Example sentences of "a [adj] and more [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We have concluded that future growth opportunities can best be exploited by a simpler and more efficient organisation than exists today and we will be making a significant capital investment to increase production efficiency at our Kirkliston site as well as increasing our marketing effort worldwide . ’ |
| 2 | But conventionalism can not be justified on the sole ground that surprise is inefficient or undesirable in these ways , because conventionalism does not protect against surprise as well as a simpler and more straightforward theory of adjudication would . |
| 3 | A simpler and more pleasant way of achieving the same end was to use jade vessels for food and drink . |
| 4 | As this inhibition was less than the accompanying inhibition of PGE 2 it was possible to argue that some substrate diversion might have occurred , although weak inhibition of the 5-lipoxygenase enzyme by indomethacin seems a simpler and more plausible explanation . |
| 5 | In March 1990 Iain Vallance , its chairman , announced a reorganisation programme called Project Sovereign , aimed at achieving ‘ a leaner and more supple organisation , structured to meet the differing needs of all our customers . |
| 6 | He said Hong Kong could face a ‘ period of political siege for the next four years followed by an abrupt transition to a harsher and more repressive regime . ’ |
| 7 | But one criticism made later in the same commentary drew attention to what was thought to be missing " above all , two things : one of them a sense of history , both a broad and more local framework within which the achievement of these schools can be placed and evaluated ; the other a sense of the actual texture of the schools themselves " ( Tizard et al. |
| 8 | Since the heady days of Henson it had become a duller and more local object . |
| 9 | It was felt that improved contact would lead to a greater participation in Society affairs by members , which in turn , would lead to a healthier and more informed Society . |
| 10 | It is the response of the supermarket business as a whole to the demand for a healthier and more natural product , freshly produced to a high standard , which has led to the advent of the in-store bakery , and in turn created the need , at any rate within Sainsbury 's , for structured , high quality management training , geared much more towards how we plan the business to grow over the next five to ten years than it is to simply manning the pumps . |
| 11 | Above all the territory was regarded as crucial to Japan 's strategic line of defence , but in this respect Korea was a nearer and more immediate problem . |
| 12 | On its own , the call for a broader and more political curriculum leaves untouched vital questions of scope , purpose , organisation and control . |
| 13 | Cheque book journalism is a broader and more complex issue than the confiscation of the proceeds of crime and is bound up with the more general question of media reporting of the criminal justice system . |
| 14 | Bank Assistants are carrying out a broader and more responsible range of duties than those on which their salaries are based . |
| 15 | Moreover , if the plates were accompanied by a descriptive text , giving information about the nature and habits of each species figured , the production might appeal to a broader and more conventional audience . |
| 16 | The majority report concluded that there should be equal representation of owners and trade unions ; and then proceeds straight to the view that a third group of co-opted directors should be appointed , adding as their first reason that those directors would bring special experience to the board room , and a broader and more detached view of the company 's affairs . |
| 17 | I had expected a sharper tongue in the office , a brisker and more brittle approach to the anarchic thoughtlessness of the girls . |
| 18 | Given the diversity of membership within both organisations , neither was likely to metamorphose itself into a different and more integrated organisation . |
| 19 | In the Heine settings , sung in a different and more logical order than that in the Peters Edition , it is the stark immediacy of the readings that strikes home and once more Fassbaender 's colouring and/or illuminating of individual words , such as the darkening of tone at ‘ Der Schiffer ’ in ‘ Die Stadt ’ or the emphasis on ‘ längst ’ and ‘ Platz ’ in ‘ Der Doppelgänger ’ , which would seem to be the appropriate hair-raising climax of this arresting interpretation until one hears the harsh defiance of ‘ Der Atlas ’ . |
| 20 | By contrast , as De Lauretis has noted , a different and more recent set of developments seems to be taking shape . |
| 21 | People asked exoneration from a mistake made by a group to which they belonged-the nation-not in individual innocence but in membership of a different and more immediate community that had acted well , a state that had not voted for a dishonest president . |
| 22 | The events of 1934 showed Joyce the propagandist in a different and more chilling role . |
| 23 | More recent events in the Soviet Union , Eastern Europe , and Central Europe have cast de Gaulle 's policy in a different and more favourable light , however . |
| 24 | Thus after the Christianization of Ireland , the priestly function was removed to a quite different kind of order , increasingly employing writing , while the bardic function , still often oral , entered a different and more specialized relationship to the aristocratic families . |
| 25 | The books which were in the house were of another kind and pursued a different and more old-fashioned simplification ; some of them were indeed Victorian in fact as well as in tone , relics of her grandmother 's childhood . |
| 26 | The political winds had also been blowing from a different and more conservative direction . |
| 27 | Larry Birns , director of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs , quoting US government sources , said ‘ the United States was conspiring with a different and more senior group of conspirators ’ . |
| 28 | We were to witness a different and more promising sacrifice only after we had spent many patient weeks in Bira , when a white cock and a black goat were ritually slaughtered in Sinar Surya 's hull , signifying that at last we were about to depart . |
| 29 | A further and more complex instance of this has been the National Accelerated Development Programme ( NADP ) . |
| 30 | Moral standards imposed a further and more subtle restriction on women . |