Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] the [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether one applies the older notion of a trend from less to more specialized or the newer concept of a trend from an r-to a K-selected adaptive strategy ( ecologists seem to have a love-hate relationship towards r and K selection ( Dawkins , 1981 ) ) , the phyletically younger organisms would have become progressively more vulnerable to environmental disturbance . |
| 2 | Is this where the earlier distinction returns : that ‘ art ’ depends on conscious performance ? |
| 3 | The smoke is probably unburnt fuel If the carb is a little bit worn it will do this The Solex carb is more prone to this than the later Zenith It may also be slight oil burning which is also very common as the engine starts and only happens for a few seconds This is a ‘ feature ’ of Land Rovers and is not really cause for concern |
| 4 | Also , as a result of their greater longevity , elderly women are more than twice as likely as men to be widowed and , as a consequence of this and the lower propensity of the current generation ( if not succeeding ones ) to have married in the first place , they are three times as likely to be living alone . |
| 5 | Not surprisingly , the daughter and her husband were less than thrilled at this and the further suggestion that they could rent their home back ! |
| 6 | The nearest lakes are Derwentwater and the larger Ullswater where you can take a cruise . |
| 7 | The main block of the mill is practically empty but the older part now houses grain storage bins . |
| 8 | Higher servants might get £10 a year on top but the lower servant girls only £2 . |
| 9 | If , as these authors postulate , the tumour exerts some type of inhibitory effect on the proliferation of the cells surrounding it , it is possible that the lower labelling index reported for the rectal segment is at least party related to a wider — that is , extending beyond a 5 cm radius — zone of inhibition produced by rectal tumours with respect to those arising in other colonic segments . |
| 10 | It is possible that the earlier opposition of Chramn to his father , Chlothar , and to his brothers was linked to the fact that he alone was the son of Chunsina . |
| 11 | It is possible that the younger control subjects with a high LI% may develop an adenomatous polyp as an ageing phenomenon . |
| 12 | The levels of NC protein used were chosen such that the higher level completely retarded DNA migration on an agarose gel while the lower level gave intermediate retardation . |
| 13 | This revealed that astonishingly rapid progress had taken place , such that the greater part of the county had in operation schemes based on the Haycocks II model , so that the majority of the population had access to some training on these lines . |
| 14 | The Golden Mean is the division of a line such that the smaller part is the same proportion of the larger part that the larger part is of the whole . |
| 15 | It was fortunate that the longer wheelbase cars had been removed to work on the Sutton route as they were longer and of larger capacity than the Corporation cars and would certainly have given trouble on the section between Selby Road and West Croydon , which was all single track with short passing loops . |
| 16 | Dismissing the Pittencrieff bid , Aberdeen 's London-based managing director , David Hooker , said : ‘ We remain convinced that the smaller oil and gas companies should consolidate to add value for shareholders and expect to arrange a meeting with Pittencrieff in the near future . ’ |
| 17 | The Kha-Khan has ordered me to take Nogai and the younger Altun . ’ |
| 18 | Particularly important is the evidence that , where elderly people are sharing with younger relatives , these arrangements often were entered into in the first instance for the benefit of the younger as much as the older generation . |
| 19 | Sweeney Agonistes , as much as the later prose of Arnold , is an attempt to come to terms with this situation and to react against it . |
| 20 | It was agreed by Mrs Buckingham , who had always resisted the false belief about the pain in her daughter 's back , that Harriet should stop lying around on the hall seat and go to a school founded in the 1840S for the further education of gentlewomen . |
| 21 | Local authorities were given extra subsidies related to the numbers of people displaced and the higher price of central area land . |
| 22 | And it 's more likely that the cloudier west coast will only struggle to ten celcius , that 's fifty farenheit . |
| 23 | The sparsely flower speckled crowns of Pissard plums became clouds of densely held , bunched white and the later opening rather harsh pink flowers of the form Nigra emerged fully . |
| 24 | Picking up the scent from ‘ Beyond the Fragments ’ , he wanted to weld together the traditional Labour left and the newer Right-On movements . |
| 25 | ‘ Yes , ’ Harry said , through teeth clenched against the cold and the deeper cold of fear . |
| 26 | More recently , more prosaic workers have claimed that the damage to coral reefs is nowhere near as widespread as the earlier alarmist reports had suggested . |
| 27 | I am sure that the wider world think of us as all being terribly left wing , whereas in fact we 're awfully liberal and conservative and with a spectrum distribution of political allegiances which I suspect are very little different from the community as a whole . |
| 28 | My informant tells me that she feels sure that the earlier event is still ‘ earthbound ’ and repeated the action . |
| 29 | I 'm equally confident that the higher direction of MI5 and those operating today do not have anything to do with this , nor have they done so at any time . |
| 30 | The west Antarctic ice sheet is more vulnerable than the ten-times-larger east Antarctic ice sheet because it rests on the ocean floor rather than on land . |