Example sentences of "[noun sg] and more [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently , as in all-male groups in modern gelada populations , we would expect to find much less in the way of mutual antagonism and more in the way of sociability and cooperation . |
| 2 | Director Peter Smallridge claims this was less to do with ideology and more for the benefit of service users . |
| 3 | For , once we have made the first approach to the Landshut Virgin and acquired a first set of impressions , the changeableness of the figure begins to work on us further , now less in the dimension of greater or lesser distance and more in the angle of view . |
| 4 | The emphasis will be less on the mechanics of neutralisation and more on the means to exclude certain forms of involvement in Southeast Asia by outside powers . |
| 5 | The increasing affluence of the rural population wrought by the urban middle-class exodus has tended to mask the continuing and severe pockets of poverty which exist in the countryside and has led the ‘ problem ’ of rural housing to be regarded less as a problem of social welfare and more as an issue concerning land use planning and countryside preservation . |
| 6 | I settled in pretty quickly , though suffering a bit from culture shock and more from the realisation that I was semi-illiterate in the Thai language : I had the ability to communicate verbally but at a child 's level and almost no ability to read . |
| 7 | Yet the real conflict occurs within the individual , who could decide to spend less lime on self and more with the family . |
| 8 | The Guernsey 's horns today are more commonly like those of the Isigny but perhaps the smaller Alderney owed little to the Isigny and more to the Léon . |
| 9 | In spite of the ructions that ensued when the announcement was made — namely IBM 's and DEC 's decision to cut Technology off , it managed to double throughput and more in a matter of months and has contributed around 20% of the spoils in ICL UK 's coffers . |
| 10 | Today , for example , in Unilever , employees over the age of fifty may choose to work progressively less with the firm and more with the community until in their last year before retirement they work only one day a week with the firm . |
| 11 | According to Bulpitt , ‘ in so far as monetarism was associated … with ‘ arms ' length ’ , anti-corporatist government , then … the statecraft ( of monetarism ) must be viewed as less a radical break with the past and more as an attempt to reconstruct it' . |
| 12 | Women 's claims to maintenance , however , are still derived less from their labour-market activities or the state and more from the men to whom they are married ( or with whom they cohabit ) . |
| 13 | There was less emphasis on integration into a white-dominated society and more on the need to define a black " identity " based on black culture and black values . |
| 14 | ‘ There was a certain amount of dandruff on the shirt collar and more on the collar of the jacket . |
| 15 | He thus put less emphasis on military drill and weapons training and more on the mastering of the legal and technical aspects of police duties . |
| 16 | When will the Government spend less on advertising and more on the police and crime prevention ? |
| 17 | Virtual reality is currently virtually nothing like reality and more like the confusion you get if you 've drunk heavily on antibiotics , but Interactive Video is here and it works . |
| 18 | She had caught a glimpse of Heaven ; had seen adoration and more in the gaze of a handsome prince who would one day be king of England . |
| 19 | The criminal law may depend less upon one monolithic principle and more upon a synthesis of conflicting principles . |
| 20 | Thus , for instance , Italy began building in a Romanesque style earlier than most nations — for its emergence from Roman work was a natural corollary — continued it later , produced little Gothic work and then burst forth into the Renaissance a century and more before the rest of Europe . |
| 21 | And the après ski is less like a Martini commercial and more like an episode of Colditz . |