Example sentences of "[adj -er] [noun] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stratification can also weaken social integration by giving members of the lower strata a feeling of being excluded from participation in the larger society . |
| 2 | Locally-trained Mauir Joyful ( 8.48 ) was impressive over the shorter course a week ago and is unlikely to be troubled in getting the extra distance . |
| 3 | Five days later , on 16 March 1988 , the Halifax Building Society advanced £150,000 upon the security of 7 , Ernest Road , Hornchurch , and a further £116,250 a week later on 23 March 1988 . |
| 4 | Give the Cleaner Shrimp a miss |
| 5 | Donald Trelford , editor of the Observer , was told much the same thing by Gaddafi in a further interview a month or so later . |
| 6 | To provide further guidance a Definition Table was created . |
| 7 | To make the experiences and history of society 's criminals less accessible also gives rise to the risk of further marginalising a section of society already relatively powerless . |
| 8 | This week an aide confirmed that Mr Takeshita got a further ¥30m a week or so later from Recruit . |
| 9 | Faraday showed to his satisfaction that the muscles of those pressing upon a table in a seance moved before the table did rather than in response to its motions ; he considered further investigation a waste of time . |
| 10 | A further £13 a week goes on fuel . |
| 11 | As regards the registration of further particulars a number of points need to be emphasised . |
| 12 | In addition , a further £3,000 a year can be used to buy a PEP invested in the shares of one company . |
| 13 | As the road leaves Clashnessie Bay , the hamlet of the same name is passed and after a further mile a side road turns off to the right and crosses the bare and windswept peninsula , the Ru Stoer , to a lighthouse where it ends at a parking place for cars . |
| 14 | Volunteers present at the two events were taken through a questionnaire on the day of the study , followed by a shorter questionnaire a week later ( by phone or post ) and four weeks later ( by post ) . |
| 15 | If the widening of the 20 per cent lower income tax band to £3,000 in 1993/94 is taken into account ( which will be worth a further £25 a year to all basic and higher rate taxpayers ) , then the net effect of this and the change in the MCA on a married man aged under 65 who pays tax at the basic rate of 25 per cent will be an increase in tax of £1.17 a week or about £61 a year . |
| 16 | Tax measures in Bush 's health plan — including a tax credit or deduction for out-of-pocket health expenses and managed care incentives — would lose a further $35bn a year in revenue , and no financing has been identified yet . |
| 17 | The aim is to stabilise CO 2 emissions at 1990 levels by 2000 , with a tax equivalent to $10 on a barrel of oil , beginning with an increase of $3 in 1993 and then a further $1 a year until 2000 . |
| 18 | The more parental devotion to reading and the child 's belief in its magic propensities coincide , the easier time a child will have in learning to read , and the more important and enjoyable reading will be to him . |
| 19 | Walden , whose nickname ‘ der Bürgerschreck ’ seems to have been well earned to judge from Kokoschka 's portrait of him , was in his socialism and later communism a forerunner of the much more politicized cultural scene of the Weimar Republic . |
| 20 | At the west end is the narthex and in later times a campanile has been added . |
| 21 | If , for instance , ICI were to buy into stock for use in later months a product whose price collapsed in the meantime , the loss could amount to hundreds of thousands of pounds . |
| 22 | In one of Little Saigon 's trendier shops a video screen shows footage of Vietnam shot amateurishly through the window of a moving car . |
| 23 | This suggests that both groups of children were adding on to the larger digit a number of steps equal in value to the smaller digit . |
| 24 | In later years a boy may continue to look unconsciously for a mother with whom to relate , or a girl for a father to take the place of a loved parent or compensate for a lack of satisfaction in that direction . |
| 25 | For larger boats a life jacket like this one is fine , particularly if you are going further offshore but it 's too clumsy to wear in a small sail boat like the Topper and so we prefer the buoyancy aid like this one . |
| 26 | Willetts detects in these later stories a reminiscence of a Minoan initiation ordeal . |
| 27 | Victory this afternoon in Parnell Park , Antrim 's home from home , would guarantee them a place in the lucrative knock-out stages , while offering the younger players a chance to display their considerable talents . |
| 28 | He certainly enjoyed perfect health , helped , he claimed , by being a teetotaller and in later life a vegetarian . |
| 29 | but testing at 7 , 11 and 14 , together with the National Curriculum , seems to many teachers to be taking a significant step in the wrong direction , imposing on younger and younger children a model of education about which they , the teachers , have increasing misgivings . |
| 30 | This may take place at the first meeting with the client , though for larger assignments a site visit and access to confidential material may be necessary before such an assessment can be properly made . |