Example sentences of "[num] [prep] the more [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we take the ‘ developing countries ’ as a group , compared with the ‘ more developed countries ’ , infant mortality ( in the first year ) is more than five times as high in the first group as it is in the second ; but during the years from one to four — that is , after weaning — the mortality rate in the developing countries is forty times as high as elsewhere : forty deaths for every thousand children surviving their first year , compared with one per thousand in the more developed areas ( Pate , 1965 ) . |
| 2 | One of the more distinctive features of urban policy in Britain during the 1980s was the return of large scale , comprehensive , redevelopment led by the Urban Development Corporations ( UDCs ) . |
| 3 | The release this month by Philips of Mussorgsky 's Khovanshchina featuring the Kirov Opera company represents one of the more impressive examples of East-West collaboration in post-Soviet Russia . |
| 4 | Or Birnam wd idea — disgsd army ? ? ? ( 2 silly ? ) … and that was one of the more comprehensible bits . |
| 5 | That comedians work better with an audience is also one of the more convincing justifications for democracy . |
| 6 | A search for discrepancies was agreed to be the best avenue of research and one of the more convincing arguments put forward for the work not to be genuine was that the Kouros combines stylistic elements that run from early to late sixth century BC . |
| 7 | One of the more controversial obligations relating to margin is the requirement that a firm must close out a customer 's open position where he fails to meet a margin call after a period of five business days . |
| 8 | Clinical ecology is one of the more controversial forms of alternative medicine . |
| 9 | One of the more controversial decisions is to move the heavy rescue unit , used in major road accidents , to the Bishop Auckland station from Darlington . |
| 10 | One of the more controversial aspects of the budget , and one which contributed to the growing public concern about the integrity of the political system , was an increase in the so-called " MPs ' slush fund " ( more correctly the National Development Fund ) to K100,000 annually for each member . |
| 11 | The eclipse of electricity as a means of propulsion has been one of the more curious facets of the evolution of transport . |
| 12 | On one of the more curious items of this scale , they answered liberally : there were nine yesses and two noes to ‘ Pyjama Parties ’ . |
| 13 | One of the more encouraging features of the modern international corporation or organisation is the careful consideration of its mission followed by an assessment of its broad social and economic role as an extension of basic mission . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , the occurrence of an Arctic ozone hole directly as a result of increased CO 2 could be one of the more serious consequences of climate change . |
| 15 | I arrived just after one of the more serious rounds , when thousands of people took to the streets to burn and loot . |
| 16 | In 1921 , in one of the more serious confrontations , the Recorder of Liverpool publicly censured the city 's police who had batoncharged a demonstration of unemployed workers with ‘ most unnecessary violence ’ . |
| 17 | Dodging the draft for the Vietnam War is one of the more serious accusations levelled at Clinton about his Oxford days . |
| 18 | Because it is not one of the more imposing buildings for which public funds are more readily available , it has had to rely on the care and attention of those who live around it and they are among the poorer people of the city . |
| 19 | One of the more pathetic arguments in favour of EMU is that it will save transaction costs between currencies . |
| 20 | One of the more crucial ones concerned the empirical interpretation of scientific generalisations and theory . |
| 21 | It is one of the more exquisite forms of Catch 22 that leaders of the ‘ moderate ’ engineers ' and electricians ' union amalgamation , usually praised by the Conservatives as a model for other union leaders , are now available as evidence of the unsatisfactory nature of Labour 's electoral system . |
| 22 | CERTAINLY one of the more picturesque places on the railway scene is the site of the original Wye Valley Railway , which once ran between Chepstow and Monmouth . |
| 23 | Unable to get far enough inside to catch one of the more amenable waves , Foo at last resolved to attempt an outside set . |
| 24 | One of the more usual benefits of a Community Relations Unit in West Belfast is its discouragement of police misconceptions about Catholics . |
| 25 | The process of demystifying the monarchy , necessary if it was to survive the second half of the twentieth century , turned it instead into a grand soap-opera , in which some minor members of the family seemed only too happy to play a demeaning part , one of the more absurd examples occurring when several of the Queen 's children took part in the television party-game show It 's A Knockout ! |
| 26 | It was normal , moreover , as in earlier generations , for a diplomat going to one of the more out-of-the-way capitals , if he expected to stay for any length of time , to equip himself with a mass of essentials which might be difficult or impossible to obtain at his destination . |
| 27 | One of the more prominent activities with which the profession is associated concerns the production of the FT-Actuaries Indices . |
| 28 | Cattle stealing was one of the more prominent crimes carried out in colonial Sri Lanka . |
| 29 | One of the more prominent buildings in Leith having strong connections with the sea is that of Trinity House , an imposing Georgian structure . |
| 30 | ‘ WELL DONE , thou good and faithful servant ’ was the text for one of the more memorable sermons preached by the Rev Keith Elliott VC . |