Example sentences of "a [adj -er] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was needed was a simpler more speedy procedure and so Parliament intervened with the first Public Health Act in 1848 , the forerunner of modern public health legislation . |
| 2 | Pregnancy is a wonderful time to have constitutional homoeopathic treatment because changes can happen much more quickly and simply than at other times resulting in a healthier more energetic body that will perform its functions with greater ease ( see Chapter 1 ) . |
| 3 | Eventually , when I voiced the thought that it might be better if the FedPol confirmed that a further pleasingly large sum had been transferred to the holding facility of my Fedbank , to be released to my account when the job was done . |
| 4 | While this reinforces the empirical nature of the question , there is a further empirically relevant problem raised by nonlinear budget constraints . |
| 5 | On Mr. Pegg 's behalf , a further more detailed submission is made to which I shall refer later . |
| 6 | The neural mechanisms that underlie this behaviour , and especially those by which a simple act is incorporated into a larger biologically significant behaviour pattern , are now being studied increasingly , despite the many difficulties ( Hoyle , 1970 ) . |
| 7 | Susie had come from a village ten miles from the Oxfordshire market town in which the school was placed : her previous village primary school had had two teachers ; her experience in that school at a younger more protected age seemed to her less interesting and more childish . |
| 8 | Too many people fail to report crimes because they consider the police inefficient ; we need to restore police efficiency in order to increase the reportage rate and hence obtain a better more reliable gauge of crime . |
| 9 | The disk is covered with imbricating plates each carrying a club-like spinelet , the enlarged tip of which is rugose ; in some specimens there are roughly two sizes of spinelet ; the larger club-like spinelet and a smaller more granule-like spinelet . |
| 10 | The Hyperion recording is much more recent ( 1986 ) and fully digital , though it aims at a softer more recessed sound picture than the Chandos . |
| 11 | That 's not to say however that occasionally you do n't get throwbacks to a gentler more courteous age . |
| 12 | The steep pillar initially intended was being examined by Vic and Steve , while the others were trying a longer more circuitous route which looked technically easier . |
| 13 | But clearly all these discs are indispensable ; a living reflection of a richer more vital culture than our own . |
| 14 | When Celia appeared to go from bad to worse , Brian had advertised for a housekeeper and two had come and gone in quick succession , the first merely saying that the post was not to her ‘ fancy ’ , the second giving a fuller more blatant explanation : that she did not want to work in a household where there was nervous trouble . |
| 15 | She was a strong-willed woman , diagnosed as schizophrenic , with a quieter more passive husband . |
| 16 | An older more senior questioner asked : ‘ Did your superiors accept that ? ’ |