Example sentences of "[adv] [adj -er] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Williamson 's romanticism and nature worship , on a rather lower level of theoretical conceptualisation , was to owe much to the books of Richard Jefferies , in particular the sunlight imagery of much of his work . |
| 2 | He found that the Devon , although it was small , gave him good quantities of good beef and rather lower quantities of very creamy milk . |
| 3 | When allowance is made for the rather lower gravity of Venus than of the Earth , and the consequent lower degree of internal compression , then the uncompressed densities of the Earth and Venus would be similar . |
| 4 | The island of Hawaii alone seems to have a long-term average rate of construction of over 0.4 km 3 a- 1 , while Iceland has sustained a rate of about 0.13 km 3 a- 1 during historic time , and a rather lower average of 0.06 km 3 a - 1 over the past 16 Ma . |
| 5 | It appears that black males and females of West Indian origin have a strikingly lower prevalence of both hypercholesterolaemia and hypertriglyceridaemia compared to those of Asian or European extract ( Pacy et al , 1985 ) . |
| 6 | Major award schools , on the other hand , started from a conspicuously lower threshold of library provision and use . |
| 7 | Affects the right lower chest with stitches through to the back ( like in Kali carb . ) . |
| 8 | As the deep black shadow in Glen Keltney closed over them , they moved slowly nearer home in a trance of fatigue . |
| 9 | However , if one has a black hole around , there seems to be a rather easier way of violating the second law : just throw some matter with a lot of entropy , such as a box of gas , down the black hole . |
| 10 | She played little further part as a combatant , stalling later British requests for reinforcements and providing minimal naval assistance in the Mediterranean . |
| 11 | However , when Cromwell fell from power in 1540 , a conservative backlash ensued ; several purges of heretics followed and little further progress towards religious reform was made until after Henry 's death . |
| 12 | Longer , or more frequent , exercise sessions produce little further improvement in fitness level , but do produce an increase in risk of musculoskeletal abnormalities . |
| 13 | They are driven by an altogether broader set of changes in the conditions under which information is circulated and exchanged as a commodity . |
| 14 | I just though it was a simple misprint and with one stroke of the pen I changed ‘ otter ’ to ‘ other ’ , thus effecting a rather broader sweep to Party policy than had been intended . |
| 15 | Now the bounds are becoming blurred and they take on rather broader questions of the social good and morality , personal and public . |
| 16 | These views are similar to those of Heyer , Roberts and Williams ( 1981 ) who discuss rather broader issues of rural development . |
| 17 | Business men who are borrowers naturally want lower interest rates , but I am afraid that the Government have to take a rather broader view of what is in the interests of the economy . |
| 18 | In the rather broader context of a graduated test scheme , evidence of mastery would be needed so that ( i ) a pupil 's achievements could be informatively reported ( e.g. for certification ) , and ( ii ) to indicate readiness for further learning to be undertaken at the next level of a scheme . |
| 19 | The organisation 's persistent lobbying of the council led , he says , to pressure for new policies in the borough , and eventually further funding for the SMG . |
| 20 | Ann Davies , who set up and catalogued WACC 's library , has taken on broader responsibilities in relation to WACC 's Forum Programme . |
| 21 | One of the somewhat stranger requirements of companies in enterprise zones was that they would have to provide central government with only minimal statistical information . |
| 22 | The sky above Quatre Bras was dirtied by the camp-fires , but to the east the rising sun betrayed a much vaster quantity of rising woodsmoke . |
| 23 | Although a large proportion of the population has visual impairment the availability of appropriate glasses or contact lenses means that a much lower percentage of the population has a visual disability . |
| 24 | ‘ While it is almost inevitable that in any money laundering activity a credit or financial institution will be involved , ’ FRAG says , ‘ there is a much lower probability of an accountant being involved … |
| 25 | Bradford City Council gave the quarry owner permission for a much lower generator on a " less visually intrusive " pylon , rather than the tower that has been erected . |
| 26 | Llewellyn-Jones ( 1981a ) describes the assessment of interpreter effectiveness and indicates a much lower performance by interpreters than one would hope for . |
| 27 | The multifactorial model tended to fit better when an intergenerational difference was included ( Z estimated at 0.05 , corresponding to a much lower heritability among parents ( ZH ) than among offspring ( H ) ) , but it was not significantly better ( χ 2 =3.28 , p=0.075 ) . |
| 28 | The char , which operates in a similar manner to activated carbon , but at a much lower cost per tonne , is an efficient treatment for liquid effluents . |
| 29 | Rank for rank , East India Company officers received double the pay of an officer of a royal regiment , while serving in a country with a much lower cost of living . |
| 30 | This calls into question US policy in particular , which had argued that its commitment to phase out CFCs would reduce its contribution to global warming by 20 per cent , and which placed a much lower emphasis on the need for CO2 cuts . |