Example sentences of "an [adj] and [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is offering the excellent Peugeot diesel in the smaller Rover 200 range , while an improved and cleaner version of the Italian VM 2.5-litre turbo diesel , with 118 bhp , will be available shortly for the restyled Rover 800 . |
| 2 | ‘ There is , however , an analogous and broader principle embracing demands for money by the Crown or public authorities which come under the heading of duress because of the nature of the sanctions levied or threatened against the subject if he refuses to pay . |
| 3 | The researchers , at University College , London , and Nottingham , say the test would not replace the smear but would be an effective and cheaper alternative than referring all women with slightly abnormal results for colposcopy . |
| 4 | This reconsideration of the original managerial thesis was eventually linked to an alternative and wider conceptualisation of the state , state officials and their relation to society . |
| 5 | An alternative and fairer approach would be for an incoming radical government to insist that each of the privatized industries should make a free issue of stock , by way of compensation for the sale of public assets at deflated prices . |
| 6 | An older and smaller satellite , the International Ultraviolet Explorer ( IUE ) , has recorded the ring 's changing brightness , but has been unable to produce a clear image of it . |
| 7 | The anterior part of the episternum is frequently marked off as a separate plate , the pre-episternum , while in many insects ( e.g. Chrysopa , Corydalis , Tipula , Tabanus ) the episternum , is divided into an upper and lower sclerite , the anepisternum and katepisternum respectively . |
| 8 | Men in small firms experience an earlier and lower peak growth rate which very quickly drops away after the twenty-fifth year of service . |
| 9 | The modern DNA machinery , according to this view , is a late-comer , a recent usurper of the role of fundamental replicator , having taken over that role from an earlier and cruder replicator . |
| 10 | The vast majority of teachers recognise that the carrot and stick argument of ‘ work hard and you 'll get a good job ’ is ridiculed by many youngsters , at an earlier and earlier age . |