Example sentences of "a [adj -er] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not just that drama teachers are nostalgic romantics who hanker for a simpler way of life ( though there may well be an element of truth in that ) ; it 's that these self-contained communities can not easily call upon outside forces to solve their problems . |
| 2 | She felt too uptight to embark on cooking her chicken dish that night , so she organised a simpler meal of terrine , followed by an omelette and fruit . |
| 3 | It was argued that it allows litigation which would otherwise not be brought , that the lawyers involved act more conscientiously on behalf of their client because of the mutual financial interests , and that it is a simpler method of payment . |
| 4 | Because of the advances in science and technology of lithotripter techniques , it was presented as a simpler alternative to surgery , and the piezoceramic device proved very effective . |
| 5 | Throwing yourself at men , men of gross natures , is a still-greater act of self-abuse , and I can not warn you too strongly that you are placing yourself in the very gravest danger . |
| 6 | MORE than 2,000 youngsters are doing their bit this week to make Middlesbrough a tidier place as part of The National Spring Clean week . |
| 7 | The partner in charge of several project engineers , however , will be looking at a coarser level of cost increment ( say £5000 ) in controlling and monitoring the performance of his or her group of engineers . |
| 8 | But Muriel writes off these youngsters with their strange clothes and weird hairstyles as if they were a lower kind of creature altogether . |
| 9 | The Japanese also enjoy a lower incidence of cancer . |
| 10 | It would appear then that self-citation of theses is not nearly as common as self-citation of publications , and even in the case of publications , geology has a lower incidence of self-citation . |
| 11 | Bergsjo et al suggested 43 weeks ' gestation as induction at this time has a lower incidence of failure . |
| 12 | ‘ But the public would be provided with greater reassurances and there should be a lower incidence of fraud and other illegal acts . |
| 13 | By autumn indicators pointed to a higher annual growth rate and a lower increase in inflation , but the July to September growth rate of 2.5 per cent was still the lowest since 1986 . |
| 14 | For external locus of control a lower increase in score was seen in the FSE and SAM groups than in the control group , but the increase in the FSE/SAM group was higher than that in the control group . |
| 15 | All these matters are indeed of a lower order of magnitude than those which had been fought for under Lanfranc and Anselm . |
| 16 | These are of a lower order of priority than airworthiness directives , which are the alternative . |
| 17 | Although there is possibly a small fault in the first well , the overall similarity between the sonic and gamma ray logs suggests that succession in each well is similar , and using a combination of log and core data it is possible to recognise a lower unit of carbonate mudstones and an upper unit of oolitic and pelletoidal grainstones ( Fig. 19 ) . |
| 18 | As in the Z2 Carbonate , the platform sediments prograded to some extent over the top of already deposited slope carbonates and , consequently , a lower unit of slope and upper unit of platform sediments is commonly encountered in the Z3 Carbonate ( Fig. 28 ) . |
| 19 | It has ignored two suggested reforms to bring Britain into line with America : acting against insider dealers through civil suits that require a lower standard of proof than criminal cases ; and centralising investigation and enforcement in a single body , probably the Securities and Investments Board . |
| 20 | It is also because the system lacks the option of civil proceedings , which require a lower standard of proof than criminal cases . |
| 21 | There is a lower standard of proof required in civil cases , balance of probability , as opposed to the ‘ beyond reasonable doubt ’ needed in criminal trials and Lord Prosser commented : ‘ It is undesirable in the public interest , as well as in Mr Anderson 's interest , that a finding of probable murder be made in anything other than a supreme court . ’ |
| 22 | The professional man who gave a lower standard of service in necessitous cases , where his remuneration was little or nothing , would be regarded as an unworthy colleague by his professional brethren . |
| 23 | As Guildsoft puts it ‘ You ca n't ask your current users to accept a lower standard of service than users of other products that you 're trying to attract ! ’ |
| 24 | Far from welcoming the new challenges and opportunities , many saw retirement as a kind of bogeyman who trailed in his wake the threats of a lower standard of living , boredom and impending old age . |
| 25 | This dual negative combination may indicate a lower standard of research conducted in these departments . |
| 26 | Er it 's been suggested by Mr from the H B F that as I understand his suggestion , that a lower provision of housing land in some way affects affordability or affects the er access to housing for the lower se lower ends of the lower income households . |
| 27 | The fact that they carried out substantially more searches ( 2350 ) for very similar revenues suggests a lower level of work than their rivals . |
| 28 | Nonetheless , it did seek to address the problems identified during the FAOR analysis , albeit at a lower level of attainment in the initial stages . |
| 29 | The result is that tasks such as redistribution , which in the fiscal federalism literature are seen as a prerogative of central government , may ( given the imperfections of the Tiebout mechanism and the informational requirements of administration ) be shown to be better pursued at a lower level of government when broader considerations are taken into account . |
| 30 | For example , in Brazil , peripheral capitalist development is responsible not only for a lower level of participation of women in agriculture but also a lower level of integration of women in urban development . |