Example sentences of "[adv] more [adj] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there is another , perhaps more promising category of deterrent effect : general deterrence . |
| 2 | In later work Foucault veers away from his most radical philosophical insights towards an analysis of discursive and extra-discursive systems of domination and exploitation , with increasing focus on the apparently more political question of power . |
| 3 | In so far as they were looking forward , it was with a much more gradual pace of development in mind . |
| 4 | Seismic data which show the deep structure of rift systems have revealed a much more complex pattern of faulting than was suspected in the classic rift model , with the presence of listric as well as normal faults . |
| 5 | Secondly , it is well known that the impact of the rediscovery of poverty in the 1880s helped to bring about a much more complex analysis of poverty and its causes , which in turn looked toward the State to begin to solve the problem . |
| 6 | If we now move away from regarding income distribution in terms of the relative amount received by different groups of ‘ income units ’ to that received by different occupational strata , we gain a much more concrete indication of inequality . |
| 7 | However having spent so long on Tolkien 's powerful and complex image of evil , it is time to turn to his portrayal of the ( in appearance ) often weaker and much more limited power of good . |
| 8 | In non-profit organizations , particularly in Type B , the stewardship accounts provide much more limited measures of performance . |
| 9 | She was very young , 18 or 19 , and relatively immature although much more worldly wise than I was because she had lived a much more international sort of life , and having been around the music scene a lot more than I had , she was streetwise at her age to a greater degree than I — there was no question of that . |
| 10 | A different and apparently much more specific line of research , however , developed from another of Adrian 's electrophysiological experiments . |
| 11 | By 1860 the Directory had become a very much more useful work of reference ; and by 1917 , with the absorption of its only serious rival , the Clergy List , reigned supreme . |
| 12 | Picking it up and pretending to do a rather elaborate waltz along the road with it , on the other hand , would be thought of as a much more creditable act of hooliganism . |
| 13 | The burning of energy and the consequent production of pollutants just for frivolous enjoyment , does not seem to sit comfortably alongside the much more serious objective of sustainability . |
| 14 | A treatment cream will then help you to improve the condition to an acceptable level and I would certainly try all of these methods conscientiously before even considering the much more serious courses of action — injections or surgery . |
| 15 | Obtaining compliance will be as difficult as it always has been , but an international community which has used sanctions to encourage change in southern Africa should be able to tackle the much more serious issues of enforcement associated with climate change and international security . |
| 16 | That would be a much more fruitful field of study . ’ |
| 17 | The move towards much more efficient methods of heating like convector heaters right on through to central heating , so that you could use more just that back parlour where the cooker was that kept the place warm . |
| 18 | The difference now , however , is that such arguments are multiplied many times over , both by the much more extensive use of technology and the great number of technological developments which appear so quickly and exist at the same time . |
| 19 | In Sweden , where there is a much more equal distribution of income and wealth , almost nobody can afford servants . |
| 20 | A second and much more general form of patronage was that of a court or powerful household in which there was no intrinsic organization of artists as part of the general social organization but in which , often very extensively , individual artists were retained , often with titles which represent the true cases of ‘ official recognition ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ The cost per head of the synchrotron radiation source [ at Daresbury ] is a much more effective use of resource than the NSF , ’ he said . |
| 22 | I think that if modernism and modernity result from a process of differentiation , or what German social scientists call Ausdifferenzierung , then postmodernism results from a much more recent process of de-differentiation or Entdifferenzierung . |
| 23 | So this is a much more familiar model of democracy to us than any of the others that we 've seen so far |
| 24 | The important changes in design were firstly to increase the number of judgments in the recognition phase in order to obtain better recognition data than was available for the previous studies , secondly , to use a much more varied selection of driving situations , and thirdly to show each location only once during the judgment phase of the experiment . |
| 25 | At the regional scale a much more varied picture of bus services emerges . |
| 26 | Because this conventionally liberal response to the prevailing mood disguises the fact that the them as which arranged themselves around the flogging solution reflected a much more mature retrenchment , and a much more solid base of opinion and material circumstance than is usefully summarised by the word ‘ panic ’ . |
| 27 | Moreover , Richards also points out that burning of methane in this way is globally beneficial because it is a much more potent trapper of heat in the atmosphere than the equivalent carbon dioxide produced by its combustion ( section 5.3. 1 ) . |
| 28 | A much more interesting type of relation is an elegant analogy , due to Solomon W. Golomb of the University of Southern California at Los Angeles , between the unachievable twists of a third turn of a cube corner and the unobservable quarks of charge one-third . |
| 29 | But there was a much more important shift of power away from the examining boards ( and thus away from the universities ) in the creation of the central Secondary Examinations Council . |
| 30 | In Iceland , however , where limpets are scarce or absent , dog-whelks are a much more important source of food to the oystercatcher ( references in Cramp et al. , 1983 ) . |