Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] [adj] [conj] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question at issue is not so much prison reform — although our prison buildings are now shamefully antiquated , obsolete and , for the most part , entirely unsuitable for use as penal establishments — as the provision of up-to-date and more enlightened methods of dealing with the problem of treating the offender , and in particular the juvenile offender . |
| 2 | This is a major issue for an information provider , such as a library , because it draws attention to the obligation to supply support for users of a new and different kind , and to develop ways to reduce the dependence of historians of the future upon the support of more and more highly skilled staff . |
| 3 | It was comparatively rare for cases of assaults against females to receive sustained coverage and , indeed , there were only three cases where at least one newspaper covered the case on three or more separate days . |
| 4 | On the other hand , it is fairly obvious that " strong " stemming — the removal of longer and more " meaningful " suffixes such as " ization " " ism " and ability " often can not be done without drastically altering the sense of a search ( consider " organ " " organic " " organism " and " organization " ) . |
| 5 | From Figure 8.1 it can be seen that , for all tests with symmetrical distributions of scores ( known technically , and rather confusingly , as ‘ normal distributions ’ ) , any score which differs from the mean by two or more standard deviations will be unusual and therefore worthy of further consideration . |
| 6 | They reflected the emergence of aspects due to the prolonged looking demanded by the method and revealed that ‘ growing up ’ to a painting , mentioned earlier , in which the discovery of more and more forms part of the process of coming to know a work . |
| 7 | Custodial sentences and remands prevent immediate offending but increase the likelihood of later and more serious reoffending . |
| 8 | And this impact is to be achieved in a particular way , i.e. through a ‘ profane illumination ’ brought about through the juxtaposition of two or more seemingly incongruous figures . |
| 9 | In the past two and half years it has risen four times in real terms to pay for the publication of more and more glossy pamphlets such as the parents charter — party political propaganda produced at the taxpayers ' expense . |
| 10 | Historically , one of the earliest frequency-locking phenomena to be studied in laser physics was the locking of three or more longitudinal modes . |
| 11 | Botham may find himself having to bowl rather more than his contract anticipated , and with nearly half the team aged 35 or more they will need a fit physio-therapist . |
| 12 | This apparent lack of interest in the difference between one and more than one is no more surprising than the lack of interest in duality in English and most European languages . |
| 13 | Bulleid strongly advocated the need for new and more powerful steam locomotives and obtained authority for this . |
| 14 | He also stressed the need for faster and more sophisticated vessels to combat modern smuggling by sea . |
| 15 | The first covers those sites where the main occupation is focused around the junction of two or more through routes . |
| 16 | They remain so today despite the appearance of bigger and more powerful hunters which have compelled them to be more circumspect in their behaviour . |
| 17 | However , although the availability of new and more contemporary data generates much activity , interest , and publishable analyses , it might not cast much more light on the resource allocation problem for the reasons outlined above . |
| 18 | There is general agreement that a better understanding of the mechanisms of invasion and metastasis will lead to the development of new and more successful treatment strategies . |
| 19 | The concept of motor skill is associated , with the development of longer and more complex patterns of activity which can be reeled off following a single trigger and which are monitored on the basis that only feedback which indicates errors needs attention . |
| 20 | In this way a process of evolution was started that led to the development of more and more complicated , self-reproducing organisms . |
| 21 | Much as technology seems to gather pace with the development of more and more sophisticated equipment so do the methods employed by the many users . |
| 22 | According to FECODE , the situation is not improving : 47 teachers have been killed since the beginning of 1991 and more than 400 have received death threats . |
| 23 | The primary purpose of our defence policy is , therefore , that it should protect us , our allies , and our friends against the whole spectrum of possible aggression and military threats , from small local action which might be the beginning of larger and more dangerous adventures through ‘ nuclear blackmail ’ to nuclear war . |
| 24 | At least 4 out of 16 ( 25 per cent ) of the adolescents had reached the age of sixteen or more without receiving any information from adults about sexually transmitted diseases and contraception . |
| 25 | A further important complication for the study of implementation introduced by the involvement of professionals is that some activities depend upon the co-operation of two or more professional groups . |
| 26 | For if all the parts were neatly laid down in the egg like a little homunculus , then separating the embryo into two or more separate parts would divide the pattern in two or more and each should form just a fragment of the whole . |
| 27 | Thus it does seem that the sequence of more and more refined theories should have some limit as we go to higher and higher energies , so that there should be some ultimate theory of the universe . |
| 28 | It is suggested , therefore , that the three mosaics with concentric , circular borders associated with a regular grid are also reflections of the trend to centralised and more fluid representation It is especially in such " fluid and curving design , often accompanied by accomplished figural work , that the third facet is conspicuous . |
| 29 | This tendency has been exacerbated by other factors too : the invention of new and more effective methods of communication , such as newspapers and television , has rendered the propaganda value of coinage less significant ; technological changes , such as the invention of modern methods of factory production of coins , have tended to fossilise the significance of the designs they bear ; and , particularly , the recent invention of new forms of money , including banknotes and credit cards , has enormously reduced the role played by coinage in the monetary and economic activity of modern states . |
| 30 | Mary Heilman has lately been setting herself the task of uniting the eccentric spaces resulting from what appear to be the merging of two or more rectangular canvases . |