Example sentences of "a [adj] or [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Social species will frequently surround and protect a wounded or younger member of their clan , regardless of who the parents are . |
| 2 | Those pupils wishing to continue their education have either to transfer to a school which does have a sixth form or to a sixth form college , or to move outside the secondary school system into a tertiary or further education college ( see below ) . |
| 3 | Retrieval of documents on a search topic , by using terms for a broader or narrower concept , relies heavily both on the searcher 's ingenuity and on any additional relationships that the database indexer might have added to link the natural language index terms . |
| 4 | Each of these has a different editorial policy and , to a lesser or greater degree , a political bias . |
| 5 | Whether it was approved or not — and usually it was not — it was understood on all sides that democracy meant , to a lesser or greater degree , popular power , popular sovereignty , popular participation . |
| 6 | I am sure that it will be fully appreciated by the people of Scotland when they assess the parties ' policies at the election , including the policies of those who advocate a lesser or greater degree of Scotland 's separation from the rest of the United Kingdom . |
| 7 | All the routes would therefore be prominent in the landscape creating a lesser or greater degree of visual intrusion across a wide area . |
| 8 | In waters where bream breed prolifically , spawning every season to a lesser or greater extent , the shoals of small bream — skimmers as they are commonly called — can run into thousands . |
| 9 | One is therefore , of necessity , confined to such outcomes as income , type of occupation , reading and writing achievements , and the passing of examinations , all of which are quantifiable to a lesser or greater extent . |
| 10 | All governments , to a lesser or greater extent , will also be anxious that the rates of taxation do not undermine work incentives . |
| 11 | When it comes to the summer in your options that you take there , you will to a lesser or greater extent get some more advocacy experience during the summer . |
| 12 | Fragment A is more difficult to analyse as the evidence is incomplete and the habit of keeping to a set rate of progress may not have evolved at the A stage of composition ; but it could have been completed between June 1758 and April 1759 , in a shorter or longer time depending on whether he wrote one verse or three each day . |
| 13 | Since the early 1970s , the proportion of divorces involving a second or later marriage for one partner more than doubled , from 7% in 1971 to 16% in 1989 . |
| 14 | Sixth — It is contemplated that during the period of the loan , discussions take place to explore the possibility of achieving a longer term solution , either by way of transferring ownership of some or all of the paintings to the Foundation or extending the loan for a second or further term if the initial lease arrangement works well for all concerned . |
| 15 | Practice can doubtless yield ‘ theories ’ of a limited or weaker kind , but once such theories are seen to apply more generally or with more force , they tend to become dignified with the name of ‘ model ’ , ‘ theory ’ or even ‘ paradigm ’ . |
| 16 | Those who did not want to buy a bigger or better house were able to borrow more to extract equity from their fast-appreciating assets . |
| 17 | Making a bigger or smaller version of an existing aircraft would cost less ( about $400m , reckons Airbus ) , but the new consortium says an all-new jet would be more efficient and so more attractive to airlines . |
| 18 | A 7° hinge-bending effect is observed on comparison of the two independent copies and a similar or greater range of flexion may be expected in vivo . |
| 19 | Moreover , a similar or larger proportion claim either to enjoy the frequent change of tasks and environment , the flexibility of " temping " and of being able to take spells off between assignments , or to have commitments which make continuous working impossible ; even if , as one recent survey ( Manpower , 1986 ) showed , this was Sometimes to be set off against a feeling of employment insecurity . |
| 20 | Anyone booking a six-day or longer package is entitled to an A la Carte discount booklet that covers Hong Kong shopping , restaurants , nightlife and sightseeing trips . |
| 21 | Many people take a part-time or lower-paid job because it suits their circumstances and is a good choice for them . |
| 22 | The lowest common multiple is a larger or higher number than the H.C.F. |
| 23 | Now we all know because we 're print buyers to a larger or greater degree but they 're clients they over-estimate they add about twenty five per cent more on than they need and you have to send them back to sharpen their pencils several times before you 've seen the estimate , they of course know that all print buyers are idiots who keep forgetting all the important things and do n't give them half the information they need like the weight of paper or the fact that there 's to be a pocket at the back so , I think if we got the man I think if we maybe started off with H M S O the print buyer which is more akin to what we are and say well you know these are the problems I 've got I 'm sitting with a six million pound budget buying for the whole of the government of Scotland and I have problems and these are the problems that I have , then we get to the wee man from who says now wait a minute boys I get the rubbish that you send out , that was the message and let's make it funny but slightly aggressive let's highlight the real problems because that 's what it 's about , we 're not here for a nice night we 're here to learn |
| 24 | Whether he was changing his job , dabbling in accommodation suitable for lodging houses or seeking a larger or smaller house to suit an expanding and then a contracting family , the silversmith-cum-general salesman-cum-lodging-house keeper-cum-commercial clerk-cum-clerk to a manufacturing jeweller-cum-collector to a goldsmith-cum-writing clerk never seemed to settle for long in one place . |
| 25 | We have already seen several speakers — Susan , Stephen and Joan — whose " Patois " seems to consist of a larger or smaller number of adaptations of LE in the direction of JC . |
| 26 | Although condom manufacturers still do n't make condoms specifically for anal sex , it 's safest it you choose a thicker or stronger condom with the British Standard ‘ Kitemark ’ . |
| 27 | Büchler reported that CRP showed an overall accuracy of 93% in the detection of pancreatic necrosis ; a serum CRP concentration of > or <100 mg/l distinguished between patients with a better or worse prognosis with 100% sensitivity and 86% specificity . |
| 28 | The analysis of intergenerational redistribution ( whether , for example , the generation now retired has had a better or worse deal over their lifetime than those currently in the labour force ) poses still more severe problems . |
| 29 | The plan calls for government action in six areas : payments for farmers who take measures to manage their land for the benefit of wildlife , landscape and conservation ; an increase in resources for environmentally sensitive farming ; better integration of existing environmental schemes ; the opportunity to enter a voluntary scheme covering the whole of a farm for a five-year or longer period of conservation work ; government pressure on the European Commission to give greater recognition to the potential for production controls and other mechanisms to benefit the environment ; and the introduction of environmental training programmes for farmers . |
| 30 | If you can not manage on your own or with family and friends , or if you prefer not to involve them , you can ask for your child to be looked after by local authority foster parents for a short or longer period . |