Example sentences of "[coord] of a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ cost of capital ’ may be low enough and there may be a strong demand for the type of commodity which the investment project aims at producing , but if other competing enterprises are able to supply the same commodity or a close substitute more cheaply ( or of a higher quality ) then the project will not be ‘ commercially viable . ’ |
| 2 | It is available smooth for spreading , or of a coarser texture for slicing when it may be heated before serving . |
| 3 | The therapist did not think that Tony was suffering from a psychiatric disorder , or that there was a risk of suicide , or of a further act of self-harm in the near future . |
| 4 | C was not advised of this call , nor of a further call from the solicitor the following morning . |
| 5 | There were also sergeants or armigers who were mounted warriors , upon light horses , with light armour , and of a lower social status than the other mounted fighting men . |
| 6 | During the 1980s there was evidence of harsher punishments being handed out to reckless drivers , and of a wider appreciation of the risks created and the misery inflicted by deviations from proper standards of driving . |
| 7 | The somewhat unitary , homogenized world of local politics in the '50s and '60s was thus a reflection of wider social relations , of wider values , and of a wider economic stability — all of which have now disappeared . |
| 8 | The vocational training in engineering and technological skills which young people receive in West Germany is more thorough , better organised and of a higher standard , the young people receive in this country . |
| 9 | My falling in love with Julian was nothing to do with me , nothing to do with Julian , but part of the curse put on Bernard that his wife would become the love object of a man more attractive , more wealthy , more intelligent and of a higher status than he , so he did n't stand an earthly . |
| 10 | If Sartre denies all possibility both of an underlying historical structure and of a larger unity , a ‘ hyper-organism ’ as he puts it , within which conflict takes place , then history as he conceptualizes it here has no specific or necessary direction . |
| 11 | For some years now , sociolinguists have attempted to extend quantitative methods to the study of syntactic variation , and have met with a number of problems which are both methodological and of a broader theoretical kind . |
| 12 | United States President George Bush announced on March 14 that , following the electoral defeat of President Daniel Ortega Saavedra , the US government was lifting its five-year economic embargo on Nicaragua , and that it had requested Congress to grant approval by April 5 of $300 million in immediate economic aid and of a further $200 million the following year . |
| 13 | Some workmen digging a grave inside the parish church uncovered a lead anthropoid coffin inside of which was the body of a lad ‘ … laying in a liquor , or pickle , somewhat resembling mushroom catchup , but of a paler complexion , and somewhat thicker in consistance ’ , according to Dr T. White of Colchester who , together with Dr Gower of Chelmsford , had been invited by the rector , the Revd de l'Angle , and the churchwarden , Lewis Disney Ffytche of Danbury Place , to examine the coffin . |
| 14 | but of a gentler kind |
| 15 | Often the men marry girls not only younger but of a higher social class than their own in Sylhet . |
| 16 | Ultrasonic waves are sound waves but of a higher frequency ( pitch ) than the human ear can hear . |
| 17 | In ( 79 ) it is not just the action itself which is asserted : ( 79 ) He had a singular red cap on — not like a sailor 's cap , but of a finer colour ; and as the few yielding planks between him and destruction rolled and bulged , and his anticipative death-knell rung , he was seen by all of us to wave it . |