Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun sg] [verb] the [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the Moon also lost most of its craters from the final stages of formation then the apparent failure on Mercury of post-formation bombardment to saturate the intercrater plains may seem to indicate that Mercury was exposed to a less numerous population of small bodies than the Moon . |
| 2 | For example , the defences were firmly dated to the reign of Hadrian , although Antonine pottery was found in the rampart , but dismissed with the remarkable statement ‘ the overwhelming pre-Antonine character of the mass of associated pottery suggests the earlier , rather than the later of Dr Oswald 's limiting date for the exceptional sherd ’ , i.e. AD 130 — 50 . |
| 3 | Action outside the school system is necessary also ; though it is outside the brief of this work to investigate the wider social arena in detail . |
| 4 | An increasing imbalance between accumulation and supplies of additional labour requires the faster scrapping of old plant to speed up the transfer of workers to new means of production . |
| 5 | Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease affects over 10% of the population in the United Kingdom , and symptoms are caused by the presence of excess acid entering the lower oesophagus from the stomach and damaging the surface epithelium . |
| 6 | The amount of detrital material determines the lower level of TL dating of calcite . |
| 7 | The results of the flow cytometry analysis showed similar changes in the rate of cellular proliferation as the BrdUrd method ( Table III ) but , these changs were of smaller magnitude indicating the lower sensitivity of this method . |
| 8 | With hindsight it perhaps seems strange that one of the indisputably greatest figures in the whole of Western art devoted the better part of his life to sell-advancement , and to painting the King , his family , and their attendant dogs , dwarves and sycophants Certainly the irony of this , together with the fact that this inbred family of often considerable mental as well as physical fragility should have controlled the destiny of so vast an empire , is not lost on Gironella . |
| 9 | Although the authorities conflict , it has been laid down that the new doctrine of reckless manslaughter supersedes the older doctrine of manslaughter by gross negligence . |