Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This analysis lifts us above such complications of hedonism as having to measure degrees of pleasure or distinguish the higher from the lower . |
| 2 | Advocacy schemes focus on the rights , entitlements and choices of individuals , but they do not generally much influence the wider issues of the way services are planned , shaped and managed . |
| 3 | The can chair was then put in and where the dark plants in the garden met the paler grass . |
| 4 | Leonora gripped a rail with white-knuckled hands when the boat bucked as it met the wilder waters of the sound . |
| 5 | Curtis met the younger man 's eye and held it . |
| 6 | When the latter were realigned or made anew they often met the earlier roads at a sharp angle on the parish boundaries . |
| 7 | No one ( thank God ! ) says sex must stop and comparatively few favour the wilder flights of permissive fantasy . |
| 8 | But others favour the quieter storm ; the strength and presence of Lush 's Miki and Emma and MBV 's Bilinda and Deb , the magnetism of Curve 's Toni Halliday , the raw , unadorned honesty of Polly Harvey , are no less effective . |
| 9 | But he does , on the middle-class and moral grounds to be described in chapter , condemn the ostentation of Gatherum Castle belonging to the Duke of Omnium , and favour the older , humbler Matching with its adjacent priory , where the Duke 's heir , Plantagenet Palliser , lives . |
| 10 | This last point implies that psychoanalysis , as such , is not concerned with the truth or falsity of religious beliefs , and that it rather counteracts the earlier arguments about religious beliefs being neither justified by sense experience nor rational arguments . |
| 11 | Figure 1 b shows the rotation rate residuals after allowing for the increased value of slowdown rate which fits the later part of Fig. 1 a . |
| 12 | Doctors hardly counted till after 1850 and no one could have foreseen the later social power of lawyers . |
| 13 | Moreover the commonly held view that the rational expectations hypothesis is the natural offspring of neoclassical and new classical economics has considerably limited the wider application of the concept of rational expectations in macroeconomic models which do not take the assumption of market clearing as their point of departure . |
| 14 | Laganside agreed to review safety procedures during the week-long break to accommodate the Lower Ormeau Community Festival . |
| 15 | First , you must expand your psyche to accommodate the bigger and better . |
| 16 | The opening of this section of route was delayed until September , because the Board of Trade insisted upon street widening to accommodate the wider Company cars . |
| 17 | New pockets are required for the snooker tables and to accommodate the smaller 10p coin adjustments will be necessary to the pool table . |
| 18 | For viewing with higher magnification lenses , which are necessarily of shorter working distance , a recessed window is usually required to accommodate the smaller working distance of the lens . |
| 19 | New pockets are required for the snooker tables and to accommodate the smaller 10p coin adjustments will be necessary to the pool table . |
| 20 | The increase in maximum width of these buildings from 30m ( 99ft ) in 1868 to 48m ( 158ft ) in 1905 was necessary in order to accommodate the longer mules which were enlarged to their technical optimum , consistent with rigidity , of 1,392 ( 116 dozen ) spindles . |
| 21 | ‘ Any farmer worth his salt knows that quality can only be achieved by pursuing the higher standards of welfare . ’ |
| 22 | Mr Wilson added that he was still pursuing the wider issues of the case until it became apparent whether the case of Ian X was unique . |
| 23 | More distressingly , we discovered that the Aru islands and the Greater Bird of Paradise were no longer on their trading routes and that for the last twenty years they had been pursuing the shorter and more profitable triangular passage between Celebes , Java and Borneo . |
| 24 | He had to have travelled the better part of five miles cross country and another two from the edge of town in order to reach the Cathedral . |
| 25 | The practice of eating dead enemies probably arose from the idea that you could absorb the better qualities of the person who had died through eating their flesh . |
| 26 | The blue eyes were cold and watchful as he lounged casually in front of her , the thin sea island cotton shirt allowing the darker hairs on his chest to show through . |
| 27 | Whenever Robinson struck for a grip he moved quickly and broke it , never allowing the older man to settle . |
| 28 | The end-of-year panic on discovering that other teachers had covered more had led to a general feeling that the quicker topics were completed the better . |
| 29 | If a terrorist group is operating in the area then the sooner they are stopped the better . ’ |
| 30 | In addition there were regional and county federations : by 1901 these had risen to thirty-six , with each centred on a major town to enable the stronger , urban Councils to help the weaker , rural ones . |