Example sentences of "from the [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spain , Portugal , Ireland and Greece also oppose an early enlargement , albeit for rather different reasons : they fear that the current transfer of resources to them from the richer countries — above all , from Britain and Germany — might be put at risk , and have made it clear that their support for any growth in the size of the Community is contingent on their receipt of guaranteed levels of Cohesion payments . |
| 2 | A vote-maximizing political party therefore has an incentive to propose redistribution from the richer segment to the poorer majority . |
| 3 | Eventually , we shall build our clientele from the richer people of Swansea . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Isolated press reports at the time had noted that most of these forces were from the Nuer tribe , and their victims had been mainly from the Dinka tribe , of which Garang was a member . |
| 6 | The government has rejected proposals to overcome water shortages in south and east Britain by transporting supplies from the wetter north and west . |
| 7 | The old boys said it were a gift from the elder gods and they built a special shrine for it in the square . ’ |
| 8 | This general pattern follows from the cheaper cost of gamete production in males than females . |
| 9 | So competition for markets from the cheaper products made on newly installed machinery would hold price increases down to the existing rate . |
| 10 | Benefiting from the cheaper labour and materials of the past , they are more solid , more soundproof , and better retainers of heat . |
| 11 | In response to the numbers of queries it has received , the Stamp Office has issued a guidance note on which documents can benefit from the higher threshold , in particular circumstances where the documents are signed on or before 19 August but relate to a sale which may not be completed until 20 August or later . |
| 12 | Pull-shifting the bass control emphasises the mid-range , mellowing out the overall tone by automatically moving the centre point of control away from the higher frequencies . |
| 13 | Clydebank make a practice of discomfiting clubs from the higher division when they meet them on the claustrophobic confines of their own pitch , as last season 's finalists , Airdrie , discovered when they were knocked out after a third-round replay . |
| 14 | They also benefit from the higher degree of social solidarity which seems to accompany more pluralistic systems . |
| 15 | When faced with competition from the higher forms of aquatic plant life , they die out through starvation , thus leaving the pool clear . |
| 16 | Part-time solicitors , accountants or doctors will rarely become partners in their firms ; they are at best marking time , at worst barring themselves for ever from the higher reaches of their professions . |
| 17 | Upper rooms , protruding at odd , uneven angles from the higher reaches of the walls , housed a variety of astrologers , card schools and obscure therapists . |
| 18 | A booming hearty from the higher reaches of Personnel fills our glasses and remembers nearly everyone 's name . |
| 19 | She came from ‘ over the hill ’ , from the higher part of Littondale , and she was as silent as her native dale . |
| 20 | Professor Stewart Sutherland , vice-chancellor of the university , said that funding for the library was needed either from schools , colleges or institutes within the university or from the higher education funding council for England . |
| 21 | University College , Bangor , has revealed that it is to get an extra £330,000 from the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales as part of a £2.1m handout to Welsh colleges . |
| 22 | Different kinds of opacity within a program were discussed earlier and these would seem to have quite different correlates in the sphere of consciousness : the lower level of language is almost totally inaccessible from the higher level ( unless special structural features are added to the language to make it accessible ) , in rather the way that the machine code of our brain , if there is one , is utterly inaccessible to me , thinking in English . |
| 23 | This activation of a hypothesis through connections to any part of it is enough in itself to recover the missing information , but TRACE II also has feedback from the higher level which can increase the activity of all the lower level descriptions which support it . |
| 24 | Women lawyers are challenging the chauvinism which bans them from the higher echelons , reports Fiona Sutherland Omitted from the useful introductions to clients , business lunches , meetings and golfing sessions , women solicitors fail to acquire the vital ‘ client base . ’ |
| 25 | As the numbers and grades of medreses increased with the passage of time , so also did the numbers and grades of mevleviyets , the term used here in the sense which would appear to have been valid , with minor qualifications , at least from the latter half of the sixteenth century , namely as comprising principally the kazaskerliks and the important kadiliks-the mevleviyet kadiliks — to which one moved on from the higher medreses and through which one moved , if one were fortunate , eventually to reach the kazaskerliks and , by the end of the sixteenth century , the Muftilik . |
| 26 | Women from the higher classes have a greater tendency to stay single . |
| 27 | The smells that came down from the higher ground might tell him something . |
| 28 | In a genuine top-down system , hypotheses would be made concerning the expected input , and part of this process would be the contribution of possible interpretations from the higher levels . |
| 29 | Both animals , with many others , had come from the higher parts of the rivers . |
| 30 | Santiaguito , which was a complex of four distinct domes joined on to one another in a single elongate ridge , is rarely quiet for long , and one can literally hear it growing , because there is an almost continual rattle of small stones and rocks falling from the higher parts down on to the scree slopes below it . |