Example sentences of "to a [adj] [conj] [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one point , in December 1925 , with a liberal Governor-General in Vietnam , the Vietnamese were told that they could aspire to a fuller and higher life to become one day a nation ; but a few months later it was predicted that , while an independent Vietnam ( in the indeterminate future ) was a possibility , the bonds between it and France would become sufficiently strong so that nothing would ever break them . |
| 2 | The essential principle of this Lift ( which is to be used in lieu of a flight of locks ) is floating of the barge or vessel into a tank and the conveying of that tank with its floating load broadside up or down a slope or inclined plane to a higher or lower pond of the canal respectively into which it is floated from the tank , which is left ready for another barge going in the opposite direction . |
| 3 | And then the real work begins , to work it up to a higher and higher level , and this surely can not be done until you have fifteen or twenty years working with the one orchestra . |
| 4 | The whole area of classification is one which is regularly the subject of Market Research Society working parties , and from time to time provokes a rash of articles in the technical press , but at the time of writing there is little sign of any real breakthrough to a new and better system . |
| 5 | Here , following the banner of reform , led by the gentlemen of that most aristocratic Whig Government , led by Lord Grey , Lord Melbourne , Lord John Russell , they saw for a time before them the high road to a better and fairer ordering of society . |
| 6 | For cellulose acetate there is a transformation from a hard brittle state below 273 K to a softer but tougher type of polymer at temperatures above 273 K. For poly ( methyl methacrylate ) the hard brittle characteristics are retained to a much higher temperature , but it eventually reaches a soft tough state at about 320 K. Thus if the requirements of high rigidity and toughness are to be met , the temperature is important . |
| 7 | Further , the employment of an agent may be such as to give him an authority to contract on behalf of his principal generally with regard to a wider or narrower class of affairs ; and as between the principal and third parties such authority can not be limited by restrictions imposed by the principal , but not known to third parties . |
| 8 | For active hunting , a heavy shell must be something of a handicap and some carnivorous molluscs have taken to a faster if riskier life by doing without it altogether and reverting to the life-style of their flatworm-like ancestors . |
| 9 | Now we all know because we 're print buyers to a larger or greater degree but they 're clients they over-estimate they add about twenty five per cent more on than they need and you have to send them back to sharpen their pencils several times before you 've seen the estimate , they of course know that all print buyers are idiots who keep forgetting all the important things and do n't give them half the information they need like the weight of paper or the fact that there 's to be a pocket at the back so , I think if we got the man I think if we maybe started off with H M S O the print buyer which is more akin to what we are and say well you know these are the problems I 've got I 'm sitting with a six million pound budget buying for the whole of the government of Scotland and I have problems and these are the problems that I have , then we get to the wee man from who says now wait a minute boys I get the rubbish that you send out , that was the message and let's make it funny but slightly aggressive let's highlight the real problems because that 's what it 's about , we 're not here for a nice night we 're here to learn |
| 10 | The School is a working course for those interested in drama as a means to a deeper and wider understanding of life in the world today . |
| 11 | Each of these has a different editorial policy and , to a lesser or greater degree , a political bias . |
| 12 | Whether it was approved or not — and usually it was not — it was understood on all sides that democracy meant , to a lesser or greater degree , popular power , popular sovereignty , popular participation . |
| 13 | In waters where bream breed prolifically , spawning every season to a lesser or greater extent , the shoals of small bream — skimmers as they are commonly called — can run into thousands . |
| 14 | One is therefore , of necessity , confined to such outcomes as income , type of occupation , reading and writing achievements , and the passing of examinations , all of which are quantifiable to a lesser or greater extent . |
| 15 | All governments , to a lesser or greater extent , will also be anxious that the rates of taxation do not undermine work incentives . |
| 16 | When it comes to the summer in your options that you take there , you will to a lesser or greater extent get some more advocacy experience during the summer . |
| 17 | In the course of his rectorial address at Edinburgh in 1907 , Haldane asserted that " when a leader of Ingenious comes forward the people may bow down before him , and surrender their wills , and eagerly obey " , since " to obey the commanding voice was to rise to a further and wider outlook , and to gain a fresh purpose " . |