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

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1 They may however have achieved a realization of theoretical proposals : but we can not be certain about that until further research has been undertaken into the workings of the Household .
2 Conflicts that arise between line and staff positions and between strong and weaker functions are largely the result of an imbalance in power .
3 In brief , though naturally not insensitive to the difference between lower and higher wages , they were engaged in human life rather than in an economic transaction .
4 The recent Toyne Report ‘ Environmental Responsibility , An Agenda for Further and Higher Education ’ , commissioned by the DoE and the Welsh Office states , ‘ Everybody has some scope for doing his or her job in a more environmentally responsible way , and needs to understand the importance of this … but may well need more than this , either because they have been given specific responsibilities within their organisation , or simply because their organisation 's environmental impact is heavily dependent on the way they carry out their day-to-day tasks , and on the decisions which they have to take . ’
5 I have visited sixth-form colleges in Thurrock and Boston this year , and I recently addressed the annual meeting of the Association of Colleges for Further and Higher Education .
6 With unemployment up from 3 per cent at the beginning of 1991 to 9 per cent , expenditure on unemployment benefit would be markedly higher ; the additional FMk7,000 million needed for this and higher health benefits would be financed out of cuts in other areas of social spending .
7 We have already seen the theoretical differences between this and earlier forms of convergence .
8 General hints at fertility ceremonies may be present , demonstrating another continuity in theme between this and earlier poetry ; but it is important to see that , though its death and rebirth are also related , Christianity is presented by Eliot as an escape from Frazerian cycles of fertility ( in the way that the Buddhist ‘ Shantih shantih shantih ’ hinted at such an escape ) , not as its mere continuation .
9 There are , of course , many who are disqualified for shorter or longer periods depending on their employer 's method of paying them .
10 There was also a variety of other people who lived in the house , for shorter or longer periods .
11 Take your notes and your structure , giving yourself time for second and later thoughts .
12 This division and those between bigger and smaller clubs , and between east Wales and West Wales , are among the most damaging bequests of a history whose many years of glory occurred despite ( certainly not because of ) native parochialism , introspection and even sometimes indolence .
13 In this approach , proposed by Kahn in 1976 , each trade union is seen as being in competition with other trade unions for bigger and bigger wage increases in an attempt to achieve and maintain a higher position in the wages ‘ league table ’ .
14 You see to be going for bigger and better challenges .
15 This was the English passion , not for self-improvement or culture or wit , but for DIY , Do It Yourself , for bigger and better houses with more mod cons , the painstaking accumulation of comfort and , with it , status — the concrete display of earned cash .
16 To meet the growing demand for bigger and better bangs they import their fireworks from all over the world .
17 As a result , LASMO 's accounts for 1992 contain some significant changes in disclosure and the restatement of reported figures for 1991 and earlier years .
18 In the last ten years it has become apparent that there is some stability and continuity in intellectual and cognitive functioning from infancy through early and later childhood .
19 But it is universally accepted outside the ruling party that there is no question of a return to the golden days of 1980 and earlier elections , when Congress used to scoop up four-fifths of the seats .
20 Furthermore , over the same period there was a shift towards indirect taxation , which tends to take a greater proportion of the income of lower than higher income groups .
21 Whatever the mechanism of the assumed intron loss is in the chlorophyte mitochondrial lineage , that massive loss should have appeared after the bifurcation of lower and higher plants .
22 Easily Accessible : Lewes is an interesting town dating back to the Norman Conquest with steep narrow streets and a mixture of Georgian and older buildings including antique shops , a ruined castle , museums and a house which once belonged to Anne of Cleves .
23 Third , the major restructuring taking place in the labour market is increasing the number of part-time , temporary and often low-paid jobs , while the numbers of full-time and better-paid jobs have declined .
24 As a result of that and later Directives there are now many cases in which the Registrar must cause to be published in the Gazette notice that he has received for registration various types of documents .
25 Laboratory technicians and assistants maintain laboratory and workshop equipment , usually in secondary schools or institutes of further or higher education .
26 At 16 they are more likely to be studying at school ; by 18 they are much more likely to be studying at an establishment of further or higher education .
27 Until 1988 he was Chief Inspector of Further & Higher Education of ILEA .
28 YORK HOUSE 13 October : The Duke of Kent , as Vice Chairman of the British Overseas Trade Board , this morning visited Colman 's of Norwich and , later , visited Norwich City College of Further and Higher Education , Norfolk .
29 There is a very long tradition of collaboration between education and employers that stretches back to the foundation of the Mechanics Institutes in the nineteenth century — and to their even earlier precursors the Dissenting Academies — and developing through the technical colleges , colleges of advanced technology , technological universities and colleges of further and higher education .
30 The first two years of the course in Business and Finance/European Studies at offered at Ballymena , and Distribution Studies/Retailing at The Belfast Institute of Further and Higher Education , Tower Street , Belfast .
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