Example sentences of "with [adv] [adj -er] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he presided in court , the count was accompanied by a panel of local boni homines , " good men " , that is , more substantial landholders with perhaps further qualifications of age and experience and personal prestige , in whose selection an element of peer-group choice was acknowledged . |
| 2 | This is less of a danger if the room is decorated in neutral shades , or if the rug 's colours are echoed in the other furnishings ; for example , a room with some pastel blues or reds can be wonderfully enlivened by introducing a rug with much richer shades of blue or red . |
| 3 | Once a week ministers will get their intelligence summary in the ‘ Red Book ’ , all the trouble spots in the world , and one pays clever people like you to actually sit there and be plugged in as best one can to the trouble spots , with much better sources of information than the poor old chap in the street , to alert ministers on our behalf of potential disasters . |
| 4 | How do we turn the people who would do semi-skilled jobs on machines into people who can programme numerically-controlled machines to perform that job more effectively and with much greater levels of productivity . |
| 5 | The White Paper suggests the prohibition of anti-competitive agreements together with much wider powers of investigation . |
| 6 | AH3 : Rooms with private bath or shower and w.c. in better two or three star hotels in residential and fashionable areas with generally better standard of decor and furniture than AH1/2 grade . |
| 7 | Rooms with private bath or shower and w.c. in better two or three star hotels in residential and fashionable areas with generally better standard of decor and furniture than AH1/2 grade . |
| 8 | The trials were carried out in a population with xerophthalmia rates that were very close to the threshold used by WHO to define a population as having a xerophthalmia problem of public health significance ( 1% ) ; previously reported studies were done in populations with substantially higher rates of xerophthalmia . |
| 9 | ‘ It is a sad fact of life that we have been fortunate enough to recruit staff with even greater levels of excellence , ’ says the company 's diplomatic chief executive , Michael Kerr-Dineen . |
| 10 | The large demands which the BEA made on the capital market — at first directly in their own capital issues and then indirectly through the Treasury borrowing requirement — attracted criticism that electricity was ‘ crowding out ’ more desirable investment projects with potentially higher rates of return in the private sector . |