Example sentences of "larger [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a great deal of direct on-line storage is available , the balance will be tilted towards a larger provision of overflow space . |
| 2 | In West Africa , as in all aspects of life there , Africans played a much larger part on railway staffs . |
| 3 | Before widespread changes in practice are made this finding needs confirmation in a larger trial with mortality and major respiratory and cerebral morbidity as the primary outcomes . |
| 4 | In this chapter , I aim to narrow the area of discussion down from the larger field of objectification as a process to the question of the nature of the object per se . |
| 5 | This would concur with the conclusions of reviews of the much larger literature on support and health which does not specifically consider the effects of stress . |
| 6 | Only AA has reported a larger rise in fee income so far , at 12.7% . |
| 7 | Far be it for me to say that this is the sort of budget that conservatives ought to applaud because it is after all , a budget that is guided by a feeling that councils should provide services and they should orientate their services to the least communities , to be guided by equal opportunities and by egalitarians and that 's what this group has always stood for , this is the budget that we present tonight and I would hope that it would get a far better and far larger measure of support than perhaps of course been the case in the past . |
| 8 | The way that schools handle this relatively small amount of the total budget can be an indicator of their management approach in the larger framework of LMS . |
| 9 | This project is part of a larger programme of work supported by the Centre for Economic Policy Research ( through grants from the Ford and Sloan Foundations ) and the Houblon Norman Fund as well as the ESRC . |
| 10 | As noted earlier , the survey formed part of a larger programme of research into giftedness initiated by the American psychologist , Terman . |
| 11 | Thus it was taken up as part of a larger review of education in general , and teachers ' conditions of service in particular . |
| 12 | This example has all the characteristics of a sentence occurring within a larger piece of text , and illustrates quite clearly the need for a ‘ previous discourse ’ co-ordinate , as well as the more obvious ‘ time ’ and ‘ place ’ co-ordinates . |
| 13 | ‘ Every morning a bit of dry bread & some bad small beer , ’ Coleridge mournfully recalled , ‘ every evening a larger piece of bread , & cheese or butter … ’ |
| 14 | This takes note of the widespread area staff wish for the larger piece of time in a Region ( but also gives the shorter period too ) : it reduces a lot of sorting out of requests by the Overseas Groups and simplifies for them a pretty complicated and demanding piece of work : it means we do n't expect visitors to fly from one end of the UK & Ireland every 2 or 3 days as has sometimes happened in trying to meet a lot of requests . |
| 15 | A MUCH larger entry of store pigs at Markethill sold in a strong trade particularly for heavy stores and middleweight stores which were in outstanding demand . |
| 16 | However , if you need to get onto port tack as soon as possible , then go behind any big group and tack into the ( probably ) larger gap to windward of them . |
| 17 | In the light of the nearly universal trend towards earlier age at menarche and the rising age at marriage , there is in many countries a resulting larger gap in time between sexual and social maturity and between fecundable age and the ages at which childbearing becomes socially desirable . |
| 18 | The desire for improved services was centred among Congregationalists and Baptists while what we might call a larger search for dignity pertained to all the major denominations ; the Congregationalist , Dr George Barrett , told a 1900 meeting of the Free Church Council that ‘ Nonconformists have not yet enlisted the imagination as a handmaid to faith … |
| 19 | Duck rather more rufous than duck eider , but otherwise very hard to distinguish except by larger proportion of bill covered with feathers , especially at sides ; bare pan not extending right back past eye , as with Eider . |
| 20 | A larger proportion of labour with continuous tenure means a significant rise in labour costs to firms , and over the past decade Japanese companies have either found ways of flattening the wage profile or have ‘ encouraged ’ labour transfers into subsidiaries or satellite firms . |
| 21 | In the larger proportion of Phase I schools there were two appointees , one coordinator and one Scale I teacher , although many schools had considerably larger PNP enhancements — up to 7.5 in two schools , or a staff increase of 38 per cent . |
| 22 | Tadpole currently spends a larger proportion of hardware research and development money on board design , not on the Sparcbook , although most of its software development efforts go into the notebook version of Unix . |
| 23 | Rhubarb fool is made in just the same way as gooseberry fool , but needs an even larger proportion of sugar , preferably dark brown , and it is very necessary when the rhubarb is cooked to put it in a colander or sieve and let the excess juice drain off before the purée is made and the cream added . |
| 24 | These generally had a larger proportion of advertising , and the higher the circulation , the greater was the amount of classified rather than display ads , which was the opposite of the nationals . |
| 25 | With a slider it is possible to fish a much larger grouping of bulk shot well below the drifting layers of water . |
| 26 | In my latter days at school , this old hall became the gym , and we had a new , much larger hall with room for chairs . |
| 27 | Meanwhile we 're impatient for a larger return on investment . |
| 28 | Although relations between Dimitrov and Ludzhev were strained , some commentators suggested that Dimitrov 's threat was the visible sign of a larger battle for control of the UDF . |
| 29 | Furthermore , the new consumer package offers a more ‘ step-by-step ’ style , to enable CAB workers who are not specialists , to handle a much larger range of consumer cases . |
| 30 | The hon. Gentleman fairly pointed out that there is a larger range of business opportunities available under the new leases , and that , of course , will be reflected in the rent charged under those lease arrangements . |