Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The largely ceremonial meetings which began in Madrid on Oct. 30 were expected to last three days and were intended merely to initiate a wider negotiating process . |
| 2 | The enormous expansion of higher education since 1960 has arguably provided a further extension of opportunity , but it has not succeeded in developing parity of esteem with universities for institutions supposed to be concentrating on vocational and technical education — an aspect which , once again , has invited numerous international comparisons [ Postan , 1967 ; Robbins , 1963 ] . |
| 3 | The Architect and Building News of 10 January 1936 reported : Mr Oliver Hill 's romantic modernism has rarely found a happier destination than this charmingly picturesque house in the woods near Virginia Water . |
| 4 | It has since leased a further three aircraft from GPA . |
| 5 | Eraut ( 1977 ) avoids specifying the content or outcomes of teacher development , having rejected the assumption that a teacher who has developed has necessarily become a better teacher . |
| 6 | Two cameras , switched to give an almost negative image that enhances the metallic quality of the foliage ( and presaging the Dalek gunfire effect mentioned earlier ) , pan across the ashen forest in sweeping arcs , their pictures mixed together giving a greater impression of size to the dense , white foliage . |
| 7 | ( b ) if a competitor has already posted a higher offer ; |
| 8 | Cardiff has already begun a brighter future . |
| 9 | On the other hand , administrative law in the United States has generally evinced a greater concern for allowing interested parties to express their views , than has United Kingdom doctrine . |
| 10 | Many readers ask the same question , and the fact is you DO have to pay the correct price for goods , even if the shop has mistakenly put a lower price on the label . |
| 11 | For women the never married group has always constituted a higher fraction of the older groups ; in 1980 it was 9 per cent of those aged 65 + , while the peak was 1951 when it was 16.3 per cent . |
| 12 | No matter how you feed your horse , somebody else ( usually a self confessed expert with little or no qualifications ) has always got a better way . |
| 13 | VAUX chairman Paul Nicholson has always had a larger than life attitude to the manner in which he conducts his business . |
| 14 | In the intervening years the environmental lobby has probably gathered a broader basis of support , although , as we shall see later in this chapter , the values which are upheld are often more sectional than many environmentalists might suppose . |
| 15 | I think has probably got a better coverage on groups . |
| 16 | Although the official world championship did not start until 1950 , Hamilton has wisely used a broader brush with excellent effect to put the race in an accurate historical perspective . |
| 17 | HarperCollins has also secured a further two-book contract with American romantic novelist La Vyrle Spencer , described by Jonathan Lloyd as ‘ the new Danielle Steel — a major Putnam author already very successful in the US ’ . |
| 18 | The presence of the intercalator has also caused a larger number of blockages compared with the more discrete damage caused by the simple complexes . |
| 19 | It has also pledged a further £15,000 . |
| 20 | It has also meant a greater love for one another as we can share our faith and come face to face with who we are . |
| 21 | This interest has now received a further stimulus from the events of the past few years in Europe . |
| 22 | He has now produced a shorter version called Fundamentals of Organic Chemistry ( Wiley ) . |
| 23 | However , the great increase in the number of divorces has now occasioned a stricter adherence to the correct usage , in order to avoid confusion between a widow and a divorcée . |
| 24 | Patients readmitted consistently had a shorter length of stay in all specialisms than non-readmitted patients . |
| 25 | Whitlock thought of the Italian restaurant and moved closer to get a better look . |
| 26 | On Sept. 4 Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland replaced six ministers and reorganized several ministries in a Cabinet reshuffle designed primarily to provide a stronger focus on tackling the problem of unemployment . |
| 27 | They 're especially keen for young men and people from ethnic groups to come forward to add a wider selection of tissue types to the register . |
| 28 | To re-phrase Churchill on our democracy , the market economy is a very bad system — yes : Guinness , Maxwell , BCCI , Blue Arrow underline its frailties — but no one has yet found a better one . |
| 29 | The evolutionary theory fundamental to understanding the human emergence has recently acquired a firmer basis than ever before ( see Chapter 3 ) . |
| 30 | Similarly , attention was turned to education : the Board of Education Report for 1917–18 declared that the War ‘ has certainly brought a clearer and wider recognition of the value of education , and , while showing the defects and shortcomings of our system , has produced the resolution to improve it ’ . |