Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] the [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The marchers avoided the Lower Ormeau on their way back home in the afternoon . |
| 2 | TWO schoolboys looking for crabs found the lower half of a human body . |
| 3 | One of the leading dissidents reflected the wider view , when Winston Churchill thanked Mr Heseltine for the ‘ considerable distance ’ he had travelled since last year . |
| 4 | Her eyes hoovered the younger girl , gathering up every detail of her dress , her make-up , her jewellery and shoes , in order to relay the information to Emma and his mother . |
| 5 | His stands alienated the richer members so that his ministries were short and ill paid . |
| 6 | Rats fed the higher fibre diet weighed less ( at 18 months ; higher fibre rats 570 g ( 26 ) v low fibre rats 675 ( 28 ) g ) and were more healthy than the low fibre fed rats . |
| 7 | The caecal and colonic tissue weights were significantly higher in the rats fed the higher fibre diet than those fed the low fibre diet ( Table I , p=0.001 ) . |
| 8 | Petion caught up with Mortimer just as the Marines reached the wider tunnel , into one side of which was set a pair of doors which Benny 's description indicated led to the dock . |
| 9 | The parents represented the wider community 's values to the child , and other social institutions — such as religion , medicine and education — also affected the infant 's development . |
| 10 | The Dark Elves had the greater number and their allies were fell . |
| 11 | In the 1983 election , more electors thought the Conservatives had the better policies than actually voted for the party . |
| 12 | Further research studies confirmed the earlier picture of West Indian pupils ' underachievement , on average , compared with Asian and white pupils , but showed that the gap appeared to be diminishing significantly as time passed . |
| 13 | When all 12 EC countries were ostensibly progressing towards European monetary and political union , investors bought the higher yield bonds issued by countries such as Portugal , Spain and Italy on the assumption that eventually these yields would narrow to equal those obtainable from German government bonds . |
| 14 | The German marine scientist Victor Hensen ( 1835–1924 ) led an expedition to Greenland and the tropics in 1889 , which showed that — contrary to everyone 's expectations — the colder waters supported the greater quantity of life . |
| 15 | Fewer than 30 of Britain 's 450 designated bathing beaches passed the tougher standard last summer . |
| 16 | Noble argues that the technical performance of the two systems in their development phase was similar but that the NC system was adopted in preference to the record-playback system because managements preferred the tighter control given to them by the NC system ( Noble 1977 ) . |
| 17 | Even though they were against the wind , Colleges made the better start and after Thomson had missed two penalties and John Mackenzie had had a ‘ try ’ disallowed for a foot in touch ( signalled by the Colleges touch judge Bert Barclay ) the home side went 10-0 up . |
| 18 | 87% of all mothers found the Better Shoe fit card useful and said they were likely to keep it . |
| 19 | No challenge rang out as the leaders entered the deeper gloom of the gatehouse-pend , under its vault . |
| 20 | Lights from Joan Robbins 's top windows illuminated the higher levels of No. 45 , but did not reach the thickets of the overgrown garden . |
| 21 | Hanging baskets with bright geraniums decorated the higher balconies and the courtyard had been turned into a spectacular garden , tubs of potted plants adorning the old paving . |
| 22 | Von Tunzelmann , remarking that prices had the greater influence on real wage trends over this period , finds that the indices available are much closer to each other than they are for the periods on either side . |
| 23 | He and his later antislavery advocates argued that the results demonstrated the greater efficiency of the work done — a genuine experiment because the whip had previously been removed from overseers and offences amongst the slaves dealt with by a jury of elders amongst the slaves themselves . |
| 24 | Now it was the women 's turn again ; while the men debated the finer points of why the device had failed , we fetched buckets of water and old blankets and quickly put out the fire . |
| 25 | The two large men chased the smaller man , caught him and then proceeded to bash his brains out in front of everyone at the tables — or so it seemed . |
| 26 | However , this leaves uncovered the larger part of the region in which 10 per cent of its population live . |
| 27 | Some backward tribes inhabited the remoter mountains and jungles but the main population was of the same race ; today they are known as Vietnamese but then the outside world knew them as Annamites or Annamese . |
| 28 | In most fields the nineteenth century was the age of the textbook , such as Thomas Thomson 's in chemistry and Lyell 's in geology , where successive editions made the earlier ones obsolete ; the plates that survive usefully are perhaps to be compared to the very few classic books like the Origin of Species which go on selling . |
| 29 | Page 235 states : ’ In our surveys the British samples reported the greater number of vocational learning experiences . |