Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [prep] the more [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | [ P. 392 ] Formen contains many of the elements of Marx 's evolutionary theory concerning pre-capitalist systems , and it also contains much about the more immediate origins of capitalism . |
| 2 | They also resisted Winter 's efforts to reduce labour costs both through the more efficient deployment of staff and the consideration of new technology . |
| 3 | One is that it displaces wage costs out of the more expensive core to the somewhat cheaper periphery ; another is that it leads to stable long-term relations with suppliers which open up multi-directional flows of information between the partners in the subcontracting network . |
| 4 | Wendy ( played by Maggie Smith plus wrinkly make-up ) has to stay in the Wendy house , while grown-up Peter forgets all about his kidnapped daughter , and concentrates instead on the more important business of bonding with his kidnapped son . |
| 5 | This is true not just for the UK , but applies widely across the more developed western world ( Champion , 1989d ) . |
| 6 | The eurobond market fits well into the more general paradigm describing the development of financial centres developed in Chapter 1 ( see also Davis , 1990 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ This rather formal approach contrasts neatly with the more informal approach generally adopted by central governments in their relations with local authorities in the years up to 1979 ’ . |
| 8 | Such an argument runs rather against the more usual one that science , in the long run , reduces uncertainty . |