Example sentences of "[adj -er] [noun] [verb] the [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the legal costs of sale and purchase of property including solicitor 's fees and stamp duty , £3,750 ; estate agent 's commission , £750 ; bridging finance ( one month at 13% ) , £758 ; cost associated with mortgages , in particular the additional cost of a bigger mortgage to cover the greater cost of housing ( company loan over 3 years ) , £1,500 ; cost of removal and , if necessary , storage , including insurance , £500 ; hotel and travel expenses including visits by wife to area to see houses , ( 15 weeks away from home plus two visits by wife ) , £2,420 ; cost of alterations to carpets and curtains , re-installing appliances , connecting telephone etc , alterations to property , redecoration and refurbishment , school uniforms and other educational expenses , maintenance , etc. of vacant , unsold property and miscellaneous incidental costs including vet 's fees , kennels , etc. , £2,000 . |
| 2 | If they are deliberately turned up the ‘ right ’ way , they appear doubly solid , as the brighter light strikes the paler area . |
| 3 | Indeed , we often find that older workers themselves believe that younger people have the greater right to a job , particularly in times of high unemployment . |
| 4 | Indeed , newly issued bills will have to carry a larger discount to match the higher market rates . |
| 5 | I then multiply it by five and the larger number exceeds the smaller number by 8 . |
| 6 | If an increase or decrease in the value of one variable is accompanied with an increase or decrease , respectively , in the other , the correlation is positive ( for instance , the later women marry the later they have their first child ) while , if the positive change in one variable is incidental to a negative change in another , the correlation is negative ( e.g. the later women marry , the lower their completed fertility ) . |
| 7 | In each case the younger son received the greater blessing . |
| 8 | The German marine scientist Victor Hensen ( 1835–1924 ) led an expedition to Greenland and the tropics in 1889 , which showed that — contrary to everyone 's expectations — the colder waters supported the greater quantity of life . |
| 9 | When the greed factor of competition feeding is present the smaller fish will more readily take the easier to handle smaller baits giving the larger baits a little more time to intercept one of the better fish . |
| 10 | In addition , if the probability differs from 0.5 , there comes a point where the higher probability of the smaller loss outweighs the lower probability of the larger gain and unequal distributions are prescribed . |
| 11 | The rate is lower on younger lithosphere underlying shallow ocean , but greater on older lithosphere underlying the deeper parts of ocean basins . |
| 12 | Among the smaller firms supplying the larger ones , some may be operating independently and others as subcontractors . |
| 13 | The results of the flow cytometry analysis showed similar changes in the rate of cellular proliferation as the BrdUrd method ( Table III ) but , these changs were of smaller magnitude indicating the lower sensitivity of this method . |
| 14 | It was , therefore , to some degree the older generation attacking the younger , much as an eighteenth century minister might have attacked the political involvement by ministers in the 1830s and 1840s when they refused to pay Church Rates and supported the Rev. Edward Miall 's British Anti-State Church Association . |
| 15 | In smaller tanks avoid the larger species , such as Labeotropheus fuelleborni , or Petrotilapia , but this should not apply to you , as your tank is a good size . |
| 16 | It makes sense to charge peak users higher prices to reflect the higher marginal costs they impose . |
| 17 | Peak load pricing is a system of price discrimination whereby peak time users pay higher prices to reflect the higher marginal cost of supplying them . |
| 18 | But when the two-litre Vauxhall twincam was at screaming speed the earlier tests proved the swifter . |
| 19 | Face rubbed against face , the taller ones squelching down the shorter ones , the darker ones overshadowing the lighter ones . |