Example sentences of "of a [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But anything of a bigger scale that involves attracting the public or rallying the faithful or listening to a guest speaker does need forethought and care if it is not to be a shambles . |
| 2 | In fact , the most popular dog continues to be the German Shepherd , with the Dobermann a perennial favourite and the Staffordshire Bull Terrier enjoying a surge of support among white householders in search of a bigger bite . |
| 3 | So sealing , if it were to be done , would have to be done in strength ( by the eager-to-help Russians ? ) , along two borders , in the knowledge that frontier-patrolling might be the start of a bigger involvement . |
| 4 | He had relegated the match to part of a bigger event as he thought people wanted more entertainment . |
| 5 | If we would give him half an hour to get over the shock of his resurrection he would quietly sit down with a piece of paper ( the back of a bigger envelope , I suppose ) and would work out the relevant design formulae . |
| 6 | In California , Wells Fargo 's acquisition of Crocker National in 1986 is an example of a bigger deal that was planned and executed with military precision . |
| 7 | well th the , the people who have the actual lease of the offices have gone out o er gone out of business in a sense , they 're no longer operating and because , they were part of a bigger organization , that bigger organization guaranteed the rents . |
| 8 | Mrs Thatcher , although she has criticised the Delors monetary union plan for being ‘ undemocratic , ’ is determined to try to exclude consideration of a bigger role for the European Parliament from the Rome Treaty review process . |
| 9 | the legal costs of sale and purchase of property including solicitor 's fees and stamp duty , £3,750 ; estate agent 's commission , £750 ; bridging finance ( one month at 13% ) , £758 ; cost associated with mortgages , in particular the additional cost of a bigger mortgage to cover the greater cost of housing ( company loan over 3 years ) , £1,500 ; cost of removal and , if necessary , storage , including insurance , £500 ; hotel and travel expenses including visits by wife to area to see houses , ( 15 weeks away from home plus two visits by wife ) , £2,420 ; cost of alterations to carpets and curtains , re-installing appliances , connecting telephone etc , alterations to property , redecoration and refurbishment , school uniforms and other educational expenses , maintenance , etc. of vacant , unsold property and miscellaneous incidental costs including vet 's fees , kennels , etc. , £2,000 . |
| 10 | ‘ It might be part of a bigger picture . ’ |
| 11 | The ability of a bigger bank to absorb a smaller one into its systems is a main reason why purchases of smaller banks bring up to three times bigger savings than mergers of equals . |
| 12 | Sure , companies are proud of any little achievement , like shaving a millimetre off a neck here and there , and are keen to stress these points through magazines like Guitarist , but such details are hardly ever conceived as parts of a greater whole . |
| 13 | Yet mystics have been saying for thousands of years that we are all aspects of a greater whole — that our separateness is an illusion , that we are ultimately One . |
| 14 | Some foreign ministry officials ( like Briand 20 years before ) saw European unity as the only solution : France and Germany could join in European institutions as equals , with no need for special controls on Germany ; but at the same time German economic independence would be restricted and German resources would be used for the good of a greater whole . |
| 15 | Four or five scenes may be enacted in one of his large recent works , whereas in earlier pieces , Pakenham would create a series of canvases each portraying a part of a greater whole . |
| 16 | Objects are defined by their function , while actions and those who perform them are viewed as connected parts of a greater whole . |
| 17 | But the point is that the mind of a child is often capable of a greater grasp of the complexity of a theological problem than an adult . |
| 18 | One of these writers , the poet Hölderlin , claims our particular attention here for the new attitude towards Germany that his commitment to the Greek ideal entails — and also for his intuitive awareness of a greater complexity underlying " the spirit of Greece " than Winckelmann or his immediate successors had been able to recognize . |
| 19 | This could mean either a uniform , across-the-board depreciation of a greater depreciation against some currencies than others , i.e. some currencies in effect appreciate against the deficit country . |
| 20 | Homes remained often uncomfortable of course , and the pub was still a major centre of social life , but the late nineteenth century also saw the growth of a greater emphasis on home , and of new leisure opportunities for both adults which in London particularly is best epitomised in the music hall . |
| 21 | Ironically , now that Renault and Volvo are part of a greater alliance they are seeking to use some of the same components in their two , separate gearboxes . |
| 22 | The immediate origins of a greater alliance between the state and science lay in military anxieties over the Boer War debacle . |
| 23 | Between February and October the Labour and Tory votes both fell , and Labour 's parliamentary success was merely the result of a greater slump in the Tory vote . |
| 24 | Equally , the discomfort associated with gonorrhoea is usually of a greater order , and men who have suffered repeated attacks of both infections can usually tell which infection it is that they have on any given occasion . |
| 25 | In its report and accounts for the year ended 30 June 1992 , the Mutual Accountants Professional Indemnity Company ( MAPIC ) warns of a greater level of claims at a time when competition in the market has tended to depress rates . |
| 26 | By concentrating on the inclusion of a greater percentage of high-fibre vegetables , fruit and cereal foods in your diet you will be making less of those 1,000 calories available to your body . |
| 27 | It is possible that this increase may have been , on the one hand , indicative of a greater frequency of homosexual activity ‘ in public ’ and , hence , of a degree of ‘ permissiveness ’ . |
| 28 | This type of analysis forces a recognition of a greater diversity of structures by which history may be written and understood . |
| 29 | There are still few Salvadoreans who advocate the view that a woman 's reproductive rights ( or a right to self-determination based on a knowledge of her own sexuality ) are fundamental to the development of a greater sense of autonomy and , in the long run , a wider political participation . |
| 30 | Hence , even where force is used in self-defence in response to the first use of violence the employment of a greater degree of force than that used by the attacker , or the continued use of force beyond the point where the attacker is willing or unable to continue the attack would not be seen as legitimate in law . |