Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [vb pp] a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ian has made a better recovery than we dared hope , but it is still important that we do not take his fitness for granted . |
| 2 | Since the Second World War the Sussex has become a stronger colour-marker , much neater of shoulder than the powerful draught type of old , shorter in the leg and better in the hindquarters , and it still produces lean , marbled meat , especially in the prime cuts . |
| 3 | Hanning has produced a smoother result than repeated medians alone . |
| 4 | Edward had created a further group of dispossessed by his readiness to manipulate property descents , either to endow his family or to advance the creation of regional hegemonies for trusted supporters . |
| 5 | Edward had created a further group of dispossessed by his readiness to manipulate property descents , either to endow his family or to advance the creation of regional hegemonies for trusted supporters . |
| 6 | Since this meeting , Richard had had a further debate with his conscience . |
| 7 | IBM has found a lower limit to the width of the line that can be burned in the absorption band . |
| 8 | He was opposed by Corazon Aquino ( the widow of the country 's most prominent opponent of the Marcos regime until his murder in 1983 — see pp. 32517-18 ) , and although Marcos claimed victory it was generally believed that Aquino had secured a greater number of votes . |
| 9 | Although Marcos claimed victory it was generally believed that Aquino had secured a greater number of votes . |
| 10 | Simon 's had a harder war than you realize , he 's still under a strain . |
| 11 | Thank You that the United States and Russia have signed a further peace treaty today , and thank you that there are continuing efforts by the United Nations and European Community to bring peace to the Yugoslav territories . |
| 12 | Willi has done a better job with Georg than I ever did with Peter . |
| 13 | The SDA has had a wider set of powers than those readily available to UDCs in England , but it has used them . |
| 14 | ALBSU has had a wider brief to facilitate literacy and numeracy among the native and non- native speakers of English . |
| 15 | Now Lucy Netzer and Jacob Sagiv , from the Weizmann Institute of Science , Rehovot in Israel have developed a simpler and quicker technique for preparing monolayer films that relies simply on the chemical properties of the starting materials . |
| 16 | Studies by Le Page and Tabouret-Keller have provided a further critique on the continuum hypothesis , again denying the scalability of phonological and grammatical variables which is said to lead speakers on a unidirectional , one-step-at-a-time path from the basilect to the acrolect . |
| 17 | My dear Mary had had a truer idea when she called Victor ‘ The Modern Prometheus ’ . |
| 18 | As Donald J. Olsen has written : ‘ With the possible exception of Canada , Britain has seen a closer relationship between railways and hotels than any other country . ’ |
| 19 | But he has little hesitation in declaring that his successor as chairman of Esso has done a better job than he was able to achieve . |
| 20 | Some observers have suggested that the decline of the village as the main social unit in Japan has produced a greater heterogeneity in the smaller groups which go to make up society as a whole . |
| 21 | It has been shown that 10 per cent of the 400 people interviewed in Birmingham had given a lower age to gain admission to Britain , and now can not gain a pension at the proper time ( Bhalla and Blakemore , 1981 ) . |
| 22 | ‘ Randy 's got a slower pony in this chukka , who wo n't like Dopey taking a piece of him in the line-out one bit . ’ |
| 23 | Since its arrival in the eighteenth century , this is a literary mode which has recurrently been pronounced dead but which has been capable of renewal , and now Ackroyd has given a further turn to the wheel . |
| 24 | Sharron support SWIMMING : Top British swimmer Sharron Davies has sent a further message of support to the Jesmond Swimming Project . |
| 25 | If Sir Kenneth had done a better piece of work , and been disliked by the City simply for being too tough in representing the interests of investors , would that have been enough to keep his job ? |
| 26 | But Norris has given a further and suggestive explanation : ‘ The possession of a written Constitution whose principles are yet open to all manner of far-reaching judicial review … gives a political edge to questions of textual and interpretative theory that they do not have in the British cultural context . ’ |
| 27 | Agnes had taken a smaller one ; she had just got back from her service 's registry . |
| 28 | During the six months since I had last seen him , Mr Broadhurst had undergone a further metamorphosis and this time the change was more radical , more entire , than ever before . |
| 29 | In April a US Defence Department study on " burden sharing " claimed that the USA had spent a larger share of its national income on the military budget in 1988 than virtually all its NATO allies , and cited Japan and Canada for what it called " below par " contributions to Western defence . |
| 30 | The USA had promised a further $40,000,000 in economic aid . |