Example sentences of "[art] [adv] [adj -er] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Why therefore did not organisms respond in a similar way to the much slower changes of sea level in the lengthy periods of climatic equability ?
2 I spoke about the much wider use of timetable motions .
3 At the present stage of development of US television , on the other hand , the schedules of the majority viewing channels ( and this is of course complicated by the much wider dissemination of cable ) are stripped in a way which concentrates particular genres and subgenres within the same time-slot : the competition is directed quite blatantly at the same demographic group or taste constituency , and , characteristically , for the network viewer , the choice is within genres and subgenres rather between them .
4 It is important to remember , though , that the production need not have been a full-time or permanent occupation , nor necessarily an urban-based activity , as the much wider pattern of small- and large-scale production demonstrates .
5 When the ancestral cetaceans returned to the sea , they had to adapt to the much colder temperatures of water , which conducts heat 26 times more efficiently than air .
6 Yet they all certainly benefit from the much closer coordination of industry and finance , whether this is through preferential interest rates from a number of different banks or through the advisory functions of their main lenders .
7 This unstable identification — much more unstable than the forms of identification usually associated with cinema — is reinforced by the much looser rules of engagement implied by television 's interruptable time .
8 However , although this factor is important , it is unlikely to explain why default rates have risen so rapidly during 1990–91 compared with the early 1980s , given the much lower levels of inflation during the recent downturn .
9 Over-expression of Oct-1 decreased the level of expression driven by the HPV 16 motif whilst having no effect on the much higher level of expression driven by the HPV 6 motif and the extent of repression observed was dependent upon the degree of over-expression of Oct-1 ( Figure 6 ) .
10 After much haggling , approval was only obtained for those four out of the seven sets which could meet the much higher rate of return which would henceforth be applied to BR investment .
11 The finding that the gastrin concentration is similar in the H pylori positive and negative uraemic patients , despite the much higher rate of ammonia production in the former , is further evidence against the hypergastrinaemia being due to bacterial ammonia production .
12 What is new is the much greater degree of sophistication which is now necessary to produce the maximum revenue yield from each and every InterCity journey .
13 The much greater availability of contraception and safe abortion has made the consequences of sexual intercourse for women , in terms of unwanted children , much less likely .
14 Thus a covenant in that form will not allow the tenant to take advantage of the much greater flexibility of use permitted by the Town and Country Planning ( Use Classes ) Order 1987 ( SI No 764 ) ( Brewers Co v Viewplan ) .
15 This is explained by the much greater propensity of IT specialists to carry on their studies ( three times more likely ) ;
16 Judgments in the House of Lords are always reserved , but in the much busier Court of Appeal many judgments are delivered extemporaneously after very brief deliberations .
17 The first was announced in a Practice Direction ( 1989 ) 1 WLR 281 , which provided for the much earlier delivery of skeleton arguments which would be studied by the judges before they sat to hear the appeal .
18 They still , of course , have that function , but more and more the Fund 's resources are being invested in influencing those agencies which are capable of generating the much larger sums of money required to carry out these long-term programmes .
19 The US International Trade Commission last week gave its final ruling that South Korean companies were dumping dynamic random access memory chips on the US market to the detriment of US chip manufacturers — although to the benefit of the much larger population of chip users and their customers : the Customs Service will therefore levy duties on the South Korean imports , which totalled $446 million in 1991 — duties of up to 11.45% will be levied on parts made by Hyundai Electronics Co , Goldstar Electron Co and Samsung Electronics Co .
20 The much larger group of semi- or unskilled working class DE readers , 33 per cent of the population , plumped overwhelming for three or four .
21 Due to the much poorer state of play areas throughout other parts of the district it may be some time before improvements can be achieved . ’
22 And the re-concentration of growth , and the much smaller impact of decline , in the south since the mid-'70s has been very much focused on the previously less industrialized regions ( and parts of regions ) .
23 The much smaller amount of work on older women represents them as in mourning for the same psychological characteristics .
24 The end result will be more information on asbestos roofing traced , but only by considering all of the documents listed under the much broader category of roofing .
25 Questions could be asked about the so-called Maidenhead factor , which relates to the apparently higher level of affluence of the population that is likely to be affected by a flood than elsewhere in the United Kingdom .
26 Even accounting for the generally lower standard of software then , I reckon the reviewers were feeling generous .
27 There are many reasons for this , two important ones being the generally greater degree of government intervention in society and the increased predominance of foreign and military affairs in a century that has seen two world wars and the development of nuclear weapons .
28 Trading on the anger inherent in t heir home of New York , COP 's tales are sometimes vicious street level tables of the generally seamier end of society .
29 Trading on the anger inherent in t heir home of New York , COP 's tales are sometimes vicious street level tables of the generally seamier end of society .
30 In the superficially simpler terms of plate tectonics , these are the repeated effects of plates splitting and coming together .
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