Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] a [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , in the last decade of the century , we have an opportunity through our European institutions to create a wider prosperity and a more lasting peace for all the peoples and all the countries of Europe . |
| 2 | To this end their policy has been aimed at creating a greater diversification of supply bringing in housing associations and private builders to create a greater choice and , according to the Conservatives , value for tenants . |
| 3 | For all her talk of shaking up the town 's bureaucracy , Mrs Molina will have to learn some of her opponent 's conciliatory skills to win a better deal for her constituents . |
| 4 | The measure of efficiency is determined by the airspace between the two panes of glass : the optimum is 20mm , although some double glazed units have a smaller gap . |
| 5 | Essentially , the argument used is that because there is no competitive market in the capital of nationalized industries and no competitive market in their products , the published accounts have a greater significance in assessing economic performance than in the private sector . |
| 6 | They contain background information to help engineers and all interested parties to gain a fuller understanding of the Code and how it can be implemented . |
| 7 | Their plots and theatrical effects reveal a deeper wisdom than they themselves could verbalize . |
| 8 | Payne argues that in Peru , this method has been very successful , for by using it , the organised workers realised a greater improvement in wages than the unorganised white-collar workers , and achieved a rise in their real income , even in the face of inflation ( Payne 1965 ) . |
| 9 | A group of Free French troops provided a further source of manpower . |
| 10 | Clearly higher-order filters have a steeper cut-off . |
| 11 | It has also been suggested that complex ventricular arrhythmias carry a worse prognosis in patients with non Q wave infarcts . |
| 12 | The Scottish Nationalists suffered a further setback when one of their leading figures , Mr James Sillars , was ousted from Glasgow Govan , which he had won at a by-election . |
| 13 | But a national authority may find it ( politically ) difficult to pursue a domestic firm with a view to enabling foreign firms to achieve a greater market share . |
| 14 | Despite of the higher rate of intestinal infections homosexual patients had a higher frequency of abdominal pain and weight loss only , while the frequency of diarrhoea or other symptoms was not different . |
| 15 | Public relations covers a wider field than selling or , indeed , marketing . |
| 16 | These marine reptiles have a higher chance of preservation than many of the terrestrial species , and their carcasses often seem to have sunk to the sea floor , so that some localities have yielded numerous complete specimens . |
| 17 | There is no need to be too rigid in your choice of material for each season , unless you feel it is important , but nevertheless you should still maintain the overall feeling of each season , although in some cases I chose a few out-of-season flowers to give a better colour or shape . |
| 18 | Quite how they will choose to vote is less certain , however , as the poll tax becomes labelled ‘ a Tory tax ’ and as environmental issues and collapsing public services assume a higher priority . |
| 19 | We in the public services provide a higher standard of efficiency and quality , in fact we provide a service that 's second to none . |
| 20 | Those in more technical areas had a greater sense of optimism because they would leave university with practical training . |
| 21 | Normal feet have a wider choice and often require a more diluted combination of control and cushioning . |
| 22 | If this is correct , and it is impossible to be certain how far the places for which adequate data survive are typical , it may indicate that rural areas saw an earlier recovery of population than the towns and certainly suggests that there were marked variations between different regions of the country . |
| 23 | It was as if these verbal skirmishes had a deeper meaning . |
| 24 | Using data from the General Household Survey for 1972 on 6,873 male employees and using a method of analysis similar , but not identical , to that of Jencks , Psacharopoulos found ‘ that personal characteristics explain a higher fraction of earnings variance in the U.K. than in the U.S. and that education has a sizeable direct effect on income as well as an indirect effect through occupation ’ . |
| 25 | Obese subjects have a slower rate of brown fate activity than those of normal weight . |
| 26 | As they showed in 1987 , today 's central bankers have a better understanding of their responsibilities as providers of liquidity and lenders of last resort . |
| 27 | The fact that they carried out substantially more searches ( 2350 ) for very similar revenues suggests a lower level of work than their rivals . |
| 28 | This is in itself unremarkable and can be explained if , of the two types , the carbon-free granulites have a higher porosity , a weaker matrix or a greater proportion of long thin cracks that tend to close on application of small confining pressures . |
| 29 | This would be represented in the diagram by moving from point A to point C. The converse is true because if a school loses pupils ( represented by moving from point A to point B ) it is not that the school spends any more on fixed costs but because of the reduction in pupils and hence funding , fixed costs take a larger proportion of the available budget . |
| 30 | Might Japanese firms face a lower cost of capital because their investors are more patient ? |