Example sentences of "[adj] to a [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence the manager increases income by earning the incentive payment , but social welfare is also increased thereby , this to a greater extent , and permanently . |
| 2 | Gorbachev linked this to a broader requirement for states to reject ‘ any military presence outside national frontiers ’ . |
| 3 | A narrow product line is more suited to a longer channel because , along the distribution chain , it can be combined with complementary products of other manufacturers , resulting in a wider range of items with which to interest the customer . |
| 4 | The legislation they enact must be acceptable to a wider range of public opinion and will therefore be less subject to reversal by any subsequent government . |
| 5 | ‘ Receipt of the net proceeds of the rights issue will restore the balance sheet to a position which should be acceptable to a wider range of both suppliers and clients , ’ Lopex said . |
| 6 | If it was important for an individual animal to be able to distinguish between other zebras , evolution would have led the three patterns away from one another to a greater degree . |
| 7 | Have they , as Sir Keith Joseph intended , made examinations accessible to a greater ability range of pupils , increased children 's motivation by emphasizing positive achievement and also exercised a formative effect upon the way subjects have been taught , through establishing greater breadth , balance , relevance and differentiation into the syllabuses being taught ? |
| 8 | Her aim is to take elitism out of design and make it accessible to a wider public . |
| 9 | I believe that the maintained grammar school offers the best hope at present of making accessible to a larger population than ever before the best of the qualities and habits of which it somewhat accidentally finds itself the custodian : respect for learning , the encouragement of deep and strenuous thought , a regard for style , and the tacit assumption of contracts of mutual responsibility between individuals and between an individual and his society . |
| 10 | So too are their families , who are then subject to a greater burden of care , stress , and risk . |
| 11 | Therefore , should the shareholder be subject to a higher rate of tax he or she will have to make additional payments to the Inland Revenue . |
| 12 | As such they are ultimately subject to a higher rate of vulnerability factors and provoking agents . |
| 13 | If a subsidiary faces high taxes , for instance , the parent will set transfer prices as high as it can , lowering the subsidiary 's taxable profits and boosting its own , which are subject to a lower tax rate . |
| 14 | It is unlikely that employees ( who are not shadow directors ) owe such a high level of duty to the company , though they are still subject to a lower duty of good faith and of confidentiality . |
| 15 | The report added that the Waddington screen controllers involved were ‘ not to undertake screening duties until their competence to do so had been subject to a further check ’ . |
| 16 | Once he has come reasonably to the conclusion that this will happen , the question whether his decision to issue the particular instructions that he gave was a reasonable one in the circumstances is subject to a further test of reasonableness . |
| 17 | Obligations under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 are therefore transferred to the supplier of the item , and his obligations continue where the equipment is subject to a further lease in continuation of the original one . |
| 18 | It should be borne in mind here that many trustees would be able to appoint the capital to relatively young beneficiaries so that the property might not be subject to a further charge for a relatively long period . |
| 19 | There were at the time parallel proceedings against the mortgagees to preserve the plaintiff 's priority rights against the property by virtue of the caution entered at the Land Registry , and it was the mortgagees who requested an adjournment from 6 June 1991 to a later date . |
| 20 | What is more , the table is remarkable in revealing a progressively better record for successively smaller sizes of factory ( although medium-sized factories ceased to fall in number in the mid 1980s , and all figures are influenced by contracting units moving from a larger to a smaller category ) . |
| 21 | The projector projects , not onto a screen but onto another film of , usually , the same size as the projected film , eg 35mm , though there is some advantage in terms of reduced graininess in projecting from a larger to a smaller stock , such as 65mm or VistaVision to 35mm . |
| 22 | He accepted that emperorship was responsible and that he was answerable to a higher power . |
| 23 | If some of the flux produced by coil 1 does not pass through coil 2 ( see Fig. 4.7(b) ) then unc appearing in eqn ( 4.50 ) is smaller leading to a smaller value of mutual inductance . |
| 24 | In France , the Compagnie d ‘ Aménagement du Bas-Rhone Languedoc is a good example of an institution which , starting with primary responsibilities in the promotion of irrigation , has moved to foster marketing cooperatives and from these to a broader community approach . |
| 25 | Does it not presuppose man 's progress from primitive to sophisticated ways of life , and does it not suggest on the basis of a progressive increase of ahi sā a movement from a less good to a better form of life ? |
| 26 | A more powerful figure it would not be possible to evoke from one of Leonard 's background , for it captures a significance which the kite could not : that man is only one of many free creatures , subject with them all to a higher power and influence . |
| 27 | Heat can not flow spontaneously from a colder to a warmer body . |
| 28 | Razak said afterwards that when Soviet officials told him that neutralisation was similar to collective security he replied that ‘ he appreciated this , but added that Malaysia preferred a neutrality plan which would be applicable to a smaller region such as Southeast Asia ’ . |
| 29 | It seemed to flow from a weaker to a stronger system , thus acting contrary to the Second Law of Thermodynamics . |
| 30 | The Report pointed at the level of resource needed in order to achieve improvements and it sought to improve the management of schools by making them more meaningful to a wider range of pupils . |