Example sentences of "[pers pn] in [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are they both unskilled workers or is she in a higher class than her husband ? |
| 2 | Try some of our treats — they 'll put you in a better mood without spoiling your figure |
| 3 | Did it open out a larger world for you , or confine you in a smaller one ? |
| 4 | Byron would not have me in the larger house , claiming that the dogs would never tolerate my presence without howling all night . |
| 5 | ( 4 ) You may use the premises for the sole purpose of … ( 5 ) You will keep the premises clean and tidy and will leave them in no worse condition than that in which they are at the date of this letter and free from rubbish . |
| 6 | It was quite refreshing to see and read that someone else saw these things and could articulate them in a better and more entertaining way than I could |
| 7 | Definitely , yes , I would say like I 've spoke to Brian Horton on Sunday and he more or less said that it 's er Oxford United , fourth position in the league , let's hope so like you know , they are like , and I 've come here maybe to help get them in a better position . |
| 8 | That would leave them in a worse position than they began , because all the T'ang can offer them is money . |
| 9 | No one is quite sure whether there will be more or less of them in a warmer global climate . |
| 10 | A second interpretation of the developments of the 1980s would set them in a longer context , dating back to the late 1960s . |
| 11 | N brief , I suggest that we can best understand the form of modern doctrines by situating them in a broader dialogue within liberal political philosophy concerning the relation between the citizen and the state . |
| 12 | However , although the UK government and others have a variety of policies designed to encourage and stimulate innovation , rather little has been done to assess the effectiveness of these measures , or to consider them in a broader context of structural change and adjustment in a mature industrial economy . |
| 13 | His fortunes are those of a solitary who is due to return to his people and to chance it with them in a further foreign place . |
| 14 | The following details of courses were sent to us recently but we were unable to include them in an earlier issue . |
| 15 | We have decided to amplify the chords by reduplicating them in the higher octave in order to obtain greater clearness and bite . |
| 16 | But the fact remains that twenty seven months after legislation to allow clients to choose solicitors to appear for them in the higher courts came into effect , the Advisory Committee has been unable to advance the process . |
| 17 | However , I will seek to set them in the wider context of the Government 's commitment and programme for the computerisation of general practice . |
| 18 | It was upstairs again , and now twenty-past eight , and she was informed by her apparent new friend that they had to join a small team to clean the toilets , which meant bringing the buckets down stairs , emptying them in the larger buckets arrayed along the wall by a side door ; then wash out each utensil under a pump and return it to its particular cubicle . |
| 19 | The crumbling of the old idea of a state based on obligations and obedience may have helped increase the dynamic force that enabled European countries to spread their authority over most of the world ; the very widespread acceptance of the new idea of a state based on independence and equality gave people outside Europe political principles which helped them in the later struggle to dismantle the European empires . |
| 20 | Before 1290 two successive chief justices of the King 's Bench were clerics , but the next two — from 1290 to 1307 — were laymen ; out of the fifteen judges of that court during Edward 's reign , eight were laymen , most of them in the later years . |
| 21 | There now exist community groups of a greater or lesser degree of militancy which have eschewed political parties as the main vehicle of their demands ( although they often have to use them in the later stages of campaigns ) . |
| 22 | For pupils of high ability , too much of the curriculum was often taken up with preparation for exams , and too little done to stretch them in the earlier years . |
| 23 | But I could do them in the smaller size . ’ |
| 24 | Clement 's prose puts him in a higher class than any of his extant pagan contemporaries , and he was able obliquely to refute pagan critics ( such as Celsus , writing 177–80 ) who thought Christians an anti-cultural lot , by decorating his pages with a rich variety of quotations and allusions taken from classical poetry and philosophy . |
| 25 | Humility is to orient our lives towards God , so that we understand and obey him in a greater and greater sense . |
| 26 | ‘ Never , ’ writes Boswell , ‘ did I see him in a better frame ; calm , gentle , wise , holy ’ — with Johnson opining that the essence of the Crucifixion lay in showing to the world that even the Son of God suffered on account of sin , and in doing so , displayed how heinous a thing sin must be . |
| 27 | On the contrary , his direct line to Hitler and Mussolini placed him in a better position than the monarchists to deal with Axis pressure . |
| 28 | Rodrigo marched into Valencia in triumph , only to learn that his old adversary Berenguer of Barcelona — who had never forgiven the Cid for capturing him in an earlier campaign — had formed an alliance with the Moorish lord of Lerida and El Cid 's own sometime ally Mostain of Saragossa . |
| 29 | But I think I 'll know how to dig him out and take him in the later rounds . ’ |
| 30 | But his son , Tran Van Hieu — that 's him in the darker gown — lives here in Saigon as the court 's Imperial Delegate . |