Example sentences of "[is] [conj] [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The clear implication is that greater weight is being given to macro-planning , in the hope that greater effectiveness here will indirectly benefit individual projects .
2 The question is how this expansion can be paid for , given that the new Secretary of State has said quite candidly that his present view is that higher education can not expect a higher share of public spending than it currently receives .
3 ‘ The really worrying thing is that higher education is being regarded as a commodity for sale rather than something that we should invest in .
4 Ultimately , there might have been differences between them in what enlargement meant , but the point is that higher education stood for an overriding and widening development of the mind .
5 Another way of making the point is that higher education traditionally formed a culture of the written word , albeit a kind of literacy which embodied a restricted code , understood by the few .
6 However , it adds , an even greater risk is that higher mortgage rates will add to wage pressures .
7 Another assumption made by Marx throughout his work is that higher technology increases the total leisure time available .
8 One result is that higher rate taxpayers are switching their long-term deposits to tax free National Savings or to the taxable unit trust money funds such as Fidelity Cash , which pays 9pc gross .
9 An alternative hypothesis is that lower birth weight results from the phenotypic expression of a genetic β cell defect associated with reduced fetal insulin secretion and reduced anabolic activity in utero .
10 The only reason to prefer aid , as the EC appears to , is that freer trade could harm its own economies .
11 It is that further mortgage , which was in all major respects recreating the terms of the September mortgage , which is alleged to be in breach of the court 's order and is the subject of the application for committal for contempt .
12 A difficulty in interpreting laterality reaction time data according to a fixed anatomical model is that shorter response latencies for uncrossed as compared with crossed reactions would be expected simply on the grounds of stimulus-response ( S-R ) compatibility .
13 How long is that longer term is still a matter for debate .
14 Does my right hon. Friend agree that there is no serious argument about the fact that the members of the Association of British Chambers of Commerce are fearful about a possible change of Government , and that the only question open to debate is whether higher taxation is worse than higher interest rates , and whether either is worse than higher inflation ?
15 The key question is whether greater freedom to decide on the distribution of funding between drugs , staff pay , referrals , and community care will be a boom or a burden .
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