Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] the more [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shop bought cosmetics tend to be designed for the more common skin types and colourings — specialist cosmetics are difficult to find , and if they do exist , are usually expensive . |
| 2 | All new replacement PCs should be of higher specification than existing machines , which will then be freed for stand-alone use , and it is recommended that SCSI boards should be installed for the more efficient use of peripherals . |
| 3 | This plant needs very special attention and therefore is only recommended for the more experienced aquarist . |
| 4 | Peter Brown , chairman of the Thomas Coram foundation , said : ‘ Unless the human imperative of individual dereliction is addressed alongside the more visual investment in environmental dereliction , and however well we spend it this means more money , the country will find itself in a downward spiral of inner-city social decay that could well substitute Drug Alley for the Gin Lane of Coram 's and Hogarth 's day . ’ |
| 5 | In a lead adviser role or public deal , consideration should be given to the statement of indemnity which might even be included in the more standard engagement letter where a specific contract is not applicable . |
| 6 | This becomes clearer if it is considered from the more general perspective of post-modernism which has been widely characterized as involving a return of history , albeit as a category of representation . |
| 7 | A new , precoded , form was completed for each new activity undertaken ; the research instrument therefore differed from the more conventional diary approach in which the work done in specific time periods is recorded ( Mintzberg , 1973 ; Stewart , 1988 ) . |
| 8 | Anthropological discussion of this relationship between self , object and society is dominated by the more general analysis or exchange . |
| 9 | The emotions of hatred and jealousy are immediately superseded by the more primitive instinct of survival , and he begins to realise that all may yet be well if he can keep his head . |
| 10 | More recently , this conclusion has been confined by the more direct method of extracting DNA from various kinds of cells and determining the base sequence of some of their genes . |
| 11 | The House of Commons Treasury and Civil Service Committee has argued for the more active use of fiscal policy ( in other words a more aggressive use of tax cuts in recession ) because of the constraints on interest rate changes caused by ERM membership . |
| 12 | Faceted classification is now accepted as the more systematic way of constructing a classification scheme in today 's environment of rapid development of knowledge and of the literature in which that knowledge is recorded . |
| 13 | Both sections have the same maximum punishment , five years ' imprisonment , yet s.20 , which deals with maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm , is seen as the more serious defence , yet that gravity may now depend on chance . |
| 14 | However , in many instances the arrangement represented the exercise of power and control over the protected State which was in a position of subordination , making it logical that claims should be made against the more powerful State . |
| 15 | This section deals with the basic exercises that will be incorporated into the more advanced training routines outlined later . |
| 16 | Equation ( 8.29 ) can be written in the more familiar form , . |
| 17 | After some rearrangement , this may be written in the more convenient form . |
| 18 | There was a current copy of the local rag lying on the chair beside him : he had read The Times and the Independent and now turned to the more microcosmic news . |
| 19 | Whatever the merits of the arguments against Mr Soley 's proposal for a Select Committee in place of the Commissioner , they are much less convincing when applied to the more modest proposal put forward at the time by the SDP that there could be a Select Committee confining itself to the Commissioner 's report ‘ so that in turn it would report and give some reality to parliamentary accountability ’ . |
| 20 | This is closely related to the more general idea of a common association base ( CAB ) : the argument is that some sort of conceptual link has to be formed between individuals which have been introduced if they are to be referred to by a plural pronoun . |
| 21 | The democratic approach is closely related to the more general idea of a blackboard architecture , as used in speech recognition ( see , for example , Erman and Lesser 1980 on the HEARSAY-II system ) and other tasks . |
| 22 | As the derivation is based on an unrealistic Gaussian distribution of segments in good solvents , it has been suggested that α η is related to the more direct measurement of α in equation ( 10.12 ) by |
| 23 | Hutchinson had become a freeman — that is , a full church member — in 1634 but , along with others considered theologically unsound , was ordered to be disarmed in 1637 , and with the rest of his family moved to the more tolerant atmosphere of Providence ( later Rhode Island ) in 1638 . |
| 24 | Furthermore , a well-developed system of primary care means that GPs can act as gatekeepers filtering demands made on the more expensive specialist and hospital services . |
| 25 | When threatened by the more frantic beat of house , it simply rhymed a little faster . |
| 26 | Montagu was a serious and talented , although not publicly charismatic Liberal politician , who chose to seek his pleasure and friends in a close-knit coterie whose speciality was ‘ in ’ jokes , to which some contribution was made by the more sophisticated aspect of pre-1914 ( and indeed pre-1939 ) English upper-class anti-semitism . |
| 27 | Something hidden behind the more obvious sentiment . |
| 28 | It is still used for the more advanced undergraduate work and for sharing knowledge gained in research . |
| 29 | A name is needed for the more general set of phenomena , and the word ‘ chaos ’ has taken on a scientific meaning for this purpose . |
| 30 | There are suits that are better equipped for the more demanding skier and manufacturers who specialise in this end of the market include Nevica , Berghaus , Phoenix , Degre 7 , Powderhorn and SOS who say they are not interested in following ski fashions : ‘ We make heavy duty workwear for people who spend their winters in the mountains . ’ |