Example sentences of "[adj] [adj -er] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Conversely , too much upper pectoral development and too little lower pectoral development gives the impression of a chest that ‘ fades ’ away .
2 The LDP 's share of the vote fell by more than 3 per cent compared with the 1986 lower house elections , and the party won 20 seats fewer than it had possessed at the dissolution ( although 11 independents were later reported to have joined , thereby bringing its total strength to 286 ) .
3 T/t ; U/u ) ; and that each capital letter allele added 3 inches to the individual 's height , each lower case allele added nothing .
4 each lower level package is selected at its latest approved version
5 Seat adjustment is not so easy , however ; if the seat is too close or too distant from the rudder pedals ( in those models so equipped ) , then one must deplane , pick up the seat and re-position one of four pairs of locating holes on each lower seat tube , spaced about an inch apart , on to two floor-mounted prongs .
6 In addition 70 lower ranking police officers were also replaced .
7 And as we see it , that lower case script is not quite good enough to justify what 's there at the moment .
8 He stressed , however , that lower interest rates in the UK would continue to hinge on a policy of strict controls on public spending .
9 Although it is therefore clearly part of the maintained further education sector in Wales , the College has also developed very close working relationships with the nearby University College of Wales , Aberystwyth .
10 The Government have met much of the anxiety of Opposition Members through the provision for a possible further education funding council to be established at a later date .
11 The principal , who has already forecast that the dispute could place the future of the school and 50 jobs in jeopardy , said he was anxious to have talks with the strikers ‘ to explore what they hope to gain through possible further strike action and for how long they are likely to continue . ’
12 As we have seen , when the Conservative government came into office in 1979 , it decided not to implement the Oakes Report proposal that an Advanced Further Education Council for Wales be set up .
13 courses leading to teacher-training qualifications , any application of strict criteria for advanced further education viability , such as a required minimum of twelve students per unit , would have wider ramifications .
14 Finally , a number of local authorities without polytechnics or much in the way of advanced further education provision have considered it unfair that they should nevertheless have to pay sizeable sums of money into the pool .
15 There are , at present , approximately 13,000 students on advanced further education courses in the Principality of whom probably half or less are in the colleges and institutions .
16 On average , therefore , they will each have about 1,000 students on advanced further education courses and many times that number on non-advanced courses .
17 However , both at Cardiff and in North Wales , the courses have recruited mainly from teachers at the operative and craft level and little provision is made for the training of teachers of advanced further education courses .
18 The number of students on advanced further education courses has grown steadily since the beginning of the decade so that in 1981–2 there were almost 14,000 students on advanced courses , more than two-thirds of the almost 20,000 who are presently accommodated by the University of Wales .
19 However , scarcely was the ink dry on the paper when , at the end of December 1981 , the Secretary of State announced in the House of Commons that , ‘ with the agreement of the local authority associations and after consultation with other interested parties ’ , he had decided to establish a new body to advise him on the distribution of the advanced further education pool and on academic provision in local authority institutions of higher education .
20 Finally , as the advanced further education pool is virtually certain to be reduced , in relative terms , in the next few years and consequently the survival of some institutions may be at stake , NAB 's most difficult job is likely to be to steer public sector higher education through the stormy seas ahead with as little long-term damage as possible .
21 As we have seen the initial ‘ capping ’ of the advanced further education pool for the year 1980–1 was achieved on an arbitrary basis which undoubtedly created injustice for many institutions and evoked strong criticism .
22 When determining the size of the advanced further education pool for 1982 , the DES allowed for a drop in the number of new students by 4,000 to 50,000 , despite the fact that the local authorities predicted a further rise in intake , to 56,000 in 1982–3 .
23 This inevitable tension which goes to the heart of the matter and which can be fruitful as well as sterile has been paradoxically heightened by the government 's capping of the advanced further education pool .
24 Instead it capped the advanced further education pool for 1979–80 and set up a Working Group to examine the future management of the pool .
25 It introduced greater control over the advanced further education pool ( known as ‘ capping ’ ) .
26 Especially that further information bit , you 've just got ta say how wondyfu wonderful you are
27 16 to 17 , doing a full-time further education course not above A-level or equivalent standard £20.80
28 18 and over , doing a full-time further education course not above A-level or equivalent standard £27.40
29 Twenty months later , in June 1975 , the sub-committee submitted its first report on the training of full-time further education teachers , known popularly as Haycocks I , to the Secretary of State .
30 As we have noted , Circular 11/77 asked Regional Advisory Councils to draw up plans for the training of full-time further education teachers and to report progress to the DES by September 1978 .
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