Example sentences of "[pos pn] more [adj] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only a matter of time before my more traditional sort of jazz became popular again and I 'd have to think of a new image . |
| 2 | Not always content to watch from the sidelines , some of them have joined in with their more confident brand of anti-lesbianism . |
| 3 | In their more extravagant flights of fancy the choice thus offered to the voter is extended to cover specific heads of policy . |
| 4 | How dear Maisie , or Natalia , and certainly Emma , would laugh to see him enslaved by an ankle after their more generous gifts of person yet enslaved he was . |
| 5 | Similarly , when one reads the dedication of The Problem of Pain — 'to the Inklings ' — one understands some of its short-cuts , as well as some of its more peculiar turns of phrase ( e.g. of the Incarnation — ‘ It has the master touch — the rough , male taste of reality . |
| 6 | With the national and strategic interest of the United States as part of its more elevated terms of reference , the CIA would co-opt DEA informants at will or take over a DEA operation that suited its purpose or use the DEA as a cloak for its own interests or activities without much regard for the lesser claims of law enforcement . |
| 7 | Newman accepted , not so much for financial reasons but because he found England , with its more polarised divisions of class and attitude , an irresistible challenge . |
| 8 | By the physiologist within his special and well defined universe of discourse they may be properly regarded as epiphenomena ; but by the naturalist in his more catholic survey of nature they can not be so regarded . |
| 9 | His recall will allow Willie Falconer to switch to his more natural position of midfield . |
| 10 | The latter is a good example of his more extended type of cantata with fewer but longer sections than Rossi 's : The opening of the duet will also illustrate one of Carissimi 's most striking characteristics , his genuine sense of key : The slow , uncertain supersession of mode by key had not yet generally revealed the possibilities of tonality for variety and dynamic structure ; composers still treated a key very much as a mode , a tonal area within which they could move and from which they wandered uncertainly , and which helped to give unity to a composition . |
| 11 | During the war he worked in psychological warfare , and doubtless learnt many of his more infuriating tricks of debating and persuasion . |
| 12 | It 's a pity that someone did n't take some aspects of his education in hand , to tame his more bizarre flights of fancy . ’ |
| 13 | It seemed quite a tall order at the time but in practice it worked out well and proved to be a most enjoyable experience as well as one of our more memorable tours of duty . |
| 14 | We believe the methods and systems we have developed in the management of organisations in our more traditional areas of insurance and pensions can be applied , in principle , to many other business areas . |
| 15 | Such a structured form of teaching would not fit easily into our more liberal system of education . |
| 16 | The norm which is " attained " by stylistic consistency in a text might be called a SECONDARY NORM , since it is established by deviance from the PRIMARY ( relative ) NORMS which determine our more general expectations of language . |