Example sentences of "[prep] more [adj] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope you will agree that cycling is beneficial to the environment and that trends towards more sustainable forms of transport should be encouraged . |
| 2 | It may be a preliminary to higher levels of spending or may be simply a shift in portfolio preferences towards more liquid forms of wealth . |
| 3 | The documents and articles look towards more democratic forms of communication and outline a new vision for the 21st century . |
| 4 | The extent to which the momentum towards more efficient use of energy for heat had slackened since 1985 had surprised them . |
| 5 | In local government in particular we have seen substantial moves towards more decentralised forms of service provision in terms of area offices , or neighbourhood forums . |
| 6 | From this point onwards , Piaget 's account progresses towards more complex forms of symbolism through which the adult 's conceptual apparatus and capacity for cognitive representation are fully developed . |
| 7 | Europe , emerging in the late eleventh century , after an era of wars and invasions during the " Dark Ages " , to a period of relative peace , began to look towards more settled forms of government . |
| 8 | Although often associated with structuralism , semiotic analysts is involved in the details of representation and signification , while structuralism proper eschewed this concern with a drive towards more abstract models of cognition and culture . |
| 9 | Social pressure towards more sensitive treatment of nature is unlikely to abate whilst our destruction of what remains of nature so clearly continues . |
| 10 | If this is true , it is the more important that active approaches and positive attitudes prevail , if enjoyment in books is to be kept alive in the face of more passive forms of entertainment . |
| 11 | Was this optimism justified , and what of more recent rays of hope ? |
| 12 | They were also convinced that rock music should be capable of more complex modes of expression . |
| 13 | Common Law treated a contract as voidable if made under duress , i.e. threats of violence to life or limb ; it took no account of more subtle forms of pressure — the unfair advantage taken of a man in distressed circumstances , the influence exercised in certain relations , such as that of a guardian and his former ward , or solicitor and client . |
| 14 | The first can be called the ‘ umbrella sense : ’ unreasonable is used here simply as a synonym for a host of more specific grounds of attack , such as taking account of irrelevant considerations , acting for improper purposes and acting malai fide , which , as Lord Greene M.R. himself said , tend to run into one another . |
| 15 | This is not to say that the emergence of more popularly-orientated styles of activity expressed a displacement of sectarian religious feeling but antislavery none the less did become an important channel for religious feeling which looked to a broader moral enhancement of English society and in turn that had to involve the full-hearted commitment of a myriad of individuals and groups . |
| 16 | However , education policy has embodied a constant tension between the pursuit of more democratic forms of education , and a more technocratic approach which emphasized uniformity , discipline and the development of standardized skills to meet economic needs . |
| 17 | Efficiency can no longer be achieved through the division of labour , but through the development of more efficient patterns of co-operation . |
| 18 | As a result of the first evaluation special attention was given to the development of more participatory methods of health education . |
| 19 | On the one hand it provides for the possibility of improved techniques for bringing about learning ; on the other it provides a rationale whereby such techniques can be explicitly identified as exemplars of more general principles of teaching . |
| 20 | In this way , the more specific question would be related to a more comprehensive framework of conceptual evaluation , and particular techniques seen to be realizations of more general principles of teaching . |
| 21 | He also preferred the Durham system to the Cambridge system because it afforded the chance of more general courses of study . |
| 22 | Are not consumers still being denied freedom of choice , resulting in delays in the introduction of more humane systems of husbandry ? |
| 23 | The development of more flexible systems of access and qualifications ( in particular modular credit schemes ) means that the educational life-pattern for any one individual is likely to be less rigidly linear than in the past , a situation which is foreshadowed by developments in the USA ( Stacey et al . |
| 24 | The patterns and rhythms of the sensory realm are only reflections of more fundamental attributes of Mind . |
| 25 | This implies that evaluation of techniques should be a sub-set of more ambitious terms of reference . |
| 26 | Encouraged by the acceptability of more popular styles of composition , willing but inexperienced composers are turning their hand to the production of ‘ home-grown ’ music . |
| 27 | Quite the contrary , whether it was his professional support , which was total , or through more personal gestures of kindness . |
| 28 | In general , we must find our statistical bearings through more specific standards of comparison , written English having a different set of norms from spoken English , and so on . |
| 29 | It may be thought that without some measures of the quality of services provided , either by the yardstick ( if such exists ) of agreed views of what constitutes good practice , and/or through more refined measures of client outcome , the study would still fall short of the kind of conclusions about relative effectiveness that would be sought . |
| 30 | Unsurprisingly , given this position , he is insistent that Anglo-Saxon and philology be retained as essential features of English studies , even in the light of the growth of the discipline : " Our first responsibility is to our subject , and , as that expands , we must not look for more ingenious methods of selection but for more time to do it justice . |