Example sentences of "[be] [conj] [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His hope has been that better use of woodlands will give the trees greater value , and so farmers and landowners will have an economic reason for managing their woods . |
| 2 | It may be that greater understanding of homosexuals is called for and that all measures aimed at countering misunderstanding should be welcomed . |
| 3 | Spyglass shoulder must be that lower place , there . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , the crucial test must be whether further research along similar lines duplicates these findings . |
| 5 | The clear implication is that greater weight is being given to macro-planning , in the hope that greater effectiveness here will indirectly benefit individual projects . |
| 6 | The question is how this expansion can be paid for , given that the new Secretary of State has said quite candidly that his present view is that higher education can not expect a higher share of public spending than it currently receives . |
| 7 | ‘ The really worrying thing is that higher education is being regarded as a commodity for sale rather than something that we should invest in . |
| 8 | Ultimately , there might have been differences between them in what enlargement meant , but the point is that higher education stood for an overriding and widening development of the mind . |
| 9 | Another way of making the point is that higher education traditionally formed a culture of the written word , albeit a kind of literacy which embodied a restricted code , understood by the few . |
| 10 | However , it adds , an even greater risk is that higher mortgage rates will add to wage pressures . |
| 11 | Another assumption made by Marx throughout his work is that higher technology increases the total leisure time available . |
| 12 | One result is that higher rate taxpayers are switching their long-term deposits to tax free National Savings or to the taxable unit trust money funds such as Fidelity Cash , which pays 9pc gross . |
| 13 | An alternative hypothesis is that lower birth weight results from the phenotypic expression of a genetic β cell defect associated with reduced fetal insulin secretion and reduced anabolic activity in utero . |
| 14 | The only reason to prefer aid , as the EC appears to , is that freer trade could harm its own economies . |
| 15 | It is that further mortgage , which was in all major respects recreating the terms of the September mortgage , which is alleged to be in breach of the court 's order and is the subject of the application for committal for contempt . |
| 16 | A difficulty in interpreting laterality reaction time data according to a fixed anatomical model is that shorter response latencies for uncrossed as compared with crossed reactions would be expected simply on the grounds of stimulus-response ( S-R ) compatibility . |
| 17 | How long is that longer term is still a matter for debate . |
| 18 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that there is no serious argument about the fact that the members of the Association of British Chambers of Commerce are fearful about a possible change of Government , and that the only question open to debate is whether higher taxation is worse than higher interest rates , and whether either is worse than higher inflation ? |
| 19 | The key question is whether greater freedom to decide on the distribution of funding between drugs , staff pay , referrals , and community care will be a boom or a burden . |
| 20 | Historians have to explain how it was that slower increase up to then permitted an expansion of the home market which the later faster rate of population increase did not reverse . |
| 21 | The assumption was that later information would allow some of these paths to be eliminated ; the graph would ‘ narrow ’ because hypotheses at some point were acoustically clearer and/or limited by top-down information . |
| 22 | The only question was whether earlier washing would have prevented the dermatitis . |