Example sentences of "[adj -er] [noun] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where two tractors are of equal power , the heavier will probably need to be in a lower gear to pull the same weight . |
| 2 | As a further measure to prevent the possible contamination of meat destined for human consumption , legislation is being introduced which will ban the practice of splitting cattle skulls to remove head meat in abattoirs . |
| 3 | Many were sold to raise further funds to furnish the new institute . |
| 4 | The student union are taking legal advice about whether they can take any further action to recover the missing money . |
| 5 | In the first serious clash since the coup , the army , now given a broader mandate to destroy the Marxist Sendero Luminoso ( " Shining Path " ) guerrillas , on April 28 moved into the Raucana shanty town on the outskirts of the capital Lima , run as a " model " Sendero development ; one person was killed and over a dozen more seriously wounded . |
| 6 | In addition to the existing members of Concorde , the group says that seven retailers and suppliers are examining further opportunities to exploit the new service . |
| 7 | The plan was a further attempt to persuade the rival regime of Gen. Michel Aoun , the former Army C.-in-C. and self-declared interim Premier of Lebanon , to embrace the October 1989 Taif Accord for Lebanese national reconciliation [ see p. 36986 ] , and followed two recent efforts launched by France and the Vatican [ see p. 37548 ] . |
| 8 | John always remained very concerned about the designing of his own ballets but was never specifically credited with responsibility for their designs , preferring to collaborate with an artist to whom he could explain his ideas and from whom he expected further ideas to enhance the final outcome . |
| 9 | Havel asked the legislature to grant him broader powers to defuse the constitutional crisis . |
| 10 | Whitehall is anxious to deflect attention to two areas — the follow-up to last month 's Paris summit to provide aid to Eastern Europe , and further efforts to liberalise the internal European market for 1992 . |
| 11 | At the time ASEAN was created in August 1967 Soviet officials had been anticipating an American attempt to construct a broader alliance to replace the decrepit SEATO . |
| 12 | Negotiations were to continue on a further facility to replace the existing one when it expired in October . |
| 13 | She is hopeful there will be further gifts to endow the curatorial departments . |
| 14 | The Department of the Environment ( DoE ) is to introduce tougher legislation to prevent the illegal dumping of waste after legitimate companies have been continuously undercut by illegally operating " fly tippers " who deposit waste on unapproved sites . |
| 15 | Say twenty minutes to transfer the men and cargo ; two hours to the mainland and a further half-hour to reach the upriver disembarkation point . |
| 16 | The adequacy of the safety regulations , which allowed lighter craft to use the same bridge arches as heavy vessels was criticised , and immediate changes in regulations were brought . |
| 17 | A typical microcomputer system therefore consists of a microprocessor chip , one or more ROM chips , one or more RAM chips ( to hold variable data ) , and a further chip to decode the top few bits of the 16-bit address coming from the microprocessor , in order to direct it to the appropriate store chip . |
| 18 | It was announced on Feb. 28 that further voting to complete the local elections would be held on March 1 and 8 , as well as on April 19 . |
| 19 | In a further effort to tackle the chronic air pollution of its capital , [ see EDs passim ] , the Mexican government has announced that all public transport and cargo vehicles in the city must convert to natural gas or liquid petroleum over the next three years . |
| 20 | But first I would make one further effort to solve the last enigma : to find out what had happened to Leslie . |
| 21 | The Transkei had ‘ independence ’ imposed upon it by South Africa in 1976 as part of a broader scheme to brush the whole racial problem under the carpet by packing off the black majority of the population to a series of impoverished rural ‘ homelands ’ dotted around the country . |
| 22 | TOUGHER laws to stem the rising number of juveniles committing crime while on bail in Hartlepool , were called for yesterday . |
| 23 | It took Caillié eleven years of meticulous planning and a further year to reach the fabled city in 1828 , which turned out to be rather a disappointment to him after such a hazardous journey . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The crumbling of the old idea of a state based on obligations and obedience may have helped increase the dynamic force that enabled European countries to spread their authority over most of the world ; the very widespread acceptance of the new idea of a state based on independence and equality gave people outside Europe political principles which helped them in the later struggle to dismantle the European empires . |
| 26 | Later attempts to solve the political deadlock have failed . |
| 27 | So anglers need larger weights to do the same job — which could distract the fish . |
| 28 | As daughters earning good wages , they tended in their later years to become the sole breadwinners in households containing elderly mothers and , in a surprisingly large number of cases , handicapped or ailing sisters . |
| 29 | Indeed , newly issued bills will have to carry a larger discount to match the higher market rates . |
| 30 | 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 . |