Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although this freedom offers a better indicator than such things as matriliny or the worship goddesses , it also is not a clear indicator of the political and economic power , in spite of Engels 's belief to the contrary . |
| 2 | In Cuncliffe-Owen v Teather & Greenwood ( a Stock Exchange case ) Mr Justice Ungoed-Thomas said : " it is suggested on the one hand that this rule excluded usage of wider scope and , on the other hand , with the support of expert evidence , that it was a particular instance reflecting a wider usage . |
| 3 | Now , offices , the County Hall and even a car park make a bigger impact but the prison retains its huge central site . |
| 4 | By contrast to weaning , which represents the loss of a love-object ( the breast ) and which produces a characteristic culturally valued response ( mastery of the ability to postpone oral gratification in the interests of agriculture ) , toilet-training represents a more-or-less voluntary submission to an educative influence and a partial redirection against the self of the sadistic drive which is associated with the anal function . |
| 5 | ‘ But love for your sister got the better of you ? ’ |
| 6 | Nevertheless , during these years many statesmen placed a higher value than ever before on public feeling as voiced by newspapers , and made unprecedented efforts to court and shape it . |
| 7 | Middlesbrough became a safer city last October . |
| 8 | This would constitute information — data plus a contextual framework allowing a larger picture to be revealed . |
| 9 | THE Italian computer-maker , Olivetti , yesterday in Ivrea revealed that its losses for 1992 had jumped by 40 per cent and that it would ask shareholders to invest a further 900 billion lire ( £392 million ) through a capital increase . |
| 10 | PMF BRITISH PRODUCTS BUILDING A BETTER BRITAIN |
| 11 | Undoubtedly the people left behind can experience immense dislocation , amounting in extreme cases to complete social and economic dereliction , but with no economic base to support a larger rural population , conditions would have been worse if those who moved to the towns had chosen to remain in the countryside . |
| 12 | However , the real point seems to be that the risk of an uninformed auditor 's being misled after a change imposes a greater cost than the benefit ( unquantified and intangible ) that a compulsory change would provide . |
| 13 | The suggestion that the typical science enthusiast was Anglican and not politically radical does not of course affect the wider generalization that Protestant cultures were more amenable to freedom of thought . |
| 14 | The buyer receives a further 100 from the seller who has to pay an equivalent amount as variation margin . |
| 15 | The blue eyes were cold and watchful as he lounged casually in front of her , the thin sea island cotton shirt allowing the darker hairs on his chest to show through . |
| 16 | Stylist Patrick recommended a softer shape for Betty , instead of the severe brushed-back style she 'd worn for years , as well as a complete reconditioning of the ends . |
| 17 | However , while the process of electing a national president went smoothly , state party elections revealed high levels of factionalism within the BJP and led to the intervention of the central leadership in attempts to restore a greater semblance of unity to the party . |
| 18 | My group actually thought that the return of Peter Pan made a better tale than Barrie 's original . |
| 19 | Bregawn 's temperament got the better of him the following season , and on his racecourse appearances he displayed increasing sourness . |
| 20 | ( 1983 ) have found that although different nationalities broadly agree over landscape quality , select national groups produced a greater degree of similarity . |
| 21 | In Britain and America , there has been a greater variety of attitudes reflecting a wider diversity of theological stances . |
| 22 | They have been adopted by the Kite Society who undertook to organise a Rokkaku League for 1987 in the UK , coupled with a supplementary challenge for solo flyers using a smaller Sanjo . |
| 23 | The only constraint on attempts to acquire a larger budget is that it would cost more than the total value to the politicians of the service , the value of additional output being zero . |
| 24 | The functions of government were nominally divided between the centre and the republics , but all-union ministries , based exclusively in Moscow , produced 57 per cent of industrial output , union-republican ministries based partly in Moscow produced a further 37 per cent , and only 6 per cent of industry was wholly regulated at the republican level . |
| 25 | The first British administrator of Tanganyika Masailand was Colonel E.D. Browne , who had been Assistant District Commissioner at Laikipia at the time of the second Masai move in 1911–13 , and who came down to Tanganyika convinced that the Kenya Masai had had a rotten deal and determined to see that the Tanganyika Masai got a better one . |
| 26 | Searching for something to keep the conversation going , Luce asked the older woman , ‘ Have you always lived in New York ? ’ |
| 27 | It does not necessarily follow that decent wages and working conditions with fewer hours mean a higher cost to the consumer . |
| 28 | Turkington made a further experiment in which he introduced the four clone types of white clover into pure swards of the four grass species that had been sown on soil sampled from the experimental field . |
| 29 | A major question is , of course , whether such products provide a better , or at least no worse , hop character than whole hops . |
| 30 | People felt that suburbs or semi-rural estates provide a better environment in which children could be brought up . |