Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] a [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The arrival of computer graphics will not only facilitate a wider access to geometry but will be , in an important sense , integral to doing geometry . |
| 2 | Looking after the status quo is rather more their tendency , so we can perhaps expect a greater emphasis on defence with rather less activity from the operatives up front — the strikers . |
| 3 | The end results will not only create a higher standard of competence within the company directly related to each person 's individual role but also an enhancement and enrichment of that person 's own development and personal qualification . |
| 4 | Combining it with the well-run NCR could merely produce a bigger failure . |
| 5 | People in late twentieth-century Britain do not necessarily do less for their relatives than they have done for the past two centuries , nor do they necessarily have a weaker sense of obligation , but they do have to work out the nature of their relationships and the patterns of support associated with them , in circumstances which are very different from the past . |
| 6 | Greater understanding of what goes on in school does n't necessarily mean a greater approval of its organisation and its methods . |
| 7 | You do n't necessarily get a better job with a performance spec than you would simply by specifying that you had more cuts because in er in a slow growing year , if you like , the contractor actually gains because he does n't need to cut so many times to comply with a maximum of a hundred millimetres length , whereas if you 've got an eleven level cut you would actually have a continuous length of grass , much shorter , so it would look smarter . |
| 8 | However , participation in a CU does not necessarily represent a freer trading regime for all participating countries . |
| 9 | The 16 per cent of authorities where Independents are dominant are mostly in the more rural parts of Scotland , England and Wales , but as Widdicombe notes ( 1986 , vol. 1 , p. 23 ) ‘ the overall figure does perhaps represent a stronger resilience of the Independent tradition in an era of increasing party politicisation than might have been anticipated ’ . |
| 10 | The recommendation most widely noticed was that full-time students should normally study a wider range of subjects — five A levels plus one AS level , rather than three A levels as at present . |
| 11 | The researchers believe that supramolecular structures such as micelles will prove particularly useful for the study of autopoietic phenomena because they allow extensive variation in structural organisation and can thus have a higher degree of functional complexity , for example being able to act as hosts to guest molecules , such as enzymes . |
| 12 | ( 10 ) The only permissible condition to the offer is that it will fail if tenders totalling less than 1 per cent of the voting rights are received ; a higher percentage may be stipulated by the tenderer but the London Stock Exchange does not normally permit a higher figure than 5 per cent for on-Exchange offers . |
| 13 | Clearly , we have made great progress in bringing inflation under control and we shall soon have a lower rate of inflation than Germany for the first time in a generation . |
| 14 | Although the computer has a hyphenation dictionary ( it knows how to split words that come at the end of a line ) , a skilled composer can usually do a better job . |
| 15 | The results of the research project will hopefully provide a better understanding of the functioning of the estate agency sector as a whole and will reveal forms of organisational change that take place within a small-firm sector subject to rapid corporate invasion , paying particular attention to the way in which changes and impacts vary between localities . |
| 16 | They do however still have a lower boundary at zero , and the whole distribution is very lop-sided ; outcomes with probabilities less than evens are squashed into the number range 0 to 1 , whereas probabilities above evens can range from 1 to infinity . |
| 17 | Men in general bring in higher wages than women so a family with a male partner will almost always have a higher family income than a family of a lone woman . |
| 18 | A moorland parish will obviously be larger than a parish in a fertile area that was densely settled in early times ; a church that was an Anglo-Saxon missionary centre will usually have a larger parish than one that was founded later . |
| 19 | Housing is clearly and directly associated with population trends : for , a larger population will usually require a larger number of homes . |
| 20 | They are a prodigious survival in the heart of a large city and one that can hardly weather a further intrusion of hostels . |
| 21 | I 'll probably make a better job of it than you would . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ You 'll also need a better cover story , ’ he added , ‘ if you 're going to be seen around with Hurley and his crowd . |
| 23 | But after persistently arguing that big ‘ named ’ firms do not automatically do a better job , he feels that the firm is finally beginning to make headway . |
| 24 | In large transactions vendors may also negotiate a lower limit for individual items . |
| 25 | ‘ We will also keep a better check on rider 's allowances so we do n't have a situation like the one where Adrian Maguire lost several wins through riding with the wrong allowance , ’ said Michael Caulfield of the Jockeys Association , who are involved in the new system . |
| 26 | On the other hand , the lowest incidence of prematurity was found among managerial , professional and clerical workers ' children , among whom the mothers could probably provide a higher quality of prenatal care . |
| 27 | Relating levels of capital grants to handicap zones would also provide a better climate for conservation in the uplands . |
| 28 | More importantly , speakers can also use a further strategy in this case : merger . |
| 29 | Since Bush 's State of the Union address , Congress had moved at an unusually rapid pace to adopt a tax package which would be responsive to his demands but would also shift a greater proportion of the tax burden on to the wealthy . |
| 30 | The good news is that , while some items will probably take a heftier slice of your budget , others will certainly be cheaper or no longer cost you anything at all . |