Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [adj -er] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forty-one per cent of these diabetics had levels of malondialdehyde formation greater than the highest result seen in the control group , and this difference was highly significant ( Betteridge et al , 1981 ) . |
| 2 | BY NO stretch of the imagination is the new Council Tax fairer than the Community Charge , which at least provided equal treatment . |
| 3 | Defence spending was planned to rise by 5.1 per cent , the lowest percentage rise since 1960 , and a whole percentage point lower than the previous year 's increase . |
| 4 | A issue number lower than the current version of the module has been entered at the new package version or new module version prompt . |
| 5 | Whereas during the 1980–81 period the unemployment rate in the South East was on average three and a half percentage points lower than the national average , it currently stands close to one percentage point lower , while the unemployment rate in Greater London is equal to the national average of 8.7 per cent . |
| 6 | The margin between them by the end of the campaign was considerably larger than the gap between Mrs Thatcher and the Labour leader five years ago : 1987Apr 7–8Now Thatcher/Major would make best Prime Minister 42 39 47 Kinnock would 31 28 21 Conservative advantage+11+11+26 Asked who they thought would ‘ make the worst Prime Minister ’ , 51 per cent of Gallup 's sample named Mr Kinnock — seven percentage points higher than the number who named him in 1987 . |
| 7 | It also contributed to a shift in opinion at the Ministry of Education away from the curtailment or freezing of grant towards modest and flexible expansion — and the Eastern District was able to take advantage of the new grant regulations which followed the Report in 1955 to achieve a level of aid a few percentage points higher than the 75% hitherto regarded as standard . |
| 8 | The claim that no spelling unit smaller than the word but bigger than the grapheme is used when we read non-words aloud can be tested with non-words like gean , geak , and gead . |
| 9 | Relatedly , it afforded the wife no financial privacy ( except by couples opting to be taxed as two single persons , which ‘ paid ’ financially only if the loss of the husband 's allowance could be compensated for by a lower amount of income subject to a tax band higher than the basic rate ) . |
| 10 | In the case of a set-in sleeve style however , the program will allow you to design a sleeve head larger than the armhole , for the purposes of gathering or pleating in . |
| 11 | In fact , for the UK the tax structure achieves progressivity ( a marginal tax rate greater than the average tax rate ) by having tax allowances and a wide band of income over which the marginal tax rate is a constant . |
| 12 | Among the third generation of swept wings , many had an included leading edge or nose angle greater than the basic 90 degrees — more usually 105 degrees . |
| 13 | The Pumping Station at this village on the River Witham near Tattershall was built to drain the surrounding land because shrinkage of the peat ( see Holme Fen ) has left the surface level lower than the rivers . |
| 14 | Make the hole for the supply to the hot water cylinder higher than the cold supply — so that if the water fails , the hot runs out first . |
| 15 | A problem in any word-oriented computer with instruction formats shorter than the word is how to address individual instructions . |
| 16 | I think it 's also easy to argue that if you take money out of government allocation for service delivery greater than the amount that is necessary , then actually , the people that are getting in in in the sense of capital schemes , the losers are the people that lose out on front line direct services . |
| 17 | ‘ Good God , ’ said this devout Welshman , ‘ this will do for many of the Navy boys worse than the sinking of their own ships , they will have no wives and children to come home to ! ’ |
| 18 | The restaurant consists of a ‘ little ’ dining room bigger than the ‘ big ’ dining room , and a ‘ sitting ’ room that is a dining room , too . |
| 19 | Tear a piece of tissue paper larger than the hole , making edges frayed and fibrous |
| 20 | Can I just mention that the reason why some of the older properties in this village has steeper pitched roofs is not because they 're pantiled now , because originally they were erm , thatched , and the thatch needs a very steep pitch and particularly when there 's a erm a gable end higher than the pantiles , it 's where there was a thatched roof originally , but most of the older properties in this village are only one room wide , so you ca n't get a very big roof on , no matter how steep it is , the proposed houses here are in fact virtually sort of two rooms wide are n't they , so that means they are wide at the eves , I I would personally have thought that erm they could have been pitched a bit less . |
| 21 | Finally , you will get slightly improved sound insulation as well — although for best results you need an air gap bigger than the 20mm maximum usually found in sealed units , and you may want to consider having secondary acoustic double glazing as well . |
| 22 | Where peasants were already working areas larger than the maximum , landowners were allowed to trim their holdings . |
| 23 | Reformat it to a typing line wider than the screen afterwards , unless it will include a complicated layout such as tab stops across its full width , when the page width and margins should be set beforehand . |
| 24 | A wide document has a typing line broader than the window 's width of nearly 80 characters . |
| 25 | We washed this down with iced tea , which in the heat of a Texas summer tastes better than the best wine could . |
| 26 | Some sites have radiation levels higher than the general background in the area , but there is a tendency for Cornish circles to be below background . |
| 27 | In early 1983 the then NCB Chairman Norman Siddall stated in the Coal and Energy Quarterly that since the current intensive exploration programme began in 1974 — new reserves of 3.8 billion tonnes ( 2533 MTOE ) have been proved — an amount 40% larger than the UK 's proved oil reserves . |
| 28 | An allowance period shorter than the four years mentioned by the right hon. Gentleman might have an immediate and useful effect . |
| 29 | In fact the USSR 's oil production did not peak in 1980 and a production level higher than the Jeremiahs of the late seventies predicted , was achieved . |
| 30 | Holding the shares in the index also gives the right to dividends , making the spot price higher than the futures price by the present value of the dividends ( D ) , plus the interest on this sum ( Dr ) . |