Example sentences of "a [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He added : ‘ One ca n't imagine a feebler way of making a protest or trying to gain by showing A Clockwork Orange … at four o'clock in the afternoon at the Scala cinema on a weekday and advertising it as a surprise item . ’ |
| 2 | It is embarrassing being young and wanting to be more liberated than you are , yet not being , and pretending to be more liberated than you are , or that you 're having a racier time . |
| 3 | The Cloaca Maxima is a floodwater drain built by the Etruscans in the sixth century B.C. to drain the Forum Romanum . |
| 4 | Though classically it was the light of day which showed a painter the deepest flaws in his handiwork , Gentle worked best at night ; the instincts of a lover brought to a simpler art . |
| 5 | This is possible , though a simpler rendering without raised arms is more likely . |
| 6 | Bockelie ( 1973 ) , also working with cryptic argillaceous limestones , demonstrated how effectively a simpler technique combining light acid etching with photography using orthochromatic film could enhance fabric contrast and reveal burrow patterns . |
| 7 | A fourth case where planning helps occurs when the real task involves a deep subtle search and there is a simpler simulation of it . |
| 8 | Many of the proposals in the recent Inland Revenue consultative document , A Simpler System for Assessing Personal Tax ( see ACCOUNTANCY , December 1992 , p 129 ) , have come as a welcome step towards simplifying the tax collecting process — not least the proposed ending of the schedular machinery of assessment and the introduction of a self assessment system for individuals . |
| 9 | There are tax disadvantages in incorporation ( although A Simpler System for Taxing the Self-employed may reduce them in due course ) . |
| 10 | The Inland Revenue has published a consultative document , A Simpler System for Assessing Personal Tax ( p 129 ) . |
| 11 | The Inland Revenue has published a consultative document , A Simpler System for Assessing Personal Tax . |
| 12 | The paper follows the consultations that began in August 1991 with the publication of the Revenue 's consultation paper , A Simpler System for Taxing the Self-Employed ( see ACCOUNTANCY , October 1991 , p 48 ) . |
| 13 | We could propose a simpler system . |
| 14 | The Inland Revenue consultative document ‘ A Simpler System for Taxing the Self Employed ’ contains proposals which , if implemented , would in any event result in an acceleration of the tax liability for partnership . |
| 15 | By the end of the seventeenth century the chaotic medley of titles which had been used in earlier generations to describe diplomats of different ranks had been reduced to a simpler system which in its main lines was accepted by most states . |
| 16 | The NCVO is pressing for a simpler SORP and for the timetable for compliance to be extended to mid 1994 to allow charities more time to prepare . |
| 17 | A simpler procedure than that of Section 3.6 is available for preventing cycling in TRPs . |
| 18 | As there is a tendency to increase the complexity of CISCs in order to upgrade existing products , resulting in increased design time , increased design errors , and inconsistent implementations the university believed that a simpler RISC could be a cheaper alternative in the modern world where high-level languages predominate and there is little need for complex instructions for writing assembly code . |
| 19 | Planning permission for its conversion into a dwelling existed when the barn was purchased , but the scheme was particularly disliked by one of the new owners who believed , partly for the reason cited above and partly because of her training as a sculptress , that a simpler treatment , more strongly evocative of the barn 's original function , might be adopted and still give comfortable and convenient living accommodation . |
| 20 | The Cathedral of S. Dimitri was begun in 1194 and has a simpler plan with four piers supporting a single dome . |
| 21 | Generally in relation to the mortgage of movables , it recommended a simpler scheme , together ‘ with power to the lender to sell off the security in the event of the borrower failing to repay , after giving him due notice ’ . |
| 22 | English Estates was given increased funds for extending its workshop programme , and a simpler government grant system was introduced : the three existing grants have been replaced by a single ‘ city grant ’ with simpler application procedures . |
| 23 | A simpler realization of the Geroch group of transformations which is specifically applied to colliding wave solutions has been found by Ernst , García-Díaz and Hauser ( 1987 b ) . |
| 24 | Ernst , García-Díaz and Hauser ( 1987 b ) have also found a simpler realization of the Geroch group of transformations relating colliding wave solutions . |
| 25 | In any event , if you ca n't manage a simpler case you are surely not going to succeed with the more difficult one . |
| 26 | When we lived a simpler life we walked , swam , stretched and climbed as a matter of course almost every day of our lives . |
| 27 | A simpler interpretation is that the experimenters have rediscovered what Lashley ( 1950 ) showed many years ago , that partial removal of the cortical area to which the dorsal lateral geniculate body projects , has remarkably little effect on simple form discrimination tasks and that it is only when the entire cortical projection zone is removed that severe deficits , detectable in the simple behavioural paradigms we use , emerge . |
| 28 | Against this must be set the benefit of working with a consistent software interface , having better compatibility of data between programs and a simpler user interface . |
| 29 | She has a simpler attitude . |
| 30 | On a simpler level , we know that it is unwise to turn our back when we are still close to a strange horse , stallion , or foal , because occasionally it will boot us once we take our eyes off it ! |