Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] a [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In real life , Wilf devotes his time to dreaming up new ideas that could help make this planet a better place to be . |
| 7 | Even in the light breeze a bigger sail would have made towing the Zodiac dangerously uncontrollable . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In this way a greater insight into the ways in which population size and structure change may be gained . |
| 12 | In this way a deeper understanding should result . |
| 13 | and of course if you want to include a small element this year a greater element would be for the new open plan . |
| 14 | Because Mr Skinner is a former miner and the committee he has joined will be dealing with a bill to give the private sector a bigger share in the coal industry . |
| 15 | In the private sector a greater incentive might exist to show a need for higher fees to match high levels of dependency . |
| 16 | Highly competitive , but ( perhaps by choice ) gives personal ambition a lower priority . |
| 17 | At this time of the year , if Napoleon had not returned , Sharpe should have been thinning the apple crop , stripping away basketloads of young fruit to give the remaining crop a better chance of ripening in the autumn , but instead he was riding a dusty road in Belgium and searching for an enemy . |
| 18 | Such an initiative would ‘ give central government a firmer basis for the development of national policies and the deployment of resources ; and provide a checklist for authorities and schools in formulating and reviewing their curricular aims and policies in the light of local needs and circumstances … |
| 19 | The amount of information on each edge is determined by how much information a higher level needs in order to decide between competitors . |
| 20 | The following year a further scheme of the Charity Commissioners set up an education system which led to that enjoyed today . |
| 21 | It is also more toxic , and from an early stage a further disadvantage gradually became apparent : tubercle bacilli become resistant to it remarkably quickly . |
| 22 | It was impossible to detect in the dried slough a darker hair which might have come from Lorrimer 's head , or with the naked eye to distinguish his blood . |
| 23 | Heart of Darkness mattered not for giving Eliot the anthropological reader a better idea of how primitive society worked , but for showing Eliot the poet that the life of the savage and that of the modern urban clerk intersected on the deepest level , the level of ‘ The Horror ’ which was , essentially for him , the realization of evil within man . |
| 24 | Is Western conventional wisdom a better guide to reality today than it was twenty-five years ago ? |
| 25 | The smaller region of the rectangle ( on average 3.2° wide ) was always bright green ( 3.8 footlamberts ( ftL ) ) , the larger region a dimmer red ( 2.4ftL ) against a black background ( 0.15ftL ) . |
| 26 | A woman spends years saying no , not this one , stay out of my bed : I 'll wait , a better man will come along : and with the better man a better baby . |
| 27 | Under poll tax , the poor pay a higher proportion of their income than the rich , and the share of income taken in tax falls as incomes rise , a characteristic we call ‘ regressive ’ . |
| 28 | This gives its nauseating , pungent spray a wider range — an arc of about 45 degrees — and greatly increases the defender 's chances of covering its target . |
| 29 | It is only when the friends of the deaf demand a better deal that the deaf will get it . |
| 30 | My enthusiasm transmitted itself to Malc and he left at the end of visiting time a happier man . |