Example sentences of "in a [adj -er] [noun sg] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had the same tall grace and was equally good looking in a gentler way with great soulful eyes . |
| 2 | During the early Anglo-Saxon period a diet having a' coarse physical consistency' resulted in a lower incidence of dental caries compared with modern populations . |
| 3 | The fact that acts of violence , aggression , or even boastfulness ( buagun ) are consistently condemned , and the lack of any positive evaluation of acts of ‘ bravery ’ or ‘ courage ’ , may result in a lower rate of deliberate maiming and homicide among the Buid than among populations which attach positive evaluations to such acts ( everything else being equal ) . |
| 4 | In other words , does the expansion of highly distinctive words result in a greater proportion of useful information ? |
| 5 | In addition , greater life-expectancy , for which better health care is partly responsible , has resulted in a greater number of old people , which has created further demands on the NHS . |
| 6 | Because males spend less energy in manufacturing each gamete than do females , males can potentially produce more offspring , in a greater number of productive matings . |
| 7 | If Protestantism was more Conducive than Catholicism to the expansion of science , one would expect this to manifest itself in a greater receptivity toward new and controversial ideas . |
| 8 | Woods and Rawlings ( 1989 ) also point out that genetic engineering has considerable application in this field by developing improved strains of the relevant bacteria which are more efficient , can operate on a wider variety of substrates and in a wider variety of environmental conditions . |
| 9 | These results may also be seen as offering some tentative support to the contention that the greater flexibility now permitted in fee setting , coupled with the ability of architects to establish themselves in a wider variety of organisational forms and to advertise more freely , has essentially lubricated the market and led to greater efficiency . |
| 10 | THE Hampshire County Youth Choir were formed last October to give young people aged 15 to 20 years the opportunity to take part in a higher standard of choral singing than perhaps would be open to them at their schools or colleges . |
| 11 | As soon as the seeds germinate , the tray must be put in a cooler position with full light supplied — if you do n't do this they will get weak and leggy and be very prone to damping off disease . |
| 12 | His experimentation resulted in a Crapper special with in-built silencers . |
| 13 | It would , however , be just as unfortunate for our understanding of Simmel to be confined to this aspect of his work as it was for his philosophy to be reduced to the simple model of freedom enshrined in a earlier tradition of American sociology . |
| 14 | In a further sign of improving links with black Africa , it was announced that during the weekend of de Klerk 's visit to Kenya , South African Airways flights were routed over west Africa for the first time for nearly 30 years , the government having secured overflight rights with Morocco , Mauritania , Mali and Côte d'Ivoire . |
| 15 | The first visit of a delegation from the Chinese PLA ( People 's Liberation Army ) since 1961 took place in September 1991 , and in a further sign of improving relations , Defence Minister Lt.-Gen. |
| 16 | In a further blow to inter-Korean relations , the Agency for National Security Planning ( NSP ) , South Korea 's main internal security agency , claimed on Dec. 26 that it had thwarted a conspiracy linked with North Korea which aimed to overthrow the South Korean government . |
| 17 | In a further gesture towards improving relations between the two countries [ see pp. 37531 ; 38630 ; 38681-82 ] India was also reported to have granted improved access to Indian markets for Nepalese goods . |
| 18 | In a further show of renewed financial strength , Unisys Corp declared a dividend of $1.40625 per share on the company 's Series A cumulative preferred stock : the dividend is 150% the stated quarterly dividend of 0.9375 per share and will be applied to reduce the accumulated dividend deficit to $4.22 a share . |
| 19 | An Interior Ministry communiqué cited in broadcasts on Dec. 2 announced a curfew from Dec. 5 in Algiers and in the provinces of Tipaza , Boumerda , Blida , Medea and Bouira between 10.30 p.m. and 5 a.m , in a further crackdown on Islamic militants [ see p. 39215 ] . |
| 20 | That , in a later work of extensive and original research into little-known source material , carried out in partnership with his wife Marian , Keeton should have something to say in favour of Lord Chancellor Jeffreys , brought him little joy from quarters whose traditional schoolboy images he chose to query . |
| 21 | In a later study of economic growth in the USA , and Western European countries during the period 1950–62 , Denison found the minimum contribution of education to economic growth to have been of far less importance : 15 per cent for USA , 13 per cent for UK and Belgium , and the rates for the remaining six countries varied from 7 per cent for Norway and Italy , to 2 per cent for West Germany . |
| 22 | Platelet factor 4 showed a significant positive correlation with plasma glucose concentration in a small group of insulin-dependent diabetics but no correlation was seen for β-thromboglobulin and no relationship was found for either of the platelet-specific proteins in a larger group of non-insulin-dependent diabetics ( Davi et al , 1982 ) . |
| 23 | Freeman ( 1987 ) and Rothwell ( 1982 ) embed their conceptions of the technological change between waves in a broader confluence of social factors . |
| 24 | N brief , I suggest that we can best understand the form of modern doctrines by situating them in a broader dialogue within liberal political philosophy concerning the relation between the citizen and the state . |
| 25 | In particular , the instrumental approach locates government growth in a broader pattern of social and economic development . |
| 26 | However , although the UK government and others have a variety of policies designed to encourage and stimulate innovation , rather little has been done to assess the effectiveness of these measures , or to consider them in a broader context of structural change and adjustment in a mature industrial economy . |