Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj -er] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other cases a relative or foster carer may apply for custody after a shorter period and you will be informed of this action and be able to contest it in court if you wish . |
| 2 | Never perfect , it at least maintains the presence of Bosnia in its existing borders , and denies the Serbs their aim of a Greater Serbia and the Croats theirs of a Greater Croatia . |
| 3 | After the Cuban missile crisis , however , there appeared signs of a greater maturity and moderation in external policies and a growing decisiveness at home . |
| 4 | The new variegated urban space meant the experience at any one time of a greater number and a greater variety of impressions . |
| 5 | To cooperate may be defined as to work together or to operate jointly-These terms are therefore not dissimilar , yet co-ordination may be seen to be of a higher level and a more difficult operation than co-operation . |
| 6 | The guides will help potential investors to compare costs and charges , accessibility of profits , the chances of a higher return and the relative tax advantages of the various schemes on offer . |
| 7 | For menials to play those of a higher rank and breeding seemed a deep violation of the principle of fixed division on which civilization rested . |
| 8 | Is it of a higher quality and accepted by consumers ? |
| 9 | However , if you are replaced by another employee , say of a lower grade and commanding less pay , there is unlikely to be a redundancy . |
| 10 | The choice facing the Government is whether to take a risk with inflation by reducing interest rates in order to get the economy out of recession , or to take no risk with inflation , await a recovery in the domestic economy ( now more likely because of a lower pound and lower interest rates ) , and a decline in German interest rates , before rejoining the ERM . |
| 11 | He recognizes that it might be regarded in a pejorative sense as indicating a readiness to compromise and to accept something inferior , but he uses the term , nevertheless , for the want of a better word and tries to give it a different connotation . |
| 12 | Otherwise children , without those , grow up physically , psychologically damaged and the purpose of Save The Children Fund is to work to give children the chance of a better childhood and the chance to grow up to be adults who wo n't repeat the sins of their forefathers . |
| 13 | Yet even then Mr Averell thought that there was the dawn of a better day and that many more would hear and obey the Divine call . |
| 14 | They were introduced to one another by a woman friend who thought they should get on well in London as Margaret came of a better family and knew the people , and Ivy had the money . |
| 15 | The information can then be presented to the manager who now has the opportunity to make good or at least better decisions because the information on which the decisions are based will be of a better quality and more timely . |
| 16 | They loaded the Zodiac dinghy , outboard motor , and the limpet mines into the camper and drove south , reaching Auckland around 7.30 p.m. where witnesses living at Stanley Point on the northern shore of Auckland Harbour saw two men take an inflatable dinghy out of a camper van and carry it down to the water 's edge . |
| 17 | He had been to Sweden in 1911 and Norway in 1913 , experiences which encouraged him in the use of a looser technique and a thicker impasto . |
| 18 | The church is part of a wider society and it is to society 's attitudes that we now turn . |
| 19 | WITH the World Cup still fresh in the minds of a wider public and an exciting summer to look forward to this is an ideal time to market the longer game in a positive , attractive light . |
| 20 | Instead he argues that the whole enterprise of scientific medicine needs to be destroyed as part of a wider de-bureaucratisation and deindustrialisation of modern society to enable more autonomous modes of organisation to develop . |
| 21 | Higher taxes on motorists should be only one measure in the context of a wider environment and transport policy . |
| 22 | Two of these are worthy of a wider audience and thus I make no apology for including them in this month 's Surgery ! |
| 23 | At the age of sixteen he was left without parents in charge of a younger brother and sister . |
| 24 | While it has to be obvious that current success has been built on foundations that were perhaps sounder than people generally thought ten years ago , the combination of a livelier economy and greater commercial drive ( leading above all to more commonsense , usually more local management ) has produced results far above the most rosy forecasts . |
| 25 | As a result , a number of Palestinian intellectuals and development workers began arguing that liberation from Israel was only part of a broader process and indeed unless that broader process , which implied radical economic change , took place no liberation from Israel was likely . |
| 26 | An identification consequent on a prior dislocation can make for a creative , empathetic partiality which is then the basis of a further identification and understanding of other kinds of discrimination . |
| 27 | And then it was clearly seen er that not only were the changes in the , the er financial er arrangements for the introduction of the bonus scheme , with the introduction of a further fourpence and hour , with the introduction of the time factor on the job , as opposed to them starting , we 'll say , round about forty seven , forty eight , forty nine percent , the movement was then into the fifty percent bracket , fifty five percent . |
| 28 | In the spring , when the air was still cool , he wore one of a lighter weight and colour . |
| 29 | While life expectancy has extended , it appears to have been at the price of a longer period and a greater proportion of life being spent in chronic sickness . |
| 30 | In non-ELT materials you can look for situations which are likely to feature highly predictable language : scenes set in restaurants or shops , at parties , the reception desk or the dining table can sometimes be picked out of a longer programme and used in isolation to give an example of particular language functions in operation . |