Example sentences of "[art] [adj -er] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first , which is the simpler and the one used not in Northern Ireland but in the Republic , is to sort all of Paisley 's papers into " sub-parcels " , one for each second-preference candidate , and then to give to each such candidate a number of votes calculated in accordance with the following formula : the surplus divided by the total number of transferable votes , multiplied by the number of papers in each sub-parcel . |
| 2 | The effect of the adjustment is greater in the lower than the higher grades , reflecting the fact that the mediating factors show progressive differences across the employment grades . |
| 3 | They found that of those males who reported acute sickness or chronic sickness without any limiting effect on activity , a larger proportion of the lower than the higher socio-economic groups consulted their doctors ; there was no consistent trend in the case of the females . |
| 4 | As shown in Fig. 2A , two footprints were observed either with the lower or the upper strand labelled . |
| 5 | Electronic spectra often contain information about the vibration frequencies of both the lower and the upper electronic states of the species involved , as described in Chapter 6 . |
| 6 | Another hypothesis is that in the competition between high parity infants and their siblings for maternal care , food and other resources , the toll is heavier upon the younger than the older children . |
| 7 | The exposition extends its sympathy for both the younger and the older Wells , and good sense is lavished on the borderline books between — uneasy but stimulating mixtures like When the Sleeper A wakes and A Modern Utopia . |
| 8 | why , erm , at Dawn 's we erm done this thing , and it was sort of , there was four sides of it and it was one , then there was two inside , well there was one at the back , erm , Henry and Mrs said when you get these back you 'll see what you 've got , and people , she said , people who have got over twenty of er , the better than the people who are lower and I got twenty one |
| 9 | ‘ Some were for the better but a lot were for worse . |
| 10 | All the better that the operation rehabilitated the credibility of the police who 'd been having a bad press in the early years of the decade . |
| 11 | So much the better if the odds are very heavily stacked against you , or if the consensus involves jingoistic patriotism , the use of armed force , or is pro-American — all points of ambivalence for the left . |
| 12 | And it works the better as the fingers slide and touch and play while you close your eyes and empty your head of every other sensation being fed into it . |
| 13 | Terry Philpot , in the second of two articles , suggests how the situation could be changed for the better and the profession portrayed more positively |
| 14 | In a Christian society , it is a fundamental principle that people help each other , and that the stronger and the wealthier have an obligation to help the weaker and the poorer . |
| 15 | The combined effect is to benefit the smaller and the more handicapped farms and MacEwen and Sinclair predict an overall HLCA saving of£3.2 million which could go to upland farms in a range of measures , including the payment of HLCAs on the first 10 dairy cows per farm . |
| 16 | ‘ Most of the people around the business know how to use Lotus , so we use it for the majority of our day-to-day work , the smaller and the one-off jobs . |
| 17 | And so began this friendship of 35 years , between the older and the younger man ( Layton is 20 years senior to Leonard ) ; between the master and the apprentice . |
| 18 | This is certainly a problem which mitigates against the widest acceptance of the language , though the number of people resisting its use today is probably very small , composed of the older and the less well educated . |
| 19 | However since proper scientific strength analysis is a recent affair , much the older and the commoner is that of maintaining the quality of materials . |
| 20 | It does n't happen , and students are the poorer because the compounds that I see as old friends are more like enemies to them . |
| 21 | The haulier and the other contracting party must want to be bound contractually by their promises . |
| 22 | In the first case the haulier and the other party undertake to carry out certain obligations ( typically the haulage of goods for an agreed price ) and the contract is made by exchange of these promises . |
| 23 | But those who could speak English spoke no Welsh aloud in Shrewsbury in those days , for feeling was running all the higher because the two races bred and mingled so closely here , and it was well to be known as a loyal king 's man , and indulge other sympathies only in low voices round the hearth , or better still , in silence within the heart . |
| 24 | The reductions in university places introduced by the Conservative government in the early 1980s are likely to widen even further the gap between the higher and the lower socio-economic groups among the student population . |
| 25 | In January 1859 , however , the cause of press reform took a turn for the worse when the tsar appointed a Committee on Press Affairs which smacked of the committee of 1848 . |
| 26 | ‘ As Jenny Marx said in 1872 , ’ she observed , ‘ 'in all these struggles the harder because the pettier part falls to women . |
| 27 | Under such circumstances would he agree that judgements could be made ( inter alia , by himself ) about the successful , the employed , the better-off and the intelligent , which are both uncharitable and untrue ? |
| 28 | In a Christian society , it is a fundamental principle that people help each other , and that the stronger and the wealthier have an obligation to help the weaker and the poorer . |
| 29 | The intent of the politician was of course to create a feeling of obligation , which he undoubtedly hoped would stand him in good stead at the next election , but such feelings were all the stronger because the shrewd political manager never breathed a word about a bargain or the anticipated political return . |
| 30 | Time and time again families were identified with a particular farm or tenement , a link that was all the stronger because the home was also the place of work , the spot where an individual spent most of his time . |