Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have given the Spanish club a further two weeks to find the cash . |
| 2 | Even in the light breeze a bigger sail would have made towing the Zodiac dangerously uncontrollable . |
| 3 | Because Mr Skinner is a former miner and the committee he has joined will be dealing with a bill to give the private sector a bigger share in the coal industry . |
| 4 | In the private sector a greater incentive might exist to show a need for higher fees to match high levels of dependency . |
| 5 | This 3-step regime is designed to give male skin a fresher , healthier look . |
| 6 | Highly competitive , but ( perhaps by choice ) gives personal ambition a lower priority . |
| 7 | At this time of the year , if Napoleon had not returned , Sharpe should have been thinning the apple crop , stripping away basketloads of young fruit to give the remaining crop a better chance of ripening in the autumn , but instead he was riding a dusty road in Belgium and searching for an enemy . |
| 8 | Such an initiative would ‘ give central government a firmer basis for the development of national policies and the deployment of resources ; and provide a checklist for authorities and schools in formulating and reviewing their curricular aims and policies in the light of local needs and circumstances … |
| 9 | The following year a further scheme of the Charity Commissioners set up an education system which led to that enjoyed today . |
| 10 | It is also more toxic , and from an early stage a further disadvantage gradually became apparent : tubercle bacilli become resistant to it remarkably quickly . |
| 11 | President Herzog granted the Labour leader a further 15 days in which to secure majority support . |
| 12 | Under the Basic Law a further 30 Legco members would be elected through so-called " functional constituencies " , such as chambers of commerce , trade unions and professional associations . |
| 13 | It was impossible to detect in the dried slough a darker hair which might have come from Lorrimer 's head , or with the naked eye to distinguish his blood . |
| 14 | Heart of Darkness mattered not for giving Eliot the anthropological reader a better idea of how primitive society worked , but for showing Eliot the poet that the life of the savage and that of the modern urban clerk intersected on the deepest level , the level of ‘ The Horror ’ which was , essentially for him , the realization of evil within man . |
| 15 | Is Western conventional wisdom a better guide to reality today than it was twenty-five years ago ? |
| 16 | Waiting for programs to run , reports to print or in-house technical support to solve a problem accounted for $19 billion in lost productivity ; checking printed output a further $17 billion ; and helping others get to grips with applications another $16 billion . |
| 17 | Under poll tax , the poor pay a higher proportion of their income than the rich , and the share of income taken in tax falls as incomes rise , a characteristic we call ‘ regressive ’ . |
| 18 | This gives its nauseating , pungent spray a wider range — an arc of about 45 degrees — and greatly increases the defender 's chances of covering its target . |
| 19 | It is only when the friends of the deaf demand a better deal that the deaf will get it . |
| 20 | Either way , concentration seemed to require an enormous effort and forceful argument a better assembled set of thoughts than he currently possessed . |
| 21 | My enthusiasm transmitted itself to Malc and he left at the end of visiting time a happier man . |
| 22 | A smaller number volunteered to assist the rebels , likewise out of a conviction that on Spanish soil a wider struggle was being fought out . |
| 23 | In polyethylene , it will give a small child a better seating position . |
| 24 | Early one pre-Sale morning a stranger silently passed two sorters working in the vestibule , went for a few minutes into the Church , which happened at eh time to be empty of all nut noods , and then said to them as he walked out ‘ You 've made that Church live . ’ |
| 25 | A key catalyst of this development was the signing of the Anglo-Irish Agreement in November 1985 which awarded the Irish government a greater consultative role in Northern Irish affairs . |
| 26 | The self-employed form a larger proportion of the workforce in services ( 8.2 per cent in 1975 ) compared with manufacturing ( 1.6 per cent ) . |
| 27 | ‘ To the untutored view a greater or more imposing display is necessary to afford pleasure . |
| 28 | Under the new law a Higher Council for Investment ( headed by Prime Minister Mahmoud Zubi ) was established to oversee investments and provide licences for projects . |
| 29 | It 's reasonably straightforward as a recording task ( discussed in the next chapter ) and it gives an ephemeral occasion a longer lease of life . |
| 30 | But others would claim with equal sincerity that Mr Gorbachev is a pragmatic leader who is giving the reconstruction of the Russian economy a greater degree of priority than have his predecessors . |