Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [art] [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some radio stations are run by public corporations with a degree of operational autonomy from government , on paper at least — as in Malawi , Ghana , Nigeria and Zimbabwe — but in each case a greater degree of government control exists than is true of the BBC , which provided the model for the corporations of these countries . |
| 2 | In each case the lower circulation title went under . |
| 3 | It is probable that this is the section of the Act of 1925 to which Sir William meant to refer since in each case the later section is the mirror image of the earlier section . |
| 4 | In each case the younger son received the greater blessing . |
| 5 | Member States would normally be given eighteen months within which to incorporate the directive objectives into their domestic laws , but it may well be that in this case a shorter period is specified . |
| 6 | The broking scandals came at a time when the Japanese government was already under pressure , both at home and abroad , to improve the supervision of its financial markets , to make insider trading illegal , and simultaneously to allow foreign institutions a greater degree of involvement in the domestic securities markets . |
| 7 | In other cases in this category the earlier case , though not formally binding , was often followed in order to provide certainty and consistency in an area where commercial relations may depend on an accepted construction . |
| 8 | Short-term City reaction to Budgets can be notoriously wrong , but this spring a better guide might be how easily the Government can finance next year 's massive £50 billion PSBR . |
| 9 | The formal development of GR will be outlined in Chapters 5 , 6 , and 7 while in the remainder of this chapter a simpler approach will be used to infer one particularly important solution of Einstein 's equation . |
| 10 | The sources that ISO will be investigating will generally be clouds of dust in space , with temperatures from a few hundred degrees down to only 30 K. The warmer dust clouds are found close to stars , either in dark nebulae adjacent to stars that have just formed , or in the ejected shells of matter from old stars , called planetary nebulae . |
| 11 | It was , therefore , to some degree the older generation attacking the younger , much as an eighteenth century minister might have attacked the political involvement by ministers in the 1830s and 1840s when they refused to pay Church Rates and supported the Rev. Edward Miall 's British Anti-State Church Association . |
| 12 | In some circumstances a better curve for countering an apparent concavity of form can be a very flat cycloid , like a five centred arch . |
| 13 | It would also appear that in some areas the rougher element ganged up against Boy Scout troops in the early years of the movement , throwing stones at them and mocking their uniform of floppy hats and silly short pants . |
| 14 | In our imaginary case , Walkertronic needs no further information and indicates an intention to defend in the following terms . |
| 15 | At this point a further contradiction in Sartre 's whole enterprise begins to open up : for someone so deeply distrustful of universals it seems curious that he has involved himself so emphatically with the notions of totality , History , and the dialectic . |
| 16 | On this basis the earlier validation exercise was extended and further questions of the form ‘ When you carry out activity A , B , C etc , is this information available/produced ? ’ were prepared . |
| 17 | In real life , Wilf devotes his time to dreaming up new ideas that could help make this planet a better place to be . |
| 18 | Even in the light breeze a bigger sail would have made towing the Zodiac dangerously uncontrollable . |
| 19 | ( There is in some machines a lower level called microcode but this need not concern us here . ) |
| 20 | Programmes likely to produce such action ought , rather , to be spotted within the BBC in advance and either adjusted suitably or else supported by the Governors in such a way that the politicians would be quietly told , in effect , that if they wished to object they risked on this occasion a larger row than they might want . |
| 21 | Its relative freedom from the demands of traditional methodology even produces what is in some ways a stronger account of an autonomous , integrated subject , which includes both objective and subjective characteristics . |
| 22 | In the former case , by employing civilian clerical staff a greater proportion of funds can be allocated for direct policing policies . |
| 23 | In contrast to the notion of vulnerability in infants expressed by Bangladeshi families , there was among Welsh and English mothers a clearer push towards encouraging babies to be independent . |
| 24 | When he was an old man the younger generation might clamour for it . |
| 25 | Perhaps these really were ‘ men who had high purposes ’ , as North described McFarlane and Poindexter , men who ‘ were trying their level best to make this world a better place . ’ |
| 26 | In this matter the lower nobility had a crucial role to play . |
| 27 | Again after approximately 30 min no further reaction is observed . |
| 28 | A notable quantity ( one hundred ) , particularly from the 1950s onwards , derive from private collections , which may reflect the uncanonical position the later part of Picasso 's career has occupied until recently in the official estimation of his work . |
| 29 | In families that did not indulge themselves in this way a healthier climate prevailed ; children do not seem to have been unduly obsessed with death . |
| 30 | In this way a greater insight into the ways in which population size and structure change may be gained . |