Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] the more [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jane , because she was a mistress , rarely had an opportunity to attend the more elegant events of society , and she was not going to miss this chance of being seen at a duchess 's ball . |
| 2 | This led the parser to explore the more likely solutions first . |
| 3 | Realistic resources for its implementation ; training and research to spread the more hopeful messages about good practice ; and a social and political climate that values the ideals of partnership , participation and respect for persons — child and adult — would add immeasurably to its impact . |
| 4 | Lucy Jackson pioneered our answer after painstaking hours of study , blood , sweat and tears and disillusion — a FASTER FITNESS programme based on the ‘ follow me ’ principle , but maintaining the underlying basics of Medau movement , including a slower rate of floor work to balance the more active elements . |
| 5 | It was the weakness of humanity that it should disguise as strength — as sense and discretion and neighbourly feeling — an inability to recognise the more deplorable aspects of behaviour . |
| 6 | Secondary education was to become more widely available , providing a more educated workforce to meet the more sophisticated needs of an economy under increasing competitive pressure . |
| 7 | Poor Harriet , laid out in a drawer in the morgue or being worked on even now by the undertaker to repair the more obvious signs of post-mortem investigation before friends and relatives viewed the body . |
| 8 | A second application may be necessary after one month to control the more stubborn weeds . |
| 9 | If you 've the stamina you could fill a week with different ‘ sights ’ , but there 's also a lot to offer the more sedentary visitor . |
| 10 | Now Africa was dismissed in order to revive the more traditional view that Asia was the centre of all human progress . |
| 11 | Now , under the influence of Orphism , the tendency to reinstate the more sensuous aspects of painting grew stronger . |
| 12 | The inspection is similar to that carried out for the Structural Survey , however because the report is in a standard format , the information conveyed is more concise and limited in order to identify the more important defects , bearing in mind the property 's type and age . |
| 13 | As part of the card 's software , there is a DOS sequencer , to drive a MIDI keyboard or synth ( a MIDI adapter cable is available as an option ) , more Windows 3.1 sound mixers than anyone could possible want , a delectable sound sampler , and a utility to allow the more serious-minded user to add both synthesised music and sampled ( digitised ) sounds to presentation packages . |
| 14 | suggest , ‘ there is a stylistic tendency to place the more complex element ( ie the one containing relatively more words ) after the less complex ’ . |
| 15 | This is a curious feature of this kind of pressure group activity ; to some extent the power of groups depends upon their ability to forswear the more direct weapons in the pressure group armoury , to avoid mounting vociferous opinion-forming campaigns or threatening forms of direct action . |
| 16 | The eventual aim was to expand the network to include the more complex analysis of samples of soil , milk or vegetables . |