Example sentences of "[art] [adj -er] [conj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On some occasions , the lower than usual level of water at LW springs could actually be seen . |
| 2 | It produces less sulphur dioxide — because the sulphur in the coal reacts with the limestone during combustion — and less nitrogen oxides , due to the lower than normal combustion temperature . |
| 3 | Announcing the lower than expected year end results in his preface to the accounts , Company Chairman John Evans has told shareholders that the DVR was ‘ pursuing a declared policy of excellence ’ , but that net profits tumbled nearly £111,000 from £171,077 in 1990 to £60,260 before tax last year ! |
| 4 | Together with the lower than expected flotation price , the 10 companies have been given an attractive yield averaging as much as 8.55 per cent . |
| 5 | Together with the lower than expected flotation price , the 10 companies have been given an attractive yield averaging as much as 8.55 per cent . |
| 6 | The lower or uncertain status of general degrees is therefore not purely a matter of breadth of content ; indeed , some relatively broad courses — classics , PPE ( philosophy , politics and economics ) at Oxford and the Cambridge Natural Science Tripos — have high status in the system . |
| 7 | The first capacitor is connected through a switch to the extremity of the lower or upper primary of the detector transformer depending on whether the impedance Z being measured is capacitive or inductive . |
| 8 | It will not always be possible to decide a priori whether any new arousal manipulation in a different setting should operate on the lower or upper portion of the curve . |
| 9 | The dots touching the upper and left side borders of each subarea were counted while those on the lower and right side were ignored . |
| 10 | Later , as the sac-like evagination develops , the bases of the epithelial cells become drawn out into long processes , so imparting a spongy texture to the tissues of the wing-pad , and the basement membranes of the lower and upper epithelia become apposed for most of their area so as to form the so-called middle membrane ( Fig. 30 ) . |
| 11 | Coal Measures ’ coals are the accepted gas source , the highest frequency of which occur in the Westphalian A and B sequences of the Lower and Middle Coal Measures . |
| 12 | The so-called ‘ Grey ’ Measures of the Lower and Middle Coal Measures contain only thin sandstones of delta plain and top delta origin . |
| 13 | If we look at the actual numbers of cystoscopies performed you will you see that there were the vast majority of work was done in the lower and intermediate risk group patients er and the positive er cystoscopy rate erm was much lower in the lower risk group , as you would expect , than in the higher risk group . |
| 14 | While every clothes store carries a petite range , there is n't one range for the taller than average woman . |
| 15 | Reverting to the eighteenth century , in December 1783 , King George III selected William Pitt the Younger as Prime Minister when he was only twenty-four years of age , and he remained in office throughout the troublesome years of the French Revolution which lasted from 1787 to 1799 . |
| 16 | The preferred route lay along the coast of the Arabian peninsula , away from the deeper but vulnerable water on the Iranian side . |
| 17 | Though it was wary of placing too optimistic a gloss on the latest figures , the larger than expected PSBR surplus of £3.8 billion for last month was seen as a cautious signal that Mr Lamont will be able easily to avoid increasing the tax burden in next month 's Budget . |
| 18 | As you know , I have been preparing material concerning the bringing of secretarial assistants onto the payroll and also on the larger and long term issue of administrative support for area staff . |
| 19 | ( This makes it hard to draw any line between old and ‘ new ’ , i.e. post-Periclean , politicians in terms of social standing ; similarly we now know that the later and much-vilified demagogue Kleophon was the son of a man high enough up the social ladder to have served as a general : ML 21 . ) |
| 20 | The salerooms have not seen such a fine private collection sold since the great suite of sales at Sotheby 's in the 1970s ( the William Goodwin Renwick collection from America , arms released from the Saxon Royal Armouries at Dresden , and the smaller but comparable Gewehrkammer of the Counts von Giech ) . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's terribly important that a proper alternative market for the smaller and medium-sized business is now found . |
| 22 | The Housing Corporation is particularly anxious to ensure that the smaller and medium-sized housing associations get an adequate share of the growing resources provided by the Housing Corporation so that the more traditional associations can continue to provide the new homes and local management to which my hon. Friend paid tribute . |
| 23 | The Tilford Bach Choir of semi-professional singers from London who gave enormous pleasure at early festivals have now been followed by the smaller and fully-professional choir of St. George 's , Hanover Square , where Denys Darlow is director of music . |
| 24 | Interestingly enough , as many writers have pointed out , this process led to the positing of numerous agencies with high-sounding names purporting to do exactly what the older and rejected vocabulary of pre-behaviourist mentalism had attempted to do . |
| 25 | The facts — that Chrissie has been caught taking food home , the higher than average food costs , etc. — show that things have n't been going entirely according to plan , but what are the causes ? |
| 26 | And although they maintained none of County Durham 's 5,000 teachers would lose their jobs the higher than expected pay deal will make the county dig into its reserves to pay for the salary hike . |
| 27 | The safer and proper thing is to offer the psychic phenomena to God , either to remove or to use them . |
| 28 | On the other hand , the wider but cognate field of anthropology was emerging rapidly as a recognised science out of law , philosophy , ethnology and travel literature , the study of language and folklore and the medical sciences ( via the then popular subject of ‘ physical anthropology ’ which led to a fashion for measuring and collecting the skulls of various peoples ) . |
| 29 | It was because of the greater than normal demand for electricity that a powerplant was installed in the auxiliary car . |
| 30 | The greater than expected cost of unifying the two Germanies [ see below ] , as well as Germany 's contribution to the Gulf war and aid to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe had obliged Waigel substantially to amend his earlier drafts . |