Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [vb past] a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may be able to command as large an audience as anyone , yet he remains one of the least showy of performers , preserving a musical integrity and discrimination that deserved a better conductor than Elio Boncompagni , and certainly one who might have persuaded more sophisticated playing from a dispirited Royal Philharmonic . |
| 2 | In the middle of the circle was one hut that had a better roof than the others , so it would keep out the wind and the rain . |
| 3 | It was the most strident speech Mr Major has made during the campaign and represented a further attempt to underline the differences rather than the similarities between the political parties . |
| 4 | Later canals , built by engineers such as Telford and Smeaton , had more changes of level and used a greater variety of structures ; locks , tunnels , embankments , cuttings and aqueducts which demanded large amounts of money and considerable engineering skill . |
| 5 | Ironically , Beveridge actually hoped that a pension which reduced income and gave a higher pension to those who stayed at work , would encourage people to defer retirement : ‘ Making receipt of pension conditional on retirement is not intended to encourage or hasten retirement . |
| 6 | Miller and Holzman ( 1981 ) were aware of this possible problem with their procedure and conducted a further study in which a smaller dose of LiCl was used as the US . |
| 7 | Lynall Urwick put forward a counter-argument that a wide span of control had been possible in this example because the work of the merchandising managers did not interlock , and so the need for coordination and integration was not present : this reduced the burdens of supervision and made a wider span of control feasible . |
| 8 | It now covered a greater geographical area and involved a greater number of powerful States than ever before . |
| 9 | Wee Jocky was apparently steaming after a particularly hospitable Hogmanay and played a blinder . |
| 10 | Drawn up by the constitution commission under Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev , the draft constitution called for the President to head the government and stipulated a smaller parliament with full-time members . |
| 11 | The army mutiny of 1964 had created fears about the country 's stability and produced a greater intolerance of dissent . |
| 12 | Within six weeks he was improved mentally and fit for discharge but remained a further three months on the ward while a suitable home and day centre were found for him . |
| 13 | There were still those in the skilled , supervisory , and managerial groups , who might have sought alternative employment and stood a better chance than the majority of finding it , who chose instead to take early retirement . |
| 14 | She opened the bag , took out the handkerchief and made a louder noise than before . |
| 15 | When he returned to England in the middle of December , the winter again affected him ; he contracted bronchitis ten days after his arrival and suffered a further three attacks during January 1951 . |
| 16 | Certain people , perhaps because they were friendly with one doctor but held a higher opinion of the professional ability of the other , took to carrying cards in their pockets which gave the relevant instructions in case they should find themselves too far gone to claim the doctor they wanted . |
| 17 | Risky looks the pick on form but suffered a harder race than ideal at Sandown last time , and it may be worth taking a chance with Snipe Hall a real pork pie among the caviar here from the minor league stable of Melton Mowbray trainer John Wharton . |
| 18 | Risky looks the pick on form but suffered a harder race than ideal at Sandown last time , and it may be worth taking a chance with Snipe Hall a real pork pie among the caviar here from the minor league stable of Melton Mowbray trainer John Wharton . |
| 19 | He wore one bandoleer slung over his shoulder and carried a Greener . |
| 20 | The Tories entered the record books as the first party to secure a fourth term in power since the early 19th century and caused a further surprise by regaining seats in Scotland — confounding predictions of a Conservative collapse north of the border . |
| 21 | He returned one to the pile and got a larger one . |
| 22 | Table 9.1 indicates that the South East was the only region that had a higher share of GDP than would be expected from its population size . |
| 23 | In my hon. Friend the Minister 's view , what would be the effect on the economy and inward investment if she abolished the ceiling on national insurance , increased the ordinary rate and basic rate of tax for a third of the population in the south-east and introduced a higher rate of value added tax on luxury products — all measures proposed by the Labour party ? |
| 24 | Now , would n't it be possible to imagine someone who maintained both that motor cars were on our list of things that enhanced the quality of life and that travelling by motor car frequently took more time and demanded a greater outlay of labour than using various other means of transport ? |
| 25 | In the South of England , Great Tower Street Office lifted the award , having achieved their target and generated a further nine potential sales . |
| 26 | The ELISA technique proved far less sensitive for identification of ulcerative colitis patients in inflammatory bowel disease but showed a higher specificity than did the indirect immunofluorescence assay . |