Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [art] [adj -er] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 However , while the process of electing a national president went smoothly , state party elections revealed high levels of factionalism within the BJP and led to the intervention of the central leadership in attempts to restore a greater semblance of unity to the party .
2 ( 1983 ) have found that although different nationalities broadly agree over landscape quality , select national groups produced a greater degree of similarity .
3 In Britain and America , there has been a greater variety of attitudes reflecting a wider diversity of theological stances .
4 It does not necessarily follow that decent wages and working conditions with fewer hours mean a higher cost to the consumer .
5 People felt that suburbs or semi-rural estates provide a better environment in which children could be brought up .
6 Recognise that spelling has patterns , and begin to apply their knowledge of those patterns in their attempts to spell a wider range of words .
7 The employment and income created directly and indirectly by Scotch Whisky companies and their associated supplier chains has a further impact on the UK economy .
8 Proposals place a greater emphasis on recycling .
9 Moore says that all these activities provide a better climate in which new technologies will grow .
10 The marchers avoided the Lower Ormeau on their way back home in the afternoon .
11 Help the Regions and Branches develop a higher profile for professional services activities in their areas.PS/C
12 The GAO is concerned about the increased use of antibiotics to treat the higher incidence of mastitis in cows which have been fed with BST .
13 In addition use will be made of the 1981 Census Small Area Statistics and data from the National On-Line Manpower Information System to construct neighbourhood demographic and socio-economic variables to enable a richer analysis of the national surveys to be undertaken .
14 TWO schoolboys looking for crabs found the lower half of a human body .
15 British Telecom says that selling a service in which the equipment is in the company 's own offices stands a better chance of success .
16 He will argue that Scots put a higher proportion of their wealth into forming small businesses but are restricted from getting their fledgling operations off the ground through a lack of capital .
17 Other authors list a larger number of viewpoints but they seem to be relatively minor variants on these three .
18 A key response of governments in Europe to the perceived fiscal crisis of the mid-1970s was to adopt strategies which would restrain state expenditure , switch payment for utilities from taxation to consumer charging , and allow the private and voluntary sectors to play a larger role in the provision of transport , education and welfare services .
19 In Britain , unlike the United States , there are no residence requirements : hence , parties enjoy a wider range of choice in the selection of candidates .
20 And there 's more — Number Ones galore , from falsetto king Jimmy Jones ' Good Timin' to Conway Twitty 's It 's Only Make Believe … hard-driving , hipswinging dance-hall blasters like Sandy Nelson 's Let There Be Drums and Little Eva 's The Locomotion … and the pick of songs honouring the softer side of rock … the Platters ' The Great Pretender , Sam Cooke 's You Send Me and Tab Hunter 's Young Love to name just three .
21 In the event Labour received marginally more votes than the Tories , in an election in which the two parties took a larger share of the total votes than ever before , but because of the geography of electoral support in relation to constituency boundaries it was the Tories who gained the majority of seats in Parliament and formed the next government .
22 The other group consists of countries for whom the deterioration of the US payments balance and the inflow of speculative funds generated a faster rate of monetary expansion , and lower interest rates , than would have been adopted on purely domestic criteria .
23 The direction for research generated by this formulation of the issues would be a comparison of working class and middle class clients to demonstrate the greater vulnerability of the former .
24 Do you find that women 's schools do a better job of educating women than mixed schools ?
25 Overall , he says he 'd like to see grammar schools play a greater role in the current debate about selection .
26 A 0–60mph time of 9.0secs is slightly disappointing but 0–100mph in 22.0secs gives a better clue to its ground-covering potential .
27 Future developments in the use of microcomputers including applications such as the use of expert systems , compact and video disks , electronic publishing and interactive video will be discussed in Chapter 10 and allow those starting to use microcomputers in schools to have a wider view of potential applications .
28 Checking that the straps on her equipment were tight enough to prevent anything moving and making a noise that might alert anyone nearby , Ace slipped through a stand of bushes to get a better view of the road .
29 Visual rote-learning by ‘ look and say ’ methods puts a greater burden on the less able .
30 We must remember , even so , that this was the golden age 's own assessment of its own golden youth , and the repeated alarms about pistol gangs gives a further indication of the depth of the fears surrounding working-class youth at this time .
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