Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb pp] a [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CIYMS 13 The visitors clearly demonstrated a greater determination in the opening stages and in particular their pack was decisively impressive forcing Portadown unto the defensive . |
| 2 | His own officials meanwhile conducted a further loyalty check on government employees , and Vice-President Nixon boasted " We " re kicking the Communists and fellow travellers … out of the government not by the hundred but by the thousands . " |
| 3 | In 1914 there were only 170 vehicles in the whole army , and throughout the war the officer in charge of the French Service Corps never held a higher rank than lieutenant-colonel . |
| 4 | A colleague made cheerful conversation with Jan while another of the team hurriedly arranged a better room . |
| 5 | And if her body occasionally craved a keener sensation , she was able to provide it herself , without shame or guilt , theoretically justified by the writings of radical French feminists like Hélène Cixous and Luce Irigaray , who were very eloquent on the joys of female auto-eroticism . |
| 6 | The survey , by financial consultants , Ernst and Whinney , showed that box office takings also formed a smaller proportion of income . |
| 7 | During his first term , Reagan and his staff eventually developed a better appreciation of the merits and responsibilities of legislators and came to realize that the making of policy required the executive branch to ‘ bargain with , cajole and otherwise court the legislative branch ’ . |
| 8 | A greater knowledge of the Russian language , moreover , by no means necessarily implied a weaker attachment to the native language of the nationality in question . |
| 9 | Ian Durrant took over from an out-of-touch Peter Huistra at the interval and Rangers certainly produced a higher work rate in the second period . |
| 10 | It had originally been intended to include the Independent Women 's Union , which had campaigned jointly with the Green Party , but the two parties split after the Independent Women 's Union unsuccessfully demanded a larger share of the eight seats the list had won . |
| 11 | The Home Secretary accordingly circulated a further paper on 28 July . |
| 12 | Not much new about that you might think , given the traditionally British trait of self-denigration , but the survey also found a further 42pc , or 84 companies , were genuine contenders for that elite gathering . |
| 13 | The density of tree crowns and the proportion of dead shoots both indicated a worse state of health , except for beech , which showed small signs of improvement . |
| 14 | Unions also opposed a further government emergency measure of June 26 , creating a new wage indexing mechanism , which could only be used twice in a year and which forbade employers to pass on increased wage costs to consumers through higher prices . |
| 15 | Unionist and nationalist politicians both predicted a further IRA upsurge in bombing . |
| 16 | Malkin , Ford and Fork also used a photomultiplier device . |
| 17 | But new means of production systematically embodied a higher degree of mechanization than their predecessors ( chapter 8 ) . |