Example sentences of "a [adj] [conj] larger [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a pendentive method of construction the triangular spaces between the square section and the circular base of the hemisphere are built as if they are parts of a lower and larger dome so that their section is like that of an arch carried across the diagonal of the square space to be covered . |
| 2 | With this in mind it is for consideration whether such forms should not be redesigned to separate the disclaimer of liability on the part of the hospital from what really matters , namely the declaration by the patient of his decision with a full appreciation of the possible consequences , the latter being expressed in the simplest possible terms and emphasised by a different and larger type face , by underlining , the employment of coloured print or otherwise . |
| 3 | The brewhouse has an eight-barrel mash tun , a second and larger tun bought from Peter Austin , founder of the Ringwood Brewery in Hampshire , which is used for Bob 's main seller , the 1035° bitter , and two fermenters . |
| 4 | The iron road bridge over the Thames , originally built in 1831 , is a fine suspension bridge designed by William Tierney Clark , who subsequently built a similar but larger bridge across the Danube in Budapest . |
| 5 | Moreover , a similar or larger proportion claim either to enjoy the frequent change of tasks and environment , the flexibility of " temping " and of being able to take spells off between assignments , or to have commitments which make continuous working impossible ; even if , as one recent survey ( Manpower , 1986 ) showed , this was Sometimes to be set off against a feeling of employment insecurity . |
| 6 | So policies to cut gas output below the current level will imply a larger and larger reduction below projected levels as years go by . |
| 7 | Hot favourite : through the 1980s the Great British Breakfast took a larger and larger share of total main meals served . |
| 8 | Subsequent attempts to diversify the economy have foundered not only on corruption and inefficiency , though these have played a part , but because Zambia could not mobilize the funds for new investment , since the growing debt burden took a larger and larger share of the national cake . |
| 9 | But , by the end of the 1980s , while a larger and larger proportion of the female population was in employment , it was seldom employment at a level of high command , and often not of a permanent kind . |
| 10 | In this respect they are going against the trend of owner-occupation accounting for a larger and larger proportion of the housing stock — in 1986 about 63 per cent in Great Britain , up from 26 per cent in 1947 ( Social Trends 18 , 1988 , Table 7 ; Donnison 1967 , Table 10 ) . |
| 11 | Higher pre-tax incomes move the individual up BC and imply that the government is taking a larger and larger fraction of total pre-tax income . |
| 12 | Capitalism 's hunger for additional workers creates a larger and larger class of waged workers . |
| 13 | As a black hole got smaller and hotter , it would emit a larger and larger number of different species of particles and would produce an explosion perhaps 100,000 times more powerful than the one calculated on the quark hypothesis . |
| 14 | As they grow they become more powerful vacuum cleaners , affecting a larger and larger volume of space , and themselves becoming ever larger . |
| 15 | Repeated extractions using small portions of solvent are more efficient than using a single but larger volume of solvent . |
| 16 | There is always , in theory at least , the option of a new and larger library building , although the chances of realizing this particular solution to full shelves are usually in the hands of luck and of various political factors . |
| 17 | And it shows how a new and larger loan made to clear past debts or consolidate several separate debts into one can do the same . |