Example sentences of "[adj] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conversely , too much upper pectoral development and too little lower pectoral development gives the impression of a chest that ‘ fades ’ away . |
| 2 | By May 1946 a constitution had been drafted which suited the Communist-Socialist approach to politics , with a strong lower house of parliament . |
| 3 | One problem with dentures is that the bone of a toothless lower jaw is actually absorbed back into the jaw itself . |
| 4 | More portraits , if possible duller still , and lightened by a couple of horrendous still-lifes , dead hares and poultry , staring eyes and blood congealing from beaks and nostrils ; just the thing to give one an appetite for meals . |
| 5 | The child steps back as if slapped , and a little gasp precipitates a trembling lower lip . |
| 6 | Stephen Ross phoned in from Cardiff , he says can Labour lower the consent for gay people if they get in ; Mike Collins from Chesterfield says he 's not had a job for 11 years , has to pay for all sorts of things , he wants some action from Labour on long-term unemployment … ’ |
| 7 | The LDP 's share of the vote fell by more than 3 per cent compared with the 1986 lower house elections , and the party won 20 seats fewer than it had possessed at the dissolution ( although 11 independents were later reported to have joined , thereby bringing its total strength to 286 ) . |
| 8 | Alternative derivations are partial melting of subducted oceanic lithosphere , or partial melting of basaltic lower crust ; note that partial melting of old Precambrian-type crust is precluded by its absence . |
| 9 | Bull and bear baiting have gone , but we are left with remnants of former use in such breeds as bulldogs , whose exaggerated lower jaws were developed through selective breeding , to hang onto the muzzles of bulls . |
| 10 | Hypoxaemia in young Kenyan children with acute lower respiratory infection |
| 11 | We are not aware of reports from developing countries of the outcome of hypoxaemia in children with acute lower respiratory tract infection . |
| 12 | What are the implications of our data showing hypoxaemia to be an important predictor of short term mortality of children admitted to hospital with symptoms of acute lower respiratory tract infection in Nairobi ? |
| 13 | However , the mortality rate due to acute gastroenteritis was lower in vitamin-A-supplemented than in placebo clusters ( 0.66 [ 0.47–0.92 ] , p=0.02 ) ; mortality rates for all other causes except acute lower respiratory infections and malaria were also lower in vitamin A clusters , but not significantly so . |
| 14 | Mortality rates for all the other causes of death except acute lower respiratory infections and malaria were lower in the vitamin A group but none was significant at p<0.05 , and , overall , the difference in the size of the effect of vitamin A supplementation by cause was not statistically significant . |
| 15 | By contrast , we found no reduction in deaths attributed to acute lower respiratory infections in the vitamin-A-supplemented group . |
| 16 | Childhood security , her longing to return to that simpler time when her mother cherished her as a bright-haired toddler . |
| 17 | My hon. Friend 's Bill would provide that simpler way . |
| 18 | The surviving lower courses of the outer wall are of smooth , beautifully cut and polished blocks of dense grey stone . |
| 19 | The abbreviated lower horn works well with the tight curve of the waist , and aids comfort when sitting to play . |
| 20 | Anarchist risings in January 1932 , January 1933 and December 1933 , while highly regionalized and easily suppressed , provided evidence of the Republic 's failure to embrace a large part of the Spanish lower class and at the same time helped convince many middle-class Spaniards that Republican democracy was the breeding ground of disorder and revolution . |
| 21 | The evidence from elsewhere in America and Britain is that exhibitors increasingly took the masses for granted and were always investing in better and better cinemas so as to hang on to the more respectable lower middle-class audience . |
| 22 | But the mid-nineteenth-century bourgeoisie was divided on the nature of that inferiority of the lower classes about which there was no substantial disagreement , though attempts had to be made to distinguish , within the subaltern mass , between those who might be expected to rise into , at least , the respectable lower middle class and those who were beyond redemption . |
| 23 | The B horizons include a dark-coloured , humus-enriched , upper layer ( the Bh horizon ) and a bright-coloured lower layer ( the Bs horizon ) , the latter usually containing translocated iron and aluminium . |
| 24 | The movement falls into two repeated halves , the second having more chromatic lower parts . |
| 25 | Seat adjustment is not so easy , however ; if the seat is too close or too distant from the rudder pedals ( in those models so equipped ) , then one must deplane , pick up the seat and re-position one of four pairs of locating holes on each lower seat tube , spaced about an inch apart , on to two floor-mounted prongs . |
| 26 | Thus , at each lower level of the hierarchy , the last applied rule also gains credit proportional to the weight of R2 . |
| 27 | hierarchy : each lower office is under the control and supervision of a higher one ; |
| 28 | T/t ; U/u ) ; and that each capital letter allele added 3 inches to the individual 's height , each lower case allele added nothing . |
| 29 | each lower level package is selected at its latest approved version |
| 30 | The spacious lower saloon . |