Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] an [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had moved in with an older man , TV director Roger Brackett . |
| 2 | His trainer puts that improvement down to an earlier copper deficiency . |
| 3 | Its devotees felt badly let down by an earlier boom set off by ‘ Urban Cowboy ’ , a 1980 film starring John Travolta . |
| 4 | Sadat had ordered photographs of the Shah , left over from an earlier state visit , to be mounted along the route . |
| 5 | If an allotted day is one to which a Motion for the adjournment of the House under Standing Order No. 20 ( Adjournment on specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration ) stands over from an earlier day , paragraph ( 1 ) of Standing Order No. 14 ( Exempted business ) shall apply to the proceedings on the Bill for a period of time equal to the duration of the proceedings on that Motion . |
| 6 | ( 4 ) If an allotted day is one to which a Motion for the adjournment of the House under Standing Order No. 20 stands over from an earlier day , the bringing to a conclusion of any proceedings on the Bill which under this Order are to be brought to a conclusion on that day shall be postponed for a period equal to the duration of the proceedings on that Motion . |
| 7 | Well this , this is what I 'm saying , if it had been picked up and followed through at an earlier stage he would have been ensconced |
| 8 | I had more luck with partners this time — I was paired off with an older girl who I got along with fine , and we readied ourselves to go out . |
| 9 | To add to the degree of difficulty in Lisbon , the Portuguese are without their outstanding striker Paulo Futre , banned for two matches after being sent off in an earlier game . |
| 10 | Yet , like so many others brought up through an older tradition , I was only indirectly aware of their nature , or even of their existence . |
| 11 | The bunkers ate into the fairway at around the 240-yard mark to cool the aggressive ardour of the professional golfer who might try to cut the slight dogleg and set himself up for an easier shot into the two-tier green . |
| 12 | In this case , however , it may be that present sea level coincides with an older sea level to so close a degree that the erosion platform merely represents the trimming up of an earlier one . |
| 13 | To pick up on an earlier theme , there are two main traditions in penal reform . |
| 14 | A structural analysis of regional gravity and aeromagnetic data from northern Britain has been completed , following on from an earlier study of southern Britain . |
| 15 | During the trial , the jury heard how the assault had led on from an earlier flight between the two men over a woman . |
| 16 | Several safety audits had been carried out after an earlier explosion in 1984 , but Occidental , the owners , never released the findings . |
| 17 | The site is particularly important because it is one of the few such castles to have developed out of an earlier Norman stone-built ring-work fort . |
| 18 | Jedi grew out of an earlier development effort that led to Apple Events , Apple 's application-messaging infrastructure , and AppleScript . |
| 19 | Jedi grew out of an earlier development effort that led to Apple Events , Apple 's application-messaging infrastructure , and AppleScript . |
| 20 | This research grew out of an earlier project ( funded by the Leverhulme Trust and the History of the University of Oxford ) to collect data on the social origins , university experience and career destination of a stratified 10% sample of Oxford University 's twentieth century members . |
| 21 | This project arises out of an earlier ESRC-funded study in England and France which revealed unexpected and significant differences in teachers ' approach to their classroom practice in the two countries . |
| 22 | If , however , the lessor 's title is itself only registered as good leasehold ( if , for example , the lessor is granting an underlease out of an older leasehold title ) you may not be able to obtain a better title than good leasehold for the underlease ; a position that a mortgagee will normally accept if there 's no alternative . |
| 23 | There are some identifiable developed deities ; there are some incongruously primitive daemons too , which may look back towards an earlier period of religious feeling ; there are also some images of divinities which seem to be relatively poorly assimilated foreign imports . |
| 24 | She 'd been out with an earlier crew . |
| 25 | And the overall groupings which we finally evolved for this book in terms of life focus also turn out to be remarkably close to the clusters of life styles picked out in an earlier American study taking just this perspective , Robert Williams and Claudine Wirths 's Lives through the Years . |
| 26 | As pointed out in an earlier chapter , security was placed in the hands of the army as part of the innovations of the Whitelaw administration . |
| 27 | With these we may compare the more primitive diagrams of reactions set out in an earlier and elementary work , J. B. Scoffern 's Chemistry no Mystery , of which the second edition was published in 1848 . |
| 28 | I have pointed Out in an earlier essay , for example , that the distribution of certain fossils corresponds remarkably well with the old Austro-Hungarian Empire , though it is doubtful whether the Hapsburgs had much control over evolution . |
| 29 | Plans had been put in hand as early as 1978 ( the so-called ‘ Ridley plan ’ : Young , 1990 , pp. 358–60 ) to tackle the miners in a later confrontation on terms favourable to the government ; indeed , because the conditions were not felt to be ripe , the government pulled back from an earlier potential confrontation in 1981 , and allowed a large pay settlement for the NUM ( Young , 1990 ) . |
| 30 | It was superbly performed and I found it enjoyable , although it did seem to hark back to an earlier period of American modern dance . |