Example sentences of "[coord] a [adj -er] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly , memory for a Christian is far more profound than merely having a mental skill or a better-than-average ability to recall . |
| 2 | Anyway , the perceived need since 1945 is said in the Report to have been ‘ to involve employees to a greater extent in company decision making ’ whatever involvement involves or a greater extent extends to . |
| 3 | So public employees can not be said to have less of an incentive to be efficient or a greater incentive to pursue non-pecuniary rewards . |
| 4 | They will expect you to watch helplessly as their trap gradually tightens , so do n't wait — break through their line as quickly as possible and run to find help , weapons or a better place to stand and fight . |
| 5 | The author of the book had argued that evolution was a product of desire : a wingless animal , unconsciously , wants to fly — it wills a wing , a pair or wings , or a longer neck to reach the trees , or swifter legs to escape its predators . |
| 6 | These include low-cost lines for data transfer and a cheaper alternative to packet switching , plus cheaper multimedia applications like videoconferencing and videotelephony . |
| 7 | The chastened company admitted that the shock loss showed that it had been guilty of poor financial controls and a badly-timed shareholders letter — Vannotti said the board was convinced up to March 22 when the shareholders letter was sent that it would record a profit for 1992 , but he and the chairman subsequently ordered a special audit , after financial controllers warned of problems with the accounts for Ascom 's cable television and mobile telephone businesses in Germany , and a closer examination revealed the German results had to be corrected by $41m — $28m of extraordinary depreciation and $12.8m of adjustments to inventory values , Vannotti said . |
| 8 | But Ciaran Fitzgerald and manager Noel Murphy met the four provincial coaches recently , and a closer rapport has been devised . |
| 9 | In essence , this is the engine that powered the old V6 R25 , but it has been heavily revised and a bigger bore takes the capacity out to just under three litres . |
| 10 | A Metropolitan train roared up non-stop to Wembley Park and a slower Jubilee passed it , stopping at the platform below . |
| 11 | The most recent relevant development has been the decision by the House of Lords and a lower court to refer the relevant questions of Community law to the European Court . |
| 12 | On this canal poundlocks were used for the first time in England , i.e. , an upper and a lower gate fitted with sluices and enclosing a chamber into which boats passed to be raised or lowered to the next level . |
| 13 | On Saturday evening and early Sunday morning I packed two bags , the new suitcase from England and a softer holdall bought in Toronto . |
| 14 | All three major candidates agreed that the influence of the country 's chaebols — large business conglomerates which had traditionally worked closely with the government — should be curbed and a greater emphasis placed upon laissez-faire economics . |
| 15 | In many courses , content has been reduced and a greater emphasis has been put on the acquisition of subject-related skills by the pupils . |
| 16 | In this population women who had had hysterectomy were more constipated than women with an intact uterus assessed by several criteria : more infrequency of defecation and slower transit time ( in older women ) , more straining at stool by both report and record , and a greater tendency to regard themselves as constipated . |
| 17 | And he argues that changing social relations imply the need for more specialist and responsive service delivery , while changing managerial technologies ( particularly information technology ) make it possible to flatten managerial hierarchies by removing many of the middle layers and encouraging the growth of decentralized offices with less professional specialization and a greater ability to deal with individual issues across professional lines . |
| 18 | Young women of this age show a high regard for each other 's individuality and a greater ability to tolerate differences . |
| 19 | There was , however , a greater awareness of the need to develop a framework of rules which could operate in the interests of the world community as a whole — against terrorism or narcotics , for instance — and a greater readiness to establish relations with traditionally conservative states , such as the Arab monarchies , as well as with those that claimed to adhere to Marxism-Leninism . |
| 20 | With this in mind perhaps an emphasis needs to be placed on the more practical application of embalming and a greater value placed on course examinations and assessment . |
| 21 | Castles and towns were still fortified but , in the later Middle Ages , as prosperity and a greater peacefulness spread to many parts of Europe , the fortification diminished and both towns and individual buildings were extended and elaborated . |
| 22 | It was wonderful while it lasted and a better way to make money . |
| 23 | This is clearly beyond our means , and a better method has to be found , and without delay . |
| 24 | Carmen 's Facial Sauna , £15.95 , has a low setting to produce mist to cleanse sensitive skin , and a higher setting to produce steam for normal skin . |
| 25 | You needin' ol' man Boysey , he fixin' anyting , ’ a young boy with wide eyes and a wider grin informed Martin . |
| 26 | He was alone at the centre of driving lines of grey and wet , and only a will that had already taken him across wide seas and a wider continent drove him forward . |
| 27 | With the arrival of The Patient 's Charter and a clearer need to respond to the spiritual needs of patients , many nursing staff may wonder how best to do this . |
| 28 | In contrast , boys seem to have a firmer self-identity and a clearer ambition showing more insight in response to sentence stems such as ‘ My main problem is … ’ and ‘ He/she felt proud that … ’ . |
| 29 | The second concerns a love for God which is a gift and has nothing to do with learning ( c.5-7 ) ; this itself has two aspects covering that which is experienced sporadically by both actives and contemplatives , and a stabler devotion given after a long process of discipline in which the contemplative feels a " grete rest of bodie and of soule " ( 7.282a. – 81 ) . |
| 30 | It required the next generation of researchers and a simpler mollusc to come closer to finding god 's favourite . |