Example sentences of "[noun pl] in the [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a policy which reinforced traditional methods in the older sectors of industry and placed a premium on short-term production at the expense of innovative development . |
| 2 | Using staining techniques and toxins that specifically destroy individual nerve cells , neuroscientists have been able to trace the pathway of nerves that send acetylcholine signals in the higher cortex back to their origin , a small region of the forebrain known as the nucleus basalis of Meynert . |
| 3 | I think we would have advanced to the stage we are at had we not used animals in the earlier stages for medical research . |
| 4 | Among the confused jottings in the larger notebook he found this : |
| 5 | Both indigenous and immigrant working classes have at various times staked claims to be considered the true backbone of ‘ the nation ’ ( as against a decadent aristocracy or unpatriotic bourgeoisie for example ) through various institutions of public propriety ( churches , labour organizations , community associations ) which at the same time defend the integrity of their own traditions against negative influences in the wider society . |
| 6 | The contribution of duodenogastrooesophageal reflux may be just one of a number of damaging influences in the lower oseophagus of patients with Barrett 's oesophagus . |
| 7 | While small influences in the short term may add up to large influences in the longer term we must conclude that , within an election campaign , television could influence but not dictate the public agenda . |
| 8 | We are still far from the " permissive society " which is fantasised alike by the prurient and the repressive ; but many of the taboos and at least a part of the secrecy and guilt feeling which surrounded sexual considerations in the earlier lifetime of many people have gone . |
| 9 | All information is shaped by its creating organisation , so how does the culture , organisation and pace of change within the company affect the management of information , particularly its availability for use by third parties in the longer term ? |
| 10 | All information is shaped by its creating organisation , so how does the culture , organisation and pace of change within the company affect the management of information , particularly its availability for use by third parties in the longer term ? |
| 11 | More was added to this general picture by the six case-study schools and by some headteachers in the larger survey in response to open questions : |
| 12 | Again , the police ( who had only a marginal role in enforcing the new order , and who sometimes perhaps accepted it with less than utter enthusiasm ) were more likely to have diverse tribal allegiances in the larger settlements nearer the cities or in strategically more significant places . |
| 13 | Only a day after reporting the second year of falling personal computer sales ( CI No 2,157 ) , the Japan Electronic Industry Development Association says that Japanese manufacturers ' shipments of personal computers jumped 6.2% in unit terms during the January to March quarter from a year earlier , and the rise in combined exports and domestic sales to 688,000 units from 648,000 units in the year-earlier quarter marked the first quarterly rise in two years ; exports rocketed 31% to 144,000 units but domestic shipments only inched up 1.1% to 544,000 units , but was still the first quarterly increase in two-and-a-half years ; because of the price wars , combined export and domestic shipments of made-in-Japan micros — when measured in currency terms , fell 8.3% — exports and home sales each off 8% . |
| 14 | Such a reorientation requires , first , political will , and , second , institutional restructuring ( by , for example , universities and polytechnics in the higher education sector ) to facilitate the sort of programming discussed in this chapter ( and similar developments in analogous fields ) . |
| 15 | There are several more groups of odd echinoderms in the Lower Palaeozoic rocks — some of them only recently discovered , like the bizarre helicoplacoids , which look like nothing so much as spinning tops ( see p. 84 ) . |
| 16 | Banding is acceptable , but some of the bands are too wide and a further band within the £12,500 to £19,499 range should also assist in reducing the adverse impact on cars in the higher price range . |
| 17 | The contribution which the College makes directly to the development of librarianship and allied subjects in the further education sector in Wales is however limited , if the evidence of the research interests of the staff and the published list of student projects are anything to go by . |
| 18 | There can be little doubt that one of the main reasons for the urban problem is a reduction in both economic activity and employment opportunities in the older conurbations . |
| 19 | A tragic number of those best equipped to explain the Council 's teaching retired from the clergy in the later 1960s and the 1970s , and thereafter were disqualified from teaching as a ministry in the Church , though there is no moral justification for a general judgement that such persons become unworthy to teach . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | For all its sophistication , however , it fails to place central-local relationships in the wider political and economic setting . |
| 22 | The main difference , in principle , is that the version of world-system theory addressed concentrates on structural change in terms of technical innovation and the division of labour , whereas the regulationist school locates those aspects in the broader framework of changes in the structure of industrial relations , the state 's economic policy , the financial structures and the concentration of industry . |
| 23 | Those authorities show that , in approaching the language of the Act of 1986 , one must pay particular attention to the purposes and policies of its own provisions and be wary of simply carrying over uncritically meanings which had been given to similar words in the earlier Act . |
| 24 | The long hot summers , coupled with perhaps a spell in oak casks , dish up the gooseberries in the friendlier guise of stewed fruit with sugar . |
| 25 | At the same time , there was an increase in the number of elderly people seeking retirement homes in the cheaper and more attractive areas away from the more urbanized regions ( Law and Warnes , 1976 ) . |
| 26 | THE Government is committed to allowing solicitors as well as barristers to represent their clients in the higher courts , the Lord Chancellor , Lord Mackay of Clashfern , said last night . |
| 27 | It is not a question with an answer , for all these ‘ realities ’ are illusions in the wider sense . |
| 28 | Apart from presiding over their own hierarchies they might also , as they most certainly did in Medieval Christendom , play important roles in the wider community of the state . |
| 29 | Implementation of the Community Care Act is now upon us , yet many organisations have not really begun to explain to potential clients and stakeholders in the wider community exactly what care management is , who care managers are , what they will do , and what a care package can include . |
| 30 | With them she talked , looked at the latest exhibitions , ate in tiny restaurants in the Quartier Latin that smelled deliciously of garlic and wine and smarter ones in the Champs-Elysees , wandered about the city marvelling at how little physical damage the Nazis had done , and had a marvellous time . |