Example sentences of "a [adj -er] [conj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Snell has been criticized for causing a decline in handwriting by promoting his dull copperplate style , but his practice and teaching of a simpler and standardized mode of handwriting most effectively met the needs of clerks in the growing number of commercial houses . |
| 2 | ‘ Mentally handicapped ’ is the most common term used in Great Britain to describe a section of the public who possess a lower than average level of intelligence . |
| 3 | This , together with the addition of six big new unnamed customers and a lower than usual number of client losses , led to an 11% rise in turnover to £4.5m from the bureau and facilities management services division . |
| 4 | Many readers will be aware that because of a lower than expected settlement for the civil service in the Chancellor 's 1990 Autumn Statement , higher than expected inflation , and exchange rate effects on international subscriptions , SERC has announced that certain activities will have to be curtailed if the Council 's programme is to stay within its budget . |
| 5 | In this case a lower than expected use of English results from the secretary being required to rewrite the manager 's reports in English on the basis of notes . |
| 6 | It consists of two rectangular halls one above the other , giving a lower and upper church . |
| 7 | Here again there is negligible waste of power , but unfortunately the range of frequencies over which a transformer will act as a potential or current divider is restricted by the behaviour of the core , there being both a lower and upper limit . |
| 8 | Their places are taken … by a lower or middle grade . |
| 9 | Eventually , formal administrative structures were created between the Task Force and local government , but the Task Force 's determination to implement specific projects rather than to help create a broader and longer-term strategy for the conurbation inevitably created tensions . |
| 10 | As table 3 shows , the key legal services used by businesses tend to be the sort that are need-driven — litigation , commercial property and employee legislation — rather than reflecting a broader and continuous relationship . |
| 11 | A further but related problem is that many of OED 's definitions enshrine outdated scientific , social , and political beliefs . |
| 12 | And although it is true that Wagner could , if required , have figured under various of their headings , it seems that the decision to lay any emphasis on the relevance of Wagner 's work to his own ideas represented a further and final development . |
| 13 | A further and central feature of this system of trade was that while those countries exporting manufactures were usually involved in many diverse lines of business , the raw-material exporters were often engaged in the production of one or two major staples . |
| 14 | There is a further and separate issue , however . |
| 15 | ( For a further and graphic description of the lives women lead in this kind of environment , see Campbell , 1984 . ) |
| 16 | The newspaper is a further and on-going attempt to communicate , inform , and consult all women , including those not in organisations , and to give them a means of expressing their views and concerns . |
| 17 | Then we ask , as a further and subsidiary question , how the various members and agents of the corporation should be seen to share in that fault or responsibility . |
| 18 | But Norris has given a further and suggestive explanation : ‘ The possession of a written Constitution whose principles are yet open to all manner of far-reaching judicial review … gives a political edge to questions of textual and interpretative theory that they do not have in the British cultural context . ’ |
| 19 | ( Skyrms , 1980 , p. 16 ) That is a further if subsidiary argument for the account . |
| 20 | But what if your last job was as a cleaner or temporary postman , just because it fitted your circumstances — say to work within school hours ? |
| 21 | Monitor the appropriate amplifier test point with a voltmeter or calibrated oscilloscope and rotate the Helmholtz coils and sensor to give zero volts . |
| 22 | A lower-off and forced retreat left the top section still to climb . |
| 23 | On the night I turned up in my red leotard and dippy skirt with a heavier than usual coat of paint on , to find , to my horror , that Cleo Roccas of Kenny Everett fame and a young lady much featured on Page 3 , called Gilly , I think , were already up on the stage , surrounded by a sixty-strong swarm of Street of Shame photographers , all climbing up each other 's anoraks and screaming ‘ Lean forward , Cleo — a bit further , give us a smile , lick your lips , Gilly — lovely , lovely — hitch that skirt up a bit … ’ |
| 24 | In the cities , where competition is intense , to be seen to be involved with clients at the top of the commercial ( and to a lesser degree social ) tree , publicity will take very different forms , but whether it comprises the full page recruitment advertisement or a high ranking in some statistical table devised by the editors of a legal journal , a bigger than average spread in a legal directory or an article by one of its partners explaining some development unique to the firm , the message will be the same : we are professional people of the highest calibre who run their practice efficiently and with success ; we have earned the respect of our fellow professionals and the esteem of our clients who are themselves of comparable stature to ourselves . |
| 25 | FURTHER evidence that the economy may be edging out of recession came with yesterday 's publication of statistics that showed a bigger than expected pick-up in credit lending and a smaller than expected rise in the jobless total . |
| 26 | BRITAIN 'S unemployment soared above 2.6 million for the first time in over four years yesterday after a bigger than expected surge in the number of people out of work . |
| 27 | And when , just before dark , the Regent himself put in an appearance , with a larger than anticipated company , spirits rose further . |
| 28 | In certain instances , the length of your particular track may not coincide with a balanced pleating arrangement because of the pre-determined size of the pleats , thereby leaving a larger than usual space at one side of your curtain . |
| 29 | However , unscandalised as the people professed to be , a larger than usual number were prepared to buy the Sunday Times . |
| 30 | Then , when price is low firms do not know for sure whether it was because someone cheated ( produced a larger than agreed output ) , or because demand was low . |