Example sentences of "[adv] [adj -er] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Major award schools , on the other hand , started from a conspicuously lower threshold of library provision and use .
2 Longer , or more frequent , exercise sessions produce little further improvement in fitness level , but do produce an increase in risk of musculoskeletal abnormalities .
3 I just though it was a simple misprint and with one stroke of the pen I changed ‘ otter ’ to ‘ other ’ , thus effecting a rather broader sweep to Party policy than had been intended .
4 The char , which operates in a similar manner to activated carbon , but at a much lower cost per tonne , is an efficient treatment for liquid effluents .
5 Rank for rank , East India Company officers received double the pay of an officer of a royal regiment , while serving in a country with a much lower cost of living .
6 This is a much lower threshold of liability than the notion of violence that underlay the common law concept .
7 The shorter half-life of 235 U results in it having a much lower abundance at present relative to 238 U. Because U and Th are believed to have similar distribution coefficients during mantle melting , a large fractionation in U/Pb is associated with change of similar magnitude in Th/Pb .
8 While this downswing will not be as sharp as the previous downturn ( in 1979-81 ) , not least given the very much lower level of inflation that we now have , a dull 1989 is bound to be followed by a difficult 1990 . ’
9 This is no longer necessary ; fear for one 's personal safety is a much lower level of alarm .
10 Without such basic knowledge , you might gain some small insight into the sport , but at a much lower level of appreciation than if you had done some reading in advance .
11 Optimal scaffolding is that which promotes the highest level of functioning with the minimal level of support ; a child who is having difficulty in making herself understood may require a great deal of support ; a few minutes later that same child dealing with a different topic may become relatively fluent and require a much lower level of adult participation .
12 This is a much lower level of use than either Edinburgh or Glasgow , but in view of the standard of service observed on this occasion , it is impossible to say whether this usage figure represents lower demand , or merely laxity in control .
13 In Wales the amount of development plan grants paid for drainage increased 3.5 times , and for grassland improvement 3.2 times , between 1979/80 and 1982/83 compared with a rise of 74% for farm buildings ( the latter then attracting a much lower rate of grant ) .
14 Or if you have a number of outstanding debts , such as credit card charges and hire purchase deals , a remortgage can pay them all off at a much lower rate of interest to help you reduce your outgoings .
15 Similarly , Abigail Tordoff , for example will have a much lower point of contact than me , but the principle is the same .
16 Compared with the public performers mentioned above , effective managers usually give much lower priority to recognition .
17 The Protocol also leaves out ‘ soft ’ CFCs , which have a much lower potential for ozone depletion but still have a destructive effect .
18 The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood is at first sight a much simpler kind of formation .
19 A somewhat simpler circuit in Fig. 3 eliminates the amplifier and two resistors , the gain being ( formula provided ) but two low-impedance references are now needed , since high-impedance ones introduce distortion .
20 And , of course , there is a much shorter history of interruption in many European broadcasting systems than in the more fully commercial system of US broadcasting ( and those histories show signs of reversal in new systems such as satellite and cable ) .
21 The nationalities concerned are generally Lutheran ( Estonians and Latvians ) or Roman Catholic ( Lithuanians ) by religion , not Orthodox , and they have been under Soviet rule for a much shorter period of time than most other nationalities , since 1940 rather than the immediate post-revolutionary period ( when communist-led governments were briefly established in all three republics ) .
22 An operating lease lasts for a much shorter period of time than the economic life of the asset and the lessor retains the risks and rewards of ownership .
23 All this detailed analysis and cataloguing of the pottery forms part of the archive for the excavation , and the specialist then produces a much shorter report for publication , giving the main results of the analysis .
24 The end result will be more information on asbestos roofing traced , but only by considering all of the documents listed under the much broader category of roofing .
25 There is a potentially much broader field of work which could be construed as the sociology of knowledge .
26 Education has become part of the political battleground , and its transformation into a non-racial system can only be part of a much broader transformation of society .
27 I 've got to assimilate a much broader kind of spectrum outside the interests of climbers in national parks .
28 Er , I think that reflects the , a certain unrealism out there in the world , and that is the notion that you are likely to entrust major decisions about mega-millions er , of money , er , to a much broader arena for discussion .
29 The second change is the increasing differentiation among universities in terms of funding , based initially on surveys of research performance , but now becoming widened to include a much broader range of performance indicators .
30 The state may thus mould the company 's constitution so as to protect the interests of parties directly involved , for instance the interests of shareholders against abuse of position by management , but it also has a much broader right of intervention , allowing it , if appropriate , to redefine corporate objectives to secure compliance with favoured social goals .
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