Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] to [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time Major announced a cut of 1 percentage point in the minimum lending rate , to 14 per cent , and said on Oct. 7 that revaluation of the pound within the ERM was a possible alternative to further interest rate cuts if the pound reached the top of its permitted fluctuation range . |
| 2 | With only 10 days to finalise the proposals before they must be announced in the Queen 's Speech , Mrs Thatcher 's policy unit , chaired by her senior adviser , Professor Brian Griffiths , is also understood to be considering plans to make sharply increased tuition fees , rather than the block grant , the main means of distributing public money to higher education . |
| 3 | Partly because of French opposition to closer US-European links , the US abandoned this plan at the end of 1964 and in December the Six managed to agree on an important element of the CAP common cereal prices . |
| 4 | The associated volume increase can exert pressure on the surrounding rock and the weathering rinds produced peel off to expose fresh rock to further weathering . |
| 5 | Using Britain as an example , Napoleon III and the economists who advised him believed that the introduction of free trade would help to strengthen the French economy , since only by opening up French industry to greater competition would it be galvanized into accepting new methods of production . |
| 6 | Although studying and admiring Tchaikovsky 's methods of composition , Stravinsky felt he could break away from the stereotyped dance forms demanded by nineteenth-century balletmasters , His music was far more economical in melody and orchestral sound but his rhythmic phrasings and marked attention to newer dance forms inspired Ashton to break away from traditional class-room practices . |
| 7 | By giving such a high profile to elder abuse , Community Care will show that the abuse of elderly people is a concern and a responsibility for everyone , just like the abuse of children — not only for those who work directly with elderly people . |
| 8 | The Prime Minister 's decision to refuse funding for a survey of sexual behaviour to further research about the spread of Aids , and a new way of counting people in the poorest category of the population which reduced the number by one million , caused controversy . |
| 9 | The decisions follow two recent cases over which the Government was widely criticised — the Prime Minister 's refusal to fund a survey of sexual behaviour to further research about the spread of Aids , and a report by the Institute of Fiscal Studies which showed that the Government 's new way of counting people in the poorest category of the population had reduced the number by 1 million . |
| 10 | From Dale Head Tarn it is possible to cut across the top of High Scawdel to Honister Pass and then descend by road to Buttermere , partly across open fell and partly on footpath ( 1 mile ) . |
| 11 | Fresh Start to safer world in '93 |
| 12 | His first appointment was in Leeds as a poor law surgeon , which he later described as ‘ an ordeal all the medical men of the town go through as the high road to better practice ’ . |
| 13 | The amount of delegation depended on the size and staffing of the districts , but there was a clear trend to greater delegation during the 1960s . |
| 14 | Aquino 's decision to press the case — and to undergo a ferocious and lengthy cross-examination — was seen by some to have needlessly exposed her already tarnished public image to further damage , whilst others applauded it as further proof of the tenacious courage which she had displayed in opposing Marcos . |
| 15 | Robyn decided she would not put this gloomy prediction to further test . |
| 16 | The chemicals corporation ICI has published its first environmental report as part of a stated commitment to greater openness about its environmental performance . |
| 17 | Plainly though , there is a danger that an attempt to break a siege in one way will spur the besieging army to greater effort in another . |
| 18 | Accordingly , we can say that the academic community stands in a direct relationship to research but in an indirect relationship to higher education . |
| 19 | It was painstakingly worked out as a way of preventing some women — usually those whose privileged access to higher education had given them confidence and articulacy in public speaking — from dominating and silencing others . |
| 20 | This leaflet is just a brief guide to safer sex . |
| 21 | This was one reason why , even when the State successfully cut back Jewish access to higher education , they furnished a wholly disproportionate number of radicals . |
| 22 | The programme has also been a useful catalyst to closer collaboration between FE colleges , Central Institutions and Universities and in linking their courses . |
| 23 | Knowing that you are watching events , albeit from a distance , is a powerful stimulant to better performance . |
| 24 | Special prominence was given to the value of community policing within densely populated areas , the value of widening entry to higher education , the meritocratic recruitment of elites , the role of harmony in companies and the Japanese welfare system of ‘ security without entitlement ’ . |
| 25 | The railway linked up manufacturing areas with raw material sources and centres of distribution and consumption , providing a major stimulus to further growth in coalfields like the Ruhr in Germany , the Pas-de-Calais in France , and those in Central Spain , in the iron ore works of South Wales , and in the new industrial centres of the developing European economies , like the Ukraine in Russia and the upper Po valley in Italy . |
| 26 | Strong opposition from local populations has put an effective halt to further building of nuclear or hydro-electric facilities in many European countries . |
| 27 | But the major obstacle to wider use of computers for textual processing is the time taken to input data . |
| 28 | ‘ A broader base of funding has to be found if we are to achieve the increased access to higher education we seek . ’ |
| 29 | But the environment minister , Tom King , could not give any firm commitment to further government funds . |
| 30 | Marriage remained an effective barrier to further work for women largely through the operation of domestic ideologies enshrined in employment practice and male culture . |