Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Wilkins was fined a further £75 for the assault charge and ordered to pay the officer £20 compensation . |
| 32 | Two months later he was fined a further £100 and banned from the touchline until the end of that season for remarks to a linesman during a game at Dundee United . |
| 33 | As some H 2 receptor antagonist maintenance trials have reported a greater proportion of symptomatic ulcer recurrences in patients randomised to placebo , it would be easy to overestimate the placebo relapse rate . |
| 34 | And as the icing on the cake , Gilliland also reported a smaller , but clearly present , fluctuation in solar size which ties in with the 11-year sunspot cycle . |
| 35 | Only AA has reported a larger rise in fee income so far , at 12.7% . |
| 36 | Speculation as to the causes of queues has included a greater public awareness of the CAB , growing numbers in receipt of state benefits , unemployment and the availability of credit , the rising divorce rate , and a complex legislative programme that has affected clients detrimentally . |
| 37 | I 'll go straight into er item two A I think the first thing the County Council would would wish to say this erm examination is that er today we are really seeing the culmination of I suspect er ten year work erm in Greater York by the Greater York authority and a particularly intensive period of work over the last five years , er by the Greater York authorities , the paper that I put round N Y five the matter two A really addresses the history and why we reached the conclusions corporately that we have and as all as we 've already indicated erm progress was able to be made when the Secretary of State included a Greater York er dimension erm into the er into the structure plan in a the first alteration , erm and that enabled a body of work to be undertaken by the Greater York authority , and I think I ought to say at this point that the Greater York authority comprises of the County Council er and five District Councils , and there you have six different councils , all with an interest in the future of Greater York , sitting down together , trying to sort out the way in which the future of Greater York erm ought ought to be developed , and the means they did it did that of course was through the Greater York study , which began in nineteen eighty eight and started off immediately with a study of forty , fifty development , potential development sites , erm in and around er er Greater York which produced a report , as I said in on page three of the of N Y five , around about April nineteen eighty nine , the conclusions of which were quite clearly unacceptable to erm members of the Greater York authority , because they saw quite clearly , and they were supported by the public in this , that to continue peripheral development , which had been the pattern of development in the Greater York area , erm certainly through the sixties and seventies er was unacceptable in terms of its impact on settlements , and particularly er its impact erm on erm erm the York greenbelt which still at that stage erm had yet to be made statutory , and that was again one of the main stimuli to making progress , the need to s formally define er the York greenbelt . |
| 38 | He could n't have picked a better place : laid to rest in Père Lachaise alongside such genuine nineteenth-century bohos as Gérard de Nerval , who took his pet lobster for walks in the Palais Royal and eventually hanged himself with a piece of string he insisted was the Queen of Sheba 's garter . |
| 39 | QUEEN OF SHANNON had tears and not champagne flowing by winning at Salisbury yesterday — but she could not have picked a better moment . |
| 40 | If he were going to humiliate her , he could not have picked a better opportunity . |
| 41 | He started up twenty years ago , he could not have picked a better time . |
| 42 | This , after all , was no ordinary case of murder and they could scarcely have picked a worse example to further their cause . |
| 43 | ‘ Should have picked a quieter place to meet , ’ he chuckles . |
| 44 | Problems with a terminal or page printer would be considered a lower level problem than a problem with the disk units or processor for which we have no spares . |
| 45 | The ratio of brain weight to spinal cord weight is considered a better measurement of complexity and intelligence . |
| 46 | Tagliacozzo found that catalogue searchers were , " inclined to use proper names rather than other types of entry , even when the latter may be considered a better choice . " |
| 47 | And although I have occasionally considered a larger tank in the house ( I have a 48″ × 15″ × 15″ ) , accommodating it would involve so much disruption that I have never bitten the bullet . |
| 48 | ‘ If the wholesale destruction of Youth be considered a saner method for world betterment than training the Boy , ’ he added as the bitterness showed through , ‘ then the club movement will not press its claim . ’ |
| 49 | His patience exhausted , he called another agent and booked a dearer ticket . |
| 50 | In contrast , trade unions in France had too little organisational strength in the workplace to be able to inflict major economic losses on the firm and they were considered to be too ideologically radical to be permitted a higher degree of participation . |
| 51 | Dexter had expected a bigger and taller man with the harsh glint of money-making in his eyes , rather than this relaxed , almost shambling , figure . |
| 52 | I had expected a sharper tongue in the office , a brisker and more brittle approach to the anarchic thoughtlessness of the girls . |
| 53 | After the majestic setting of Old Trafford , Middlesbrough could not have expected a greater contrast than Roots Hall . |
| 54 | Under these conditions they could have expected a higher failure rate . |
| 55 | Robert did not like to think of himself as a snob , but , had he been in charge of the Independent Wimbledon Day Islamic Boys ’ School , he would have expected a higher standard of civility from the cleaning staff . |
| 56 | City analysts had expected a further £50m worth of debt repayment during the month . |
| 57 | The fall in seasonally adjusted unemployment of 22,000 last month was even more of a surprise , at a time when forecasters had expected a further rise of 35,000 . |
| 58 | Daniel thought about dead Ann Maguire who , like Anna Van Gogh , the Dutch pastor 's wife , had named a younger , hopeful child for a dead one . |
| 59 | In the meantime , we have transferred a further share of the burden of financing local services to central government . |
| 60 | This is sometimes possible , too , if you have attended a further or adult education college . |