Example sentences of "[adj -er] [noun sg] to [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There is no commitment in the longer term to eventual approximation of excise duties for all drinks , based upon their alcohol content . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | With rapid improvements in the spatial resolution of MRI systems , its greater sensitivity to pathological change in cerebral tissue has become apparent . |