Example sentences of "a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Determined to experience life as a catwalk photographer , I swapped my pen and notebook for a Canon Eos camera , 200mm lens with a doubler and a monopod ( bravely loaned by Michel Arnaud ) and squeezed into the ‘ gun emplacement ’ at the back of the Salle Sully . |
| 2 | He added : ‘ One ca n't imagine a feebler way of making a protest or trying to gain by showing A Clockwork Orange … at four o'clock in the afternoon at the Scala cinema on a weekday and advertising it as a surprise item . ’ |
| 3 | It is embarrassing being young and wanting to be more liberated than you are , yet not being , and pretending to be more liberated than you are , or that you 're having a racier time . |
| 4 | The Cloaca Maxima is a floodwater drain built by the Etruscans in the sixth century B.C. to drain the Forum Romanum . |
| 5 | In explaining its operation , it is easier to describe a simpler arrangement that would actually be used in practice . |
| 6 | I suggest that a simpler approach to detecting the direction of motion of an object , one method of which was put forward by M Kumaran in July , is to use half a 74LS74 D-type flip-flop , as shown in the diagram , which performs exactly the same function . |
| 7 | A simpler motion detector |
| 8 | A simpler solution than electoral reform is to abandon the policies and attitudes which have barred Labour from power , which is what Mr Kinnock has been about . |
| 9 | What matters is the effect of basic instinct which Eliot had earlier presented as the result of actual murder in a simpler urban context when he described in ‘ Eeldrop and Appleplex ’ the living death experienced by a man who has murdered his mistress . |
| 10 | Planning permission for its conversion into a dwelling existed when the barn was purchased , but the scheme was particularly disliked by one of the new owners who believed , partly for the reason cited above and partly because of her training as a sculptress , that a simpler treatment , more strongly evocative of the barn 's original function , might be adopted and still give comfortable and convenient living accommodation . |
| 11 | As he explained when I met him , he became so angry when he read what they had to say about the Princess that he wanted to ring the editors and complain , but realized that , rather than spending every day on the telephone , a simpler solution was to stop reading them . |
| 12 | There were three possible air-launched solutions : the US Air Force 's Skybolt , which could be modified to fit the V-bombers ; a simpler British ‘ ram jet ’ , called Pandora , suitable for the TSR 2 , whose development was at such an early stage that costs could only be guessed ; and further development of the existing Blue Steel stand-off bomb on which work had been stopped after the Sandys Defence Review . |
| 13 | I have no hesitation in saying that this implies all of us seeking a simpler lifestyle and making appropriate changes to the way we live , the things we eat , the way we travel , and so on . |
| 14 | On a simpler level , we know that it is unwise to turn our back when we are still close to a strange horse , stallion , or foal , because occasionally it will boot us once we take our eyes off it ! |
| 15 | ChemWindow Classic is a simpler version of the program recommended to users who have less powerful systems . |
| 16 | This will build on a simpler , more flexible National curriculum and a revised and extended system of National Curriculum levels . |
| 17 | A simpler and clearer instance of the way in which a consideration of grammar leads to metaphysics is the case of the metaphysical concept of Being . |
| 18 | What is perhaps a simpler within-subjects design , that shown last in Table 5.1 , has been employed by Eisman ( 1955 ) and in a series of experiments by Grice and his colleagues ( Grice and Davis 1958 , 1960 ; Grice and Hunter 1963 ) ( see also Grice 1965 ) . |
| 19 | Even a simpler station , like that at Vyazemskaya ( III ) , was adorned with high chimneys , dormer windows , and a flag-pole on its front gable . |
| 20 | First , think about the problem of evolving a complex organ from a simpler one . |
| 21 | It was a simpler and better story . |
| 22 | The eleventh method , behaviour modification , is less demanding in terms of complex causes and offers a simpler approach to tackling problem people . |
| 23 | When we lived a simpler life we walked , swam , stretched and climbed as a matter of course almost every day of our lives . |
| 24 | A simpler way , and often very effective , is to fish with a conventional indicator system , then allow the bream tot take line against an unchecked reel , i.e. with the reel handle revolving backwards . |
| 25 | What was needed was a simpler more speedy procedure and so Parliament intervened with the first Public Health Act in 1848 , the forerunner of modern public health legislation . |
| 26 | A simpler realization of the Geroch group of transformations which is specifically applied to colliding wave solutions has been found by Ernst , García-Díaz and Hauser ( 1987 b ) . |
| 27 | Ernst , García-Díaz and Hauser ( 1987 b ) have also found a simpler realization of the Geroch group of transformations relating colliding wave solutions . |
| 28 | In some less ambitious plans , the villa started as a simpler rectangular building but would sometimes be expanded with wings on either side as the family became more and more prosperous , or the property was sold to a richer owner . |
| 29 | Thiemens says the new isotope effect provides a simpler explanation . |
| 30 | According to Dr George Eisenbarth , who headed the Joslin team , a simpler version of the test may be developed within the next year , ‘ We and other labs are most certainly working on it , to predict who 's at the most risk of developing diabetes , ’ he declared . |