Example sentences of "for a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the new ‘ Dorado ’ in cream , black and orange with single gold line edge or concentric gold circles , offers scope for a richer , more formal look . |
| 2 | For old people living alone or together , there will be risks which they and others may feel is a price worth paying for a richer and more fulfilling life . |
| 3 | By so doing he gave us priceless clues for a richer , more colourful , and sometimes more dramatic , range of expression than the score could suggest without the eloquence of the two signs . |
| 4 | But his response was merely to press for a greater supply of British goods to those colonies to reduce their sterling balances . |
| 5 | To use the nature-culture dichotomy for a greater understanding of a particular situation is not therefore to promote principles of immutable ( socio- ) biological determinism . |
| 6 | One of their main demands is for a greater say in policy-making and legislation governing Northern Ireland . |
| 7 | Italians have had the courage to vote for a greater decency and sense of public accountability , though they know the road to reform will be bumpy and uncertain . |
| 8 | The timing of the latest push for a Greater Serbia is a direct challenge to the Americans and Europeans . |
| 9 | The need for a greater degree of self-sufficiency in timber has been proposed as a national priority . |
| 10 | Such a conception allows for a greater fluidity between the two modes than has hitherto been found acceptable . |
| 11 | Since the union organisations are part of PRI , they have a dual function : firstly , as a pressure group lobbying for a greater share of social benefits for labour ; secondly , as an apparatus of political control of the working class . |
| 12 | If creative writing was still the sine qua non of my life , I would continue to write , but for a greater and wider public . |
| 13 | At the same time the downturn in the number of young people entering the employment market has emphasised the need for a greater proportion of young people with the skills which successful businesses will require . |
| 14 | As AIDS continues to spread the 80 per cent mortality rate underlines the need for a greater understanding of its root cause . |
| 15 | These situations point to two needs : firstly for a greater awareness and concern for a variety in learning groups together with a greater knowledge of what an individual learner can and can not understand , and secondly , for a degree of controlled flexibility in design and application of plans and materials for learning . |
| 16 | The National Consumer Council saw the need for a greater effort , particularly in regard to funding , to give advice to the 560,000 households in Britain who at any time had three or more ‘ problem debts ’ , and the 170,000 who had five or more . |
| 17 | For a greater range of communication , it is more efficient to channel the light signal along an optical fibre . |
| 18 | For a greater stretch , raise your left arm up above your head and lean to your right side . |
| 19 | Owner-occupation , or home-ownership , accounts for a greater proportion of the housing stock in the UK than in any other EC country . |
| 20 | In addition , the system , when compressed , allows for a greater circulation of air around the foot , keeping it cool and dry . |
| 21 | If the government sticks to its decision to limit public sector pay rises to 1.5% , museums may have some extra flexibility as the DNH has budgeted for a greater increase . |
| 22 | If you do n't have this book , use the profile for a Greater Daemon from the WFRP rulebook ) . |
| 23 | Particularly divisive at a parochial level was the stress placed by the bishops on the need for a greater reverence in the communion rite , and their determination that the portable communion tables , which had been used since Elizabethan times , should be replaced by altars permanently positioned at the east end of the chancel and separated from the body of the church by altar rails . |
| 24 | A paltry sum like $1m might simply have been shoved under the boardroom carpet but for a greater scandal : the cost over-run on the World Bank 's new H-Street block . |
| 25 | In this process of informalisation ‘ dominant modes of social conduct ’ have been violated by the upwardly mobile groups , and have given way to new codes which allow for a greater variety of behavioural alternatives . |
| 26 | The risk factors therefore probably accounted for a greater proportion of the grade differences in sickness absence than was observed in the multivariate analysis . |
| 27 | Also , portraits of individual children are far more common in the eighteenth century than in the seventeenth , again arguing both for a change in fashionable attitudes , and also , may be , for a greater emotional investment in children by parents . |
| 28 | Dr Remondino attacked the ‘ debateable appendage ’ in his History of Circumcision ( 1891 ) , and compared circumcision to ‘ a well secured life annuity ’ , ‘ a better saving investment ’ , making for a greater capacity for labour , a longer life , less nervousness , fewer doctors ' bills . |
| 29 | It took radical change in teaching method , requiring greater use of an organized collection of resource materials , to point up the need for a greater degree of professionalism and for larger and more ambitious organizations . |
| 30 | For a greater majority of the time the supposed glamour of Television was an entirely invisible commodity . |