " It may come to that , but you 'd need time , and probably wider terms of reference — I can see that . |
| 6 | Far be it for me to say that this is the sort of budget that conservatives ought to applaud because it is after all , a budget that is guided by a feeling that councils should provide services and they should orientate their services to the least communities , to be guided by equal opportunities and by egalitarians and that 's what this group has always stood for , this is the budget that we present tonight and I would hope that it would get a far better and far larger measure of support than perhaps of course been the case in the past . |
| 7 | We doubt the accuracy of the 1990/91 analysis as to the proportion of effort assigned to different sectors of inspectors ’ activities , and reflect back to GAMTA 's 1983 submission to the CAA review then taking place when we recommended … that there should be more delegation of record checking to junior staff and even greater delegation of inspection functions to authorised personnel within AOC operations . |
| 8 | Exports of natural gas to the US by pipeline and LNG exports particularly to Japan , are likely to increase to some 30 MTOE by the year 2000 , and even higher levels of export , particularly to the US , are quite possible . |
| 9 | Another is the way in which the less mobile , whether living in declining regions or inner city areas , have tended to become trapped by their lack of resources , skills and housing options within labour markets which offer relatively few jobs and even poorer chances of career development . |
| 10 | Instead with every open-mouthed kiss , with every fevered touch , each lifted the other on to a higher and increasingly higher plane of ecstasy . |
| 11 | It is well recognised that patients with Barrett 's columnar lined lower oesophagus represent the worst end of the reflux spectrum with the most severe forms of lower oesophageal sphincter and pump failure and consequently greater degrees of acid exposure . |
| 12 | All these findings on the relationship between housing and unemployment are not substantially altered by allowing for the generally lower social status — and therefore higher risk of unemployment — among local authority tenants as both this study and the work of a number of other researchers has shown ( McCormick , 1983 ; Hughes and McCormick , 1987 ; Murphy and Sullivan , 1986 ; an extended bibliography of the general topic of housing and labour market interactions is given in Munro , 1986 ; Labour Force Survey 1983 and 1984 , 1986 , Table 6.6 ; Sullivan and Falkingham , forthcoming , Tables 1 , 2 ) . |
| 13 | The broader approach that we advocated covers not only sentence structure but also larger patterns of organisation , not only the forms of written academic English but also a range of stylistic and dialectal varieties , not only language structure but also meaning and use . |