Example sentences of "[conj] on a [adv] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as an aside , thi this is an issue that 's currently being grappled with by Litchfield City Council , where the circumstances are erm albeit on a slightly smaller scale similar with with the historic city , and they are commissioning research on this very subject of of service pro provision in in new settlements . |
| 2 | In May 1989 a similar accident occurred in SWWA 's region , albeit on a much smaller scale . |
| 3 | Some of this existed one hundred years ago , albeit on a much smaller scale . |
| 4 | The dividing line between a fixed ‘ site ’ and a portable ‘ find ’ is often a narrow one : for example , the site of the ship Mary Rose was excavated over a period of several years , but when the remains of the ship itself were eventually raised , they were treated like any other waterlogged find , albeit on a much larger scale . |
| 5 | The most fundamental issue at stake is whether it represents merely a continuation of the earlier process of suburbanization and metropolitan deconcentration , albeit on a much larger geographical scale , or instead constitutes a fundamental switch away from the urban concentration process associated with industrialization towards a new ‘ post-industrial ’ settlement pattern based on medium-sized and small centres ( Hamnett and Randolph , 1983a ; Robert and Randolph , 1983 ) . |
| 6 | Regional Hubs are being established in Aberdeen and Singapore and , with a high degree of customer support already committed , we can now expand cost effectively our positioning capabilities into related markets and on a far wider geographic basis . |
| 7 | University-led research tends to be on a smaller scale , and on a much shorter time-span , with the average Ph D taking just over three years to complete . |
| 8 | The big bang resembles a black-hole explosion but on a vastly larger scale . |
| 9 | The flows are covered with large , high wrinkles and ridges , concentric with the edges of the flow , where the stiff surface layer was crinkled up by the pressure of more material arriving from behind — rather like a pahoehoe surface on a basalt lava , but on a much bigger scale . |
| 10 | The same happened at Canterbury , but on a much greater scale . |
| 11 | ‘ But on a much smaller scale , is n't it ? ’ came the cut-glass tone . |
| 12 | Some of the earlier industries remain but on a much smaller scale . |
| 13 | But on a much longer time-scale , involving thousands of years , they behave differently and can ‘ flow ’ like a highly-viscous liquid , millions of times more viscous than even the stickiest treacle . |
| 14 | It was mentioned in chapter one that the rocks making up the Earth 's mantle show the same kind of behaviour — on a short time-scale , they are rigid ( ’ solid ’ ) enough to transmit shock waves from earthquakes , but on a much longer time-scale , they can ‘ flow ’ , and accommodate the convection movements which are believed to provide the driving mechanisms behind Plate Tectonics . |
| 15 | It is like a standard hot-air hand-dryer but on a much larger scale . |
| 16 | These are events similar to the Big Bang but on a far smaller scale . |
| 17 | But Joe Holyoak and the Birmingham for People group believe The Galleries will simply repeat the mistakes made in the early Sixties , but on an even bigger scale . |
| 18 | The Palmers were city merchants , who bought respectability with the Wiston estates ; the Bowyers of North Mundham began as ‘ grocers ’ , though on a rather greater scale than a corner shop . |
| 19 | This philosophy , though on a far grander scale , can be observed in practice in such great gardens as Sissinghurst in Kent and Hidcote Manor in Gloucestershire , where similar plants and colour combinations have been placed in walled or hedged parts of the larger garden . |
| 20 | The success of Leapor 's subscription , though on a much smaller scale , probably owed a great deal to this family 's wide social connections . |
| 21 | Exploration of the Variscan thrust province in Belgium , southern Germany , and northern France has also been taking place , though on a much smaller scale than in North America , and so far without commercial success . |
| 22 | Cloth was also made in north-east Essex , in and around Colchester , though on a much smaller scale . |
| 23 | There are two major variants of capitalist agriculture , which Lenin called respectively the ‘ Prussian ’ and the ‘ American ’ way : large estates operated by capitalist landlord-entrepreneurs with hired labour , and independent commercial farmers of varying sizes also operating with hired labour where necessary , though on a much smaller scale . |
| 24 | However , as in Burma , the demobilised soldiers did not just return to civilian life : they formed a quasi-military organisation similar to the PVO , though on an ever larger scale , the People 's Security Organisation , Badan Keamanan Raykat ( BKR ) . |