Example sentences of "[art] [adj] and more [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is however much to be said in favour of the dearer and more specific articulation of substantive principles to guide the exercise of administrative discretion . |
| 2 | Search can be made by post ( see explanatory leaflet published by the Registrar of Companies ) , by personal attendance or ( the preferable and more common method ) through your law agent . |
| 3 | You drive along a narrow , twisting road half-way up a mountain of rocks and boulders , supporting nothing but scrub and heather plus a few of the tougher and more foolhardy breed of sheep , round a bend and then , suddenly , you look down and there is the valley , with its winding river , fertile fields , a village tucked away at one end , and a verdancy that knocks you for six with its lushness . |
| 4 | In this way Minton can be seen to have had an influence on the tougher and more abrasive realism that first emerged at the ‘ Young Contemporaries ’ exhibition at the RBA Galleries in January 1952 . |
| 5 | The broader and more difficult question remains . |
| 6 | The second and more general reason lies not in the particular ways in which human beings may have evolved , but simply in the fact that they have evolved , and by natural selection . |
| 7 | But in 1935 the Legislature decided to take the second and more straightforward course . |
| 8 | The second and more troubling event has left me — the self-styled , experienced , capable , worldly-wise individual — in a moral dilemma with no idea how I should respond . |
| 9 | But they have more difficulty defending themselves on the second and more serious charge . |
| 10 | The second and more important lack is that of any real constitutional analysis of the crisis . |
| 11 | Erm and there were two very profound reasons for that , one was the decline in employment in southern agriculture , the increasing mechanization of agriculture displacing er millions of er agricultural workers er and the second and more important factor was that the southern states provide almost nothing in the way of social provision and certainly nothing for black people er whereas the northern states were much more generous . |
| 12 | The second and more important reason is to impose liability on the vendor in the event that the assets are inadequate or defective or the vendor does not have adequate title . |
| 13 | The second and more important point is that the general argument against behaviouristic theories does take in functionalism and is not merely directed against traditional behaviourism : it works against any theory that analyses one 's conception of the world simply in terms of the way one functions — that is , behaves — in the world . |
| 14 | The second and more common approach involves breaking or segmenting each cursive word into sub-parts . |
| 15 | The second and more exciting aspect is that , when it does so , the direction of spin is not affected : if the initial spin was clockwise , it will still be clockwise even after the toy has turned over . |
| 16 | Even the sun in Scotland can cause damage , though the problem is clearly more intense in the Mediterranean and more exotic holiday locations . |
| 17 | There is a sort of self-regarding coldness about these bravura pyrotechnics that brings Martin Amis to mind , although Conrad is the brighter and more perceptive writer , as well as possessing the maturer mind . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In the early 1900s , although there was a continued expansion of the traditional and more exclusive type of club , increasingly ( and especially in the north of England ) , there were groups emerging whose members would not only challenge the middle-class monopoly of the countryside but who also expressed a commitment to the principles of socialism . |
| 21 | It is , of course , history that what happened was not a crash programme of chauffeur training , but the lateral thought of do-it-yourself driving — the owner driver with the cheaper and more simple car such as the Model T. |
| 22 | The prouder and more articulate seaman had seen his pay and status in continuous decline from 1815 when , at the , end of the Napoleonic wars , " the government , without the least consideration for those who had battled on the ocean in defence of their king and country , disbanded the Fleets and cast adrift some thousands of Seamen suddenly to find employment in the merchant service " . |
| 23 | Rothwell ( 1982 ) , who also points to regional variations in the production of innovations , explains it not in terms of different local levels of entrepreneurship but in terms of the regional bias of R&D expenditure towards the South East , the older and more traditional technology structure of some northern regions , the unequal availability of venture capital between regions and the local planning environment for small firms . |
| 24 | The older and more knowledgeable horseman knew exactly what had happened and took immediate steps to neutralize this smell . |
| 25 | Here a door opened into the older and more modest side of the house , the side where , in stages of inferiority , less important guests , children and , in a still more distant wing , servants slept . |
| 26 | They came out into the corridor together , Rostov holding back as he allowed the older and more senior man to go before him . |
| 27 | Saga travellers are now jetting around the world , but in spite of the company 's undoubted success , as a 1989 report demonstrated there is little evidence that the British travel trade as a whole has fully understood the importance and increased spending power of the older and more prosperous customer . |
| 28 | This works best with the slower and more easily-controlled action of diNaEDTA , and is ideal for studying the location of delicate organic matter , such as shell membranes or algal and fungal filaments . |
| 29 | The first and more straightforward classification is based on the contexts in which texts occur and results in institutionalized labels such as ‘ journal article ’ , ‘ science textbook ’ , ‘ newspaper editorial ’ , or ‘ travel brochure ’ . |
| 30 | The first and more important reason is that he is likely to be transferred out of Bull within the next few months , along with other chief executives at state-owned companies , when the rightist coalition almost inevitably takes over the government from the Socialist Party after the legislative elections this month . |