Example sentences of "the [noun pl] a [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This latter formulation would give the courts a greater scope for substitution of judgment , with the additional risk that they would not have to articulate their rationale as clearly as under the heads of purpose and relevancy . |
| 2 | The aim is to give the readers a better Perspective than could be obtained by examining a large number of separate reports of individual companies . |
| 3 | Frederick Starr calls the second and third principles " decentralization " ( which involved giving local officials more power but preserved the notion of bureaucratic or " ministerial " hegemony ) and " self-government " ( which meant introducing representative organs and giving non-bureaucrats in the provinces a larger say in the management of their affairs ) . |
| 4 | This gives the technicians a better idea of your voice and relaxes you . |
| 5 | To give the engineers a better appreciation of this aspect I encouraged them to learn to fly up to private pilot standard and I am happy to say this was approached by many of them with considerable enthusiasm . |
| 6 | Already highly successful in popular music , dance and commercial television , blacks have found the movies a tougher nut to crack . |
| 7 | He swore viciously , turned the mare a touch westward again , but that merely gave the pursuers a better angle to close on him . |
| 8 | Paint the centres a darker green . |
| 9 | This will give the curtains a larger expanse and create a striking splash of colour . |
| 10 | Before the war it had opened at 6 am and kept open until 6 pm to give the men a further chance of shopping . |
| 11 | But electoral success gave the Jacobites a greater visibility at the centre of politics , and perhaps encouraged fellow travellers in the localities to become more open about their political convictions . |
| 12 | For most people , getting on in life , winning promotion , saving a bit , going on a better holiday , buying a car , purchasing a home , giving the children a better start — all these are natural aims . |
| 13 | He was so moved by what he saw inside the orphange that he felt he had to do something to give the children a better start . |
| 14 | It might help at this point to ask the children a further question : " What might happen if the thief ( the rightful owner of the jewels/the alien in the above examples ) does or does not ( depending on the drama ) manage to steal the " keys " ? " |
| 15 | As the pupils continue through the tasks a wider range of source materials could be added which also included more sophisticated language . |
| 16 | The holly bush went to give the cameras a clearer view . |
| 17 | As reported in the Financial Times , he said that the trade union movement would be demanding and , he hoped , achieving the implementation of the proposals for industrial democracy ; and that the next decade would offer the unions a better chance than any other to bring in the desired change . |
| 18 | The Wembley electoral college formula , giving the unions a bigger say in electing Labour 's leader than either activists or parliamentarians , was a triumph of defiance over common sense . |