Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] the more [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As their relationship to the USSR is well known , the armed forces tend to attract the more pro-Soviet elements of the population . |
| 2 | Earlier conference delegates heard Fife 's director of social work , Allan Bowman , claim juvenile crime had always been an area where facts were rarely permitted to obscure the more sensational aspects . |
| 3 | Police tried to subdue the more unruly elements of the crowd . |
| 4 | The measure was clearly designed to deprive the more popular elements of their vote and was , whatever its purpose , a clear attack on universal suffrage as established by the Constitution . |
| 5 | It is possible to argue that certain sections could , with advantage , have been expanded to stress the more chemical aspects of topics — eg the section of enzymes ‘ in reverse ’ ( why not refer to this as synthesis ? ) touches on an area of great value and which is increasingly used industrially . |
| 6 | Mr Walesa has now apparently decided to stress the more open-minded traditions of Polish patriotism — Poland was once a central European melting pot — and to distance himself from the foreigner-hating sort of nationalism to be found among some Polish politicians and churchmen . |
| 7 | The chief problem lay in political requirements which engendered a saturated home market and also that the society was not empowered to manufacture the more profitable battery . |
| 8 | Attempts are also being made to refer the more difficult cases to foster families . |
| 9 | Instead democracy came to embody the more limited claim that the working class had the right to compete within the established state institutions and within the established society , with the clear expectation that they would not use the state to intervene in society to effect fundamental change . |
| 10 | In the elder days they were relatively empty lands , occupied by those who sought to escape the more civilised realms and return to nature . |
| 11 | ‘ As for ornamental plants , I tend to prefer the more traditional style or garden , ’ he ponders . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , most general practitioners remain concerned about the lack of detail in the assessment and discharge documents — and are waiting to see the more detailed information that is promised before April . |
| 13 | I do n't think we should hold up this one because of it , er so I would like to see the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the area committee er , so that residents can comment on this . |
| 14 | Over the last two decades , however , the commercial demands of the Champagne trade have tended to favour the more prolific yields and early maturing advantages of the Pinot Meunier which is increasingly being recognised as a classic variety . |
| 15 | When comprehension came to be discussed by Convocation , the High Anglican clergy proved unwilling to make the sort of concessions needed to comprehend the more moderate Dissenters . |
| 16 | For one year at least , ‘ mitigation ’ will be used to protect the more expensive institutions from any drastic changes in advance of the major planning exercise which NAB is now undertaking throughout public sector higher education . |
| 17 | It is only by locating repeal feminism in the broader history of moral environmentalism that we can begin to understand the more obvious class and gender contradictions which surfaced in the politics of the social purity movements in the 1880s and 1890s . |
| 18 | Many of the methods developed in that study will be used to investigate the more specific problem of investment decisions making . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , government ministers faced calls for their resignation , and Yeltsin acted to ban the more blatant manifestations of opposition activity . |
| 20 | The correlation with numbers of published papers was less certain , although , in general , the high producers tend to publish the more consequential research . |
| 21 | In practice , the number of members denied reselection was small ( only seven by the time the 1983 general election was called ) , but the issue served to highlight the more overt emphasis placed by Labour activists on a candidate 's political stance than was the case on the Conservative side . |
| 22 | As Cuvier began to study the more ancient fossils , he found that they were increasingly unlike anything known in the world today . |
| 23 | He enjoyed these very much , and eventually he began to appreciate the more doctrinal portions of the Bible as well . |
| 24 | As daylight filtered through the sea mist , the hostile and uncertain London of Blake 's future began to take the more reassuring form of a busy port . |
| 25 | Both China and India were signatories , but only on condition that they received substantial assistance from the West ( both financial and technological ) to ensure that they were not penalized economically for having to use the more expensive alternatives to CFCs . |
| 26 | One consideration that was coming to influence the more perceptive minds was a realisation of the immensity of the populated globe . |
| 27 | This monograph has attempted to review the more important aspects of the testing of product stability and product-container compatibility . |
| 28 | ‘ We could do the quickstep and the waltz but we thought we 'd join to learn the more complicated dances like the tango and the slow foxtrot , ’ Anne told Joe . |
| 29 | If the recognition skills are not well-developed , then the decoding process may have to take the more indirect route , employing the mediating phonological stage . |
| 30 | While history teachers would wish to eschew the more brash sales methods they may nevertheless welcome some guidance on appropriate methods and strategies for promoting their subject . |