Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj -er] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems likely that the condition of the roads had begun to grow uneven after Aberdeen : today , upon leaving the main road , the castle , now ruined , may only be approached on pockmarked and muddy lanes , and if these approximate to the surfaces upon which Johnson had to travel once he entered a remoter Scotland , his pace may be understood and excused , and his courage further applauded . |
| 2 | The first of those points is the principle of a Greater York dimension to the structure plan , erm we 'll all probably be aware that in the original structure plan the Secretary of State was n't prepared to accept a Greater York dimension in the structure plan , but did accept with the support of the district councils on the first alteration , the inclusion of a Greater York dimension . |
| 3 | But when he got down to the streets where we live he said , ‘ If people want a cleaner Britain , they can start with their own street and their own neighbourhood ’ . |
| 4 | The finding that adaptation is more profound in the LVF than the RVF , on the other hand , would be consistent with the results of Meyer ( 1976 ) , who found a stronger McCollough effect in the LVF , but would not support the findings of Beaton and Blakemore ( 1981 ) who observed no hemispheric difference in extent of adaptation or orientation selectivity in either of their two well-practised subjects . |
| 5 | She caught a later Belfast-Manchester flight . |
| 6 | I 'll go straight into er item two A I think the first thing the County Council would would wish to say this erm examination is that er today we are really seeing the culmination of I suspect er ten year work erm in Greater York by the Greater York authority and a particularly intensive period of work over the last five years , er by the Greater York authorities , the paper that I put round N Y five the matter two A really addresses the history and why we reached the conclusions corporately that we have and as all as we 've already indicated erm progress was able to be made when the Secretary of State included a Greater York er dimension erm into the er into the structure plan in a the first alteration , erm and that enabled a body of work to be undertaken by the Greater York authority , and I think I ought to say at this point that the Greater York authority comprises of the County Council er and five District Councils , and there you have six different councils , all with an interest in the future of Greater York , sitting down together , trying to sort out the way in which the future of Greater York erm ought ought to be developed , and the means they did it did that of course was through the Greater York study , which began in nineteen eighty eight and started off immediately with a study of forty , fifty development , potential development sites , erm in and around er er Greater York which produced a report , as I said in on page three of the of N Y five , around about April nineteen eighty nine , the conclusions of which were quite clearly unacceptable to erm members of the Greater York authority , because they saw quite clearly , and they were supported by the public in this , that to continue peripheral development , which had been the pattern of development in the Greater York area , erm certainly through the sixties and seventies er was unacceptable in terms of its impact on settlements , and particularly er its impact erm on erm erm the York greenbelt which still at that stage erm had yet to be made statutory , and that was again one of the main stimuli to making progress , the need to s formally define er the York greenbelt . |
| 7 | Volleyball : Chelmsford Partners women 's volleyball side are banking on a wealth of experience to give them the edge this Sunday in their first English Volleyball Association Cup Final.The team has an average age of nearly 34 , but they still fancy their chances of defeating a younger Sheffield Wednesday at Riverside ( start 1.30 pm ) . |
| 8 | ‘ We recognise all the work that goes in to promoting a greener Middlesbrough and what we are doing here will hopefully strengthen that community involvement . ’ |
| 9 | The Croatian leadership , however , denounced this as an attempt to create a Greater Serbia , and insisted that peacekeeping forces should be on the legal republican borders . |
| 10 | The truncated enzymes also show a shorter DNAaseI footprint than the wild-type enzyme and protection against hydroxyl-radical cleavage does not extend further upstream from position -42 ( lower strand ) ( data not shown ) . |
| 11 | Peter Ludwig , the Cologne-based art collector and chocolate magnate whose collection of art is exhibited throughout Europe ( see survey in The Art Newspaper No. 23 , December 1992 , p.12 ) , is to open a further Ludwig Gallery in Moscow , on the premises of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts . |
| 12 | The election of Joshi , a professor of physics at Allahabad University , confirmed a wider BJP move to bring younger leaders to the fore . |
| 13 | On Dec. 19 the US State Department confirmed a further NBC report that Israel had bought 2,000,000 barrels of oil from Iran in mid-November 1989 . |
| 14 | He 's just a little immature at present , but I do n't think you 'll see a better Aintree horse . ’ |
| 15 | When I told him that I would also like to buy a smaller Popova , he objected , ‘ No , I 'm keeping this because it 's small and it can always be hung anywhere , but these big ones … where can they go ? ’ |
| 16 | The model F100/Turbo includes a faster PCL formatter , designed for all the new higher-speed models , and is for those that have the most demanding PCL formatting requirements . |
| 17 | Familial left handers showed a greater RVF superiority , the group-by-visual field interaction being significant ( at least with unilateral trials ) . |
| 18 | In terms of vocal reaction time Bradshaw and Taylor ( 1979 ) found that inverted sinistrals showed a weaker RVF superiority than non-inverters . |
| 19 | The Department of the Environment 's own statistics give a Greater London average council tax for two adults of £478 . |
| 20 | PMF BRITISH PRODUCTS BUILDING A BETTER BRITAIN |
| 21 | CAS also had displays at three exhibitions : ‘ Property Week ’ at Olympia ; the Daily Telegraph ‘ Individual Homes ’ at the NEC ; and ‘ Building a Better Britain ’ at the Business Design Centre , London . |
| 22 | It is about time that the Government accepted their responsibility for all sorts of things — for example , the rising unemployment levels , the rundown of the health service , the lack of measures to reduce homelessness and the failure of their economic policy to generate growth and investment to end the recession so that we can build a better Britain . |
| 23 | With a precision approach allowing a lower DH , then the missed approach is initiated immediately on reaching the DH if there is no visual contact . |
| 24 | It was said that Dinah Arkwright made a finer Lady Macbeth than Mrs Siddons . |
| 25 | So we are proposing an aggressive programme of new prevention initiatives … to promote a healthier America and to help keep costs from spiralling . |
| 26 | There 's no alternative , I 'm afraid , to covering up for a few days , using a higher SPF sunscreen and taking care to stay out of the sun as much as possible . |
| 27 | I 've also got an early '60s L-series Strat and I 've never played a better Strat than that one , but I do n't use it live in case I lose it . |
| 28 | However , Austria has already submitted its request for full membership of the EC and this might be followed by Norway and Sweden if the attempt to negotiate a wider West European unity breaks down . |
| 29 | Labour , which says it will create a Greater London Authority to fill the hole left by the ‘ spiteful ’ destruction of the GLC , promises the new body will not be a re-creation of Mr Livingstone 's power-base , but a leaner , hungrier outfit . |
| 30 | Poor care is likely to be given throughout the inpatient stay thereby increasing the actual mortality and giving a higher SMR . |