Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Properly applied better-off tests would have highlighted how the lack of competition in an internalised link imposes extra costs . |
| 2 | Psychiatrists rarely visited younger patients at home unless a compulsory admission appeared necessary , but community psychiatric nurses were in close touch , often through their administration of regular depot injections . |
| 3 | Subsequent meetings with David Wood , far from resolving the enigma of Rennes-le-Chateau , only revealed greater complexity as new geometry was discovered . |
| 4 | In several instances , however , this tactic apparently caused greater discomfort to President George Bush than to Clinton , and strengthened the view that the Bush campaign was suffering from inept management . |
| 5 | Those patients attending general practice alone showed better control when compared with those having shared care with a hospital outpatient clinic . |
| 6 | It is usually held in October or November and I thought that holding it today perhaps heralded better news or that we were on the brink of a breakthrough or a decision . |
| 7 | The firm of Wilkes , Son and Cassey ceased trading in 1926 , the business and premises were purchased by The Salisbury Co-operative Society Limited who then only stocked larger items of ironmongery and added a furniture department on the first floor . |
| 8 | The Quality Assurance Unit has provided for schools a much needed closer contact with ‘ the Authority ’ . |
| 9 | Add this to the fact that their two new guitarists have added a much needed harder edge to their typically English , whimsical pop and its indie dance grooves . |
| 10 | Writing about the passage of the Bill through Parliament , Nigel Warner suggests that the net result of the fact that Abse 's Bill merely amended earlier legislation prohibiting homosexual behaviour , rather than repealing it , is that such behaviour remains unlawful , except for the circumstances included in the new Act , and he quotes Norman St John Stevas ' recognition of this fact . |
| 11 | British & Commonwealth Holdings especially favoured smaller search firms ; they had received generally good service and quick results from those they had used , and appreciated the personal contact and cheaper price . |
| 12 | Thomas de Quincey was by any standards a sensitive little boy ; when he was nearly seven , his much loved elder sister , Elizabeth , died . |
| 13 | In its aftermath Mrs Thatcher apparently took greater care to consult the Cabinet more fully and was overruled by it on the proposed sale of British Leyland to the US-based General Motors . |
| 14 | ‘ Universities suddenly demanded higher entrance standards and became much harder to get into , ’ he says . |
| 15 | However , the long awaited Brasher Mountain Master , designed for mountain walking was launched , completing their modest range of three ; the Fell Master , the Hill Master and the Mountain Master . |
| 16 | So did older people . |
| 17 | As organizational head of all CIA operations on the North American continent , Hayman literally had greater power than heads of State or European monarchy . |
| 18 | But all this is a different story , for the bomber aircrews not only had better aircraft to take the war to Berlin , they had better navigational aids , better weaponry , the Pathfinder Force , radio counter-measures , better planning and a host of other factors to make them more effective . |
| 19 | Cartwright 's study in the early 1960s showed that doctors practising in middle-class areas not only had smaller lists of patients than their colleagues in working-class areas but they were also better trained and they had better contacts with hospitals . |
| 20 | Some supporters of what became known as the free produce movement none the less had earlier experience of boycotting West Indian rum and sugar . |
| 21 | The message , which apparently tempered earlier calls for a more radical approach to the Baltic republics was , however , received differently by Ukrainian leaders who highlighted the significance of Bush 's visit , the first undertaken by a US leader on a state visit . |
| 22 | In the event the reactions of Coalition Liberal ministers were so uniformly hostile that Lloyd George moved quickly into reverse ; when he met Coalition Liberal MPs , he merely suggested greater cooperation with Unionists and did not mention fusion as such . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , through fixed ages for the receipt of pensions , these reforms also forcibly prevented older people being productive members of the society and thereby reduced their social status . |
| 24 | You know she just got bigger dog . |
| 25 | Well not really material just got better taste than me |
| 26 | Catholic areas generally retained higher fertility than Protestant ones . |
| 27 | The former suggests that retirement spread through unfettered consumer desire for more leisure , that industrialization progressively excluded older workers but also created the national wealth and political will ( through the establishment of mass democracy ) to support them on state pension schemes , and that increasing personal prosperity led to the individual 's growing ability to save through a private pension . |
| 28 | And the plight of even generously endowed younger sons like William Rufus and Eon of Penthièvre could arouse sympathy among their contemporaries . |
| 29 | As a non-GATT member its goods generally faced higher tariffs and other trade barriers in world markets . |
| 30 | Stocky , adaptable and full of vim , Mark has all the hallmarks of the bona fide allrounder , wielding a stubborn blade in addition to the accurate seam-up that has already seen more than one class act tumble before a shrewdly concealed slower ball . |