Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [adj] [conj] [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dexter had expected a bigger and taller man with the harsh glint of money-making in his eyes , rather than this relaxed , almost shambling , figure . |
| 2 | The question is whether Christ and Christianity have presented a new and truer view of God which invalidates the Old Testament picture . |
| 3 | The country had also suffered a longer and worse slump than its competitors . |
| 4 | The analysis of intergenerational redistribution ( whether , for example , the generation now retired has had a better or worse deal over their lifetime than those currently in the labour force ) poses still more severe problems . |
| 5 | So to limit the interpretation of the word would follow the principle that words in a statute which have , or can have , a general meaning may have to be given a specialised and narrower meaning in order to make sense of the legislation and to avoid the conclusion that changes have been made to the existing law which can not have been intended by Parliament . |
| 6 | Now Lucy Netzer and Jacob Sagiv , from the Weizmann Institute of Science , Rehovot in Israel have developed a simpler and quicker technique for preparing monolayer films that relies simply on the chemical properties of the starting materials . |
| 7 | Medicine , while still based on plants , became more and more sophisticated as knowledge accumulated , especially with the introduction of printing , which meant that information could be passed on exactly , instead of inaccurately , by hearsay , and thus provided a bigger and bigger base from which to work . |
| 8 | Similarly , attention was turned to education : the Board of Education Report for 1917–18 declared that the War ‘ has certainly brought a clearer and wider recognition of the value of education , and , while showing the defects and shortcomings of our system , has produced the resolution to improve it ’ . |
| 9 | This development has defined a new and higher standard for interfaces which has become common in all areas of data processing . |