Example sentences of "[art] [num ord] and more [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But in 1935 the Legislature decided to take the second and more straightforward course . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But they have more difficulty defending themselves on the second and more serious charge . |
| 5 | The second and more important lack is that of any real constitutional analysis of the crisis . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The second and more common approach involves breaking or segmenting each cursive word into sub-parts . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | O'Rourke appeared in court on Sept. 17 and pleaded guilty to misdemeanour charges of embezzlement and misuse of public funds which carried a possible prison sentence of up to one year ; under the terms of a plea bargain arrangement , the federal prosecutors agreed to drop the third and more serious felony charge . |
| 14 | A second and more serious objection to this definition concerns the impossibility of completeness in another direction . |
| 15 | A second and more serious line of criticism is that the empress 's claims to real enlightenment and concern for the welfare of her subjects are shown to be a hollow pretence by the intensification and geographical extension of serfdom in Russia during her reign . |
| 16 | And now he was passing a second and more dilapidated pillbox and it struck him that the whole headland had the desolate look of an old battlefield , the corpses long since carted away but the air vibrating still with the gunfire of long-lost battles , while the power station loomed over it like a grandiose modern monument to the unknown dead . |
| 17 | In the Outer Hebrides there is , however , a second and more urgent suggestion of deceit , as this poisonous plant looks very much like water-cress , and therefore one could be deceived into eating it , with disastrous results . |
| 18 | A second and more fundamental change occurred in the tenth and eleventh centuries in Europe and in the Islamic world , when lead was added to the ingredients for the inlay . |
| 19 | Sales and profit growth ( up by 17% and 34% respectively ) remain perfectly respectable on a second and more detailed viewing — indeed , the increase in sales was commendable in a very tough year for trade publishers — even if the operating margin of 6.8% and pretax margin of 1.9% were well below the promise of 10% held out when the company was launched in the optimistic mid-80s . |
| 20 | There is a second and more important way in which corporate organizations and wealthy individuals use financial muscle to weaken electoral competition , namely , their ownership and control of the mass media . |
| 21 | A third and more serious problem with ( 6.9 ) is that it is not operational because it involves expectations of dividend payments into the infinite future . |