Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [prep] a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These situations point to two needs : firstly for a greater awareness and concern for a variety in learning groups together with a greater knowledge of what an individual learner can and can not understand , and secondly , for a degree of controlled flexibility in design and application of plans and materials for learning . |
| 2 | Persecution had also brought many of the dissenting groups together in a greater unity than they had experienced before the troubles began . |
| 3 | The Joint Security Group takes intelligence about possible forthcoming terrorist attacks — usually provided by MI5 or BfV — and puts Army and RAF units on to a higher state of alert . |
| 4 | Other than irritating wooo-wooo , the predominant noise was a ceaseless 140-beats-per-minute boom-chi-boom-chi-boom-chi-boom-chi which seems to drive the skaters on to a higher and wilder plateaux of whirling and circling . |
| 5 | There is also a strong argument for using several of the machines as word processors or graphics generators and passing the data on to a larger central system for final assembly . |
| 6 | Yet , till the day she died , she put the tea tray down on a lighter table , next to the heavy one , that had survived . |
| 7 | The college doors were firmly closed , affording entry only through a smaller aperture , barely the size of a human being , cut into one of them . |
| 8 | The important thing is to solve those problems rather than trying to drive grievances underground by a further set of hasty legislation . ’ |
| 9 | He drove about in a horse and cart and one of his tricks was to whip the horse up into a canter and crouch down behind the seat so people would think it had bolted . |
| 10 | The world 's No. 1 batsman , according to the ratings , was two days into his 40th year , and had once again set his side up for a further victory to help blot out the misery of 1987–89 . |
| 11 | The award and the ceremony itself were instigated by the British Fashion Council , which tried every tactic it could -including the setting up of a smarter venue at The Duke of York 's Barracks -to persuade Katharine Hamnett to show in London . |
| 12 | It was a bit cheaper living here in an older neighbourhood than in the heart of the city , so she had n't had to tap into what she 'd earned as companion to Anna Sabatini . |
| 13 | The Iraqi air force attempted little in the way of a co-ordinated response to the allied air assault , and it appeared that Saddam Hussein was intent on preserving his aircraft either for a later stage of the campaign or for the duration of the entire war . |
| 14 | Thanks again for a better magazine . |
| 15 | The referential function gains its prominence only at a later stage , and the metalinguistic function also comes later ; these are the functions on which a considerable amount of attention is lavished at school . |
| 16 | The farms themselves may be categorised into three broad types on the basis of their layout : one or a few buildings seemingly in isolation or associated with earlier structures , for instance late prehistoric enclosures or , as at Lower Warbank ( Kent ) , a single sunken building adjacent to a Roman villa ( Philp 1973 , pp. 156–63 ) , which may only be part of larger settlements ; individual farmsteads , a group of buildings associated with a fenced enclosure or paddock , such as Cowdery 's Down ( Millett 1983 ) ; thirdly , larger settlements with either multiples of the previous category or a farmstead apparently with a larger number of ancillary buildings , such as Chalton , Hampshire and West Stow , Suffolk ( West 1985 ) . |
| 17 | He walked over to the timber stack along with a sawyer called Iain Logan whom he knew well — they were both friends of Donald Gillies at Camserney mill . |
| 18 | All this led Barth back to a closer reading of the Bible , and especially of Paul . |
| 19 | If , however , the lessor 's title is itself only registered as good leasehold ( if , for example , the lessor is granting an underlease out of an older leasehold title ) you may not be able to obtain a better title than good leasehold for the underlease ; a position that a mortgagee will normally accept if there 's no alternative . |
| 20 | Put a 20 cm ( 8″ ) fruit cake on to a larger silver board . |
| 21 | The light travels down an open tube until it hits a curved mirror at the bottom ; the rays are then sent back up the tube on to a smaller , flat mirror placed at an angle of 45 degrees , so that the rays are directed into the side of the tube , where an image is formed and magnified by an eyepiece . |
| 22 | ‘ Get what 's on the stocks already in a better form ; anything else will just totally confuse and alienate the farmer . ’ |
| 23 | BRITAIN 'S unemployment soared above 2.6 million for the first time in over four years yesterday after a bigger than expected surge in the number of people out of work . |
| 24 | For example , management may be buying a specific business out of a larger group of companies because they perceive it to have greater value as a single concern than its ( often ) discounted value as part of the vendor 's group . |
| 25 | If you 've skippered a small yacht on an open sea passage before and you can navigate , then you may sail any of our yachts independently within a wider area — from Corfu to Zante , and up the Gulf of Patras in the Ionian , or in any of the three gulfs in Turkey . |
| 26 | I was optimistic , because I 'd had a good turnout two years earlier for a smaller project , the clean-up of an old railway path . |
| 27 | Those words I would like to put on the record where on an earlier sheet that somehow or other have disappeared from the current Order Paper . |
| 28 | Rather than go through the entire process again in a later session , it would make more sense to take it up at the point where it was left off in the previous session , if desired . |
| 29 | What do herbs have to offer fish apart from a better flavour ? |
| 30 | ‘ We 'll trade the swine in for a younger model , ’ she had said . |