Example sentences of "the [adv] [adj -er] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If in the year 2000 the EC is able to pass these tests as well as it does today , but on the altogether higher plane which 1992 implies , the rest of Europe , like the rest of the world , will have cause to be grateful . |
| 2 | You will need to adjust the tension dial to accommodate the rather thicker yarn you are using . |
| 3 | The fragmentation of classical studies from " life outside " and the further fragmentation within classical studies itself ironically symbolize the much wider disintegration which had been deplored by the Romantic philhellenes and which had evoked their yearning for Greece in the first place . |
| 4 | Compare this short algebra sentence with the much longer sentence it replaces . |
| 5 | But in the much longer term it seems doubtful that diversification should be exclusively towards nuclear power , which carries its own commercial , political and possibly safety risks . |
| 6 | However , in the short term there was a problem because economic development led necessarily to the integration of territories , and this threatened the much smaller areas which coincided with nationalities . |
| 7 | Blake remembered the much smaller pterodactyls which had attacked them in hell . |
| 8 | Charles adored his country residence , Highgrove in Gloucestershire , while Diana preferred the much smaller apartment she had in Kensington Palace , more than 90 miles away in London . |
| 9 | Many insects time the much shorter periods they spend resting over winter as eggs or pupae during a phase known as diapause . |
| 10 | A base rate of 15 per cent is perilously close to monetary overkill , let alone the still higher rates which might be needed to appease the rapacious gods of the foreign exchange markets . |
| 11 | In the still longer term it would be possible for national planners and institutional managers of initial teacher education to adjust the mix of curriculum , pedagogy and school-based learning in such a way as to narrow avoidable gaps between initial and in-service teacher education . |
| 12 | For whom the news of his ships , far from mortifying , must have signalled the approach of the far greater fleet he was awaiting . |
| 13 | In a similar line of argument , Reynolds 's Newspaper ( 14 August 1898 ) viewed the Hooligan panic as an indictment of the hypocrisy of a civilisation that took ‘ so painful an interest about moral handkerchiefs and hymn books for the barbarians of the wild Soudan ’ while turning a blind eye towards ‘ the far wilder barbarians they may find within a few paces from their own street-doors ’ . |
| 14 | Lynda says that she did think long and hard about changing careers — not least about the fact that as a Stoy 's partner she could soon be drawing a six figure profit share , compared to the substantially lower salary she would get at C&R . |
| 15 | In welcoming this commitment , Mr Bell pointed out that the substantially greater freedom which U.K. insurers have enjoyed in product design and in investment policy has been to the distinct benefit if their policy-holders in the past . |
| 16 | One consequence of this is that the sharp rise in the proportion of young couples in the owner-occupied sector over the post-war period ( and the even greater number who aspire to this sector ) must have had some effect in reinforcing fertility decline in Britain in recent decades although , of course , many developed countries have also experienced declines over this period , so it would be naive to emphasize this ( or indeed any single cause ) as the sole or primary explanation . |
| 17 | Then out to his bed in a loft over the cowshed , leaving the family to draw in together in a cosy , alien-excluding unit around the flaming and hissing timber , to lie and smoke by the light of a candle and think o better days in the orphanage and wonder in unembittered fashion — for he had been happy there — about the mother who had abandoned him and the even shadowier lover who must have abandoned her . |
| 18 | Given the brief span of their acquaintance , the even briefer time they had actually spent together , how could he have been so presumptuous as to imagine that she would wish to fly out and join him at the Plaza ? |
| 19 | ‘ No one … ’ began Sally-Anne passionately , thinking of all that she had seen since arriving in Vetch Street — the poor creatures in Dr Neil 's surgery , and the even poorer ones who could not afford to go there — and of Dr Neil 's own selflessness letting people off their bills , so that only the small income he still received from an aunt 's legacy allowed him to keep going at all , when he could have been revelling with Stair . |
| 20 | Instead , her stubborn mind persisted in remembering the unexpectedly lighter side he had shown at the inn . |