Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] an [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Occasionally a reservation is received for an older work missed ( or turned down ) when originally published . |
| 2 | Using techniques developed during an earlier study of British Hindu children , an ethnographic study of children and young people from Christian , Muslim , Jewish and Sikh backgrounds in the context of their families and faith communities will be conducted in parts of the West Midlands . |
| 3 | The UK government had pressed for an earlier start . |
| 4 | Former Z-Cars and Softly Softly star Frank Windsor starred in and as Headmaster , written by John Challen and featuring characters he created for an earlier Play for Today slot . |
| 5 | The event smacked of an earlier era of Hollywood where tyrannical film moguls ran the lives of their contracted artists , vetting them for indiscretions and disloyalty . |
| 6 | ( The governors may have been reminded of an earlier letter from the overseer of Flitton : |
| 7 | Loxton was reminded of an earlier statement he had made to the police stating that the time of the second appearance was between 6pm and 6.05pm . |
| 8 | In the second part of his autobiography Ways of Escape , Graham Greene writes of an earlier period , ‘ … in Indo-China I drained a magic potion , a loving-cup which I have shared since with many retired colonels and officers of the Foreign Legion whose eyes light up at the mention of Saigon and Hanoi ’ . |
| 9 | In Version 2.0 the accuracy was significantly improved but you need to watch the numbers very carefully , especially if you are using style sheets designed under an older version . |
| 10 | Postwar holiday consumption patterns in Britain indicate the rapid growth of package holidays in the 1950s , but the roots of this boom are located in an earlier period before the Second World War . |
| 11 | Twenty years earlier he fled from an elder brother plotting to kill him . |
| 12 | People living alone are particularly at risk if they smoke because , as I mentioned in an earlier chapter , it is a considerable fire hazard in the home . |
| 13 | They also have a number of plastic air powered ornaments which were included in an earlier review . |
| 14 | Although the rules do not make this absolutely clear it would be extraordinary if they were interpreted as preventing a party from adducing any oral evidence , even that which had been set down in witness statements served in compliance with the direction , simply because he attempts to adduce additional oral evidence at trial which he should have included in an earlier witness statement . |
| 15 | The prevalence of HLA-B8 , however , was similar to that found in an earlier study of primary sclerosing cholangitis in an Australian population . |
| 16 | The working conditions of the labouring classes were considered in an earlier chapter and in the companion to this volume , The Vital Century . |
| 17 | Such considerations in relation to temperature alone have been considered in an earlier section . |
| 18 | The domestic world which draws the suburban housewife away from the temptations of an illicit romance in Brief Encounter ( 1945 ) is quite as cosy as that depicted in an earlier collaboration between Lean and Noël Coward , This Happy Breed ( 1944 ) . |
| 19 | Indeed , this issue was addressed in an earlier study ( Tomkins , 1973 , pp. 115–21 ) , where it was illustrated how it was possible to devise an investment-appraisal rule ( just like that above ) consistent with NPV but based on residual income even when the project cash flows were uneven through time — although it was felt that NPV was more straightforward . |
| 20 | That opened into a hallway with a huge open staircase , almost certainly pinched from an older house , and a reception desk . |
| 21 | This can not fall on the last syllable of the stem , and is , if necessary , moved to an earlier syllable . |
| 22 | But the Royal Fort as a house , or to be more precise a suite of reception rooms added to an older complex , has something of much greater imaginative reach than a mere froth of writhing plaster feather-work and gilding such as London 's lost Chesterfield House once displayed . |
| 23 | There have been cases in cashmere relating to an earlier period and we are pursuing those actively with the EC authorities . |
| 24 | The UDF had proposed including the diplomatic service within the bill 's purview , and claimed that the ruling Bulgarian Socialist Party ( BSP ) was reneging on an earlier promise by voting en bloc against this proposal . |
| 25 | Hearing Anya 's account , it has become clear that , when she turned up , in her rags and her stench , at Diabolexpo , she was reverting to an earlier self , complete with costume and an all-too-believable make-up job . |
| 26 | These appear to relate to an earlier phase of ocean spreading during late Triassic times , and were carried to their present positions in nappes formed during the Cretaceous , as in eastern Europe . |
| 27 | Changes by Anthony Browne ( Julia MacRae/Walker , £8.99 ) deals with the effect the arrival of a new baby has on an older child . |
| 28 | This means that the extra payments received for overtime beyond the scheduled week are earned at an earlier stage in large firms . |
| 29 | The select committees , in contrast , were to be investigating bodies where policy issues were not of first importance , the principal task being to find out what was happening inside the various government departments , to inform the House and the public , thus bringing public opinion to bear at an earlier stage while policy was still relatively fluid . |
| 30 | This enabled them once again to draw up a profile of those high-risk subjects who developed schizophrenia , which turned out to be similar to that reported at an earlier stage of the research . |