Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The buyer receives a further 100 from the seller who has to pay an equivalent amount as variation margin . |
| 5 | Further he comments that the male has the greater discretion of reason . |
| 6 | It suggests Middlesbrough needs a wider choice of entertainment , bars , restaurants and shopping facilities than it now offers . |
| 7 | The cones are concentrated in the fovea , and the rest of the retina has a higher proportion of rods which only provide monochrome vision . |
| 8 | Kirsty 's story has a happier ending . |
| 9 | The reader might wonder why paper money has almost superseded the use of metal coins when even one coin has a greater value in metal than the largest banknote has as a piece of paper . |
| 10 | Psion has a softer approach . |
| 11 | The wedge cushion has the further advantage of allowing the patient to see his legs without effort . |
| 12 | Though this makes the two words par and key , the word park has a stronger activation than either par or key . ’ |
| 13 | The employment and income created directly and indirectly by Scotch Whisky companies and their associated supplier chains has a further impact on the UK economy . |
| 14 | Diminished responsibility has a wider ambit , but its effect is merely to reduce murder to manslaughter , giving the judge discretion on sentencing or other disposal . |
| 15 | The dose equivalence over 24 hours is more difficult to estimate but since salmeterol has a longer duration of action salmeterol 50 µg twice daily may be equivalent to salbutamol 500 µg four to six hourly . |
| 16 | This revealed a higher number of referrals to the psychogeriatric service for people in Newham than in Ipswich ( understandable in view of the fact that Newham has a larger elderly population : approximately 28,500 people over 65 compared with 18,800 in Ipswich ) . |
| 17 | Furthermore our work in Uganda and Romania adds a wider perspective . |
| 18 | Tofu is available fresh or in long-life packs ; the fresh variety has a firmer texture . |
| 19 | Evidence shows that untreated milk has a higher nutritional value and contains anti-infective agents which can both restrict the growth of contaminating bacteria in milk and give the consumer protection against infection . |
| 20 | The protection period however does expire eventually and , thereafter , the copyright holder has no further rights ; the work is then ‘ in the public domain ’ and can be freely reproduced and adapted without payment of a royalty . |
| 21 | Only the musk ox has a denser covering of hair . |
| 22 | The phenomenon reflects not only the difficulties of part-time recruitment in an area like Oxfordshire which lacks a large urban and industrial base , but also the fact that the Modular Course has a better chance of retaining and increasing such students than conventional courses ( Figure 2.2 ) . |
| 23 | In the ‘ spatial division of labour ’ , the labour-intensive mass-production branch has a weaker role than in the 1960s and is partly replaced by TNC investment in the Third World . |
| 24 | Second , the legislative branch has a weaker basis of comparison ( than shareholders in a market firm ) on which to judge the efficiency of the present administration . |
| 25 | Portillo wants a further swing from the state towards the individual in social welfare , education and health and closer targeting of benefits . |
| 26 | IAN LUCAS has a longer booklet on Apple Snails available at £3 including p&p |
| 27 | West Germany has a greater proportion of people economically active but they start work later and retire earlier than do workers in Pakistan . |
| 28 | Earlier work which suggests that West Germany has a greater capability than Britain to deal with structural industrial crises through the cooperation of the state , employers , unions and financiers will be pursued in relation to the chemicals industry . |
| 29 | Familiar loud harsh quack , resembling farmyard duck , uttered by duck only ; drake has a softer ‘ queek ’ . |
| 30 | The quill nib produces a crisper line as a result . |