Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [conj] [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Large , short-necked , broad-winged , rather short-tailed birds , much smaller than same-shaped but longer-necked Aquila eagles ( pp. 79–81 ) and overlapping with the smaller eagles and the mostly smaller long-winged long tailed harriers ( p 87 ) . |
| 2 | The difficulty with the argument , that more and better education leads to mobility , is that better-trained people do not , on their own , lead to an increase in the number of better-paid jobs . |
| 3 | Libraries of all sizes were likely to indicate a belief that more and better planning was needed . |
| 4 | That has led me to conclude that higher and further education no longer provide a pathway out of poverty towards educational achievement and self-fulfilment , because students from poor backgrounds may be forced to give up studying and never achieve the educational qualifications that they seek . |
| 5 | Bach concluded that warmer and drier weather would decrease corn production in the Corn Belt , and cooler and wetter weather would increase it . |
| 6 | There is strong evidence that greater and greater use is being made of the CAB service . |
| 7 | The figures may be particularly prone to underestimating the income of the highest earners , who have more opportunities to hide substantial amounts of income than middle and lower income groups . |
| 8 | If Jesus numbered such figures as Simon the Zealot and Judas the Sicarius among his followers , those followers can hardly have been as placid and peaceable as later tradition maintains . |
| 9 | The ‘ bottom ’ line is the one that separates those measures which lead to the loss of nationhood from those which are concerned with effecting closer association and cooperation — and freer and fairer trade — between genuinely independent states . |
| 10 | Like all the maidens , in all the stories , half seduced and half petrified , she consented to Fenna 's plans and he swept her high on his great wings and bore her away over the roofs of London and higher and higher cavorting and caracolling through the star-spun night . |
| 11 | Depending on the software available , there may be options to use colour , contrast , and upper and lower case letters to highlight headings or field names . |
| 12 | ‘ Stretching ’ , ‘ slipping ’ , and ‘ pruning ’ , reduce costs in the short term , but increase them overall because shorter and slower production runs increase overheads . |
| 13 | Whether upper and lower date limits ( terminus results ) such as these provide the archaeologist with a sufficiently detailed chronological picture will depend on a number of factors — the nature of the site and sequence to be interpreted , the archaeological questions being posed , and the samples available for dating — and the relevant dating methods would then need to be assessed . |
| 14 | Some twins also have a balcony and lake view , but as they overlook the lake road , those seeking tranquil accommodation should book the quieter , though simpler and smaller garden rooms . |
| 15 | Therefore we are still teaching Ordinary Grade and Higher Grade Engineering as well as Ordinary and Higher Grade Technical Drawing . |
| 16 | A new state education system provided for universal basic education as well as vocational and higher education . |