Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] a more [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The intensity of the pink plagioclase stain is proportional to the amount of calcium in the molecule : albite/oligoclase will stain lighter than a more calcic plagioclase . |
| 2 | However , it will certainly be true that it is optimal for a risk-neutral party to take all risk from a risk-averse party ( try A or B bargaining with C ) and it would seem sensible that a more risk-averse party should optimally take on less of the risk than a less risk-averse one . |
| 3 | Orphism appealed particularly to the Germans , since like so much of their own painting it was brightly coloured and was simultaneously a more theoretical and a more popular type of art than Cubism . |
| 4 | ‘ Frenchman 's Creek ’ is a much shorter and a more simple book , written by a well known authoress this century . |
| 5 | " not advisable to adopt the suggestions of the Visitors : the School in its present state works exceedingly well and it is very doubtful if a more extended course of the higher branches of education would be equally beneficial to the great mass of residents in Stockport and its vicinity , who are anxious to avail themselves of the instruction afforded to their children in the School as at present constituted . " |
| 6 | It is doubtful whether a more impressive specimen of mass self-delusion can be produced from any era of recorded history . |
| 7 | Of the 102 patients positive for oncogenic human papillomavirus , 80 ( 78% ) had cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade III or a more severe lesion . |
| 8 | We found that 80/102 ( 78% ) patients positive for oncogenic human papillomavirus had cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade III or a more severe lesion . |
| 9 | She had her spirit of adventure and desire for romance and excitement fulfilled becoming less superficial and pretentious and a more mature person . |
| 10 | Financial service companies operating costs fell sharply in the final quarter of 1991 and a more modest decline is expected over the next quarter . |
| 11 | But the policy then was not to lie low until a more favourable climate developed . |
| 12 | There remain some class differences in the proportion who take a more casual or a more planned approach to family building , and in the reliability of the methods which they use , and therefore in the proportion of unintended pregnancies . |
| 13 | The pace of ideation is for the most part so great that a more formal procedure of idea-handling would be obstructive and pointless . |
| 14 | The commons played a more substantial and a more independent part in this political crisis than they had done in the conflicts of Edward I 's last years and Edward II 's reign , and they showed some awareness of their power to demand concessions in return for agreeing to the king 's financial demands . |
| 15 | For all his faults , Lij Yasu was remembered by many as a more comprehensible ruler than Haile Selassie , who failed to conform to the popular image of an Abyssinian monarch . |
| 16 | This field therefore represents keywords likely to be meaningful to pupils , based on their background work on the topic , and may be particularly important where a more flexible approach to project work is taken . |
| 17 | Physics is not only a more important and a more fundamental subject , but also , it seems , a more certain subject . |
| 18 | But since short high realizations turned up quite frequently , it became apparent that a more complex schema was required . |
| 19 | The Special Branch detective was asked whether he thought it probable that a more junior officer in the social welfare wing would call such a meeting and at it preside over ones of much more senior rank from the military wing . |
| 20 | It was not until the UN Conference on Population in Bucharest in 1973 that a more radical critique of family planning programmes was launched and widely discussed at international level . |
| 21 | All of a sudden , the prospect of an economically over-mighty Germany in a fast-changing continent has made the pragmatic path seem complacent and a more radical approach altogether more urgently attractive . |
| 22 | In the first place , its content is less up-to-date than a more recent book on the same subject . |
| 23 | A less religious or a more sane man than the fanatic would have shut up . |
| 24 | This definition breaks away from the previous categorisations of handicap and attempts to introduce a subtler and a more relative concept . |
| 25 | An ageing population is both less productive and a more costly burden on the health services . |
| 26 | As mentioned , a plectrum extracts the most from the system ; fingerstyle playing , with its up-stroke action , tends to negate the effect of the drones , although this can be advantageous when a more traditional sound is required . |