Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [adj -er] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Advocacy schemes focus on the rights , entitlements and choices of individuals , but they do not generally much influence the wider issues of the way services are planned , shaped and managed . |
| 2 | Leonora gripped a rail with white-knuckled hands when the boat bucked as it met the wilder waters of the sound . |
| 3 | When the latter were realigned or made anew they often met the earlier roads at a sharp angle on the parish boundaries . |
| 4 | No one ( thank God ! ) says sex must stop and comparatively few favour the wilder flights of permissive fantasy . |
| 5 | This last point implies that psychoanalysis , as such , is not concerned with the truth or falsity of religious beliefs , and that it rather counteracts the earlier arguments about religious beliefs being neither justified by sense experience nor rational arguments . |
| 6 | The increase in maximum width of these buildings from 30m ( 99ft ) in 1868 to 48m ( 158ft ) in 1905 was necessary in order to accommodate the longer mules which were enlarged to their technical optimum , consistent with rigidity , of 1,392 ( 116 dozen ) spindles . |
| 7 | ‘ Any farmer worth his salt knows that quality can only be achieved by pursuing the higher standards of welfare . ’ |
| 8 | Mr Wilson added that he was still pursuing the wider issues of the case until it became apparent whether the case of Ian X was unique . |
| 9 | The practice of eating dead enemies probably arose from the idea that you could absorb the better qualities of the person who had died through eating their flesh . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Then there was the problem of recovering the larger portions of wreckage , chiefly from the tail areas and rear fuselage of the aircraft . |
| 12 | At the time of writing we have had two productive days clearing the front of the Horderley station platform and building the lower courses of the new facing wall . |
| 13 | Competition among the owners of a particular resource may tend to force its price downwards ; those owners for whom its sale involves the greater sacrifices will tend to drop out of the race as the falling price makes it worthwhile for them to sell only fewer and fewer units of the resource . |
| 14 | Push the smaller cloves of garlic into this cavity . |
| 15 | The smaller room was where taught the younger children to read and write and count . |
| 16 | But erm anyway , the erm and some of the men , used to go The older men , used to go and er to the smithy and cos er the our the s fitting shop had a three fires at one end you see , where the am blacksmiths were . |
| 17 | In most fields the nineteenth century was the age of the textbook , such as Thomas Thomson 's in chemistry and Lyell 's in geology , where successive editions made the earlier ones obsolete ; the plates that survive usefully are perhaps to be compared to the very few classic books like the Origin of Species which go on selling . |
| 18 | She suggested we try and cook in turns and bring the smaller children to play together in the workshop . |
| 19 | Such a change is likely to affect the smaller businesses rather than the large companies . |
| 20 | I can only stress again the importance of using the higher figures . ’ |
| 21 | While the exercises in this book are quite small and it is possible to get around using the simple cursor movements alone , you should practise using the faster ones because in longer documents you will need to be able to use all the short cuts you can . |
| 22 | The horse can move its lower jaw from side to side when eating , and the jaw muscles drag the lower teeth inward in a grinding motion . |
| 23 | Yeah I mean , they 're upgrading all of the machines at work but what they 're doing is instead of throwing them out , those who do n't use P Cs that often are being given the slower machines and those that as part of their job function , they need something much faster have been given the the newer machines . |
| 24 | These services have brought in new customers — Lombard NatWest claims more than 300 — but some rivals say the marketing of these services has been less aggressive during the recession , given the higher risks often associated with new business . |
| 25 | And you know , you always you er give , gave your number you see and er course some people I believe had an a I believe in later days they 'd given the older numbers out again , I do n't know wh you know , because some people that 've joined since me have got an older number , so I do n't know whether they 've given the ol they were sort of long since run out , you know . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , given the earlier findings on investment intensity , this matter did need clarification . |
| 27 | Ronald Reagan 's serious interest in politics dates at least as far back as his early days in Hollywood and , given the later doubts about his intelligence , it is interesting to note that , at this stage , he hardly lived up to the image of an empty-headed film actor . |
| 28 | Pity you were n't here , I could have rushed up a ticket or two and you could have explained the finer nuances . |
| 29 | The criminogenic nature of the social system , as it was described , was that honest labour was rewarded only with poverty-level wages and filthy cellar homes , while the ruling class indulged itself in idle luxury ‘ enshrined in palaces , furnished in a style of Oriental splendour ’ , thus encouraging the lower orders to improvise their own short-cut to the universal aspiration of acquisition : |
| 30 | Lee hoped to minimize the electoral consequences of this by encouraging the older members to retire , but with limited success . |