Example sentences of "[adv] [adj -er] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just though it was a simple misprint and with one stroke of the pen I changed ‘ otter ’ to ‘ other ’ , thus effecting a rather broader sweep to Party policy than had been intended . |
| 2 | Compared with the public performers mentioned above , effective managers usually give much lower priority to recognition . |
| 3 | A few people sat there also , talking , and some again were sitting around in the long lower lounge to the rear . |
| 4 | I think erm we could have a much healthier aspect to it if it was taught to u in a healthier way , I mean |
| 5 | We had previously gone for a somewhat broader base to the business for perfectly good reasons . |
| 6 | A somewhat easier guide to parts of it is Sharkey ( 1982 ) . |
| 7 | Usually it is reasonable to presume that ( if the parties had considered the eventuality that the contract would become impossible or illegal to perform ) , they would have intended all further performance to be excused . |
| 8 | The Corpus of Knowledge has been updated in the intervening period , but it was clear that the insertion of the UK into Europe with free movement of labour , required a much broader view to be taken of the hospitality manager . |
| 9 | dBase IV 1.5 also includes better networking tools , the ability to have up to 40 databases open at once , improved indexing , more sort-and-select options , faster searching and generally a much easier approach to generating small applications without having to write any program code . |
| 10 | Rustam , our ornithologist , insisted that this was a much easier place to work , and so I agreed , reluctantly , to the change of plan . |
| 11 | There 's a somewhat lighter tone to The Wicked Lady ( 1945 ) , another big hit , in which Lockwood is the aristocratic wife whose passion for living and sense that if ‘ I ca n't live while I 'm alive , I 'll go mad ’ leads her into a double life as a highwaywoman . |
| 12 | There also needs to be much clearer reference to the limitations in the audit process and , in particular , in relation to collusive or immaterial fraud and sudden changes in companies ' financial positions , as these are also fundamental to the expectations gap . |
| 13 | Much of the major investment in this country 's telecommunications infrastructure in recent years has been from BT , which has made a much bigger contribution to the Exchequer than it did in the 1970s , as it is more efficient , more productive , sells more services , makes more money and pays more tax . |
| 14 | His mother , whom he had adored , had died when he was sixteen and his father had then married a much younger woman to whom Freddie had taken an instant dislike . |
| 15 | The most common for solid walls is the wall anchor , similar in principle to the wall plug , but utilising its own heavy-duty machine screw and requiring a much larger hole to be drilled in the wall ( typically 10mm compared with 6mm for most normal wall plugs ) . |
| 16 | However , it was soon time to leave Glubbdubdrib , and sail to Luggnagg , a much larger island to the south-east of Japan . |
| 17 | The resulting fuse was much more accurate and consistent in its timing , and had a much better resistance to water and the various kinds of treatment to which it was inevitably subjected in the mines . |
| 18 | Although in your native country , England , there are in my epoch six times as many people as in 1816 , nevertheless , the individual is guaranteed a much better chance to lead a life free from catastrophe and , if catastrophe occurs , a much better chance to be helped to recover . |
| 19 | By combining these two exercises , teachers are in a much better position to be able to say to the demanders , whether parents , government or somewhere in between : ‘ Given the resources of time , material , support and expertise , we are able to do A , B and C or C , D and E , but not A , B and E , let alone all five . |
| 20 | that 's right , that 'll be a much better system to work |
| 21 | I 'm very sorry about that because I believe that that money could be better spent within the fire service on other matters to provide a much better service to the general public . |
| 22 | In experimental work on the viscosity of the alkanes over a wide range of temperature Doolittle found however that the simple relation where A and B are constants gave a very much better fit to the experimental data , than the Andrade equation From the discussion we have given it is clear that fv is only a linear function of T if the expansion of the liquid is given by the linear equation and this is only true over small temperature ranges . |
| 23 | Because so much of the activity is in searching for information and processing it leading to a decision , the observed output is obviously a poor indicator of total activity and his verbal commentary is a much better guide to his task performance . |
| 24 | In this research , the investigators shall be examining the process of change under several different headings : the economy ; social relations ; and political institutions , drawing for the most part upon Soviet newspapers and journals , which have become a much better guide to the process of change under current policies of glasnost or openness . |
| 25 | First , the vertical bars can give a somewhat smoother appearance to an otherwise jagged result ; blurring can thus be viewed as an alternative to hanning . |
| 26 | The approach applied here also has a much closer resemblance to that taken in Cukierman and Meltzer ( 1986 ) . |
| 27 | Dealers said both institutional fund managers and private client investors — having seen the latest opinion poll results pointing a much closer finish to the election than previously expected — decided that the potential gains following a surprise Tory victory this morning actually outweighed the risks associated with the formation of a Labour government . |
| 28 | In future , therefore , employers will have to pay much closer attention to the principle of non-discrimination against part-time employees . |
| 29 | They lack the superficial coherence of a written constitution , but they bear a much closer relation to reality than bright ideas on a piece of paper . |
| 30 | These cells give a large excitatory response to the onset of a small spot of one wavelength shone on to their receptive field centres and a much smaller response to a much larger spot . |