Example sentences of "the [adj] [conj] [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One argument for common investment funds is that at the moment they provide a way of getting round the narrow and wider investment bands that dictate charity investment . |
| 2 | If the pebble moves on the desert floor new facets may be formed , giving rise to the three-crested or dreikanter form , the importance of which was probably exaggerated in earlier literature . |
| 3 | It is right and proper that the medium-sized and larger building firms should carry out proper training . |
| 4 | Antral biopsy specimens were taken from the lesser and greater curvature , approximately 2 cm from the pylorus . |
| 5 | It has been said that the failure of this railway to attract passengers was due primarily to the tedious roundabout rail journey to Newtown via Abermule as compared with the direct and cheaper approach to the market town by bus . |
| 6 | The basic modern administrative units broadly correspond to the parishes , manors , tithings and townships of the medieval and later landscape . |
| 7 | This principle must be stronger when , as in the present case , the specialised and narrower meaning is also the primary meaning . |
| 8 | Maps showing monastic estates or baronial holdings ( although few of the latter have been attempted ) serve to demonstrate the administrative focal place function of such sites as motte and bailey castles , ringworks , or small monastic complexes ; at the same time the dependent or lower status of other settlements and surrounding lands is demonstrated by their relatively peripheral position . |
| 9 | ‘ In the medium and longer term , we are optimistic that both productivity and consumption will rise , which in turn will have a beneficial effect on investment , ’ said Mr Brauninger . |
| 10 | Venture capitalists ' optimism or otherwise about the medium and longer term tends to be governed to a degree by the number and quality of the deals on offer . |
| 11 | The early and later work of Bernstein is obviously important here , but some attention should be given also to the work of U.S. investigators in related fields . |
| 12 | It thinks in years , not months or weeks : the three or four years it takes to reach a degree ; the similar or longer period needed for a doctorate ; the intellectual shifts that occur over decades , even centuries . |
| 13 | Henceforth reference to Guide should be taken to mean this implementation of Guide , rather than the similar and better-known PC/Mac version of Guide , which is a product of OWL . |
| 14 | A breeding colony of the required or higher health status is needed to provide foster mothers . |
| 15 | Theoretically , they were so determined and this is no doubt the explanation of the plethora of patently spurious genealogies that litter the contemporary and later literature . |
| 16 | Any clear written evidence of the parties ' intentions is sufficient for the courts , but a formal declaration is the conventional and clearer document . |
| 17 | As expected , Mr Lamont extended the VAT base and the 20p band , left the basic and higher tax rates untouched , froze thresholds , cut mortgage interest relief , over-indexed duty on cigarettes , beer , wine and petrol , and made a modest effort to tackle Britain 's rising unemployment . |
| 18 | Look these words up in the Oxford English Dictionary ( complete version , not the compact or shorter version ) ; in Brewer 's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ; in the Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Literature ; in the Encyclopedia Brittanica ; and in whichever other relevant reference sources are available to you . |
| 19 | Thus a pupil may be exempted from the national curriculum in the short or longer term ; what exactly he or she will then ‘ receive ’ ( i.e. the relationship of an individualised curriculum to the national curriculum ) is of course a crucial issue . |
| 20 | The over-riding priority in deciding on cuts was that our essential core-funded research activities should not be harmed in the short or longer term , and I am satisfied that this objective has been met . |
| 21 | That concern is heightened if the settlement 's intended to have growth potential beyond two thousand and six , and heightened still further if it 's likely to be the focus of major employment development either in the short or longer term . |
| 22 | Above dpc level both the outer leaf of facing bricks , and the inner and thicker leaf of common bricks or blocks , are built as independent structures separated by a cavity 2 to 4in ( 50 to 100mm ) wide . |
| 23 | flexible cyst er flexible check cystoscopy early in the lower risk group patients , and perhaps give the intermediate and higher risk group patients prophylactic chemotherapy . |
| 24 | The Prime Minister 's speech was eagerly anticipated by the educational and wider community and it duly received the full media treatment . |
| 25 | Bourgeois Republicans and right-wing Socialists like Prieto , Minister of Navy and Air in the Largo Caballero cabinet , and Dr Juan Negrín , Minister of Finance , argued that collectivization caused economic disruption and would alienate the lower-middle-class and better-off peasantry from the Republic . |
| 26 | On the other hand , it would be incorrect to suppose that the first influx of nuclear workers in Thurso did not produce the twofold or greater increase noted in rural new towns : the only two cases at ages 0–14 in the period 1951–67 occurred in the five years following the influx in 1958 ( expected 0.41 ; not significant ) . |
| 27 | The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Administration ( CIPFA ) published a consultative document on performance indicators in 1984 and Circular 7/88 on LMS states that LEAs should develop ‘ performance indicators for the financial and wider management of the governing bodies of schools with delegated budgets ’ and that these should be ‘ based on the indicators used by the schools themselves ’ . |
| 28 | The upper or lower strand , alternatively , of this DNA duplex was 5'-endlabelled with [ 32 P ] as indicated by asterisks in the header of Figure 5 . |
| 29 | Either the upper or lower summary X values could be used to find the intercept : a = Y R - bX R , for example . |
| 30 | Allocation was weighted so that there were 30 controls in order to form a solid baseline and 20 mice each irradiated to the upper or lower mediastinum . |