Example sentences of "[adj -er] [conj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pregnancy order tended to mediate the effect of maternal age , so that weight and height of infants tends to be lower where pregnancy order is high in relation to age ( see e.g. Omran , 1976 , p. 524 ) . |
| 2 | This is sometimes possible , too , if you have attended a further or adult education college . |
| 3 | Spring-tined cultivators with tines at about six-inch spacing , are much lighter than chisel ploughs . |
| 4 | Trent let go jib sheet and halyard ; the heavy canvas flashed free , disappearing into the rain curtain as if lighter than tissue paper . |
| 5 | Wage evidence could also be noted , but it is even scarcer than price data , and it remains as yet uncertain whether any particular trend swill be discernable . |
| 6 | Leading on from this , a more general point is that where the objective of the operation is rather broader than profit maximization , shareholder control is probably far less appropriate than state control ( see , for example , Baumol , 1984 ) . |
| 7 | Ageism , so defined , is broader than age discrimination . |
| 8 | And there is no way of checking that bottled water is any cleaner than tap water . |
| 9 | Poll Tax was fairer than Council Tax ? — Convener to answer this one but see what facts and figures can be found to back up his argument . |
| 10 | Fairer than Poll Tax — |
| 11 | Despite subsidised kindergarten facilities which would be the envy of most Western countries , the fact remains that school hours are invariably shorter than working hours and there is always the problem of what to do when the children are sick . |
| 12 | Avoid width at the top but create volume at the chin — do not wear your hair shorter than chin level . |
| 13 | Finally , in August 1978 , the third and last product of the Haycocks Committee 's deliberations appeared in the form of a discussion paper on Training Teachers for Education Management in Further and Adult Education , known , inevitably , as Haycocks III . |
| 14 | The third and final product of the Haycocks Committee 's deliberations , Haycocks III , appeared in August 1978 in the form of a discussion paper on Training Teachers for Education Management in Further and Adult Education . |
| 15 | Currently , the ACSET sub-committee has established a Working Group which is considering the management training needs of further and adult education staff and it is likely that a new document to complement and extend Haycocks III will be forthcoming before very long . |
| 16 | The new pilot teacher training course combined with the City & Guilds 7307 Further and Adult Education Teacher 's Certificate , is to start on 6th October at . |
| 17 | The new Teacher Training Course , combined with City and Guilds 7307 ( Further and Adult Education Teacher 's Certificate ) begins on 6th October at St. Andrews Community School , Cambridge . |
| 18 | Julie has worked with the company for two years and her mother also works in the factory as a cleaner and canteen assistant . |
| 19 | PTO Power is generally lower than engine power through driveline losses . |
| 20 | Net interest includes interest payable on precious metal loans ( often referred to as metal ‘ leases ’ ) where rates are usually lower than money loans . |
| 21 | Blaming lower than forecast levels of personal and corporate tax receipts and rising interest rates , the OMB estimated the true level of the 1991 deficit as between $123,000 million and $138,000 million . |
| 22 | Her boast was that she had been dancing at every RAF and American air force station within a 30-mile radius , and that she would n't look at any male with a rank lower than Squadron Leader or the American equivalent . |
| 23 | The High Court in Edinburgh heard that an investment analyst with the stockbrokers Bell Lawrie White had received information from the chairman of the waste management and construction group , Shanks&McEwan , that profits were going to be lower than City expectations . |
| 24 | Some market makers quoted offer prices of shares in the index lower than bid prices , the opposite of normal market practice , and there were accusations that some market makers did not answer their phones , so that quotes were not accurate . |
| 25 | The actual death rate from asthma in West Cumbria seems to be much lower than mortality statistics suggest . |
| 26 | the major potential confounder is this analysis is pH , because pH values of oesophageal fluid are about 1.0 log point lower than pH values of saliva . |
| 27 | The reason for this is that sperm production takes place at a temperature a couple of degrees lower than body temperature , so the process has to take place outside the body to function properly . |
| 28 | RETIX PROFITS LIKELY TO BE LOWER THAN ANALYST EXPECTATIONS |
| 29 | Research showed that primary community loyalties operated at a level much lower than district boundaries . |
| 30 | However , in 1957 some bonds were redeemed by the Club at less than par , so perhaps the President was successful after all , possibly by inviting bondholders themselves to suggest a lower than par price . |