Example sentences of "[adj -er] [noun sg] to [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the hon. Gentleman will make some further reference to that assessment in his speech , and I look forward to that . |
| 2 | In addition , another working party examining China 's status as a contracting party gave further consideration to this issue during 1989 , although the shootings in Tiananmen Square on June 4 ( see pp. 36720-22 ) led to a postponement until December of talks due during the middle of the year . |
| 3 | Straining the last possible revolutions from her roaring Paxman engines , the old lady of the fleet , Vigilant was first to reach Guiding Lights , but despite darkness and mist had to wait no more than a few minutes for the other cutters to join her — a feat of seamanship that later lead to great praise from their Investigation colleagues ashore . |
| 4 | Two temples owe their better survival to later adaptation into Christian churches . |
| 5 | Sir Adrian Boult wrote of his ‘ nervous , electric beat ’ which he used in faster music to great effect in creating tension and variations to pulse . |
| 6 | The weighted average capacity factor apportions a higher figure to better performance from bigger reactors , since it is better to produce 85 per cent of the rated output from an 800 MW power station than the same fraction from a 400 MW station . |
| 7 | There is no commitment in the longer term to eventual approximation of excise duties for all drinks , based upon their alcohol content . |
| 8 | Experience during the past decades has shown that every acquittal tends to lead to the greater exposure to public gaze of what previous generations thought seemly only in private , if seemly anywhere . |
| 9 | A fuller reply to negative criticism of postmodernism , however , can be made with the further evidence of a brief survey of ways in which postmodernism has followed from modernism 's second area of innovation — chronology and structure . |
| 10 | They see a need to identify those children requiring new parents , and believe that social workers should be more committed to placing children with new parents in permanent homes ; and they note a greater commitment to this policy in the United States . |
| 11 | In part this has been promoted by fundholding , but more fundamentally it has been stimulated by health authorities engaging in a dialogue with general practitioners and giving greater priority to primary care as a result . |
| 12 | A strong lobby within the Labour Party was urging more open government and greater access to official information on the lines of the Freedom of Information Act which has since been implemented in the United States . |
| 13 | The academic establishment refused to entertain the possibility that this doctrine was of any wider significance to criminal law beyond the local issue of what is to be done with the drunken offender and , within that narrow compass , that the doctrine was coherent or justifiable . |
| 14 | As always with Jarman , there is a wider context to this catalogue of malaise , and he writes passionately about our country 's cultural decline . |
| 15 | With rapid improvements in the spatial resolution of MRI systems , its greater sensitivity to pathological change in cerebral tissue has become apparent . |
| 16 | Some of them tried to make amends for their own earlier contribution to this state of affairs and moved to include me more fully in the life of the school — a few even started to invite me back home for meals and things . |