Example sentences of "a [adv] [verb] [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I suspect , ’ she said , shifting a little to recover firmer standing , ‘ that should be Professor Hambro ? |
| 2 | Here two men , a ship 's officer and a gently born younger son sent from England to make his way in the world , are involved in certain events which are , as it were , by-products of civil war . |
| 3 | The Quality Assurance Unit has provided for schools a much needed closer contact with ‘ the Authority ’ . |
| 4 | Add this to the fact that their two new guitarists have added a much needed harder edge to their typically English , whimsical pop and its indie dance grooves . |
| 5 | It was particularly critical of the NP vision of a upper house ( presented by the NP as a " house of minorities " ) with the power to veto legislation from a democratically elected lower chamber . |
| 6 | Even in Northern Ireland , the districts are best thought of as the lower tier in a system that simply lacks a democratically elected higher level of local government . |
| 7 | Stocky , adaptable and full of vim , Mark has all the hallmarks of the bona fide allrounder , wielding a stubborn blade in addition to the accurate seam-up that has already seen more than one class act tumble before a shrewdly concealed slower ball . |
| 8 | He was in the company of a smartly dressed older woman to whom he seemed to defer . |
| 9 | If the plaintiff chooses a course which carries a risk of harm in order to avoid a reasonably perceived greater danger he will not be contributorily negligent . |
| 10 | Where these problems are absent there appears to be little that a reasonably fit older person can not do with an efficiency equivalent to a high proportion of younger workers ( see Stones and Kozma , 1985 for a good survey of research findings in this field ) : ‘ It is clear that as a piece of anatomical and physiological machinery , the human organism becomes progressively impaired from the late twenties onwards . |
| 11 | A newly retired further education teacher who had worked for both the Home Office as a prison instructor and for a local authority as a teacher of technical subjects , applied for two part-time jobs . |
| 12 | But susceptibility can be influenced by the severity of infection ; a younger branch supporting a small number of hyperparasites can outlive a heavily infected older branch . |
| 13 | This last would look altogether like a castle keep but for the fantasy of its roof , which has a large slate cone perched , candle-snuffer fashion , on top of an already pointed lower roof . |
| 14 | Finally this relationship may simply be fictitious , arising from observations with an inappropriately sized sphygmomanometer cuff ( Ragan & Bordley , 1941 ; King , 1967 ; Maxwell et al , 1982 ) . |