Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the mass-market boxes , wait until the autumn , says Saloky , when the company is likely to launch lower priced Alpha PCs with comparable or perhaps higher performance . |
| 2 | For the mass-market boxes , wait until the autumn , says Saloky , when the company is likely to launch lower priced Alpha PCs with comparable or perhaps higher performance . |
| 3 | One of the major demands of the RENFE unions , achieved in 1984 , was the inclusion of the 1,500 or so higher management staff within the scope of annual collective agreements . |
| 4 | Instead of one large corporate body , like the BBC , ITV comprised a dozen or so smaller production companies , all making , and prerecording , programmes for sale to each other and overseas . |
| 5 | There are 40,000 or so more-or-less Slav-speakers on the Greek side — the Greeks will not be specific — out of Greek Macedonia 's total population of 2.25m . |
| 6 | The Commission 's proposed interim measures took the form of requiring bidders not to purchase jointly or separately further shares in Irish Distillers unless the purchase was conditional on a favourable Commission decision under Article 85 ; the bidders were also required to refrain from exercising the votes attached to the shares already acquired . |
| 7 | Little ninth-century architecture remains above ground in any of these sites , though a rare surviving ninth- century crypt , as at St-Denis , or still rarer frescoes , as at St-Germain , Auxerre , or ( perhaps most impressive of all ) the sombre magnificence and elaborately-structured space of Charlemagne 's church at Aachen , give the modern visitor a unique insight into the religious experience of Charles and his contemporaries . |
| 8 | When the six LEAs in the Rampton survey were studied again for the Swann Report , a larger proportion of Afro-Caribbean pupils were obtaining academic qualifications : the percentage of such pupils obtaining five or more higher grades at O level and CSE and those obtaining one or more passes at A level had doubled in the period from 1979 to 1982 . |
| 9 | The exterior surface of most ammonoids is covered with ribbing — dense on some species , sparse on others — the ribs often split into two or more smaller ribs as they pass over the back of the whorls . |
| 10 | Where this condition ( or slightly weaker versions — see Kramer , 1973 ) fails to hold , the celebrated voting paradox may arise . |
| 11 | The cross is or slightly earlier date in origin and was the centre of a weekly market on Thursdays , for which a charter was granted in the 13th century . |
| 12 | Some computers allow several different test functions to be connected as each of the least significant few bits of the next micro-instruction address , allowing 4-way , 8-way , or even higher order conditional jumps . |
| 13 | And , because they are designed to operate at a lower cost level they tend not to make demands for expensive peripherals such as PostScript devices or even simpler page printers such as Epsons and Okis that emulate the Hewlett-Packard LaserJet . |
| 14 | This is not to say , however , that prevention is impossible , simply that preventive programmes need to concentrate not only on the removal or modification of isolated stresses , but also on the factors surrounding and responsible for such stresses , for these may be of equal or even greater importance in the development of later psychiatric disorders . |
| 15 | Woonerven had demonstrably reduced accidents , but it could be that there were elements of the design which alone and inexpensively , could achieve similar or even greater reductions . |
| 16 | It can be disconcerting at auction if the vendor or agents acting on the vendor 's behalf bid up the price from the floor in the early or even later stages of the auction . |
| 17 | There may have been a body of people , in medieval or even later times , who , either quite consciously or otherwise , planted clumps or individual trees in the ‘ right ’ spots . |
| 18 | The only music which is really non-tonal is that based on chromatic clusters of semitones ( or even smaller intervals ) , where no single tone can predominate . |
| 19 | Some of these developed into villages , others remained the same , yet others disappeared or shrank to farmsteads or even smaller hamlets . |
| 20 | This ignored the fact that many had been created out of poor arable land or even poorer scrub . |
| 21 | For internal management control purposes a annual budget will normally be broken down into discrete quarterly , monthly or even shorter periods . |
| 22 | And where ag erm either erm a young mother or even older women who did n't have a husband to support them , then we would try and we had one woman coming in and saying , she had six children and er her husband had gone off , and her giro had n't been sorted out . |
| 23 | Disagreeing on seven out of ten occasions triggers a defensive reaction or even further disagreements . |
| 24 | Frankly , neither looked like the kind of man that a woman would want to meet in a dark street … or even darker car park . |
| 25 | Similarly , considerations of a settlement 's territory and associated land uses , which will be discussed later , may give circumstantial clues to the age of a block of land and indicate the possibility that current boundaries could be of Roman , late prehistoric , or even earlier origin . |
| 26 | Obviously , if the alternative offer had involved a considerably or prohibitively higher price , that would tell against the seller . |
| 27 | It came in a stone mug , deliciously cold and wiping out in one mouthful the heat of the morning and the traces of last night 's headache ( he wondered briefly how the Engineer regiment was getting on in its battle positions ; by now they should be dug in and pausing for sips of lukewarm water or barely warmer tea . |
| 28 | These characters fall into two broad categories , the radial shields are sometimes bar-like and long , often covered over by the disk covering which is usually small thin scales or occasionally stouter scales , or a disk covered by distinct plates with the radial shield distinct and integrated with the other plates . |
| 29 | In an industry dominated by much larger producers who were able to benefit from economies of scale , the government therefore concluded that the sale to Ford was preferable to continued state subsidy and/or ever closer links with Honda . |
| 30 | The first is the trend towards broader curricula in the schools , which seems likely to have a knock-on effect on A ( and AS ) levels and thence higher education . |