Example sentences of "[adv prt] the [adj -er] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my first six weeks here I had lots of battles — taking on the bigger ones . |
| 2 | Some of these , along with others to be taken on the lighter mornings will be sent to the Highways Department and to the Edinburgh Evening News with an accompanying letter . |
| 3 | After a few months he could strip down the simpler engines , service and reassemble them . |
| 4 | Perhaps now is the time to run down the older methods and , if this is not the case , maybe some additional training is required . |
| 5 | Face rubbed against face , the taller ones squelching down the shorter ones , the darker ones overshadowing the lighter ones . |
| 6 | Once the topics are agreed , questions will be asked which will fill in the finer points of the hypotheses . |
| 7 | In recently enclosed country we have instead an open regular mesh of by-roads , and a few field-paths and bridle-roads to fill in the larger spaces between the villages . |
| 8 | Our role has been to put forward practical suggestions — and sometimes to rein in the larger ambitions of our partners . |
| 9 | Very limited entrepreneurial ambitions , conspicuous consumption and a tendency to spread their thin investments over many ventures [ the ‘ group of companies ’ mentality ] , a tendency … to only scratch the surface of innovation , the aversion to teaming up with others , all these and other motivational factors are likely to continue to limit the growth of Nigerian enterprises even in those spheres which are exclusively reserved to them and to postpone the day when they may hope to take over the higher reaches of enterprise . |
| 10 | This might suggest that France won the War of the Spanish Succession but nobody in Britain and not many people in France saw the result this way ; it was regarded more as a struggle in which the British asserted themselves militarily on the continent of Europe and began to show signs of a policy of taking over the smaller colonies of other European powers by conquest . |
| 11 | Trim off the lower leaves when taking stem-tip cuttings of heliotrope . |
| 12 | Cut the stem cleanly just beneath a leaf joint ( unless it is one of those for which a ‘ heel ’ of old wood is best left on ) , and trim off the lower leaves . |
| 13 | The shabby ghosts of the Forster coterie waft out once more to pool their romantic gossip ; Forster himself shuffles forward to complain that Joe 's doings with one brawny menial have so put him off the lower classes that he has been obliged to travel first rather than third-class on a railway journey , and once again the air is full of that peculiarly spiritless twitter about guardsmen , homosexual tea parties and cure for pubic lice . |
| 14 | This especially applies to the old bucks , which have been known to kill off the younger bucks , their main rivals , for obvious reasons . |
| 15 | The most irredeemably damned , in their white dinner jackets and turbans or strapless black sheaths and dripping jewellery , clogged up the lower circles , dropping chips onto the grid as if casting swill to the pigs . |
| 16 | A narrow track wound steeply up the lower slopes through dense forest , and then areas of bamboo and giant heather . |
| 17 | Once out of the village they picked up speed and took a road that would zigzag through five hamlets before bringing them to the only cart track that wound up the lower slopes of the mountain . |
| 18 | We were together all the time : played languid games of tennis on the court behind her house , swam , went on picnics , went for long walks up the lower slopes of Kinabalue , the mountain whose green and mauve shadowed mass loomed over Jesselton . |
| 19 | For my part , I sometimes think of the film Psycho as I walk up the bleaker staircases to people 's homes in Hackney . |
| 20 | Then he picked up the fainter smells of buttercups and horses . |
| 21 | More reinforcements flew in yesterday morning from the 7th Infantry Division in Fort Ord , California , to back up the earlier contingents from the 82nd Airborne and the 5th Mechanised Infantry , who launched the initial assaults . |
| 22 | Such cropmarks occur because soil moisture deficiency in gravel subsoils shows up the earlier features . |
| 23 | The king himself led an army into Liddesdale , rounded up the better-known thieves and ‘ tuik of thame to the number of xxxii personis of the greitest of them ’ , including Armstrongs and Elliots . |
| 24 | In the corner of the shed , I find the two short planks Pa uses for leaf collecting and set about scraping up the smaller pieces . |
| 25 | In the wild , smaller billed species of vultures and kites tidy up the smaller remains and clean the bones after the Griffons and Lappet-faced Vultures have had their fill . |
| 26 | While Carl Fogarty took the big race of the day the Superbike , young Dunlop scooped up the smaller classes by landing both 250cc races as well as the 125cc , thus making up for his disappointment of last year when he scored only one win against Phillip McCallen 's five . |
| 27 | Necessary jobs are helping to clear up the smaller branches and making a start on repointing the bridge itself . |
| 28 | We learnt that working together was a lot easier than going solo ; but arguing brought out the better ideas . ’ |
| 29 | Meredith whose walking shoes , though practical enough for most surfaces , were not really adequate for squelching through boggy terrain , made her way along behind her as best she could , seeking out the firmer spots . |
| 30 | Many people also complain that our present hierarchies bring out the nastier aspects of human behavior , like greed , insensitivity , careerism and self-importance . |