Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [verb] the [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Building up experience and discovering magic items gives Samson an enhanced chance of surviving the later stages of the adventure . |
| 2 | This would be just like we ourselves can tell when a dog , or any other animal , is feeling in a dangerous mood without understanding the greater detail of their language . |
| 3 | This has led to the legitimate graphic device of breaking the further line as it passes behind the near line . |
| 4 | Although the cultural background is different , a similar pattern of using the wider kin network for mutual aid has operated in earlier migrations , for example migration from rural Lancashire into the growing industrial towns in the early nineteenth century ( Anderson , 1971 ) , or Irish migration to America and elsewhere ( Arensberg and Kimball , 1968 ) . |
| 5 | Bertha Johnson was on the committees that organized a series of lectures for ladies from 1874 , set up the more ambitious Association for Promoting the Higher Education of Women in Oxford ( AEW ) in 1878 , and founded the Anglican hostel , Lady Margaret Hall , which opened , together with the undenominational Somerville Hall , in 1879 . |
| 6 | Made some fatuous comment about using the smaller car . |
| 7 | This seems to be a particularly valuable approach to analysing the wider concept of access to resources in rural areas . |
| 8 | Whilst this might appear to make the counsellor a ‘ jack-of-all-trades ’ , a more positive interpretation is that the counsellor is in the privileged position of seeing the older individual as a whole or entire person . |
| 9 | This study will benefit anthropological findings by providing the broader context of the history of public health ; the history of medical research in Africa ; changes over time of African cultural perceptions of health and disease ; and , the socio-economic history of AIDS in specific regions . |
| 10 | BRACKEN HOUSE , THE former home of the Financial Times , came under threat at the time ministers were considering the introduction of the Thirty Year Rule on listing ( see page 149 ) , and probably played a major part in securing the greater protection for post-war buildings of excellence that SAVE had sought for so long . |
| 11 | You 've got a good chance of seeing the rarer migrant butterflies here , as well as buzzards , kestrels , and even a hobby or peregrine falcon . |
| 12 | But kids have a long tradition of getting the better of adults , going back to the Famous Five and beyond . |
| 13 | The London Boroughs derive considerable extra assessed needs from their higher population densities , particularly when the figures are made more nearly comparable ( those in parentheses ) ; moreover , density is used in several of the other expenditure needs assessments and is probably one of the major factors in providing the higher assessed needs for London , especially Inner London , in comparison with other major Metropolitan Districts . |
| 14 | The regulations , which go a long way towards updating the older health and safety laws , cover a wide range of basic health , safety and welfare issues . |
| 15 | The counsellor should try to achieve a more equitable balance by enabling the weaker individual to present feelings and needs as coherently and forcefully as possible , perhaps by clarifying and expanding on what is said . |
| 16 | The dispute had escalated into rabid anarchy ; and the local garrison of the Planetary Defence Force suffered heavy casualties in suppressing the wilder excesses of this social spasm . |
| 17 | Equally , psychoanalysis is proving an indispensable method for investigating the deeper reaches of the racist imagination , but produces the most absurdly reductionist theories when it tries to apply its concepts to explaining the rise of fascism or the nation-state . |
| 18 | Ministerial responsibility for running the higher courts , both civil and criminal , should in future be placed in the hands of the Lord Chancellor . |
| 19 | Well , he could understand that , but he still thought it was a wasteful way of keeping the lower ranks occupied , and it did n't square at all with the continual excuses the seneschal and his minions kept making about being under-staffed . |
| 20 | Nor has he condemned right-wing extremism without condemning the rarer left-wing sort in the same breath . |
| 21 | Such schemes were an attempt to accommodate the desire of many older people to continue in at least part-time work and to find new ways of continuing the older tradition of gradual transition from full-time work to full retirement . |
| 22 | Errors on less , in other words , are probably attributable , in part or even entirely , to a non-linguistic strategy of choosing the greater amount , a strategy typically invoked when children are unsure of the response required . |
| 23 | Two- and three-year-olds , who did not yet know less , were not as consistent , and their responses to less and tiv — and possibly to more as well — suggested that , in the absence of lexical knowledge , they were probably relying on a non-linguistic strategy of choosing the greater amount ( Trehub and Abramovitch , 1978 ) . |
| 24 | Children were constrained in the kinds of response possible and so appeared to treat less as more ; the younger children probably relied on a non-linguistic strategy of choosing the greater of two amounts , and this would account for responses to both more ( apparently correct ) and less ( apparently wrong ) when combined with partial or even no lexical knowledge ; and lastly , children were not given instructions with both more and less on the same occasion . |
| 25 | Others saw it as marking a shift in US perceptions of the OAS and a readiness to see it perform a new role in encouraging the closer economic and political integration of the hemisphere , in line with the US " Enterprise for the Americas " free trade policy [ see pp. 37651-52 ; 37914 ] . |
| 26 | Although it has been electrofished I believe it 's not an efficient method of removing the smaller fish in the 4–5 oz bracket . |
| 27 | In southwest England an early paper by Waters ( 1957 ) demonstrated the significance of differential weathering in oldlands and gave the basis for a new way of regarding the earlier stages of landscape evolution . |
| 28 | As the next chapter shows , by the late 1980s other mechanisms for restructuring the older industrial areas were of greater appeal to the government . |
| 29 | The corn-and-sheep husbandry was varied by pig fattening in the beechwoods , where arable fields generally occupied the sunny slopes , pastures the shaded ones , and there was a well-defined local method of improving the lighter soils . |
| 30 | This approach allows us to offer a coherent politics , allying ourselves with people 's aspirations while fulfilling our true purpose of advancing the wider and longer-term interests of the whole community . |