Example sentences of "[adj -er] [coord] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Industry will especially be looking to the polytechnics to provide a further and much needed stimulus to innovations already taking place in higher education ; in particular , in the development of mixed degree courses , modular courses coupled with practical experience , and of the sandwich system of education and training generally , and in the opening up of opportunities for women in all branches of higher education , not least science and technology .
2 Health is a much broader and socially defined concept than the simple absence of disease .
3 The European variety has the advantage of a simpler and better understood theory of pricing , but it is a less flexible instrument .
4 It was the first time in my life I had acted like a complete sod to other people , and I felt that my behaviour was worse because I had loads of advantages the lesser recruits did n't : I could speak French ; I was basically healthier and therefore found fitness much easier ; I was a north European Caucasian which endeared me to some of the more racist instructors .
5 We need a much larger and better resourced inspectorate to enforce it so it is fair and seen to be . ’
6 She sounded kind and friendly , and Mary began to feel better and soon stopped crying .
7 A faster and easier to use version of Timeworks Publisher for Windows has been unveiled by Huntingdon-based GST Software .
8 The firm introduced Signet , a tailor-made computer system which has made financial accounting very much faster and also handles word processing requirements .
9 Partly for this reason and partly because of slight local demand for living accommodation so markedly individualistic as apartments created in former textile factories ( which may not be entirely free from unpleasant associations ) , only one or two of the smaller , older and picturesquely situated textile mills have , to date , been converted into dwellings .
10 The older and best known way is as an ‘ organisation man ’ .
11 The Stoddard Golf Club — for those employed in the company — organised five events and the Glenpatrick Golf Club which is smaller and also has membership from outside the Company , organised four .
12 It is enacted not by the ordinary legislative authority but by some higher and specially empowered body .
13 The mites tend to go for the smaller workers , probably because of their safer and passively fed lifestyle .
14 Firstly the process of moving down towards our S S A needs to be facilitated because my own instinct is that the government , faced with all sorts of financial tribulations , is going to take a harder and harder nosed attitude towards local government expenditure , as it will unfortunately with an awful lot of the rest of what we have come to expect over the decades to be the responsibility of central government , clearly the current expenditure review is going to have some nasty shocks in it for consumers of account services , consumers of other assets of the welfare state but particularly I would suspect , the local government .
15 New legislation which contains elements of censorship , forces us to take a wider and more considered view .
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