Example sentences of "[adv] fair " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their tests were cheaper and apparently fairer than local ‘ home-made ’ ones and they conveniently transferred the odium that selection incurred on to a distant , impartial public body . |
| 2 | It would have been interesting , and perhaps fairer , to have looked at the drama work in an authority either where no drama adviser existed or where he or she did not have the accolade of inspectorial approval . |
| 3 | It would be much fairer if the positive achievements of the last 17 years were also recognised . |
| 4 | You ca n't say much fairer than that . |
| 5 | If he is n't prepared to do that then he must accept the workings of a system which is much fairer than the system which was previously enforced . |
| 6 | Although Jerry was of the same height , he was much fairer than I , with very attractive blue eyes , he was slighter of build , and had a much sweeter disposition . |
| 7 | The British Open is the finest major in the world and it 's much fairer than ours . |
| 8 | It believes the figures on this basis give a much fairer picture of business performance and underlying financial strength . |
| 9 | Her hair was much fairer then . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ American would be back very rapidly if Stansted was given a much fairer opportunity to operate new routes , ’ added Mr Hobbs . |
| 11 | We have overcome these problems and now have what we consider to be a much fairer and more objective examination . |
| 12 | When councils start charging half what Oxford is paying ( as they are already doing in most parts of Scotland ) the Community Charge will seem a much fairer system . |
| 13 | Unlike Rulor 1 , the new boat was designed with a much fairer shape aft . |
| 14 | … when you put those two assessments together … they 're getting a very fair look … they 're getting a much fairer look than the Royal Shakespeare Company ever do . |
| 15 | My hon. Friend knows that one of the changes that we are introducing is much fairer funding of health authorities throughout the land to reflect , among other things , the age structure . |
| 16 | make the council tax far fairer than the old rates , certainly fairer than the poll tax , and much fairer than the Labour party 's proposals . |
| 17 | For the elderly , and especially for students , it is a better deal than was offered by any previous alternative system of local government finance , and it is much fairer and is a better deal than what would be imposed by the Labour party . |
| 18 | When his appointment as Secretary of State for Wales was announced , he told the House : ’ I look forward to explaining in Wales , as I have in England the way in which the community charge is a much fairer and simpler system ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ Dying on your partner ’ , he said ‘ is much fairer and more financially beneficial to them than divorcing them . ’ |
| 20 | Surely this must be the way forward for the G M B and a much fairer and democratic way for our grass root members , who after all are the backbone of this industry , it 's their we discuss at our section conferences , it 's their wages , it 's their terms . |
| 21 | It is much fairer to charge the same rate for water to everybody " . |
| 22 | In our view , particularly because of the extravagant results that have arisen in some cases by applying the literal rule , there can be no doubt that in the modern context the object and intent rule is much fairer . |
| 23 | Because , it is , I think that 's much fairer than doing minutes , cos you still get the |
| 24 | Home Office Minister , John Patten who 's also MP for Oxford west and Abingdon , says the scheme is much fairer than at present . |
| 25 | I want to discuss this with my superiors , but I think it 's only fair for me to say that it may well be difficult for us to keep you here . ’ |
| 26 | After a year in which the Treasury 's forecasting failures ( notably that very large trade deficit ) have been rather obvious , it is only fair to recall that it did presciently point out just about every awkward little detail of the poll tax , from its automatic upward impact on inflation to the folly of providing local authorities with a golden opportunity to raise more tax while blaming the Government . |
| 27 | The issue is far more complicated and it is only fair to note that we have not reached a stage of knowledge when we can easily say what explains the status of women among the different peoples of the world . |
| 28 | Since I had collected a handsome pay-out from Ladbrokes a year earlier with money on Alesi I thought it only fair to 'phone Ken Tyrrell and tell him the odds . |
| 29 | However , it is only fair to add that , in this case , the surviving windmill structure was little more than a ruinous stone stump before conversion work began ( Plate 41 ) . |
| 30 | After having had it ruin so much of their practice time , it seemed only fair that it should come to their aid when they needed it . |