Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Internationally , this did no harm whatever , relieving as it did part of the burden on the social services , leaving prices unaffected and giving a better standard of living to existing residents and the newly-employed alike . |
| 32 | The agency is trying to decentralize French research by moving half hit laboratories to the regions ( see Nature 356 , 373 ; 1992 ) , and taking a bigger role in international research politics would help to fill the vacuum in Paris . |
| 33 | This had the effect of raising the efficiency of land and creating a greater surplus . |
| 34 | By coming to terms with basic personal problems and achieving a calmer approach to life , the symptoms of food sensitivity can sometimes be much reduced . |
| 35 | forget the error or the cause of the problem and get on with correcting it and avoiding a worse situation . |
| 36 | Nonetheless , we wrote to Ms de Jonghe 's boss , Mr Jankovski , expressing our disappointment and extending a further invitation to him or a representative to attend a meeting in July . |
| 37 | The fees for a fuller report are , of course , higher than for the society 's valuation report , because the surveyor will spend more time both inspecting the property and preparing a fuller report suitable for your needs . |
| 38 | June and Robert Braithwaite achieved much better intercourse both in and out of bed when she learned to understand and value his greater need of physical sensation and he became less worried by her being different and placing a lower value on physical experience . |
| 39 | A single sentence of more than about four lines puts unreasonable demands on your reader : Since Etherege ( writing in a later period than Wycherley and recognising a greater desire for a new " Man of Mode " ) recognises that love , sex and inheritance are still important considerations , which he also criticises , both playwrights can be said to expose hypocrisy rather than improve society , as heroes and heroines are constantly undermined by the contrasts created in the new social order and the codes of morality being set up which are both critical and celebratory . |
| 40 | R&D consortia which include films that produce different products using the same basic technological knowledge may also be able to segment user markets , price discriminating more effectively as a group than they are able to do when they act independently and earning a higher return on their R&D activities . |
| 41 | Looking around at all the there are a whole lot of people who have left the same even border all the way round instead of having an even border top and sides and leaving a bigger border at the bottom . |
| 42 | There is no doubt that the best way to invest is with the intention of selling more of the goods that come from those investments , and receiving a greater return on them . |
| 43 | The Army Personnel Centre , safeguarding 300 existing jobs in Glasgow and promising a further 1,000 new jobs , is clearly the most significant . |
| 44 | Jacob loved Rachel for whom he was set to work for seven years , but was then tricked into marrying the older sister , Leah , first , and working a further seven years for the greatly desired Rachel . |
| 45 | Flower shops are at last taking up the challenge and offering a wider choice from the wealth of materials available from all over the world . |
| 46 | Competitors may throw out a challenge by improving the product and offering a better distribution service , for example . |
| 47 | Outside this was a citadel , fortified like the inner bailey , but containing a greater number of buildings . |
| 48 | As a result , the United States delegation at the Second Inter-American Specialized Conference on Private International Law ( CIDIP 2 ) , held in Montevideo in 1979 , secured the adoption of an Additional Protocol , limited to service of documents but containing a fuller treatment of that topic drawing inspiration from some aspects of the Hague Convention . |
| 49 | The ANC and its allies modified earlier demands for a two-thirds majority , proposing a 70 per cent majority for most decisions but conceding a higher majority , of 75 per cent , for a bill of rights . |
| 50 | But taking a wider historical and comparative perspective , there is some truth in these statements . |
| 51 | This meant that criminal laws were clarified and in some countries codified , as both Beccaria and Bentham advocated , but leaving a greater degree of flexibility and judicial discretion than either would have found congenial . |