Example sentences of "[pron] in a [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it remains possible that people do see the support which they give to elderly relatives as part of a two-way pattern which stretches over time and across generations , and where they themselves will benefit ultimately from the support of someone in a younger generation . |
| 2 | Women 's exemption from these time-geared precepts was the result both of their extensive periods of ritual impurity and of their designated role as closeted homemakers — though of course in making such a statement , we immediately involve ourselves in a greater degree of circularity . |
| 3 | IMAGINE the reaction if , say , Ladbroke came to its shareholders and said : ‘ The Government have decreed that we will have to rebid for our betting licence in 1992 , and to put ourselves in a better position to win it we are taking on borrowings equal to our equity and giving our managers around 15 per cent of the company . ’ |
| 4 | There is nobody in a stronger position than someone who is doing a good job of work for nothing , especially when his employer is stingy and congenitally idle . |
| 5 | ‘ Sometimes in a small community — and ours is very small — passions which in a wider context would be dissipated become distilled and reduced to poison . |
| 6 | Goody himself in a later essay points out that ‘ at least during the last 2,000 years the vast majority of peoples of the world ( most of Eurasia and much of Africa ) have lived in neither kind of situation , but in cultures which were influenced in some degree by the circulation of the written word , by the presence of groups or individuals who could read or write ’ ( 1968 , p. 4 ) . |
| 7 | Are they both unskilled workers or is she in a higher class than her husband ? |
| 8 | Try some of our treats — they 'll put you in a better mood without spoiling your figure |
| 9 | The reader may feel perplexity , but the text will not amplify what is there or rewrite itself in a simpler form . |
| 10 | If Protestantism was more Conducive than Catholicism to the expansion of science , one would expect this to manifest itself in a greater receptivity toward new and controversial ideas . |
| 11 | I mean , Mick has maybe a deeper one in a narrower area , so I learned a lot from him . |
| 12 | We had run one in an earlier year , erm , I think that was slightly a different type , but that , er , the idea was the same . |
| 13 | Definitely , yes , I would say like I 've spoke to Brian Horton on Sunday and he more or less said that it 's er Oxford United , fourth position in the league , let's hope so like you know , they are like , and I 've come here maybe to help get them in a better position . |
| 14 | That would leave them in a worse position than they began , because all the T'ang can offer them is money . |
| 15 | A second interpretation of the developments of the 1980s would set them in a longer context , dating back to the late 1960s . |
| 16 | N brief , I suggest that we can best understand the form of modern doctrines by situating them in a broader dialogue within liberal political philosophy concerning the relation between the citizen and the state . |
| 17 | However , although the UK government and others have a variety of policies designed to encourage and stimulate innovation , rather little has been done to assess the effectiveness of these measures , or to consider them in a broader context of structural change and adjustment in a mature industrial economy . |
| 18 | The following details of courses were sent to us recently but we were unable to include them in an earlier issue . |
| 19 | But so much of her attention was now centred on her own immediate steps that she had no leisure to orientate herself in a wider field . |
| 20 | Clement 's prose puts him in a higher class than any of his extant pagan contemporaries , and he was able obliquely to refute pagan critics ( such as Celsus , writing 177–80 ) who thought Christians an anti-cultural lot , by decorating his pages with a rich variety of quotations and allusions taken from classical poetry and philosophy . |
| 21 | On the contrary , his direct line to Hitler and Mussolini placed him in a better position than the monarchists to deal with Axis pressure . |
| 22 | ‘ Never , ’ writes Boswell , ‘ did I see him in a better frame ; calm , gentle , wise , holy ’ — with Johnson opining that the essence of the Crucifixion lay in showing to the world that even the Son of God suffered on account of sin , and in doing so , displayed how heinous a thing sin must be . |
| 23 | Rodrigo marched into Valencia in triumph , only to learn that his old adversary Berenguer of Barcelona — who had never forgiven the Cid for capturing him in an earlier campaign — had formed an alliance with the Moorish lord of Lerida and El Cid 's own sometime ally Mostain of Saragossa . |
| 24 | Oh , I might , thought Lydia , but she said : ‘ I did n't poison Betty either ’ , in a childishly defensive way which put her in a worse mood . |
| 25 | She blushed because of his quizzical look which said a great deal and turned everything topsy turvy and her knees to water , leaving her in a worse confusion . |
| 26 | and you want to say now are they in a better state today than they were yesterday . |
| 27 | we 've been talking about individuals and what they want , and we live in a context in which if people want a thing and the , and we feel that they should have the choice particularly if they have the money that if to , if you look at it in a wider context there are seven million children living on the streets in Brazil ! |
| 28 | The local area , of course should be a springboard not a straitjacket , and pupils need to be encouraged to move out from their locality to see it in a wider context , to compare it with other places , and above all , whatever period is under study , to begin to understand why the changes they have documented took place . |
| 29 | You 'll find the little diagram showing you where the pulmonary vein and the pulmonary artery are on page eleven , page eleven if you want to refer to it right , if you want to look at it in a closer detail tonight that 's fine and if you want to see what I 'm saying now in a diagrammatic form look on page thirteen now if you look at that you 'll see some , the blue vein blood vessels it 's coming out of the right hand side of the heart and if you look at the direction of the arrows , okay , they 're going away from the heart , do you agree with me ? |
| 30 | But the technocratic approach did not lessen discrimination but reproduced it in a subtler form . |