Example sentences of "of [art] [adj -er] [conj] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remember , though , that since the valetudinarian English gave Pau up the climate has reverted to what it was , so you need to be there on a day of reasonable weather , otherwise the Boulevard will not be tea Pyrénées at all , but only of the closer and less pleasing scene . |
| 2 | Many elderly people can remain in their own homes even if they are living alone , provided that they can get adequate help with some of the heavier and more awkward chores : cleaning high up , or low down , under furniture or in corners which have become inaccessible to them . |
| 3 | Despite new evidence that the brain damage caused by childhood exposure to lead as low as half the EC limit can affect people well into adulthood , in June 1990 , the UK dropped plans to pull out old lead pipes , in favour of the cheaper but less reliable chemical dosing method . |
| 4 | There can also be a knock-on effect of the higher and more innovative technology that some foreign firms employ , all through society . |
| 5 | Consequently there was much disappointment in Washington when the European Community was established in 1957 without Britain , and when the latter went her own way as leader of the looser and less ambitious European Free Trade Area . |
| 6 | There is however much to be said in favour of the dearer and more specific articulation of substantive principles to guide the exercise of administrative discretion . |
| 7 | You drive along a narrow , twisting road half-way up a mountain of rocks and boulders , supporting nothing but scrub and heather plus a few of the tougher and more foolhardy breed of sheep , round a bend and then , suddenly , you look down and there is the valley , with its winding river , fertile fields , a village tucked away at one end , and a verdancy that knocks you for six with its lushness . |
| 8 | As we have seen , some of the earlier and more enthusiastic apologists for pluralism , such as Dahl and Plamenatz , did suggest both that the spread of pressure and interest groups covered more or less the whole of society and also that such groups competed with each other on a roughly equal basis . |
| 9 | His homespun philosophy soon found favour at the Wine Garden , one of the newer and most welcome venues on the local folk circuit . |
| 10 | She was sitting by the food tray , and had ordered six of the older and more sensible nomes to stand guard around it to keep children away . |
| 11 | Polybius himself gives a hint when he says that Aulus Postumius " made Greek culture offensive in the eyes of the older and more distinguished Romans " . |
| 12 | Saga travellers are now jetting around the world , but in spite of the company 's undoubted success , as a 1989 report demonstrated there is little evidence that the British travel trade as a whole has fully understood the importance and increased spending power of the older and more prosperous customer . |
| 13 | Oddly , the majority of books available about the cultivation of waterlilies tend to display pictures and descriptions of the rarer and more unusual varieties . |
| 14 | I am sure that if he had been with one of the stronger or more glamorous clubs at the time , his name would now be held in respect by a far wider clientele than those relatively few of us who were privileged to see him play his heart out for Crystal Palace . |
| 15 | The Festival of Britain sought to persuade us of the imminence of a better and less contorted world . |
| 16 | But I beg you to believe that there are also men of a wiser and more experienced sort , who by no means decline all consideration of negotiating terms . |
| 17 | The latter have also been aware of a closer and more detailed interest in how they use resources and efficiency : ‘ cost-improvement ’ programmes have been introduced and performance scrutinised . |
| 18 | It was part of a wider and profoundly important cultural movement — religious , theological and artistic as well as purely literary — whereby the problems of an individual 's inner life , the reasonings of his mind , the demands of his heart , all came to be regarded as being as important as his external behaviour . |
| 19 | Above all , the Prime Minister and the Government should be negotiating for the inclusion of a wider and more positive concept of economic convergence in the treaty than any that has yet emerged . |
| 20 | The newspaper argued that the ordinary reader , possessed of a fairer and less suspicious mind , would presume innocence . |
| 21 | " It may be the beginning of a saner and less aggressive course of action than the one hitherto pursued towards the men of the Mercantile Marine . |
| 22 | In the fourteenth century mystical awakening we see the first signs of a deeper and more committed type of religion , which would finally culminate in both Protestant and Catholic reformations . |
| 23 | There is perhaps no phase in the moral history of mankind of a deeper or more painful interest than this ascetic epidemic . |
| 24 | The extra cost of a harder and more lasting cutting edge was a wise investment — warriors would have had little time to re-sharpen their blades in the heat of battle ! |
| 25 | My childhood was the place where , for my mother , the fairy tales failed , and through the glass of that childhood I now see that failure as part of a longer and more enduring one . |
| 26 | Jones 's politics were more of an older and more traditional left , drawing on roots within the Communist and Labour Party traditions . |
| 27 | Listening to the debate which followed the papers in this session , one was struck by the persistence of an older and more fundamental truth . |