Example sentences of "the [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his section on the fees for the diplomas of investiture Hezarfen says that when a kadi was appointed , one month 's allowance was taken as a fee on the basis of his daily allowance as recorded in the defter , or register half as the fee for the imperial cypher and half for the kazasker and his staff . |
| 2 | Further on he writes : " Istanbul , Bursa and Edirne are recorded in the defter each as 300-akce Damascus and Aleppo have been recorded each as 500-akce . |
| 3 | the more calories they will burn up and the leaner they will become . |
| 4 | In the leaner 1990s that headquarters glamour is increasingly seen as gluttony — an unnecessary layer of bureaucracy and overheads . |
| 5 | Use fish or chicken more often , or the leaner cuts of red meat . |
| 6 | In the leaner , meaner , nanosecond nineties , PCs get faster and SPARCS replace Sun 3/60s . |
| 7 | The richer the vein was the less the tribute paid by the mine ; the leaner the vein the greater the tribute . |
| 8 | Much of the leaner ore was left unworked . |
| 9 | Saturated fat comes mainly from animal sources like ; fatty meat , ( and even in the leaner cuts of red meat ) , butter , lard , cheese , cream , whole milk , hard margarines and cooking fats , meat products , ( sausages , pies , hamburger , pates , salami , luncheon meat , pasties and mince ) , chocolate , cakes and biscuits . |
| 10 | The house itself was 1914 or a bit earlier , steeply pitched slate roofs and high chimneys : bijou Lutyens for the leaner purse . |
| 11 | Speaking at the annual general meeting of the British Association of Mountain Guides at the Ulswater Hotel , Collister lamented the way guides in the alps had over equipped routes for their own convenience at the expense of the clients share in the adventure . |
| 12 | ‘ Besides , you 'll probably have to face a full interrogation on the Monpazier bastide on Saturday . |
| 13 | And tomorrow she was supposed to be visiting the Monpazier bastide with him . |
| 14 | Behind private placements lies a simple premise : the fussier investors and issuers become about the design of their securities , the less they will want to deal in the standardised paper available on the public markets . |
| 15 | With the Israelites encamped on his doorstep , the king of Moab sends to Pethor ( probably Pitru , near Carchemish ) on the Euphrates for Balaam the diviner to come and curse his enemies . |
| 16 | The angel 's song at the end of The Pilgrim 's Regress is in a different league from the unhappier patches of Spirits in Bondage or Dymer . |
| 17 | When it does n't work they turn away , none the unhappier it would seem . |
| 18 | This type of BES has raised £340m this tax year compared with less than £50m in the riskier offerings . |
| 19 | Pointing out difficulties is a very common behaviour but is one of the riskier ones because research shows that it is far from certain how people will take it . |
| 20 | However , suffering from badly-burned fingers , the venture capital industry has moved away from the riskier entrepreneurial start-ups to investing more in developing companies and MBOs . |
| 21 | If you still have some money to spare after this , then you might like to consider the riskier investments . |
| 22 | The riskier loan was disappearing from the market . |
| 23 | There is once again a significant difference between the correlations , z=2.18 , p<0.05 , for the riskier films r(22)=0.211 , while for the less risky films r(22)=0.711 , p<0.01 . |
| 24 | The German middle classes and the German Catholics in particular knew that the Prussian Poles were no great threat to the state , yet in spite of their protests , the Junker-dominated Government found it essential to work through crude Völkisch opinion to maintain itself and divert the impending revolution . |
| 25 | Congressman Solarz also beavers away on the duller stuff that most of his colleagues see little point in pursuing . |
| 26 | Ideally joined by a bar ( less fiddly than a chain ) , they should feature masonic crests , ‘ the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes ’ perhaps being best , in accordance with the rule that the more eccentric these groups sound , the duller they are . |
| 27 | The duller buildings blended with the desert , but others shone pink , blue and gold , edged with ornamental plasterwork in white . |
| 28 | The duller reaches of committee work he spent , not in pointless doodling like his colleagues , but in producing elegant little drawings of imaginary but perfectly possible churches . |
| 29 | The older the leaves are the duller they appear . |
| 30 | Much of the past , indeed , survived in the special traditions and interests of soldiers and although the outstanding example was Germany , as the Zabern incident was to show ( below , p. 212 ) , it was recognized even in Great Britain that the Guards had the privilege of avoiding the duller overseas stations . |