Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] the [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the budget worsens after revenue-yielding tariffs have been reduced , governments may not be able to wait for the longer term trade gains to emerge to replace the lost revenue . |
| 2 | Dannii was the famous sister but Hardy yet again decided to go for the older girl . |
| 3 | The mites tend to go for the smaller workers , probably because of their safer and passively fed lifestyle . |
| 4 | Let's , let's just put it here , A minus B times A minus B. Now it 's tempting to go for the easier ones in it as you did , so we 'll do the A squared , okay that 's no problem . |
| 5 | The tough leathery top surface of a mature leaf is not so easy to penetrate as the softer epidermis of the underside , which is why mildew in particular can often be found by turning over leaves that are glossy and apparently quite healthy , even protected by fungicidal deposit , on the top . |
| 6 | However its ability to carry through the wider social and economic issues that are now central to its agenda has yet to be proven . |
| 7 | Philip the Fair 's government was often ( sometimes surprisingly ) prepared to compromise during the later stages of his reign , an attitude clearly reflected in the ‘ process ’ of Montreuil in Ponthieu . |
| 8 | Indeed the need to know about the earlier and later stages of a child 's education becomes imperative when schools have to plan the next stage of learning on the basis of achievement so far , when teachers have to evaluate and — if appropriate — change their own teaching , when parents have to be told in detail how their children are progressing and when LEAs , parents and governors have to have information which allows the performance of the school as a whole to be evaluated . |
| 9 | In Chapter 14 we saw that risky activities on average will need to earn a higher rate of return to compensate for the higher risks involved . |
| 10 | It also revealed the paltry sums thrown at such communities by BC to compensate for the lower quality of life they are forced to endure . |
| 11 | In this case , the implied forward rate ( rearranging ( 7.15 ) ) is and the implied forward premium is i.e. , sterling is expected to depreciate against the dollar by 4.5 per cent to compensate for the lower US interest rate . |
| 12 | In this context the authors note that ‘ equalizing ’ income differentials ( higher income to compensate for the lower attractiveness of some jobs ) are normally swamped by ‘ accentuating ’ differentials ( such as status and recognition following high income ) . |
| 13 | In the UK , attempts to gain greater value for money have been related more to the present depressed economic climate than any need to provide for the wider accountability of government expenditure . |
| 14 | I 'm in a position to defeat stereotypes , to work for the greater good for women who do n't enjoy the privileges that I have . ’ |
| 15 | Doctors and nurses are sometimes too busy to worry about the finer points and a woman in labour is in no position to argue . ’ |
| 16 | In all cases , give yourself time to work into the faster tempo by running the first one comfortably and then gradually applying the pressure . |
| 17 | calls upon the working class to concentrate upon the greater war at hand , namely , the class war . |
| 18 | One of the major criticisms that is made of senior management is its unwillingness to let go of the reins of an organisation , to delegate routine tasks and to concentrate upon the longer term . |
| 19 | There was one girl called Clara whom she used to meet in the lower corridor an hour before classes began : they had long discussions about Tolstoy , Maeterlinck and Ibsen , and were suspected of immorality . |
| 20 | It can be limited across the whole country or across wide areas liable to suffer in the longer term ( for example , on all permeable soils such as on chalk , limestone , sand or sandstone ) . |
| 21 | He argues that the small firms sector is particularly well situated to benefit from the wider enterprise opportunities offered by the single market and should not be tied down by EC red tape . |
| 22 | That is why today , some years on , at a Lloyd club near you , there is the opportunity not only to play tennis ( naturally ) squash , and racket ball , but also to benefit from the wider aspects of health and fitness via the clubs fitness facilities and aerobics classes . |
| 23 | As the casualty lists mounted , so signs of strain began to appear within the higher commands on both sides , almost simultaneously . |
| 24 | State-sponsored housing began to reach further down the social scale than previously and house building under subsidy began to increase in the later 1920s . |
| 25 | The bill 's most contentious provision , which has polarised the profession 's two branches , sets up a framework for solicitors to appear in the higher courts , now the barrister 's preserve . |
| 26 | The bill 's most contentious provision , which has polarised the profession 's two branches , sets up a framework for solicitors to appear in the higher courts , now the preserve of barristers . |
| 27 | But criticism of the package , which will end the barristers ' monopoly right to appear in the higher courts and transfer a huge chunk of the High Court 's caseload to the county courts , was considerably less strident than when the original green paper proposals were debated last April . |
| 28 | About three-quarters of the judges are educated at public schools and Oxford or Cambridge , but there are also other factors that reinforce their exclusiveness : their socialization into the legal life via their training as barristers ( that is those entitled to appear in the higher courts ) and the need to demonstrate professional competence in order to ‘ take silk ’ , that is become a Queen 's Counsel and thus gain themselves a place among the elite of barristers from whom judges are chosen . |
| 29 | As a result of the feeling of greater ease , decorative touches and small colouristic accents begin to appear in the smaller canvases of both men . |
| 30 | At first you seemed to concentrate on the later works , the Fourth Symphony onwards . |