Example sentences of "[adj] to the [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is important that that service is not barred from applying direct to the further education funding council . |
| 2 | Drummond also , presumably , was not averse to the larger salary which was attached to the superior rank , and his tenderness did not stop him from making the journey to Perth to vote for Argyll 's candidate , when John Murray carried the crucial vote for preses of the Michaelmas head court by a single vote . |
| 3 | The current local government system is highly centralised and unsuited to the wider distribution of power featured in the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 4 | When ARA village committees wished to elect Russian priests as members , back came the objection , phrased in the usual official provincial style : ‘ according to the laws of our constitution , the said element ( ecclesiastical ) is harmful to the younger generation , and by the principles of the Soviet government this element is deprived of all active or passive participation in our work . ’ |
| 5 | That of the second piece is very similar to the smaller coin , a denarius struck at Rome , and indicates that it too was minted at Rome and then transported to Syria . |
| 6 | The capabilities of the desk-top micro are similar to the larger mini and mainframe computers . |
| 7 | The fourth member of the party , Newman had said , should be a teenage girl from the Doctor 's home planet — a modern figure identifiable to the younger age-group Doctor Who was hoping to attract . |
| 8 | Overall then , not only were female GP referrals sectioned less frequently than other female referrals , but when sectioned they were less frequently subject to the lengthier section 3 . |
| 9 | These trends for a reduction in length of stay are not unique to the older age groups . |
| 10 | We 're supposed to the better style of play . |
| 11 | He became very protective towards Minton and was quick to deliver a Grimsby left-hook if anyone was rude to the older man in his presence . |
| 12 | The maintenance of the plainsong tradition and the commitment of religious communities to the rhythm of worship is valuable to the wider Church . |
| 13 | Violence can also be verbal and emotional and , some would argue , is intrinsic to the wider power and economic structures of society and world economics . |
| 14 | The shaded part of area 10 is equal to the higher return to UK capital from being invested in Germany . |
| 15 | The methodology developed will be applicable to the wider countryside in other parts of the country . |
| 16 | It was contended that purchasers looking for a good-quality carpet would go to a conventional carpet shop and not to a carpet superstore which they considered was more applicable to the lower end of the market . |
| 17 | Even more damaging to the larger cause of Europe were de Gaulle 's continuing efforts to restrict supranational integration . |
| 18 | The records are not hand-written ; they are more focused and less personal due to the wider audience , the variety of sources that can input to a debate is world-wide and some avenues of thought will survive through this to meet success which would have withered in a smaller community ; response time is faster and , confident in the formal date stamping and public manner of their input , scientists are more willing to share information earlier . |
| 19 | This was at least partly due to the lower incidence of diaphragmatic injuries in children . |
| 20 | Their popularity is due to the lower cost of ‘ consolidated ’ shipments , in which freight forwarders place the cargo of several shippers in the same container or on pre-leased space in a vessel . |
| 21 | Costs will fall due to the fuller exploitation of economies of scale in a truly European market . |
| 22 | This development is undoubtedly due to the greater accessibility that personal computers have brought to computing in terms of cost , ease of use and reduced dependence on others . |
| 23 | Due to the greater degree of nationalisation which had taken place throughout Western Europe since the end of the war , it was discovered , in 1960 , that approximately forty per cent of the labour force was employed by the various governments . |
| 24 | The respiratory depressant effect of morphine is well known and may be heightened in neonates due to the greater proportion of Mu-2 ( respiratory depression ) opioid receptor sites in early neonatal life only to babies receiving ventilatory support , however , the effects of respiratory depression can be minimised . |
| 25 | The change was due to the greater proportion of patients with colonic disease , which in this study had a worse prognosis . |
| 26 | Over a number of sessions the proportion of subjects showing a right-ear preference for verbal stimuli tends to increase due to the greater probability of change among subjects showing an initial left ear advantage ( Blumstein , Goodglass and Tartter , 1975 ; Shankweiler and Studdert-Kennedy , 1975 ) . |
| 27 | This is partly due to the greater sophistication of the instruments , but it is also due to the variety of contracts brought about by the range of exercise prices , which adds an extra dimension to contract specification . |
| 28 | Finally , it is possible , where the stony surface lies above a weathered soil profile , for the whole thing to be due to differential weathering , the stones in the lower part of the profile being weathered more rapidly than those at the surface due to the greater likelihood of a damp environment below . |
| 29 | The small crystals melt about 30 K lower than the large ones due to the greater contribution from the interfacial free energy in the smaller crystallites , i.e. there is an excess of free energy associated with the disordered chains emerging from the ends of ordered crystallites and this is relatively greater for the small crystallites , resulting in lower melting temperatures . |
| 30 | Presumably this might happen due to the greater amount of material to be eroded before a cut off could occur . |