Example sentences of "[prep] more [conj] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very often despite more and more sophisticated ways of manipulating data , the actual measuring sensor is still an old-fashioned thermocouple or flow measurement device . |
| 2 | It is important to bear in mind , however , that muscle tension can be the result of more than just bad posture or wrong use of the body . |
| 3 | It is precisely this capacity for renewed interpretation that makes literature of more than simply historical interest . |
| 4 | The results of the research will be of more than purely academic interest , insofar as the rigorous identification and description of the structure of the arms trade would appear to be a necessary prerequisite for any discussion of multi-lateral restraints . |
| 5 | Darwin ( 1871 ) remains an excellent review of the sexual characters of animals , with many thoughtful comments that are still relevant and are of more than merely historical interest . |
| 6 | Such an ability would be of more than merely theoretical interest : there are specialists , detectives one might almost say , who can take enormous quantities of program in a lower-level language ( not binary numbers , but normally machine code or something a little ‘ higher ’ ) and make plausible guesses as to what they actually do at a higher level of description ; or rather , given that they are told what the program was designed to do , work out how it accomplished the task and by what ‘ higher-level ’ steps . |
| 7 | This study looked at the responses of more and less arithmetically-able pupils . |
| 8 | Since the end of the last war more and more of our food has been subjected to factory processing , with the concomitant addition of more and more chemical additives to counteract the deterioration in taste , texture , colour and palatability which the processing of food brings about . |
| 9 | Add to the enlarged programme of prison building , the feeding and housing of more and more convicted prisoners , the costs of the exploding remand population , and expenditure on the justice system presents a stark contrast with the swingeing cutbacks of other areas in the public sector . |
| 10 | And I think as time 's gone on our party had just realized wit the stresses and strains of more and more right wing pressure to destroy workers rights and drive wages down . |
| 11 | Much as technology seems to gather pace with the development of more and more sophisticated equipment so do the methods employed by the many users . |
| 12 | In the past two and half years it has risen four times in real terms to pay for the publication of more and more glossy pamphlets such as the parents charter — party political propaganda produced at the taxpayers ' expense . |
| 13 | The second possibility , that there is an infinite sequence of more and more refined theories , is in agreement with all our experience so far . |
| 14 | Thus it does seem that the sequence of more and more refined theories should have some limit as we go to higher and higher energies , so that there should be some ultimate theory of the universe . |
| 15 | Secondly , changes in the labour market and the increased participation of women in employment has raised questions about the extent to which lone mothers — like more and more married mothers — should be expected to take paid employment ( Brown , 1989 ) . |
| 16 | And then that general principle of Equity , which began as the mere application of moral sense to particular cases , develops into more and more definite rules . |
| 17 | What was barely tolerable before 1914 became increasingly intolerable to the mass of the population , as the enemy forces pushed the Tsarist regime into more and more desperate expedients to raise the finance and manpower with which to conduct the war . |
| 18 | The Prince needed sound advice , particularly as he moved into more and more controversial areas . |
| 19 | The public-interest objective is harder to reject , because it is eminently reasonable that public policy should be concerned with more than just economic efficiency , though it clearly generates considerable uncertainty for firms about what they may and may not do . |
| 20 | We are concerned , then , with more than simply linguistic competence . |
| 21 | Another deme with more than purely parochial status was Piraeus , whose demarch was a state appointment ( Ath . |
| 22 | The development of the relationship depended on shared secrets , on entrusting the other person with more and more important parts of yourself . |
| 23 | A reader from a common law background is often puzzled by this , because it looks like the single concept of ‘ service ’ with which he is familiar ; he has to keep in mind the civil law distinction between more and less solemn modes . |
| 24 | Later sophistications follow , such as balance between more and less essential events , between setting and events and , ultimately , the plotting of events to form some overall shape and to give a sense of resolution to the narrative . |
| 25 | Christina probed , certain now that Elaine was worried about more than just impending motherhood . |
| 26 | This analysis suggests that the identification and diagnosis of language disorder is unlikely to provide the basis for more than relatively crude speculations regarding the child 's prognosis . |
| 27 | Today in order to meet the burgeoning demand for more and more creamy pints of Guinness , St. James 's Gate , through the recent investment of IR£200 million , has become one of the world 's most technologically advanced breweries , having the flexibility to brew virtually anything to the highest international standards . |
| 28 | The growing trend now is for more and more European golfers , and especially the heavyweights , to concentrate on playing the US circuit . |
| 29 | With that German failure the Allied crisis at Ypres ended , for more and more French troops had been brought up to sustain the salient 's southern flank . |
| 30 | Mastery of that code by distant descendants could therefore become more ‘ mindless ’ in the early stages ( even those involving significant structure ) as brains were shaped by natural selection for more and more rapid language acquisition . |