Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [prep] the [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difference is explained by the greater likelihood of men having held pensionable jobs , both because full-time jobs held by men were more likely to have pension rights than women 's , and because , before the age of retirement , a majority of older women had either no paid job or a part-time job with no pension provision . |
| 2 | The want of technique is compounded by the greater nervousness felt when facing out and surveying the whole sweep of exposure below . |
| 3 | If the bench press is done on a decline , the emphasis is placed on the lower pectorals , giving men a strong outline to the lower chest , and women a muscular development which creates the impression of a larger bust . |
| 4 | Yet when it is placed within the wider social and economic context , retirement counselling assumes a breadth and an importance that far transcends the encouragement of useful and meaningful interests and hobbies to fill the ‘ idle ’ hours of leisure . |
| 5 | Zeus had been immemorially worshipped in the Altis , the sacred area between the little Hill of Kronos to the north and the river Alpheus to the south , just above the point where it is joined by the smaller Cladeus which skirts hill and sanctuary on the west . |
| 6 | One way of by-passing philosophical misgivings about the materiality of software is to appeal to the broader mandate of science museums to maintain a material record of technological change . |
| 7 | The tips of the ‘ diamond ’ are again folded to the centre and the process is repeated until a hard conveniently sized pad is formed with the lower surface completely smooth . |
| 8 | Company law is examined against the wider background of the Community rules which grant equal access to the markets of other member states , and which harmonise the conditions for the exercise of particular types of business activity . |
| 9 | This condition is limited by the higher frequency listed . |
| 10 | If she has a break of , in this illustration , eight years out of employment to rear to children , and works part-time for most of the years when they are still at school , the lifetime earning profile is given by the lower line . |
| 11 | In the Severn Estuary , N. lapillus reaches Sand Point above western-super-Mare ( Boyden et al. , 1977 ) but is confined to the lower shore up channel from Minehead , a distribution pattern that may reduce its exposure to water of reduced salinity . |
| 12 | These results support our previous finding that the proliferative compartment of background crypts is confined to the lower two thirds and does not extend to the upper parts of the crypts . |
| 13 | Blood vessels at the surface are constricted in cold conditions so that blood is confined to the deeper vessels , which has the effect of conserving blood heat . |
| 14 | Furthermore , the fact that so much violent crime is committed by the younger generation — the modern equivalent of the sons of the primal father — certainly seems to point to a fundamental failure in socialization or , in other words , in superego-formation . |
| 15 | This contrasts with the situation for a viscous magma such as rhyolite in which gas expansion is constrained in the lower levels of the magma column . |
| 16 | If the inherent friction torque of the system can be neglected the equation for the rotor position relative to equilibrium ( 4.3 ) is modified by the damper torque : So the single step response of a system with a VCID is third-order , compared to the second-order Eqn . |
| 17 | In the towns they drink wine and liqueurs , but we ca n't do that in the villages … the result is that the gents can drink , but it 's forbidden to the lower classes . ’ |
| 18 | A MSS instrument like the one carried by Landsats 1–3 and described earlier is carried by the newer Landsats ; in addition , they have a more modern scanner called the Thematic Mapper or TM . |
| 19 | In contrast , this Y , where " Y " is a proper name for a unit included in the larger calendrical span Z , will often mean " that unit Y which is included in the larger span Z which includes CT " . |
| 20 | A graphic scene of an embassy from India arriving with elephant tusks and wild animals is depicted on the lower register of the Barberini Ivory ( c. 500 A.D. ) ( fig. 5 ) . |
| 21 | In other words we want to help local enthusiasts to keep in touch with what is happening in the wider world of railways . |
| 22 | The scheme is designed for the younger ( less than 36 years old ) organic chemist , the funds to be used for the purchase of equipment , books and consumables , technical assistance , professional travel or any other activity directly related to the research being undertaken . |
| 23 | that a major consultation has been going on in one is reminded of the earlier discussion about er St Albans , twelve thousand questionnaires have been sent out and there |
| 24 | Schools and teachers are part of a wider political arena and it is inevitable that school disruption is sucked into the wider debates about and responses to law and order . |
| 25 | Exporting activity in most sectors is dominated by the larger companies and this is particularly true of the Office machinery and data processing sector where the predominance of multinationals leads to large companies representing 98.7% of all exports in this sector . |
| 26 | The consequent reduction in torque at low speeds , resulting in poor initial acceleration , is compensated by the higher steady-state speed . |
| 27 | And this depends on our having very powerful and general rules in our minds for relating what is said to the broader context . |
| 28 | An incision is made in the lower right abdomen through which the appendix is located , clamped and removed — a purse string suture is inserted around the stump and is pulled closed . |
| 29 | This method avoids the full demands upon parliamentary time that is made by the better known procedure for considering general , or public , legislation . |
| 30 | Any request for that data is fed to the faster silicon , rather than the slow hard drive , which increases perceived performance dramatically . |