Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [art] [adj -er] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An even better test is whether , after two years , the successful candidate is promoted again or given a larger international role . |
| 2 | Whether you prefer to sell 100% for an immediate cash payment or to receive a smaller upfront payment and a deferred payment , determined by an earnout or retention or a minority stake with a pre-arranged exit . |
| 3 | Nor had the later overlapping visitation of hippies of the Sixties taken place , who had followed the gipsy processions , of which Alexander now told Frederica , and stayed and sung and smoked and loved and sat on the white beaches , so that the pale sand came to resemble road-dirt anywhere . |
| 4 | He had a miserable life , he came to Paris and led a further miserable life . |
| 5 | But it will reduce the likelihood of those forces re-emerging as a threat to the West and favour a better military balance between the former Soviet republics . |
| 6 | It may act by a novel mechanism and offers a further therapeutic possibility for those who are intolerant of aminosalicylates . |
| 7 | The Conservative election victory did owe something to Mrs Thatcher 's past efforts ; these efforts included a re-ordering of the social hierarchy , making the poor more down and out , and bringing the lower middle class ( as we old Marxists used to say ) or C2s in class-free speak , within shopping distance of middle class ( B/C1 ) comfort . |
| 8 | A very traditional Champagne house using wooden barrels during production and producing a fuller bodied style of wine . |
| 9 | In many of the Sussex levels pumped drainage schemes are being installed to give greater control over the water levels so that the water table can be gradually lowered , permitting the permanent pasture to be improved by ploughing and re-seeding and allowing a longer grazing season ; some will no doubt be converted to arable . |
| 10 | Around the stair tower , a curved , fin-like aluminium wall screens the lower conference room and the boardroom terrace above , and adds a further textural element to the low-key material themes of timber and brick . |
| 11 | Although difficulties in reliably specifying the appropriate lexical input to phonological variables are reasonably well documented , they may be more widespread and pose a greater methodological problem than these rather scattered observations in the literature suggest . |
| 12 | With the anti-roll bar up front , the car rolls less than it used to and has a jigglier low-speed ride , but it 's true to say that on all models I drove the quality of ride was largely good . |
| 13 | The shaft was fluted or left plain but the capital bell was strongly delineated , richly decorated and used the softer acanthus leaf design . |
| 14 | It has never been easier to change and choose a healthier weight-loss programme . |
| 15 | To offer the best was to set a general standard and to create a wider public expectation . |
| 16 | Brazil , on the other hand , has combined export subsidies with other regulations to force firms to develop exports and add a greater net contribution to the balance-of-payments as the price for being able to sell in the huge internal market . |
| 17 | It can ill-afford to have electors responding solely to one ‘ local ’ issue and ignoring the wider political climate as they make their party choice . |
| 18 | The strategy of key characteristics involved rating certain characteristics more strongly in either direction than others , for instance ‘ using the strongest words as a guide to an overall score and ignoring the weaker contradictory ones ’ or ‘ weighed up which characteristics I considered most important , i.e. whether trustworthiness was more important to me than politeness ’ . |
| 19 | the foundation of ‘ a small multi-disciplinary central policy review staff in the Cabinet Office ’ to help formulate and sustain a clearer overall strategy for the administration as a whole , for ‘ governments are always at the same risk of losing sight of the need to consider the totality of their current policies in relation to their longer-term objectives ’ . |
| 20 | The restructuring approach , in contrast , moves away from the specifically geographical question and answer and examines the wider social changes ( in this case in industry ) and their relation to geography . |
| 21 | Support and encourage the further worldwide development of the principles of the chemical industry 's ‘ Responsible Care ’ programme and the International Chamber of Commerce 's ‘ Charter for Sustainable Development ’ . |
| 22 | Labour 's reformist programme to moderate poverty and to re-invigorate the older industrialized regions — whatever its ultimate success — at least offered more to the urban disadvantaged and to the cities generally . |
| 23 | Hugh Manson has tried for the best combination of feel and usability by planing the fingerboard to a compound radius — a medium-curved 10″ radius near the headstock , but flattening right out to 16″ as it reaches the upper frets , in order to minimise the strings choking off when you play bent notes and to allow a lower overall action . |
| 24 | Upstream , production in 1993 is likely to remain at current levels , as a series of new fields come into production and offset the older declining fields . |
| 25 | Galbraith recalls that he astonished Premier Nehru in the 1950s by telling him that the Punjab was a better place to live and offered a higher general level of income than rural West Virginia , Georgia and Mississippi . |
| 26 | The gas works operated at lower temperatures ( about 800°C ) , so coal gas was slightly richer in hydrocarbons and had a better calorific value than coke oven gas ( see Table 2 ) . |
| 27 | On 11 June 1991 she received chemotherapy with antiemetic cover of intravenous dexamethasone 8 mg and metoclopramide 10 mg followed by dexamethasone 4 mg four times a day orally and had a further urticarial attack associated with bronchospasm . |
| 28 | Large units are as economically efficient as small ones , and have a greater functional capacity ; 3 . |
| 29 | Public-sector workers , it was announced in mid-October , would received a fixed pay rise of 12,000 australs and have an earlier fixed bonus of 8,000 australs incorporated into their monthly salaries ; according to Rapanelli this represented an across-the-board increase of between 9 per cent for the highest paid and 32 per cent for the lowest paid . |
| 30 | That is to say , the lexical interpretations are supported by the same acoustic evidence and need no further acoustic information , and the syntactic/semantic interpretations require no further acoustic-phonetic , lexical , prosodic , or other information . |