Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [art] [adv] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second lexicon , being much larger , will obviously cover a much larger subset of English , and hence cover many more of the contents of a definition . |
| 2 | A sequel apparently has an even higher body count . |
| 3 | In the same way it knows enough to tuck itself well out of harm 's way in the face of physical threat , so becoming a much smaller target for an irate wife with a meat cleaver who suspects it of getting exercise elsewhere . |
| 4 | And he only exemplifies a much stronger theme in the work as a whole : the failure of the good , one might even say a sense of ‘ defeatism ’ . |
| 5 | Therefore , they are likely to be put in a lower band and so attract a relatively lower tax than under the community charge . |
| 6 | Developments in the economic analysis of politics have perhaps had an even greater general significance than contributions to the economic analysis of law . |
| 7 | These parents may not be providing a good quality of interaction with their child and so demand a much higher level of therapeutic input . |
| 8 | Sometimes the agent and his family lived above the station , so that offices and home together formed a rather grander two-storey building . |
| 9 | Not only had a much slower rate of fall , but are actually detached nineteen ninety one from what we know has been happening . |
| 10 | We can create particles made up of the other quarks ( strange , charmed , bottom , and top ) , but these all have a much greater mass and decay very rapidly into protons and neutrons . |
| 11 | The despatch of American reinforcements to the Middle East thus became an even lower priority . |
| 12 | As was seen earlier , overtime plays a much greater role in pushing up the average gross weekly earnings of the male manual than of the male non-manual worker . |
| 13 | Mercury thus contains a much greater abundance of denser materials , the strong implication being that it is rich in metallic iron . |
| 14 | The greater authority of the aggressor male perpetrator is further emphasised by the fact that , of the assaults against males , those coming to the notice of the newspapers largely concerned a much older set of defendants than the usual run of offenders coming before the courts . |
| 15 | A pedestal basin generally has a slightly larger washing area than a wall-hung basin ; it does n't need such a secure fixing , and the supporting pedestal hides the plumbing , but it can only be installed at one height . |
| 16 | The Puritans — who have sometimes been given the useful alternative title ‘ the hotter sort of Protestants ’ and are now increasingly referred to by historians as ‘ the godly ’ — did not necessarily uphold different beliefs from the moderates , but their religious activities generally occupied a far greater proportion of their time and energy . |
| 17 | For example , the origin of the missile was far from clear ; and as detailed structures of many H-H objects were elucidated , the jet interactions described above seemed a much better proposition . |
| 18 | The committees thus cover a far wider geographical and functional area than the LDC in BR . |
| 19 | The very word ‘ Mystery ’ could not provide a much heavier clue , and I am bold to assert that Agatha Christie 's inspiration to write mysteries featuring Hercule Poirot sprang directly from her reading of the following extract from the Harrogate Third Shepherd 's Pay in the Hull Cycle ( ‘ as it hath been divers time acted by the Guild of Chandlers and Gardners upon the Feast of Corpus Christie , ) : |
| 20 | Others want EMU to happen , but would not mind a slightly looser ERM meanwhile . |
| 21 | In the intermediate steps , however , the numbers are incommensurable : for brevity of exposition we give four decimal places only , though of course a computer will normally employ a much greater number . |
| 22 | As a result the cost of living will rise , inflation will hover around the 4 per cent mark for much of the next two years , but it will not measure the much larger deflationary effects of the Budget as a whole on incomes and spending power . |
| 23 | In particular , the depressed patients did not have a substantially higher rate of early loss of mother , nor were they much more likely to have three or more children at home . |
| 24 | The financial institutions ' separation from , and domination of , manufacturers gives yearly accounts a much greater salience than in countries where financial institutions are made more receptive to manufacturer 's requirements , and this in turn highlights the artificial distinction between operating costs and capital outlays . |
| 25 | My argument was that , as Michael Heseltine had so boldly listed Battersea Power Station in 1980 , it was illogical not to protect a much finer and more complete industrial work by the same architect . |
| 26 | Education has expanded very significantly , thus giving a much greater number of people information and skills to assist them in improving their living standards . |
| 27 | Er but you just grabbed a little harder so that you made ends meet |
| 28 | It is thus not surprising that our period saw an increase in the amount of land put to agricultural use , not to mention the even greater increase in output through improved productivity . |
| 29 | I just though it was a simple misprint and with one stroke of the pen I changed ‘ otter ’ to ‘ other ’ , thus effecting a rather broader sweep to Party policy than had been intended . |
| 30 | A trend towards more on-site/on-the-job training was observable , along with more internal training generally , and development of tailor-made training ‘ packages ’ to facilitate this , particularly among libraries already undertaking a relatively greater amount of training . |