Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] [prep] a [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An exception is made in this instance because the policeman 's task in maintaining law and order exposes him to a greater risk of attack than other members of the public . |
| 2 | Other patients give a negative skin-prick test but respond positively to an intradermal test ( see p 288 ) , which is more ‘ sensitive ’ because it uses more antigen and places it in a deeper layer of the skin . |
| 3 | Though — at the earliest — the registers will not be available before 1994 , the property industry sees them as a further blow to a sector already reeling from recession . |
| 4 | So she approaches it in a better frame of mind . |
| 5 | It collects light over its area and concentrates it on a smaller area of retina . |
| 6 | Some cover may be withdrawn as the insurance company sees it as a greater risk . |
| 7 | The visionary places in the ordinary the elements of the eternal and raises it to a higher plane of reality . |
| 8 | This last drawing exercise is a summary of the simple process of thinking which leads us into a deeper appreciation of how we have come to be what we are . |
| 9 | There are a number of rate bands and the relevant rate of interest is paid on all your savings — not just the amount that takes you into a higher band . |
| 10 | Balances over £50,000 receive the top HICA rate , which is credited quarterly in March , June , September and December , is paid on your total savings and not just the amount that takes you into a higher band . |
| 11 | It remains faithful to the 36-year-old concept behind the SL , but takes it onto a higher plane altogether . |
| 12 | The red colobus , however , needs fruit all the year round and takes it from a greater variety of dispersed tree species ; it thus requires a larger range which can support a correspondingly larger troop . |
| 13 | He has also pointed to the way in which metaphor joins dissimilar experiences by finding a symbol or image that unites them at a deeper level of meaning ( ibid , p. 63 ) . |
| 14 | Clinton offers it to a younger generation . |
| 15 | Their high delinquency level also puts them at a further distance . |
| 16 | Clement 's prose puts him in a higher class than any of his extant pagan contemporaries , and he was able obliquely to refute pagan critics ( such as Celsus , writing 177–80 ) who thought Christians an anti-cultural lot , by decorating his pages with a rich variety of quotations and allusions taken from classical poetry and philosophy . |
| 17 | There is a ‘ barrier ’ between the attractive and the unattractive — between , as Graham puts it on a later occasion , the ‘ beggars ’ and ‘ choosers ’ of the sexual life . |
| 18 | First , a lot of these lads had n't done very well at school , so the training provides them with a better chance of a fresh start once they have paid off their debt to society . |
| 19 | ‘ And that brings me to a further reason for my summoning you here today . |
| 20 | This last brings me to a further point . |
| 21 | Additionally , a horse that enjoys eating a wider range of foodstuffs — alfalfa , oats , horse mixes , apples , carrots , and so on — provides us with a larger range of inducements to motivate it to do what we want as well as rewards for when it does do what we ask . |