Example sentences of "[prep] an [adv] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ronni dressed quickly after an even quicker shower and ran a brush through her shiny blonde hair . |
| 2 | In such a world , individuality is never a prized characteristic , and an attempt in the early 1980s to remove the one remaining individualizing feature — the shoulder numeral or ‘ collar number ’ — was correctly rejected by civilians as a structural move towards an even greater anonymity . |
| 3 | The international trend is towards an ever greater degree of devolution ; here the tendency has been to centralise , and the issues of autonomy , which most locals want are confused with the mechanics of finance . |
| 4 | Depending , as Dufferin had so clearly perceived , for their ability to govern on the collaboration of a vast class of petty native fonctionnaires , and the political apathy of an even vaster class of ignorant peasants , they could in no way afford to see these people aroused to insubordination , even of an ostensibly peaceful kind . |
| 5 | The architecture is one part of an even bigger architecture — outlined in the Networking Blueprint last March . |
| 6 | ‘ You 'd just found out I was chairman of an even bigger company than Swift ! ’ he bit out . |
| 7 | In Pomerania this reaction took the form of an even tighter grip on the feudal peasantry and serfs of the great estates . |
| 8 | It stems , therefore , from something primitive and far removed from almost everything else in the Old Testament , with the exception of an even stranger tale in Exodus 4.24–6 . |
| 9 | The risk of an even greater concentration of power , and the attendant risk of its mis-use , was recognised after the Second World War and it meant the pre-war attempts of active buying out were never resumed . |
| 10 | There is a danger of an even greater divide than already exists until we get care management in child care |
| 11 | £There is a danger of an even greater divide than already exists between the two until we get care managements in child care , ’ he says . |
| 12 | Conversely , the great revolution seemed less a first instalment of an even greater change than the last instalment of a past era : at best a splendid highly coloured memory , at worst a proof that there were no dramatic shortcuts to progress . |
| 13 | Behind all this was discernible the dim outlines of an even grander vision — a vision of an Anglo-Saxon world state , in which Britain , the white dominions and America ( realigned with Britain after what Curtis referred to as the ‘ schism ’ of 1775 ) would in concert undertake to ensure the peace and prosperity of the world : Curtis was not called ‘ The Prophet ’ for nothing . |
| 14 | While some might see in all this nothing more than economic fulfilment , the ultimate political goal , with which the other four signatories were more in sympathy , was already implicit in the Rome Treaty 's preamble with its desire ‘ to establish the foundations of an even closer union among the European peoples ’ . |
| 15 | In 1912 Edison introduced the compatible ‘ Blue Amberol ’ records made of an even tougher plastic ; and it is generally accepted that Blue Amberols had a better , higher fidelity performance than any other medium before the First World War . |
| 16 | Rather it reflects the creation of an even poorer group , the long-term unemployed , who have very low incomes . |
| 17 | They were also aware of an even deeper change in the texture of Christianity : it had become the religion of a warrior nobility whose values and culture it had necessarily to absorb in the process of Christianizing them . |
| 18 | And Hay himself was an echo of an even earlier huzza for the region . |
| 19 | Having dismissed the basis of the EC Directive , the article now went on , as the government itself would like to imply , that , while others had muddled about wrongly trying to control nitrates , Britain had been engaged on work of an altogether higher order , ‘ in the interests of good water ’ . |
| 20 | It is , however , immediately regarded by the fortunate experiencer as being of an altogether higher and more real nature than ‘ normal ’ , everyday experience . |
| 21 | Alt is wisely tentative in his conclusions given the nature of the available data but he is prepared to argue that there is " no evidence that any British Government in the period [ since 1964 ] … believed it could " steal " an election by mortgaging the future in the interest of an economically better present " . |
| 22 | Out findings of an apparently greater adverse effect on trabecular rather than cortical bone is in keeping with other publications on the effect of prednisolone . |
| 23 | Working under the not unreasonable assumption that since all its saloons are equally good to drive , size does matter , the last thing it wants to do is create a miracle of packaging at the expense of an ostensibly bigger model . |
| 24 | One phrase which is often adduced in support of this thesis is the phrase in the preamble to the Treaty of Rome , ‘ determined to lay the foundations of an ever closer union among the peoples of Europe ’ . |
| 25 | Robert Schuman , former Prime Minister of France and one of the signatories of the European Coal and Steel Community Treaty ( 1951 ) wrote : ‘ Europe before being a military alliance or an economic entity must be a cultural community ’ , and the Treaty of Rome ( 1957 ) , which underlies the whole being of the EC , says that the signatories are ‘ determined to lay the foundations of an ever closer union among the peoples of Europe ’ . |
| 26 | The British have overlooked such generalisations in the Treaty of Rome as , ‘ Determined to lay the foundation of an ever closer union among the peoples of Europe ’ . |
| 27 | Under Socialism , the USSR has born out Marx 's prophesy for capitalism : the proletarianising of an ever larger element of society . |
| 28 | Harry Enfield 's Television Programme , his second series of sketches about characters we have grown to know and loathe , is back on BBC2 on Thursdays with an even wider selection for the rogues ' gallery . |
| 29 | The Royal Commission on Environmental Protection in 1976 came up with an even lower figure of 250 rads . |
| 30 | Is the Prime Minister aware that in the year since he took office Scottish dole queues have lengthened by a further 28,000 , leaving almost 250,000 Scots without work and leaving him with an even worse record than his predecessor , the former first lady of mass unemployment ? |