Example sentences of "[verb] the [adj -er] [noun] " 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 | The can chair was then put in and where the dark plants in the garden met the paler grass . |
| 3 | Leonora gripped a rail with white-knuckled hands when the boat bucked as it met the wilder waters of the sound . |
| 4 | Curtis met the younger man 's eye and held it . |
| 5 | When the latter were realigned or made anew they often met the earlier roads at a sharp angle on the parish boundaries . |
| 6 | No one ( thank God ! ) says sex must stop and comparatively few favour the wilder flights of permissive fantasy . |
| 7 | But others favour the quieter storm ; the strength and presence of Lush 's Miki and Emma and MBV 's Bilinda and Deb , the magnetism of Curve 's Toni Halliday , the raw , unadorned honesty of Polly Harvey , are no less effective . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Figure 1 b shows the rotation rate residuals after allowing for the increased value of slowdown rate which fits the later part of Fig. 1 a . |
| 10 | Moreover the commonly held view that the rational expectations hypothesis is the natural offspring of neoclassical and new classical economics has considerably limited the wider application of the concept of rational expectations in macroeconomic models which do not take the assumption of market clearing as their point of departure . |
| 11 | Laganside agreed to review safety procedures during the week-long break to accommodate the Lower Ormeau Community Festival . |
| 12 | The opening of this section of route was delayed until September , because the Board of Trade insisted upon street widening to accommodate the wider Company cars . |
| 13 | For viewing with higher magnification lenses , which are necessarily of shorter working distance , a recessed window is usually required to accommodate the smaller working distance of the lens . |
| 14 | New pockets are required for the snooker tables and to accommodate the smaller 10p coin adjustments will be necessary to the pool table . |
| 15 | New pockets are required for the snooker tables and to accommodate the smaller 10p coin adjustments will be necessary to the pool table . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ Any farmer worth his salt knows that quality can only be achieved by pursuing the higher standards of welfare . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He had to have travelled the better part of five miles cross country and another two from the edge of town in order to reach the Cathedral . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Whenever Robinson struck for a grip he moved quickly and broke it , never allowing the older man to settle . |
| 23 | Gently curve the lower edge of the strip up to a 4cm point at the opposite end . |
| 24 | For instance , if loan stock is issued with warrants when profits and share prices are rising , the exercise of the warrants will introduce further equity funds into the company whilst maintaining the higher gearing which the loan stock provides ( as distinct from convertible loan stock which has the effect of withdrawing the cheaper gearing on conversion into equity ) . |
| 25 | Then there was the problem of recovering the larger portions of wreckage , chiefly from the tail areas and rear fuselage of the aircraft . |
| 26 | Later neolithic houses were normally built on a stone footing and this system — building the lower part of the walls of stone , the upper part of mudbrick — became standard in the bronze age . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | That will be the first step towards building the wider Europe for which Britain has long argued . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Push the smaller cloves of garlic into this cavity . |