Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] the [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further he comments that the male has the greater discretion of reason . |
| 2 | The wedge cushion has the further advantage of allowing the patient to see his legs without effort . |
| 3 | Nothing about " what it is like " to see blue or red tells us which light has the longer wavelength . |
| 4 | This programme covers the earlier and most rewarding stages of the mission and includes the encounters with Jupiter and Saturn . |
| 5 | Which side bears the larger sunk costs ? |
| 6 | Somebody measures how the gas is distributed between the cylinders before the valve opens and after it closes , writes the results on two cards , and asks you to tell which card describes the earlier state and which the later . |
| 7 | Our planetary greenhouse effect increases the lower atmospheric temperature by about 32–34 °C , producing a life-sustaining average temperature of around 15 °C . |
| 8 | An increasing imbalance between accumulation and supplies of additional labour requires the faster scrapping of old plant to speed up the transfer of workers to new means of production . |
| 9 | Yet his ambition gets the better of him in Act 1 Scene 5 where Malcolm is named Prince of Cumberland and he realises he has to stop Malcolm and also decides to kill the king and not leave the kingship to fate . |
| 10 | This decrease reflects the lower numbers of people in the population aged 80+ . |
| 11 | This chapter examines the broader economic circumstances of non-institutionalized elderly people , and the way these have changed over the last eighty years , to see how far and in what areas they may challenge the assertions of the ‘ structured dependency ’ school of authors . |
| 12 | On the general desert surface the wind removes the finer products in suspension and may shift the sand by saltation and surface creep , thus leaving a surface of gravel or bare rock . |
| 13 | In addition , if the probability differs from 0.5 , there comes a point where the higher probability of the smaller loss outweighs the lower probability of the larger gain and unequal distributions are prescribed . |
| 14 | If they are deliberately turned up the ‘ right ’ way , they appear doubly solid , as the brighter light strikes the paler area . |
| 15 | Using four different methods , this chapter has demonstrated that the ‘ hidden ’ sector represents the greater part of Wirral 's heroin-using population , some two-thirds of the total . |
| 16 | The longer this salad chills the better the flavour . |
| 17 | Of the two , the tapas bar offers the greater choice to the weight- and health-conscious ; dishes usually include low-calorie grilled or marinated shrimp , mushrooms , squid , sardine bites , chicken wings , and tomato toasts . |
| 18 | To its south lies the smaller Hatfield Moor , still quite large enough to get lost in . |
| 19 | A good deal of role confusion and bewilderment as the growing child encounters the newer ways is to be expected and observed . |
| 20 | Fertility conditions play a part then , and as hard pruning provokes the greater growth response , we should judge to ease back a little on poor , dry soils compared with more fertile conditions . |
| 21 | Although the authorities conflict , it has been laid down that the new doctrine of reckless manslaughter supersedes the older doctrine of manslaughter by gross negligence . |
| 22 | Safa contrasts the stronger links that exist between the two sectors in Colombia as compared with those between the two sectors in the less-developed economy of an area like northern Nigeria ( Safa 1982 ) . |
| 23 | Their light-hearted attitude balances the greater seriousness of events in The Three Commanders , for they still scamper into adventure as their respective ships operate against slave-traders off the African coast and when they carry troops and fight battles off the Turkish coast during the Crimean War . |
| 24 | A fine nerve fibre accompanies the larger veins of many insects ( Fudalewicz-Niemczyk , 1963 ) and a degenerate trachea known as " Semper 's rib " is present in Lepidoptera alongside the ordinary trachea within the vein cavity ( Fig. 29 ) . |
| 25 | Some astronomers think that the more rapidly a body accretes the hotter it gets , and that for the outer Moon to have melted it is necessary for the Moon to have accreted in roughly 0.01 Ma . |
| 26 | A café curtain is an ideal way of giving privacy if you are overlooked , or for blocking out an unwanted view , as this type of curtain covers the lower half of the window permanently , leaving the top half uncovered . |
| 27 | Intermediate wringing during the drying stage speeds up the process , as mop absorption rates vary in that the more water a mop holds the slower it picks up more water . |
| 28 | There is only the lower half of the hero on the sherd but he is identified by the club , an unusually thin example , and with a cross hilt one expects on a sword , on his right hangs the lower part of the lion skin , behind him on the left are two long-necked birds , identifying this Labour , although there is no evidence of the bow ( fig. 14.35 ) . |
| 29 | We will see , wrote Harsnet , whether he parts with it or not , whether his greed gets the better of his sentimentality . |
| 30 | It has a good lock in case my lust for your luscious body gets the better of me . ’ |