Example sentences of "[adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally we breasted the saddle in the lower ridge , what in the Welsh mountains , and latterly in the Himalayas , we would call the cwm . |
| 2 | It had been anticipated that this group of fit and well motivated patients would have fared better , and allowed full assessment of the advantages of this technique , particularly as the patients were younger , median age 63 ( range 33–77 ) and fitter ( lower ASA grade ) . |
| 3 | Not only one but both his elder sons did so , and thereby became the first Jewish officers to be commissioned . |
| 4 | Dad 's family were living at Charlton-All-Saints between Salisbury and Downton in the mid eighteen-nineties and , as was the custom , not only grandfather but also his two elder sons were working on the same farm . |
| 5 | The Youngest Son would stay with us in Al Ain , catching up on his studies in order to graduate with his class from secondary school , but it would be a week before the Sheikh and his elder sons drew up in their big Mercedes and brought that filling of the house that always comes when men are at home , the heavy laughter , the smell of pipe smoke , screeches of excitement from the children as they are tossed high in the air . |
| 6 | Henry II renewed his own homage to Louis and then watched his two elder sons do homage : Henry for Normandy , Anjou and Maine , Richard for Aquitaine . |
| 7 | ( I know these girls ; they are the new wives of two of the laibon 's elder sons . |
| 8 | Thanks to a brilliant surgeon , and good nursing ; also untiring care and encouragement twenty-four hours a day from his devoted wife Henrietta , and their two elder sons Lord Howland and Lord Robin Russell , happily he has survived and made a miraculous recovery . |
| 9 | The party was really planned and given by his two elder sons Andrew Howland and Robbie Russell , who decided to keep it very simple , like a children 's party . |
| 10 | By degrees Baxendale acquired the remaining interests of the Pickford family and of his two other partners , so that by 1847 ownership of the business was entirely in the hands of himself and his three elder sons , who had become partners in 1843 . |
| 11 | Worried for his family 's safety in the epidemic , Jesty resolved to provide immunity by giving his wife and two elder sons cowpox . |
| 12 | But the treatment 's efficacy was several times demonstrated in the years which followed when his two elder sons , exposed to smallpox , failed to catch the disease . |
| 13 | Thus provided with capital and having gained almost a decade of experience in the iron industry , he resolved to set up a similar ironworks with the assistance of his two elder sons , John and Archibald . |
| 14 | Neither the RFA nor the Astronomer links the rebellion of Louis 's elder sons in 830 with fraternal hostility to their half-brother 's " promotion " . |
| 15 | Intestinal crypt cells are known to have a higher adenylate cyclase and a lower guanylate cyclase activity than differentiated villous cells . |
| 16 | It could also help towards healthier generations in the future . |
| 17 | Malekith begins his great period of wandering around the world in search of magical artefacts of elder times . |
| 18 | At lower frequencies ( <10GHz ) , the flip-flop toggled reliably will less than — 15dBm on the input . |
| 19 | As a typical 20-storey building has a frequency of 0.5 hertz , and taller buildings have even lower frequencies , they are likely to be beyond the range of resonance . |
| 20 | Many sounds produced by living creatures , however , lie in frequencies outside our human threshold of hearing and are thus designated as ultrasound ( higher frequencies ) or infrasound ( lower frequencies ) . |
| 21 | Because the Power Tool 's EQ is added to the sound after your amplifier it can drastically change the tone produced at the end of the chain , especially in the lower frequencies . |
| 22 | The fractional-order beam intensities can be written , by analogy with holography , as It can be shown that the first and second terms are actually the squares of amplitudes of scattered waves , and their major components have lower frequencies than do the third and the last terms , and can therefore be suppressed ( refs 8 , 14 ; P.H. and D.A.K. , unpublished results ) . |
| 23 | To find out what is distinctive about the style of a certain corpus or text we work out the frequencies of the features it contains and then measure these figures against equivalent figures which are " normal " for the language in question.The style is then to be measured in terms of deviations — either higher frequencies or lower frequencies — from the norm . |
| 24 | Generally , large animals hear lower frequencies and small ones respond to higher frequencies . |
| 25 | Like many other frogs , both sexes also respond to a band of lower frequencies . |
| 26 | The lower frequencies penetrate further , scanning a wider area , while the higher frequencies bounce off very small objects . |
| 27 | These can be used down to 600 and 350 cm -1 , respectively ; for lower frequencies , CsI can be used down to 200 cm -1 but it is softer and much more expensive . |
| 28 | If there are groups with similar vibration frequencies close to each other in the molecule , and two or more of the vibrations are of the same symmetry , the group modes will mix ; mixing displaces the normal modes to higher and lower frequencies . |
| 29 | Thus , the more mobile a dipolar group , the easier it is for it to follow the electric field up to higher frequencies , whereas the less mobile groups can only orient at lower frequencies . |
| 30 | Items which discriminate best are ones which are passed by more of the higher scorers than the lower scorers ; the best discriminators of all are generally those items which are passed by about $0 per cent of the candidates overall . |