Example sentences of "by the [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most common drill — and this is even practised by the better players who may be struggling with their groundstrokes — is to put targets within 60–90cm ( 2–3ft ) of the baseline and inside tramline and think in terms of rallying while aiming at the targeted areas . |
| 2 | Such hard decisions must be made easier by the better outlook elsewhere in the group . |
| 3 | It is understood that the King 's will also be trying to attract more plays by the better touring companies as well as putting on more comedy . |
| 4 | Skinhead haircuts & Crombies missed each other by the better part of a year & ‘ crombie boys ’ as they became known , often had shoulder length hair . |
| 5 | The trade-weighted index was also lifted by the better sentiment towards the pound , rising from a historic opening low of 75.7 to end at 76.3 . |
| 6 | In any event , the education welfare service is frequently too busy and inadequately staffed to exercise the kind of supervision which enables the causes of truancy to be explored fully ( nor to work with schools in order to develop links with parents , as advocated by the Better Schools White Paper in 1985 ) . |
| 7 | His son 's attack upon the Church gave him a massive influx of land revenues , while the potential yield of feudal sources was increased by the stricter definition of the law of uses . |
| 8 | The theory is less applicable to land animals , but it is supported by the paler back of a sloth that lives upside-down . |
| 9 | Scotland 's disorientation continued after the break , worsened by the tighter marking of the midfield by the Maltese and the positioning of Nevin . |
| 10 | Many of these have since been taken on by the wider society and are to be found in all its corners influencing even those who would now deny them any real significance and tend to look back on the decade as only times of silliness and self-indulgence . |
| 11 | Despite their preponderance in the population , they are usually ignored by the wider society and also to some extent by the women 's movement ( Peace , 1986 ) . |
| 12 | So it is that we can apply to research of different disciplinary provenance general criteria of appraisal approved by the wider culture of intellectual enquiry . |
| 13 | By the wider public he will be remembered as a composer whose style , founded in practical music-making , has an immediate appeal which rewards both performers and audiences . |
| 14 | In this period of rapid social change , involving families moving from the countryside to the town , the support given by the wider network of relatives was of great importance for individual families . |
| 15 | This case provides a commonplace illustration of how the division of labour in an advanced capitalist society can not be grasped in terms of agreements and exchanges between autonomous traders , and so the security craved by such relations of interdependence must be satisfied by the wider conception of contractual obligations envisaged by the interests theory . |
| 16 | Although a researcher in a particular discipline , that is to say in a particular academic culture , will work within conventions of enquiry defined by that discipline , these will obviously in part be shared by other disciplines and in part shared also by the wider community within which the academic culture is located . |
| 17 | Although Barraclough 's ( 1972 ) suggestion that as many as a fifth of the suicides in a series he studied might have been prevented by the wider use of lithium would be difficult to substantiate and is probably an overestimate , the fact that the lives of as many as 16 per cent of patients with manic-depressive illness may end in suicide ( Pitts and Winokur 1964 ) suggests that lithium is likely to have an important role in the prevention of suicide in some patients . |
| 18 | In this way , delegates were able to see both the kinds of questions being asked by the wider conference and the form of solutions that were being proposed . |
| 19 | The second kind of text — meditation on the Passion — is illuminated by the wider perspective of The Form of Living . |
| 20 | Many of New Historicism 's endeavours are shared by the wider questioning of practice that is taking place in a variety of disciplines and theoretical approaches . |
| 21 | However the public is influenced by the wider allegations and Kitcher expresses concern that ‘ Those who have been beguiled into thinking that a high school course in evolutionary biology is the gateway to a life of violence and depravity are not likely to ponder the scientific credentials . ’ |
| 22 | But the issue was now raised in its sharpest ever form by the wider perception of a " crisis in the humanities " due to the incapacity of university structures to attune themselves to contemporary cultural and economic needs . |
| 23 | So did I. Occasionally it would be invaded by a phalanx of senior management , easily identified by the smarter cut of their suits and the ringing individualism in their voices . |
| 24 | However , had the existence of such a beast been discussed , it would have been firmly suppressed by the elder girls and not discussed again , but they would all have had their won fears nevertheless , although these would be of a more ‘ normal ’ manner — the fear would be rational — in its causes at least , although perhaps irrational in its proportions . |
| 25 | There were currents of opinion at Rome , represented by the Elder Cato and , much later , by Augustus ' lieutenant , Marcus Agrippa , that favoured the restriction of the display of booty to public settings . |
| 26 | Vitamin C powder , chalk and glucose are used by the nicer manufacturers ; others add bleach , brick dust or oven cleaner . |
| 27 | But later he stigmatised them as ‘ the social scum , the passively rotting mass thrown off by the lower layers of the old society . ’ |
| 28 | Although the LDP 's overall majority in the House of Representatives ensured that the proposal would have been approved by the lower chamber , the party 's minority position in the House of Counsellors ( where it controlled 113 of the 252 seats ) made approval in the upper house unlikely . |
| 29 | The measure had been approved by the lower chamber on Dec. 1 , but had been held up in the upper house where the LDP lacked an overall majority . |
| 30 | Labial or Lip Sounds Sounds which may be sub-divided into bilabial : sounds articulated by the two lips , eg/p , m/and labio-dental : sounds articulated by the lower lip against the upper teeth , eg/f/ . |