Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] an [adj] [conj] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Listening to the debate which followed the papers in this session , one was struck by the persistence of an older and more fundamental truth . |
| 2 | If this is the case , the changes of the past 30 years may be the first signs of a return to the more traditional population distribution of pre-industrial Britain , but it must also be borne in mind that it takes a very long time to shift major population patterns , and that the present trends may only be a veneer on an underlying and more permanent structure . |
| 3 | Alternatively , the employer may have chosen not to exploit the invention at all since it would effectively reduce customer demand for an established and more expensive substitute already produced as part of his current range of activities . |
| 4 | With the change from a nomadic and food-gathering to an agricultural and more highly organized form of society , man 's anxiety about himself and the animals that he hunted merged into a wider anxiety about nature . |
| 5 | Change in the 1990s must also be envisaged within the wider context of an integrated and more open European Market , which is likely to cause all manner of stresses and strains to British society and economy . |