Example sentences of "in the [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a pointless ‘ command ’ , for Baldwin was on the edge of nervous collapse , irritable , complaining and , in the closer judgment of Jones , ’ entirely without resource The Downing Street secretaries circumvented the King by getting an haphazardly chosen doctor ( they had previously tried fourteen others , all of whom were away ) to come in and certify that the Prime Minister had to go . |
| 2 | Therefore , there is a role for the economic evaluation of alternative monitoring arrangements ; namely , does the increased cost of more comprehensive monitoring generate benefits in the closer adherence to contract specifications ? |
| 3 | Underneath the trees and in the closer edges of fields I spend hours layering grasses and nettles . |
| 4 | The LCP are recorded more closely ( note entirely to the violins ' advantage in the busier moments of the outer movements ) , and although this lends a welcome clarity , I find the results almost totally devoid of charm . |
| 5 | The deterrent effect of our presence and continuous patrols in the busier yachting areas could not be discounted . |
| 6 | In the busier areas these are often large , bustling places serving food and drink . |
| 7 | The Greek government is now recommending that the filters be fitted to all the city 's buses , with a view to cutting exhaust pollutants by half in the busier areas . |
| 8 | The projection may be linear or exponential , or may incorporate more complex calculations which make allowance for variation in the basic parameters assumed to remain constant in the simpler equations . |
| 9 | The effect will be the same as in the distribution of a primary surplus : in the simpler system the transfer of a proportion of the available votes , the transfer of all of them at a reduced value if the senatorial rules are used . |
| 10 | In their defence , however , it has to be admitted that the drafting of contracts has not always been perfect , particularly in the simpler forms , where clarity has sometimes been sacrificed to brevity . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But again , over a surprisingly wide area , and especially in song and in the simpler instruments , some degree of relatively unmediated access is available , with some shared rhythmic resources , possibly of the whole species , as an important factor . |
| 13 | When south of the Mandovi , I stayed in the simpler Prainha Cottages , just a few miles south of Panjim ( Prainha , Dona Paula , tel : 8325917 ) . |
| 14 | At the Nez Perce camp on Weippe prairie , and later in the Clearwater valley , the expedition met only kindness and help from the Nez Perce . |
| 15 | If the judge awarded damages to the petitioner on the grounds that there was no compromise or that the compromise had been cancelled and on the grounds that the respondents had been guilty of misconduct in the Clearwater transaction , then the respondents could have appealed to the Court of Appeal and either party , losing before the Court of Appeal , could have appealed to the Privy Council as of right and on that appeal all three issues , the compromise issue , the cancellation issue and the misconduct issue could have been argued . |
| 16 | Chemically , these vegetable oils are much more like saturated animal fats than good quality sunflower or corn oil which are high in the healthier polyunsaturates . |
| 17 | With that glimpse of sunshine , temperatures will rise — to a stunning thirteen celsius , fifty five fahrenheit , in the sunnier parts of northern Argyll . |
| 18 | But , as chart 11 shows , in 1982–89 the growth in dividends slowed in the stabler industries where most of the takeovers and borrowing were taking place and where profits were rising , while it accelerated in cyclical industries . |
| 19 | Here in the comfier parts of the planet , life 's struggle is confined to laying down sandbags . |
| 20 | Even with agreement on the form of the scale and grade boundaries in the coarser ranges different authors still place the silt-clay boundary variously at 2 µm ( Briggs , 1977 ; Friedman & sanders , 1978 ) , which is a size commonly used by soil scientists , or at 4 µm , as in the original Udden-Wentworth system ( Tanner , 1969 ; Pettijohn , 1975 ) as is more normal amongst geological sedimentologists . |
| 21 | The great improvements in the coarser manufactures of both linen and woollen cloth furnish the labourers with cheaper and better clothing ; and those in the manufacture of the coarse metals , with cheaper and better instruments of trade , as well as with many agreeable and convenient pieces of household furniture . |
| 22 | If the disk is preserved A. abyssorum differs further in the naked ventral interradial area and in the coarser scaling of the disk . |
| 23 | Tests in the plusher environs of Philadelphia showed a distinction between chic and unchic speech which in the case of ‘ toilet ’ ( chic ) and ‘ lavatory ’ ( unchic ) was the precise opposite of Nancy Mitford 's rules for U and Non-U in England . |
| 24 | Others have dabbled in general insurance , though most have preferred to swim in the safer waters of life insurance . |
| 25 | Cade is left in the baser medium , running for his life ( 55ff. ) , only to meet his nemesis in Alexander Iden , an esquire of Kent , who has inherited his land legitimately and envies no other man 's possessions . |
| 26 | In 1982 a book called ‘ The Pictorial Language of Schizophrenics ’ accused ‘ sick artists ’ of being interested only in the baser aspects of life . |
| 27 | Thin and tiny in stature , her back was as straight as an arrow , but her legs often pained her in the cooler winter and spring weather . |
| 28 | It is common in later Palaeozoic rocks of South Africa , peninsular India , Australia and South America , and is thought to have lived almost exclusively in the cooler areas of the supercontinent Pangaea ( p. 32 ) . |
| 29 | It has also been pointed out that dinosaur fossils have been found at quite high latitudes , hinting again at endothermy , since no reptile can survive in the cooler climates beyond the equatorial regions . |
| 30 | In the cooler air of the upper atmosphere , the chemical reactions which destroy it are slowed down , thereby enhancing its greenhouse effect . |