Example sentences of "[adj -er] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then it must have changed its mind , and started to grow in two directions , a narrower tube into the ‘ mouthpiece ’ and a broader one into the ‘ horn ’ , and there is some evidence that the ‘ horn ’ end continued to get wider and longer . |
| 2 | One in five of the ‘ 303 Times Top 1000 companies ’ interviewed believed that it costs less than £4000 per person , one in three estimated costs in the range of £4000 to £6000 and a further one in three thought it costs over £6000 per employee . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , semi and unskilled operatives constitute one in eight of all self-employed temporaries and that persons with low grade personal service occupations constitute a further one in ten . |
| 4 | Of the items which were not supplied , almost half ( 48% ) were already in use , just over a fifth ( 21% ) were being bound , one in ten ( 10% ) could not be located , and a further one in ten ( 10% ) did not in fact form part of the Library 's holdings . |
| 5 | Erm , there was in Eden End , erm , there was another character in erm , there was a further one in |
| 6 | The distortion of the Socialists ( who got 38.6% of the vote in the 1990 election , and 33.8% in an early-May opinion poll , when 23.8% were ‘ undecided ’ ) is the easier one for outsiders to understand . |
| 7 | Erm an easier one in fact . |
| 8 | I want the shorter one in that one is it ? |
| 9 | This double characterisation was made more hilarious at the first performances when the bossy one was danced by Helpmann , and later the taller MacMillan , with wonderfully extended développés , and the shyer one by Ashton with dainty attempts to be correct at all costs . |
| 10 | There were spices — a small cloth pouch of cumin and a bigger one of turmeric . |
| 11 | They did n't stop at the nearest building , but drove on to a bigger one with many more vehicles outside . |
| 12 | Well they , I had to go to Road police station , London , it was quite good , the detective took , took me around that little area and er then when I got ready to collect to take him to Liverpool Street Station , I saw him for the first time , man about sixty one and he 'd got two suitcases , one lighter than the other , and while I was signing for him and his property I said to him , you take that light one and I 'll take the bigger one with the view to getting on the bus to get to Liverpool Street st but the inspector there was very good , he said I 'm not going to oh and I said to you take the light case I 'll take the high one , he said I ca n't carry anything , I got a rupture . |
| 13 | you said , it was one in your purse to take with you and the one at , the bigger one at home . |
| 14 | Miss my mum 's got a bigger one at home and |
| 15 | But since the LEP tunnel exists , it is tempting to use it — all the more so because CERN 's member states would never allow a bigger one to be built . |
| 16 | Chinese examples stress agricultural and military applications ; a Cuban textbook asks children to find ‘ the average monthly number of violations of Cuban air-space by North American airplanes ’ ; Russian children are asked about collective farms ; East German children have a similarity problem about a tower in Berlin and a bigger one in Moscow . |
| 17 | That 's a nicer one of the garden . |
| 18 | George is the taller one in the glasses , who has the accent and slightly stiff manner of a public school house master . |
| 19 | The younger one of Lord Shelley 's sons had come via Windsor Castle where he had shared a dancing class with the Princesses . |
| 20 | Indeed , Roheim reports that mothers will never deny the breast to a child of any age , even to save a younger one from starvation ; and a child who for some reason can not nevertheless find the mother 's breast can usually find another woman ready to suckle him . |
| 21 | The elder child may be made to give way to the demands of the younger one in order to keep the peace . |
| 22 | Only two Masses by Janequin have survived — an early one ‘ La Bataille ’ , on the non-onomatopoeic sections of ‘ La guerre ’ , and a later one on his chanson ‘ L'aveugle dieu ’ — and a single motet . |
| 23 | In addition international collaboration was encouraged by the International Geographical Union by establishing commissions that included one on present day processes , and a later one on field experiments in geomorphology ( Slaymaker , Dunne and Rapp , 1980 ) . |
| 24 | It was thus proposed to organise two workshops on this topic for the 19th century , one on the trade across the Indian Ocean , and a later one on the trans-Saharan trade . |
| 25 | Indeed , Smith ( 1975 , 288 ) suggests that the school originated in Colchester and then transferred to Verulamium , although the similarity of an early pavement at Colchester ( the Cupids mosaic ) to what would be a considerably later one at Verulamium ( the Lion and Stag mosaic ) will make this difficult to substantiate . |
| 26 | I much prefer this Bernstein performance to his later one with the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra , which is so self-indulgent and slow that the final Adagio loses both shape and momentum . |
| 27 | The hunger crisis of 1795 – 6 and the later one of 1800 – 1 gave radicals the misery of the lower orders to play upon . |
| 28 | There has always been a wide discrepancy in the superego between the infantile image of the parents and the later one in which the characteristics of the real parents predominate . |
| 29 | So will the determination of whether they have other rights ( for example voting ) or of whether their preferential dividend , is cumulative ( in the sense that if passed in one year it must nevertheless be paid in a later one before any subordinate class receives a dividend ) or non-cumulative ( in the sense that the dividend once passed , is lost for ever ) . |
| 30 | There were two bullet wounds , one on the shoulder and a deeper one behind the head . |