Example sentences of "[prep] [adj -er] [conj] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Grid Convertible , when set-up as a notepad , makes for easier and more natural input for note taking at meetings or when standing . |
| 2 | Custodial sentences and remands prevent immediate offending but increase the likelihood of later and more serious reoffending . |
| 3 | Some old plants which would otherwise have remained profitable as a result of faster or more effective working would have become unprofitable as a result of these productivity gains not being achieved . |
| 4 | An instrument of smaller but yet great importance was the " talkie cinema " acquired by the School at about the same time . |
| 5 | The reports of earlier and less specialised exploration often include references to landforms as they are often the first things to engage the attention of the non-specialist . |
| 6 | ‘ Still , it 's only guesswork , ’ Pascoe was being the lawyer — asking for better and more secure evidence . |
| 7 | As a result , economists are much more interested than before in correcting inefficiencies by reducing the costs of doing business ; pursuing efficiency through cleverer and more ambitious regulation is definitely out of fashion . |
| 8 | Pressures from the consumer market to go for cheaper and more efficient plant ( which earlier , when there had been competition from generation by private industry , was a major spur to efficiency for CEB planners and the undertakings ) was now less effective . |
| 9 | As described in more detail in Chapters 5 and 6 , the latter results from the growth in employment in public-sector services in the late 1960s and early 1970s and the search by companies for less cramped factory sites and for cheaper and less unionized labour such as married women ( Fothergill and Gudgin , 1982 ; Massey , 1984 ) . |
| 10 | A number of different factors seem to have contributed to this extensive scale of decentralization from the major metropolitan areas , including changes in residential preferences and the search by companies for less cramped factory sites and for cheaper and less organized labour such as married women . |
| 11 | Afterwards , it can be tidied around with heavier and more direct pastel to give it the definition it would otherwise lack . |
| 12 | When I discover from time to time this tiny book tucked away in my bookcases , I happily peruse it again and always find something , perhaps unnoticed before , which leads me into deeper and more silent meditation . |
| 13 | It is abundantly clear that Mr Radice has two main objectives — to ensure that the Department of Health is required to give its reasons why a product licence for a medicine is granted , revoked , or suspended , and to ensure that patients are provided with better and more comprehensive information about the risks and benefits of the medicines that are prescribed for them . |
| 14 | Although a spouse may be protected if he or she stays in the home , if the partner goes into permanent residential care , the spouse may want to move into smaller and more appropriate accommodation . |
| 15 | Greater involvement of practising teachers in the professional preparation of new recruits , the stipulation that a high proportion of teacher trainers directly involved with pedagogy should themselves have recent and successful experience of teaching and should create opportunities to renew this experience , and the setting of minimum periods for teacher-training courses and the practical elements within them — all these things are seen as ways of providing new teachers with greater and more effective assistance in the development of the necessary practical classroom skills . |
| 16 | But this euphoric rediscovery of the ley theory gave way to quieter and more sober research . |
| 17 | and I mean I then I 'd only just had my operation an and to actually drive for longer than about twenty minute journeys was killing so |
| 18 | The Gulf War and its aftermath have shown the crucial need for stronger and more effective world institutions capable of upholding international law and enforcing respect for human rights . |
| 19 | Of course , it is about greater and more local accountability and greater flexibility — we have that in common — and that is what the trust will deliver . |
| 20 | From the touch sensitive computer panel you can pre-set your sauna to automatically start the next day , and you can choose from a selection of five climate temperatures , you also have the added luxury of an AM/FM radio to listen to , there 's a digital clock and heater and there 's container system to add fresh herbs for richer and more exciting steam . |
| 21 | It called for greater and more concentrated effort along lines which the Government already accepted as the basis for solving the problem of unemployment . |
| 22 | In this non-uniform extension ( or depth-dependent extension ) model uplift will take place because relatively dense lithosphere is replaced by warmer and less dense asthenosphere below relatively less stretched and thinned crust . |