Example sentences of "the [adj -er] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Use fish or chicken more often , or the leaner cuts of red meat . |
| 2 | Saturated fat comes mainly from animal sources like ; fatty meat , ( and even in the leaner cuts of red meat ) , butter , lard , cheese , cream , whole milk , hard margarines and cooking fats , meat products , ( sausages , pies , hamburger , pates , salami , luncheon meat , pasties and mince ) , chocolate , cakes and biscuits . |
| 3 | And tomorrow she was supposed to be visiting the Monpazier bastide with him . |
| 4 | ‘ Besides , you 'll probably have to face a full interrogation on the Monpazier bastide on Saturday . |
| 5 | The angel 's song at the end of The Pilgrim 's Regress is in a different league from the unhappier patches of Spirits in Bondage or Dymer . |
| 6 | The duller reaches of committee work he spent , not in pointless doodling like his colleagues , but in producing elegant little drawings of imaginary but perfectly possible churches . |
| 7 | So , without a Great Detective , or even a lesser detective of the fictional breed , you will find that the clearing up of the mystery , which still must be presented with an air of progress , will be carried out not largely by the processes of ratiocination ( that word invented by Edgar Allan Poe ) but by the duller process of the accumulation of facts , as in real life . |
| 8 | He heard the hollow thudding of hooves and the duller sound of feet constantly tramping the timbers of the drawbridge . |
| 9 | An attempt to determine the relationship was described in Chapter 4 , and it was found that the A-measure varies roughly linearly with the radiometer reading over a wide range of exposures . |
| 10 | It is unexplained why the radiometer readings in Bands 6 and 7 are lower in the second series , when the illumination is greater , but this was taken as grist to the mill of the idea that the radiometer method would probably be less reliable than the imaging method . |
| 11 | The clarification of water by means of sedimentation becomes more complex with the use of dosing methods and upward-flow tanks , but , with analytical checks on the treatment the results can be much more consistent than with the simpler settlement in mill lodges , and there need be no interruption in supply caused by variations in the raw water or the need for cleaning out tanks . |
| 12 | It is therefore related to the simpler definitions of strain , as change in length divided by original length , only when the direction under consideration is one of the coordinate axes . |
| 13 | The end of the decade saw more comfortable , functional footwear , reflecting the simpler silhouette of clothes — shoe heels became chunkier and wide-strapped sandals complemented the ubiquitous kaftan imported from the East . |
| 14 | Kits are available for the simpler profiles in the form of expanded metal mesh sections , which you nail to the wall , join with metal angle bead , then plaster over . |
| 15 | ( 1 ) To present some of the simpler properties of the sets Z and Q[x] in such a manner as to emphasise their similarities ( and their differences ! ) . |
| 16 | But they vary considerably in their anatomy and , as is often the case when considering the simpler members of a group , it is sometimes difficult to decide whether a characteristic represents a truly primitive survival or is secondarily reduced to suit a particular way of life . |
| 17 | In a logical net , at the simpler level of search , there is no notion of approximation to a correct answer from given inputs . |
| 18 | Also , although the simpler level of search has no metric and involves random jumps , there is a notion of proximity at the higher level : Two states are close if the proportion of RAM chip cells with different entries is small . |
| 19 | The latter was begun in 1617 for William and Mary White , but rebuilt in 1633 ; when the iron-founding and gentry family of Freeman acquired it in 1666 , they refashioned the interior with some of the finest stucco work in Sussex , masking the simpler tastes of its earlier owners . |
| 20 | Slowly , as geography became a more refined and philosophical diversion , so this way of subdividing the sea evolved into the simpler concept of just Five Oceans : the northerly and southerly subdivisions of the Atlantic and Pacific dropped , we were left with the uncomplicated vastnesses of the Oceans Arctic , Antarctic , Atlantic , Pacific and Indian . |
| 21 | However , local communities might achieve some of the simpler things like filling in small pools and keeping the edges of streams ditches and irrigation canals clear of vegetation as part of the ‘ self-help ’ aspect of any health education programme . |
| 22 | It might appear that chaining or tagging would always be preferable to the simpler system of storing records in the next available position . |
| 23 | You will find the speeches scattered like jewels throughout the text , but it is perhaps as well to keep to the simpler ones for your audition piece — those where Romeo and Juliet are directly enthralled by love and the declaration of love to another person . |
| 24 | For the simpler tasks of cataloguing , none the less , the computer has a major contribution to make and is already making it . |
| 25 | One reason for this is that in the simpler forms of legal system the ideas of ultimate rule of recognition , supreme criterion , and legally unlimited legislature seem to converge . |
| 26 | For the simpler forms of drive , however , the cost of additional supply capacity may not be justifiable in terms of the limited increase in performance . |
| 27 | Eastlake , in common with the Arts and Crafts Movement , preferred the simpler articles of household furniture — dressers , for example , as distinct from the sideboards of the middle classes — because they were made in traditional ways . |
| 28 | One of the simpler aspects of this is the relative importance of syntax versus semantics . |
| 29 | And it did quite , but bad Lydia did n't know because she had made up her mind already and was blind to the simpler aspects of reality . |
| 30 | The complicated organs of an advanced animal like a human or a woodlouse have evolved by gradual degrees from the simpler organs of ancestors . |