Example sentences of "[subord] in [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It is that sort of tradition I shall be seeking to foster , albeit in lower percentage terms , ’ he said .
2 For most women , the number one advantage of the menopause is no more periods , yet here they are again , albeit in lighter form .
3 It is also likely to bring even the larger authorities face to face with the problem of staff mobility — where the absence of one or two people attending an external course may be relatively easily absorbed ( except in smaller authorities ) , internal training is uneconomic for one or two people — and ideally , lends itself to a continuous programme .
4 The most serious attack by wood-boring beetles can cause structural damage , but this is rare except in older houses , nearly all of which have some kind of local attack .
5 Except in larger firms , unanimity might be thought to be desirable in the interests of preventing further splits in the firm , and even where a majority decision is available , a genuine attempt to achieve unanimity should always be made : save in any but the clearest case , exercise of the power by a permitted majority without consultation with the remaining partners would be regarded as being in bad faith .
6 You wo n't notice the first , except in crisper handling ; you ca n't ignore the second , which with 60/40 split rear seat increases versatility no end .
7 The survivors I have interviewed mostly remembered going straight on to piece-work and staying there , although in larger offices , like Clark 's , some experienced Women workers did become stab hands .
8 Although in earlier days Oakridge had its cottage weavers , the mill was built specifically as a silk mill , the business run by a number of different concerns .
9 Presumably it saw service for iron working at some time , although in later life it was used for corn grinding , saw milling , as well as being operated for a time as a maltings .
10 He subsequently went into partnership ; Stratford Mills were operated by Biddle and Bishop during the 1830s , although in later years , other tenants such as corn merchants , Reynolds and Allen , occupied at least part of the mills .
11 They trained to land in various numbers , although in later years some nine men made up the team in a powered dory .
12 So perhaps the total inventory of species during warm times is , in practice , as high or even higher than in cooler times .
13 Certainly , it plays a more important role in higher mammals than in lower ones .
14 More engineering has to be built into these units than in lower temperature ones to enable them to withstand the higher temperature .
15 In adult education , more than in schooling , and more than in higher education , the possibilities for resisting the inevitable are greater , because the learning relationship is not based on compulsion in quite the same way and because there is less male power invested in it .
16 It was clear from a very early stage of our Belfast work that to describe the inner-city phonology was a more complicated task than to describe ‘ middle-class ’ phonology , because there appeared to be much more variability within inner-city language than in higher status language .
17 We have many more people dying in the winter here than in colder countries such as Sweden or Canada . ’
18 Wrangham argues that the formation of large feeding parties ( in which individuals actually eat less than in smaller ones ) may improve the reproductive success of a male community through increasing its probability of winning territorial encounters and hence females .
19 More detailed systems are in place in the larger firms than in smaller ones , as would be expected .
20 In the USA , income in the largest post-war cohorts is indeed about 15 per cent less than in smaller cohorts ( Easterlin 1980 ) and their scholastic education scores have been lower .
21 As the eighteenth century drew to a close , however , the situation was undoubtedly clearer and more regulated than in earlier generations .
22 Although Russia 's eastern expansion was much less extensive than in earlier periods , she increased her influence over northern Persia and joined in the international scramble for influence in China .
23 Revisions in investment intentions were generally smaller in the more stable and buoyant economic environment of the mid to late 1980s than in earlier periods of greater uncertainty .
24 Conditions were perhaps better than in the new urban areas but a good deal worse than in earlier times .
25 Surviving remains date chiefly from the Hellenistic period ; in consequence , the columns are taller and slenderer than in earlier times and have a wider intercolumniation .
26 Under the Tudors the age-old practice of making a will spread down the social scale ; far more wills were made than in earlier times , even though the custom was still restricted to a minority of the population .
27 The emphasis on revolution as ending every stage is , also , much more definitely stated than in earlier works .
28 The total number , though far higher than in earlier studies , is not so significant ; after all , we spent more time tracking in deep water than all previous studies put together .
29 However , the evidence on this has been vigorously contested , especially by Maureen Stone , who argues that ‘ no body of research has ever demonstrated unequivocally that the children of the working-class as a whole , poor children or black children in particular , suffer from poor self-image or self-esteem ’ ( Stone , 1981 , p. 8 ) , while Milner concludes that there are now higher measures on tests of black self-esteem than in earlier studies because of the rise of black political movements in both the USA and Britain which has fostered positive black self-images and consciousness ( Milner , 1983 ) .
30 This has resulted in siblings being born much closer together than in earlier time periods .
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