Example sentences of "[coord] on a [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Difficulties occur whether they focus on the monetary base or on a wider range of liquid assets , and whether they impose statutory ratios or allow banks to determine their own prudent ratios . |
| 2 | Usually wind-blown , they fill pockets among coarser rubble , or on a larger scale cover many hectares of flat ground to depths of half a metre or more , firm and sometimes consolidated . |
| 3 | The court can make an order for provisional damages at trial or on an earlier settlement , but the settlement must be approved even if the plaintiff is not under a disability . |
| 4 | And on a wider scale , theorists maintained that life amounted to the survival of the fittest : did not the Beesley hypothesis prove that the ‘ fittest ’ were merely the most cunning ? |
| 5 | And on a grander scale , there 's the controversial battle-readiness and barricades rhetoric of acts like Public Enemy and Niggers With Attitude . |
| 6 | Written over twenty years ago , it is admittedly a tentative sketch put on in the hope that some English historians and archaeologists would set to work in a more expert way and on a bigger scale . |
| 7 | Barley may be autumn o spring sown , slightly shallower and on a finer seed-bed than wheat . |
| 8 | Other popular movements of protest and reform have often been met by violence — for example , the civil rights movement of the 1960s in the US , and on a larger scale the diverse movements in Eastern Europe , as well as in many parts of the Third World , which have been suppressed by military force . |
| 9 | Through GEAR ( and on a smaller scale similar agencies in some other Scottish cities ) the SDA pursued a policy of bargaining and negotiation designed to mobilize private sector finance , voluntary sector initiative ( particularly in housing ) and local authority co-operation ( for example on the provision of land ) ( see , for example , Donnison and Middleton ( 1987 ) for a more developed discussion of GEAR ) . |
| 10 | They are , temporarily and on a smaller scale , in the same position as banks or building societies or insurance companies , all of which are subject to special regulatory regimes to ensure that depositors and policyholders are adequately protected . |
| 11 | Other authorities followed slowly and on a smaller scale . |
| 12 | The assumptions and implications of this have been exhaustively written about , ( e.g. Mittler , 1979 ; Ryan and Thomas , 1987 ) in relation to mental handicap , and on a broader front on medicalisation in general ( Illich , 1977 ; McKnight , 1977 ; Kennedy , 1981 ) . |
| 13 | Liz Scott-Gibson , who is now director of sign language services for the BDA , subsequently went to Kensington Palace to teach the Princess ; and on a later visit , to a school in Durham , Diana surprised everyone by being able to communicate to the deaf people she met without an interpreter . |
| 14 | Once in a pond , the adults will attach themselves to any fish , causing the same problems as Argulus , but on a grander scale . |
| 15 | But on a wider scale , such events may be indicative of something much more fundamental . |
| 16 | But on a bigger job you can , you can put the resource in ca n't you ? |
| 17 | Unfortunately , decentralisation of this sort usually results in regional structures which duplicate the former national structure : bureaucracy in the same form , but on a smaller scale . |
| 18 | For smaller pictures I use hardboard , but on a larger scale it can warp , which MDF will not . |
| 19 | Another example , but on a larger scale , is at Castor and Water Newton in the Nene Valley , where to the north of the walled town there are about two square miles full of buildings and sites associated with the extensive pottery industry with a centre of some kind in Castor village ( fig. 7.3 ) . |
| 20 | The language of the Sonata No. 3 is Schoenbergian but on a larger scale than anything Schoenberg wrote for solo piano : Krenek has a more obvious strain of Viennese lyricism , which serves him through all his style changes . |