Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the budget worsens after revenue-yielding tariffs have been reduced , governments may not be able to wait for the longer term trade gains to emerge to replace the lost revenue . |
| 2 | Dannii was the famous sister but Hardy yet again decided to go for the older girl . |
| 3 | The mites tend to go for the smaller workers , probably because of their safer and passively fed lifestyle . |
| 4 | Let's , let's just put it here , A minus B times A minus B. Now it 's tempting to go for the easier ones in it as you did , so we 'll do the A squared , okay that 's no problem . |
| 5 | If necessary use a metal bar to increase the leverage , then repeat for the further tap . |
| 6 | With the milled edge of the coin he chipped at the red-brown crust that had formed between the lower lip of the cap of the bolt and the metal sheet plate of the carriage flooring . |
| 7 | The generally optimistic tenor of this debate provides a revealing comparison with those public views examined for the earlier period . |
| 8 | The tough leathery top surface of a mature leaf is not so easy to penetrate as the softer epidermis of the underside , which is why mildew in particular can often be found by turning over leaves that are glossy and apparently quite healthy , even protected by fungicidal deposit , on the top . |
| 9 | In the first place , as must already be evident , it shows some striking parallels with the Formalists ' views on literature and literary studies — views which were developed for the greater part quite independently of it , for although later Formalist theory may have been influenced to some degree by Saussure , the beginnings of the movement predate the publication of his Cours . |
| 10 | Many leading manufacturers now have women 's models in their ranges with designs catering for the shorter back length , wider hips and more pronounced bottom . |
| 11 | Timetables have not yet been adjusted for the higher performance of the Class 158s and the journey time to London remains at about 5 hours . |
| 12 | Although some of this variation may be attributed to inherent reliability problems in the computation method or original poor data quality , other geological factors probably account for the greater part of the observed variation . |
| 13 | The syndrome of imperfections that make up " maternal depletion " coupled usually with lower educational level and larger family size evidently account for the lower survival chances of infants and young children whose mothers were beyond age 39 at the birth . |
| 14 | The Gold Ninety Account is a very high interest ninety day notice account for the longer term investor . |
| 15 | OMT contains immunoglobulin , mainly IgG , and can be collected by an absorbant pad placed between the lower gum and buccal mucosa ( Orasure , Epitope ) . |
| 16 | ‘ He goes for the older woman ! ’ |
| 17 | Smiling to herself , she led the boy across the hall and on up the staircase , then along the galleried landing towards the far end of the corridor and Richard 's room which was situated between the larger room that was Cissie 's and the bright pretty room that was Beth 's and David 's . |
| 18 | Is my hon. Friend aware that despite the success of local management of schools , staff are still very worried that experienced older teachers who qualify for the higher salary scales will be discarded in favour of less experienced younger staff ? |
| 19 | Designed for the heavier runner or the runner with a pronation problem , the Endeavour is a stable training shoe with a studded outersole , suitable for the road or country . |
| 20 | Two years later , again at Daytona , on 11 March 1929 , he recaptured the record from the American Ray Keech at 231.362 m.p.h. in Golden Arrow , designed by Captain J. S. Irving with a 900-hp aero-engine hired from Napier and originally designed for the Schneider trophy winner Supermarine seaplane . |
| 21 | They are immensely adaptable : designed for the plainer interiors of the hot south , they sit happy in stark modernist décors , but do n't look out of place in rooms stuffed with antiques . |
| 22 | Both families had ties with greater men , who were more concerned with affairs of State , and they were affected by political turmoil , particularly the Stonors , who suffered forfeiture in 1483 for rebelling against Richard III , but both had come through the earlier phase of the dynastic struggle with relatively minor scars . |
| 23 | For breeding aquaria where undergravel filtration is used , smaller sized gravel is more suited as fry tend to get trapped between the larger sizes . |
| 24 | What could we know about the greater universe ? |
| 25 | Philip the Fair 's government was often ( sometimes surprisingly ) prepared to compromise during the later stages of his reign , an attitude clearly reflected in the ‘ process ’ of Montreuil in Ponthieu . |
| 26 | The qualitative approach may be acceptable for small systems , but for more substantial enterprises it would be surprising if the development of more disciplined and rigorous approaches , say through the wider use of mathematics , would not be more successful and lead to new types of opportunity . |
| 27 | ( Employees may opt for the higher quote but can expect to pay the difference themselves . ) |
| 28 | It is probable that the numbers qualifying for the higher rate will be significantly reduced . |
| 29 | If one of a couple is disabled or older than the other , the couple will qualify for the higher amount . |
| 30 | One of the things about when you are old and move to a residential home I think one of the important things is that you want to go and live close to your loved ones , if you have any , and it does just worry me that if you happen to be a person who is resident in and your loved ones live in , under these terms if you went to a residential home in you would n't qualify for the higher rate and that seems to me to be wrong . |