Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adj -er] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Criminal Justice Act will allow for much longer supervision of sex offenders after they are released from gaol . |
| 2 | in order to get a better estimate of how accurately the clock works we need to be able to study it for much longer periods of time . |
| 3 | Then , using layers of oak balks , between much thicker layers of granite to give mass for stability , he built the tower round a central timber mast , to a height of sixty-one feet . |
| 4 | What is more , the table is remarkable in revealing a progressively better record for successively smaller sizes of factory ( although medium-sized factories ceased to fall in number in the mid 1980s , and all figures are influenced by contracting units moving from a larger to a smaller category ) . |
| 5 | However , with experience of rather higher levels of use an asphalt surface has now been added to reduce annual maintenance costs . |
| 6 | However , with experience of rather higher levels of use an asphalt surface has now been added to reduce annual maintenance costs . |
| 7 | Decisions on priorities between these groups can generate some heat , particularly if students come to believe that their needs are taking second place to those of numerically smaller groups of faculty and researchers . |
| 8 | I am in favour of somewhat greater powers of disposal being given to some of our national museums and galleries so that if an item was clearly surplus to a collection there would be power to dispose of it , provided that the funds realised were reinvested in the acquisition of other , perhaps contemporary material . |
| 9 | Hamilton 's theory of the evolution of nepotistic behaviour as a consequence of maximizing the inclusive fitness of individuals through kin selection ( p. 42 ) has opened a passage from a nature red in tooth and claw to a no less rigorous nature in which the appearance of much gentler forms of interaction is comprehensible . |
| 10 | One of the main reasons for this is the need to maintain the quality of the front-line services to the membership in the face of much higher volumes of telephone and fax traffic . |
| 11 | Figure 2.4 offers a broad international comparison which highlights the consequences of much higher levels of capital equipment per worker in large Japanese firms for the size of the productivity gap . |
| 12 | The multidivisional enterprise : The tendency of the argument here is the following : if the exploitation of economies of scale on the part of capitalist enterprises primarily involved the development of ever larger units of production , in the technical sense , concentrating progressively larger numbers of workers into massive factories , then there could indeed be a conflict between the wish to retain the benefits of economies of scale on the one hand and the requirements of ‘ manageable ’ enterprise democracy on the other . |
| 13 | The conjunction of low inflation and low unemployment came as a very pleasant surprise to those Keynesians who had feared that a policy commitment by governments to the goal of full employment would create an environment in which organized labour would press for ever higher levels of money wages . |
| 14 | The findings , reported in the US journal Science , extend previous reports of limited success in immunising monkeys against much higher doses of SIV at the New England regional primate centre in Massachusetts and at the University of California . |
| 15 | When he presided in court , the count was accompanied by a panel of local boni homines , " good men " , that is , more substantial landholders with perhaps further qualifications of age and experience and personal prestige , in whose selection an element of peer-group choice was acknowledged . |
| 16 | This is less of a danger if the room is decorated in neutral shades , or if the rug 's colours are echoed in the other furnishings ; for example , a room with some pastel blues or reds can be wonderfully enlivened by introducing a rug with much richer shades of blue or red . |
| 17 | Once a week ministers will get their intelligence summary in the ‘ Red Book ’ , all the trouble spots in the world , and one pays clever people like you to actually sit there and be plugged in as best one can to the trouble spots , with much better sources of information than the poor old chap in the street , to alert ministers on our behalf of potential disasters . |
| 18 | How do we turn the people who would do semi-skilled jobs on machines into people who can programme numerically-controlled machines to perform that job more effectively and with much greater levels of productivity . |
| 19 | The White Paper suggests the prohibition of anti-competitive agreements together with much wider powers of investigation . |
| 20 | AH3 : Rooms with private bath or shower and w.c. in better two or three star hotels in residential and fashionable areas with generally better standard of decor and furniture than AH1/2 grade . |
| 21 | Rooms with private bath or shower and w.c. in better two or three star hotels in residential and fashionable areas with generally better standard of decor and furniture than AH1/2 grade . |
| 22 | The trials were carried out in a population with xerophthalmia rates that were very close to the threshold used by WHO to define a population as having a xerophthalmia problem of public health significance ( 1% ) ; previously reported studies were done in populations with substantially higher rates of xerophthalmia . |
| 23 | ‘ It is a sad fact of life that we have been fortunate enough to recruit staff with even greater levels of excellence , ’ says the company 's diplomatic chief executive , Michael Kerr-Dineen . |
| 24 | The large demands which the BEA made on the capital market — at first directly in their own capital issues and then indirectly through the Treasury borrowing requirement — attracted criticism that electricity was ‘ crowding out ’ more desirable investment projects with potentially higher rates of return in the private sector . |
| 25 | If we are panicked into yet greater depths of managerialism , a great opportunity will be lost . |
| 26 | Ironically , producing cleaner fuel to preserve the environment will result in much greater use of energy at the refinery and therefore more greenhouse gases being released into the atmosphere . |
| 27 | Needing to find precisely when their electrical axis first originated in the development of the animal , he began mapping the fields in progressively earlier stages of salamander embryogenesis and discovered that the electrical axis originated in the unfertilized egg , thus contradicting conventional biological and genetic theory . |
| 28 | PageMaker 5 includes such new delights as text and graphics rotation , the chance to have several documents open at once , built-in colour separations and a control palette for even greater accuracy of movement . |
| 29 | The new gearbox , which uses software developed for Safrane makes for even greater comfort of use . |
| 30 | ‘ It is my job to ensure that the £100 million we spend each day is delivered as cost-effectively as possible to ever higher standards of patient care . ’ |