Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] [prep] a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence the question of democracy is placed in a broader social context , in which a predominant element is the interests and political orientations of social classes which are in conflict with each other . |
| 2 | Females have two equal sex chromosomes , called ‘ X ’ , but males have only one X chromosome , which is partnered by a smaller one , the Y chromosome . |
| 3 | By the end of Lanfranc 's life the number is given by a later domestic chronicler as a hundred , and it was still rising . |
| 4 | The clinical literature , then , suggests that in the execution of certain types of movement or sequences of movement the left hemisphere is implicated to a greater extent than the right hemisphere . |
| 5 | Its particular advantage is that everything is contained into a smaller central area . |
| 6 | We can move , of course , change direction , rattle about , but our movement is contained within a larger one that carries us along as inexorably as the wind and current … |
| 7 | In Labour 's ranks Marjorie Mowlam , the shadow citizen 's charter minister , is tipped for a higher profile job . |
| 8 | What the people who work in a local government planning office do is constrained by a further dominant ideology at some higher level of centrality . |
| 9 | It is usually more difficult to deal more effectively with a complaint if it is reported at a later date . |
| 10 | Working-class politics is located in a wider material , cultural and social universe , and has no meaning outside that universe . |
| 11 | In any case , mass transport in a protein biolayer is distorted to a greater extent than generally appreciated , and will be further affected where intact tissue , whole cells or organelle based biolayers are used . |
| 12 | ( W ) is a women 's model , which usually has the same features but is built on a narrower last . |
| 13 | In contemporary British society this link is accepted to a greater degree so far as the care of children and motherhood is concerned , though social attitudes still reveal some of the same ambivalence . |
| 14 | These B flat/F trombones are used a good deal by tenor trombonists too , but the bass trombone is made with a wider bore which improves the tone on the low notes . |
| 15 | But Dr Alan Long , an organic chemist who is research officer of the Vegetarian Society , said : ‘ Sulphadimidine fed to pigs is made to a cheaper and less pure commerical grade , which is not identical to the human drug . ’ |
| 16 | In an impact injury , a bigger blunt force is applied to a larger area of the skin , leading to tissue failure , for instance if an older person slips on an uneven paving stone and falls forward hitting the forehead on the hard pavement . |
| 17 | This year 's festival is sited on a grassier area and Runrig 's confirmation should leave the organisers , London 's Mean Fiddler and Edinburgh promoter 's Regular Music , with no worries about selling plenty of tickets . |
| 18 | It would seem that Parliament 's legal power has been limited only if : ( a ) community law is seen as a higher system of law ; and ( b ) our courts are willing to uphold the supremacy of community law . |
| 19 | This is seen as a better guide to a school 's and pupils ' performance , particularly where there is a wide difference in social and ethnic backgrounds . |
| 20 | And the police patrol is seen as a further deterrent in a place where people are often at their most vulnerable . |
| 21 | A similar effect is seen with a shorter ( GC ) n insert [ ( GC ) 4 G ) , data not shown ] for which the first GC step is cut with lower efficiency . |
| 22 | The neural mechanisms that underlie this behaviour , and especially those by which a simple act is incorporated into a larger biologically significant behaviour pattern , are now being studied increasingly , despite the many difficulties ( Hoyle , 1970 ) . |
| 23 | Thus when it replaces an item at S ( subject ) and that item is written in a later place in the clause , an apposed clause is created . |
| 24 | The opulent lounge , with monumental wooden fireplace , the bar , with tasteful vaulted ceiling , and the luminous dining-room are housed in the old mansion which is connected to a larger , modern building which houses the bedrooms . |
| 25 | One group on low income who will lose out consists of those people living in areas where the poll tax is levied at a higher rate than the Government calculates , and who in consequence will have to meet a 20 per cent poll tax bill that is larger than that calculated by the 20 per cent met by the Government . |
| 26 | The immediate aim , especially for the average and more able pupils , should probably be to take what is done to a greater length than to introduce content that is new . |
| 27 | The latter is a good example of a Bordeaux-style blending , in which the tannic Cabernet Sauvignon is tempered by a richer , softer grape — in this case , Shiraz . |
| 28 | As well as these precepting bodies there are numerous joint committees for other services where co-operation is needed over a wider area than the individual district . |
| 29 | If only to explain what section 184 of the Act is all about a brief reference is needed to a further aspect of the present system . |
| 30 | The revitalised image of the historic Phaidon Press is well reflected by these two related books in which accurate and informed scholarship is conveyed to a wider and more popular audience than under the old dispensation . |