Example sentences of "and [prep] a [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour present is Neil Kinnock , who speaks for 63 minutes and quotes Robert Frost about miles to go and promises to keep , and about a brighter dawn when poverty , privilege , fear , disease , woe , and war shall live only in the memory of time . |
| 2 | He looked puzzled and for a better description . |
| 3 | Bristol will increase its contribution to the pursuit of scholarship and research for the benefit of all mankind , for the creation of a better quality of life for our fellow citizens , for a renewed industrial future for our country and for a better understanding of the past and expanded horizons for many who are trapped by lack of opportunity or missed chances in earlier education . |
| 4 | Its 1979 census population of about 162,000 was 75.9 per cent Armenian and only 22.9 per cent Azerbaijani , and there had been pressure for some years for its transfer back to Armenia and for a greater degree of autonomy for its predominantly Christian people . |
| 5 | This group also argued for measures of economic liberalization and for a clearer separation of the Labour Party from the Histadrut trade union organization . |
| 6 | Elected to Parliament in 1885 , Wilson was able to bring pressure to bear on the Liberal Party , both for repeal and for a wider programme of moral reform and social disciplining . |
| 7 | ND argued for more free-market economic policies and deep cuts in government spending , while Pasok and Synaspismos called for the preservation of welfare provisions and for a higher productivity in the public sector . |
| 8 | She taught briefly in schools in Liverpool , Oban , and Eastbourne , and for a longer period in Tunbridge Wells , but eventually returned to Inverness to keep house for her invalid father , whom she outlived by only two years . |
| 9 | The models were also approached more closely and for a longer duration when presented with large crests ( female responses : for closest approach , log-likelihood ratio G =63.8 , d.f . |
| 10 | For an application to be an application for the renewal of a licence , it must be in respect of premises where there is a licence already in force and for a further grant in the form of that licence . |
| 11 | For half of Oxfordshire teachers , outsiders were not very involved and for a further quarter not involved at all . |
| 12 | The Liberal Democrats , hoping to build upon their recent local election results , and for a larger split in the Conservative vote , arrived for the count in buoyant mood . |
| 13 | As their education and knowledge increase they are pressing more and more each year for better social conditions and for a larger share in the fruits of industry . |
| 14 | L. Trump ( see , for instance , Trump 1966 , and for a later appraisal from a librarian 's viewpoint , Ahlers and Sypert 1969 ) . |
| 15 | As the road leaves Clashnessie Bay , the hamlet of the same name is passed and after a further mile a side road turns off to the right and crosses the bare and windswept peninsula , the Ru Stoer , to a lighthouse where it ends at a parking place for cars . |
| 16 | With his arms like jelly he reluctantly handed his rod over to another angler and after a further tense 15 minutes the big shark was landed with the help of all eight anglers on board . |
| 17 | Urban sociology has tended recently to turn its attention away from the politics of collective consumption and towards a wider debate regarding the changing nature of civil society . |
| 18 | Unlike Hobhouse , he had no teleology , but he did have faith in an historical progression towards the universalisation of morals , towards a greater influence upon men of their consciences ( and thus of their own independently critical rationality ) , and towards a clearer distinction between individual and collective responsibilities ( evident in the steady separation of morals , religion and law ) . |
| 19 | If this is correct , it goes some way towards dealing with cases of ‘ cumulative provocation ’ , and towards a broader defence of emotional pressure . |
| 20 | It was apparently difficult to see if Ruffini 's proof was complete and despite a further attempt by him at the problem , in 1813 , the credit for supplying the first generally accepted proof of impossibility goes to Abel ( pronounced " Arbel " ) in 1824 . |
| 21 | During the 1980s there was evidence of harsher punishments being handed out to reckless drivers , and of a wider appreciation of the risks created and the misery inflicted by deviations from proper standards of driving . |
| 22 | The vocational training in engineering and technological skills which young people receive in West Germany is more thorough , better organised and of a higher standard , the young people receive in this country . |
| 23 | My falling in love with Julian was nothing to do with me , nothing to do with Julian , but part of the curse put on Bernard that his wife would become the love object of a man more attractive , more wealthy , more intelligent and of a higher status than he , so he did n't stand an earthly . |
| 24 | If Sartre denies all possibility both of an underlying historical structure and of a larger unity , a ‘ hyper-organism ’ as he puts it , within which conflict takes place , then history as he conceptualizes it here has no specific or necessary direction . |
| 25 | That these may be continuing problems is evident by a study by Bauman ( 1964 ) who found partially sighted pupils to be particularly insecure and with a greater sense of loneliness when they were integrated into open education systems . |
| 26 | The available trial results are consistent with a shift in the spectrum of illness to being less severe , of shorter duration , and with a greater proportion of subclinical disease . |
| 27 | It could well be that Matadial was thoroughly discredited , even as the case ran , but with advance information her demolition could have been more clinically achieved , with perhaps a greater effect on the jury and with a better chance of involving Zaidie in the destruction of the Crown case on motive and malice . |
| 28 | It will print to laser or dot matrix and with a better quality than our 350.00 pound package does . |
| 29 | ‘ I believe by forming a better definition of criminal record information , and with a better definition of criminal intelligence , we should be able to identify the middle grade which is called criminal information , ’ he said . |
| 30 | A diet low in saturated fats and with a higher percentage of polyunsaturates ( just like the diet you were on ) has been shown to help premenstrual breast tenderness . |