Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] greater [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Although Robert Teeter remained as the nominal head of the Bush campaign , it was generally acknowledged that Baker would use his new post to exercise overall and ultimate responsibility for the campaign and attempt to provide it with a greater degree of coherence .
2 The Director has stated a seemingly modest goal : that someone who is assessed as requiring residential or nursing home care on 1 April should be able to receive it with no greater difficulty than s/he would have experienced on 31 March .
3 ‘ someone who is assessed as requiring residential or nursing home care on 1 April should be able to receive it with no greater difficulty than s/he would have experienced on 31 March .
4 This call the lesser chamber because to distinguish it from the greater chamber .
5 They are driven to cunning in order to buy the materials they need for their work … they are vain , envious and antagonistic to writers ‘ who are really their best friends , who control the public and try to bring it to a greater state of culture which will offer the artists great subject for their work …
6 But neither should we enable this sympathy to blind us to the greater truth that more persons suffer , many fatally , from corporate crime than ‘ conventional ’ crime .
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