Example sentences of "[art] large and more [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only did this dilute the power of the incorporated companies , but there was no replacement by an equivalent power , for the larger and more amorphous body of investors was hardly as able to lobby against interest reductions or other schemes to lessen the weight on government . |
| 2 | In the Dili area that winter , there were 300 Europeans and 5,000 native villagers working on their sweet potato , pineapple , and peanut plots or in the larger and more ordered government plantations on higher ground where crops of rice , maize , and coffee grew . |
| 3 | Now , with all Europe freed to unite ( or to fall apart ) , the time has come to devise a shorter , clearer replacement of all that has gone before — a constitution designed for a larger and more disparate union . |
| 4 | And Wagner spelled out the means : " I should like to advise you not to touch on such incredible views in short essays written … for popular effect , but … to concentrate on a larger and more comprehensive work on this subject . " |
| 5 | The material of the two lectures , though not originally envisaged in this connection , provided the starting point — but only in the light of Wagner 's flattering advice to " concentrate on a larger and more comprehensive work on this subject " . |
| 6 | During the Jubilee Year the University has decided to inject some resources into the association to develop it into a larger and more effective body , to enable graduates to keep in touch with the University and each other . |
| 7 | To help build a larger and more integrated research group of economists at Oxford who are active in the area of industrial economics . |
| 8 | This vital question , said the astrozoologists with mounting authority , would not be answered until a larger and more powerful gantry was constructed for a deep-space vessel . |
| 9 | The reason for accepting this approach rather than asking for a ‘ block allocation ’ is simply the conviction that the summation of functional budgets produces a larger and more defensible total . |
| 10 | The emergency consists of a takeover bid by a larger and more aggressive company . |
| 11 | The attainment of his majority would naturally have heralded a larger and more independent following , but Gloucester 's early influence was in areas where there was an established network of royal servants and this shaped his developing retinue . |
| 12 | The attainment of his majority would naturally have heralded a larger and more independent following , but Gloucester 's early influence was in areas where there was an established network of royal servants and this shaped his developing retinue . |
| 13 | Consequently due diligence forms a larger and more important part of share sales than of asset sales and in terms of legal costs can be an expensive process . |
| 14 | In May 1958 , just a year after the Navy 's ‘ Fairlead ’ presentation at Greenwich , they mounted a larger and more elaborate seminar of their own , called Exercise ‘ Prospect ’ , at the Royal Commonwealth Society in Northumberland Avenue , London , to put the RAF case to the opinion-makers . |
| 15 | This is a larger and more active membership than most other all-party groups can claim . |
| 16 | And as the disposal industry becomes more capital-intensive , in response to the rise in standards , disposal plants need a larger and more reliable stream of material . |