Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [vb pp] [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advent of the private car has made a greater percentage of the population mobile , we can reach many different areas today by private car . |
| 2 | BRITISH Rail has promised a better deal for Teesside travellers . |
| 3 | BRITISH Rail has promised a better deal for passengers with a new timetable shake-up to take effect from May . |
| 4 | How many more of us would be fluent French speakers if our first French teachers had done a better job ? |
| 5 | This may seem perverse at a time when the old industries have shed the greater part of their workforce , and unemployment is pushing towards the three-million mark . |
| 6 | If the quality of public services has achieved a higher political profile in general , it has reached a positively frantic pitch in health care . |
| 7 | The rest of Latin America has fared no better than Brazil . |
| 8 | Only the tertiary sector has maintained a larger share of the cake , an average of over 4 per cent during the period from 1978/79 and 1986/87 , compared with 1.04 per cent for general education in the decade from 1978 to 1989 ( see Figure 9.4 ) . |
| 9 | This was already clear by 1926 , and could even have been in 1922 , if only the central authorities had kept a closer watch on the pulse of rural life . |
| 10 | Recent work in the eastern suburbs on the later winged-corridor building has added a further complexity , revealing an important sequence of later Iron-Age ditched enclosures alongside a stream , in one of which lay a two-phase timber round house associated with pottery , slag , bone and worked flints . |
| 11 | Soon the seven-year-old girl had killed an older pupil who mocked her . |
| 12 | Though no-one was prepared to admit that Roman Catholics had got the better of the argument , some Protestants felt a certain dissatisfaction with an afterlife in which all earnest endeavour , for better or worse , was at an end . |
| 13 | Previous studies have noted a higher mortality in the community group , but this was not the case in Islington . |
| 14 | Critics say Tory policy has created a crueller , more selfish Britain . |
| 15 | Previous results have shown a higher threshold of rectal sensation in men than in women . |
| 16 | And in Italy opinion polls suggest the Socialist Party has lost a larger share of support since the election a year ago than any other party . |
| 17 | Madam Speaker , arising out of question time today , the leader of the house the leader of the house told the house that the Prime Minister has made a further statement on the back to basics policy , now since this has er we are told er permeated the whole of government policy since the prime minister 's speech to the party conference last October , is n't it time er that the Prime Minister was asked not to give statements to correspondents and at er press conferences , but made a statement to this house about the back to basics policy and at the very least , placed a copy of his speech and his thinkings on the back to basics policy in the library . |
| 18 | My dear Mary had had a truer idea when she called Victor ‘ The Modern Prometheus ’ . |
| 19 | Modern scholars who have tried to imitate Josephus in his search for references to Jews in pre-Alexandrian Greek literature have had no better luck . |
| 20 | Both Lyell and Wallace opted for a theory in which a supernatural force had affected the later stages of human development . |
| 21 | At the same time , the post-war years have provided a larger and more easily identified target for racial animosity in the new populations of Caribbean and Asian immigrants . |
| 22 | Of course , there have been historical fluctuations in revolutionary activity , as well as considerable variations between societies — with revolutionary parties having had a greater influence in France and Italy than in the rest of Western and Northern Europe or in North America — but the predominant style of working-class politics everywhere has been reformist , directed toward a gradual attrition of the unregulated market economy . |
| 23 | The General Assembly has asked the richer countries to give one per cent of their annual budget to try and wipe out poverty in the third world . |
| 24 | While the authentic squire style is still done best by British manufacturers , our continental neighbours have perfected a gentler , more up-to-date version in rough-looking but soft and lightweight tweed , cashmere and cotton . |
| 25 | ‘ In recent years the investment-linked scheme has shown a better return — around 15 or 16 per cent over the past five years , ’ says Feek . |
| 26 | More recently , northern folk have seized a greater share in responsibility for their own affairs ; they seek to take advantage of southern benefits , while at the same time maintaining their northern identity . |
| 27 | Recent Conservative governments have stressed a greater concern with commitment to putting policies into practice and getting the job done . |
| 28 | Other unforeseen difficulties have taken a further 4 per cent , but Remington is confident the contingency reserve will cover it . |
| 29 | This is so far from the truth that on the whole , for those really attending to education , the notion of innate given individuality has remained the stronger . |
| 30 | As the big sheriff had volunteered no further explanation , Grant decided to wait and see exactly what Springfield was up to — or more accurately had been up to . |