Example sentences of "[vb infin] a [adj] [conj] [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously you will need a longer and wider piece of wood than the size of the cutlery blank . |
| 2 | Hopefully the resulting ethnography will generate a new and clearer understanding of the nuances and specificities of police reality , incorporating what Bourdieu ( 1977 ) has called ‘ a practical mastery built upon objectivist knowledge ’ . |
| 3 | The court can specify a longer or shorter period for investigation . |
| 4 | In addition , the Cabinet in approving a proposal may give a higher or lower degree of priority to it . |
| 5 | Even this amount of work will cost them £420 but , if nothing is done , chairman Peter Hobbs warned ‘ The mound will become a bigger and bigger eyesore . ’ |
| 6 | If they compromise in very small amounts they will become a stronger and bigger band . |
| 7 | To be drunk will be recognized as a symptom not of manliness but of extreme unhappiness , and since only on rare occasion do we want to broadcast the fact of our unhappiness to the world , the lager lout , the whisky soak , the sherry drunk will become a rarer and rarer phenomenon , until finally withering away . |
| 8 | The next 10 years , Mr Davison said , would see a steady but slower growth rate ( around 1% ) for the Big Six . |
| 9 | ‘ To the end that you may make a second and happier marriage from your father 's house — is that so ? ’ |
| 10 | For instance , a married couple may want a bigger and better house , so they are motivated into purchasing one . |
| 11 | The idea was that light waves traveled at a speed of 186,000 miles a second through the ether , which meant that an observer who was at rest relative to the ether would measure the speed of light to be about 186,000 miles a second , but an observer who was moving through the ether would measure a higher or lower speed . |
| 12 | He claimed that adding VAT to domestic fuel and power would help create a greener and cleaner world by stimulating the use of more energy efficiency measures , particularly in the home . |
| 13 | So policies to cut gas output below the current level will imply a larger and larger reduction below projected levels as years go by . |
| 14 | You should have a first or higher degree , be able to demonstrate significant achievement in research and the potential to contribute further in this area . |
| 15 | The information will have a richer and broader nature , it will be distributed , and the libraries may not ‘ own it ’ , but they will have to support access to it from places other than the ‘ library building ’ , and help to maintain and preserve it . |
| 16 | The " new nurse " would have a higher and broader level of competencies , expected to make and be fully accountable for all decisions regarding the care given to patients . |
| 17 | Social species will frequently surround and protect a wounded or younger member of their clan , regardless of who the parents are . |
| 18 | The assumption is that each tale makes manifest a greater or smaller part of an ‘ abstract structure ’ and the task Todorov sets himself is the delineation of that abstract structure . |
| 19 | Before the right hon. Gentleman carries that fib any further , does he recall a further and earlier prediction about value added tax ? |
| 20 | They also offer these materials in other widths ‘ off the roll ’ by the metre run should you require a wider or longer piece for your particular application . |
| 21 | However , it was possible to invoke a strong emotional reaction by drawing attention to the obvious fact that the paying patient could get a better and faster service than his National Health counterpart . |
| 22 | Rarely the third ; when gin might seem a cheaper and faster way of easing pain than any other . |
| 23 | As a black hole got smaller and hotter , it would emit a larger and larger number of different species of particles and would produce an explosion perhaps 100,000 times more powerful than the one calculated on the quark hypothesis . |