Example sentences of "[vb infin] a larger [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you take the remunerative bits away and leave in public hands only the unprofitable ones , we will need a larger grant , ’ argues Mr Paterson . |
| 2 | Regular washing of plastic bricks and toys helps to preserve their freshness and while standard Lego pieces can be soaked in a small bowl , larger bricks will need a larger container . |
| 3 | An increased number of children may not lead to more dwellings being required , but rather to the same number of larger homes ; or may affect the types of homes needed , such as those with amenities like gardens : conversely , an ageing population , which tends to consist of smaller household sizes , may need a larger number of dwellings , perhaps smaller and with special requirements such as ease of access . |
| 4 | Depending upon the courts ' interpretation of the term ‘ good faith , ’ this amendment may include a larger number of protected holders than the Pomerene Act . |
| 5 | Now for a motor car I think you can say that the practical desirabilities of a car , and the acceleration and performance and looks are very important , one could also say that the fact that many people have their cars bought for me by the firm they work for means that they will therefore buy a larger car than they would if it was their own money that they were spending , so the market for cars is perhaps not one which is determined by energy efficiency or even optimum efficiency in terms of people 's and prestige is coming into it as much as these other factors and it is determined by who pays the money . |
| 6 | If you want a stable boat for the whole family to use and generally potter around in , you might choose a larger cruising dinghy . |
| 7 | they had no vision of a classless society , erm , personally while I 've no desire to see uniformity , I see no earthly reason why some people because they have a lower income should be compelled to live in inferior and perhaps crowded conditions , whereas the man with five or six or seven times their income can choose a larger house in a much more delightful district and I think it is things like that that make the difference between what I as a young socialist agitator was advocating and what we find today . |
| 8 | How could we settle whether or not the horizontal moon actually does present a larger appearance ? |
| 9 | The AHDS scheme should become a larger element in farm support , meeting nature conservation requirements and with NCC scrutiny for every plan . |
| 10 | Computing will become a larger part of the course from 1992 onwards , arising out of the Course Review , and there are likely to be increasing demands for specialist hardware ( plotters ) , software ( spreadsheets , databases , graphics ) , and improved access to scientific and horticultural data through better communications . |
| 11 | It is apparent , however , that at the " Music and Tragedy " stage of his thinking , Nietzsche did envisage a larger role for specifically Wagnerian matter than eventually materialized . " |
| 12 | It may be noted incidentally that if in any land the poll is higher than the national average one or more patties in it may receive a correspondingly larger allotment of seats , which , since the number of constituency seats can not be changed , will entail a larger allotment of list seats . |
| 13 | Additional arguments deployed were that amalgamation with the Home Office would provide a larger pool of staff on which to draw ; that it would be more efficient and economical for the establishment , finance and other specialist services of the two bodies to be combined ; and that the Scottish precedent had been ‘ fully successful ’ . |
| 14 | But any ( unmoving ) object placed between the half-silvered mirror and the screen will now occupy a larger area of the image and therefore appear either to have grown larger , as if swelling , or to have come closer to the camera , even though it has not actually moved at all . |
| 15 | These would spend a larger proportion of their incomes and so net savings would be reduced . |
| 16 | A large mink can also travel further and defend a larger territory . |
| 17 | That document states : ’ Labour 's message clearly is Those on high incomes in high valued properties will make a larger contribution to local services ' . ’ |
| 18 | Moreover , there is no reason to believe that , with improvements , particularly in relation to housing , labour mobility programmes could not affect a larger number of workers . |
| 19 | Although Bill is a gardening fanatic , he does n't want a larger garden . |
| 20 | It might be thought that a larger population would create a larger labour force and market , thereby increasing the level of economic welfare in LDCs ; however , it is essential for other resources ( land , capital and enterprise ) to be available also to generate income and wealth through productive enterprise . |
| 21 | If your bathroom is small , but you have a separate toilet and a downstairs cloakroom , you could create a larger room by combining the two . |
| 22 | There is no way the non-established denominations can be expected to make a comparable contribution , and the Government must therefore take a larger role in providing some mechanism for preserving some of the notable places of worship which , as well as being delightful buildings , are an important testimony to our religious and social history . |
| 23 | Those 64-bit Rios 2 multi-chips IBM Corp is planning on using in boxes due by the end of the year from its new Power Parallel Systems unit ( UX No 422 ) reportedly incorporate more instruction- set parallelism than Rios 1 does , will do eight operations per instruction cycle , will have a larger cache and additional buses . |
| 24 | In addition , it is argued that ministers should have a larger say in the appointment and transfer of senior departmental officials with whom they would be working ; that ministers should have their own private political office of specialist and political advisers ; that junior ministers should be involved in the work of departmental and interdepartmental committees which are at the moment the preserve of departmental officials ; and that backbenchers should be more closely involved in the decision-making process through bringing them into government departments . |
| 25 | If you must have a larger design for practical reasons , then it must still be a boxy shape , not slouchy or scruffy . |
| 26 | A moorland parish will obviously be larger than a parish in a fertile area that was densely settled in early times ; a church that was an Anglo-Saxon missionary centre will usually have a larger parish than one that was founded later . |
| 27 | In all these societies there are contradictory movements , either to limit or to expand the social services ; movements which take place in what are still substantially free market economies , but raise the question whether there can be any further development of the welfare state without restricting still more the operation of the market and eventually creating a more socialist type of economy in which public ownership of some major productive resources and financial institutions , and more extensive planning , would have a larger role . |
| 28 | The greater variability in the reproductive success of males could just be a random result : by chance some individuals will meet more mates than do others , and this will have a larger effect on the variability of reproduction of males , because in males more of the random encounters can result in mating . |
| 29 | Show how an increase in money supply will have a larger effect on national income . |
| 30 | The desire for improved services was centred among Congregationalists and Baptists while what we might call a larger search for dignity pertained to all the major denominations ; the Congregationalist , Dr George Barrett , told a 1900 meeting of the Free Church Council that ‘ Nonconformists have not yet enlisted the imagination as a handmaid to faith … |