Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] stronger " in BNC.

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1 To date , the USSR has never attacked a stronger opponent , but it is not out of character for her to steal a march on her equals when their guard is down .
2 It was the first time in their lives that Dorothy , although younger by ten years , had ever felt the stronger of the two .
3 Of the two sales Christie 's had the stronger Old Master section , with two outstanding lots .
4 Because in a group you y y y you get this erm the individual 's ego and they , th they take on this the super ego of the , of a leader so they get this transparent idea so if a person got a stronger ego , then they 're , then they 're less likely to lose that and take on somebody else 's ideas .
5 True , they would have had a stronger showing had not their former prime minister , Lothar de Maizière , stepped down before the election amid charges ( which he denies , and which an inquiry looks set to discuss ) that he used to work for the former East German secret police .
6 She has never had a stronger string of horses and must be a runner for our Olympic team .
7 The International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) , based in Vienna and with 113 member countries , was given a stronger role .
8 As a result , civil servants gradually developed a stronger bureaucratic ethos .
9 This time I do feel as though I 've gor ra stronger urge .
10 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 .
11 That is why we have not become a stronger mass movement .
12 Rory had fumed , unaccustomed to being dictated to , but his will had proved the stronger .
13 The building should be depreciated a stronger case can be made for the use of the straight line method than the reducing balance method .
14 This is so far from the truth that on the whole , for those really attending to education , the notion of innate given individuality has remained the stronger .
15 The PLO felt able to play what had been for fifteen years its ‘ last card ’ — recognition of Israel — because it had gained a stronger one through the Uprising .
16 Baffled by some of the refereeing decisions but that 's a minor thing compared to the fact that Notts were two goals ahead with just about minutes played and then went completely off the boil , they had Pisa on the run , they failed to capitalize on it and Pisa have finished the stronger of the two sides towards the end of the first half .
17 The industrial investment group identified a stronger pressure on recruiting candidates with MBAs , and expected recruiting to be slightly easier as a result of the Crash , although it was difficult to judge .
18 The wording of the statement indicated a compromise between the US position , which had urged a stronger NATO commitment involving not only peacekeeping but also peacemaking ( through , for instance , the deployment of ground troops to stop fighting in conflict areas ) , and on the other the French position , generally opposing an enhancement of NATO 's role .
19 In addition the conquest of the land required a stronger skeleton once the buoyant support of the sea was finally abandoned .
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