Example sentences of "[subord] the [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last night ministers continued to look at a compromise prepared by the EC commissioner Sir Leon Brittan , incorporating a Dutch-led formula where the higher level would be the norm but governments would have the option of asking Brussels to intervene for mergers breaking £1.4bn . |
| 2 | There is no mention at all of Elizabethan poetic drama , where the pentameter line is used with increasingly greater freedom and flexibility . |
| 3 | ‘ The constable has a duty to tell the defendant of his right to have the specimens of breath replaced by what I shall call a section [ 7(4) ] specimen , where the intoximeter readings show 50 microgrammes of alcohol or less in 100 millilitres of breath . |
| 4 | FIGURE 7 : The American technique , where the lower foot has all crampon points in contact with the slope , while the upper one front points . |
| 5 | Where the lower orders of life have to make do with conditioned reflexes which so operate on behaviour as to limit conflict to levels that do not threaten the species , man — blessed as he is with free will — must institutionalise or die . |
| 6 | Significantly a third of them regularly took their cars abroad , where the lower diesel fuel prices on the Continent are an added attraction . |
| 7 | ‘ Staircase locks , or Risers , ’ he says , ‘ are locks arranged in a flight without intermediate pounds , where the lower gates of one lock act as the upper gates of the next . |
| 8 | The Minister did not accept our argument that there is great virtue in having a forum , a central organisation , where the further education world could concentrate its arguments , debate policy and move forward . |
| 9 | Chives are amongst the most well-known of culinary herbs , and their delicate onion flavour has been added to food where the stronger onion would overwhelm everything else , for hundreds of years . |
| 10 | For the most part they took over existing routes , though in the hillier parts of the country they were responsible for the making of entirely new stretches of road where the older roads tackled gradients suitable only for foot-passengers and pack-horses . |
| 11 | But where the older woman 's eyes lay in elongated hollows , the younger one 's were round , lying almost flush with the unlined skin . |
| 12 | The club is split into a disco , where the younger set cavorts under strobe lights in front of a showroom line-up of prestige Western cars . |
| 13 | Where the younger brother was moderate and willing to compromise , aware of the rights and claims of his subjects and of the impossibility of ruling despotically , the elder was conscious of no such limitation and , with the highest intentions , was deeply intolerant of all opposition . |
| 14 | ‘ Let's just say I 'm sceptical where the fairer sex are concerned . ’ |
| 15 | The most dramatic of these increases in percentage terms are , not surprisingly , to be found where the earlier payment was small , as at Lavenham , Totnes and Tiverton , but even major centres such as Norwich and Coventry , which had been assessed at quite a high level in 1334 , showed a percentage increase above the national average . |
| 16 | Where the earlier forms of corporal punishment were directed at the body of the convict , disciplinary punishment aimed , via the body , at the ‘ soul ’ of the offender . |
| 17 | Is this where the earlier distinction returns : that ‘ art ’ depends on conscious performance ? |
| 18 | Housing is a basic need and it is therefore to be expected that the lower income groups will pay a higher proportion of their income to meet housing costs than the higher income groups , in spite of the fact that they live in less adequate accommodation . |
| 19 | Denmark has made cuts in employment and sickness benefits and France required hospital patients to contribute towards non-medical services and uprated welfare benefits in line with current inflation rather than the higher level of the previous year . |
| 20 | The effect of the adjustment is greater in the lower than the higher grades , reflecting the fact that the mediating factors show progressive differences across the employment grades . |
| 21 | Corpuscular or particulate radiation appears in the form of protons and neutrons which take longer to reach the earth 's upper atmosphere than the higher energy radiations . |
| 22 | Overall taxation and benefits also reduce the final income of richer groups in the population , but less than the higher rates of income tax for high earners would suggest . |
| 23 | The object objective in six should be to minimize the loss of that land and to take the land in the l in the lower grade within the best and most versatile , rather than the higher grade . |
| 24 | In laying out a chord which covers a wide range the bottom two octaves or so should be less densely populated with notes than the higher altitudes . |
| 25 | At post mortem , the low fibre diet rats had more abnormalities and tumours of body tissue than the higher fibre diet rats . |
| 26 | Hotelware will continue to be an important part of the Group 's business , probably with greater emphasis on finer , domestic-type designs rather than the heavier weight catering product . |
| 27 | Thus , according to mean daily temperatures , the warmest months are July and August ( 12.9°C ) rather than the sunnier months of May and June , while the coldest are January and February ( 4.1°C ) , displaying a similar , if less marked , lag . |
| 28 | Although women were in practice doing exactly the same work as certain categories of men , they too perceived the division of labour as a gender division , and took as their point of reference for equality the " all-round comp " , whom both masters and men held up as the exemplar , rather than the humbler linesman . |
| 29 | The new prints still took their inspiration from the past but were more likely to be derived from the printed silks of eighteenth-century Lyons or the pattern books of Victorian designers and architects than the simpler fly leaves of books upon which Laura had formerly relied . |
| 30 | However , if an agent is enjoying the wine with a Bryan Adams , he or she may be drinking the vinegar with a manager 's smaller act who makes much more work than the bigger act , with absolutely no income . |