Example sentences of "a more [adj] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the price of achieving justice for offending corporations is a more socialized mode of production , that may be a price worth paying if our lives , limbs , and property are protected from predatory transnational corporations . |
| 2 | This defines a more restricted concept of style , which may be called STYLE , to distinguish it from the notion of style as linguistic choice in general , STYLE . |
| 3 | In contrast , the UK takes a more neutral view of monopoly , requiring the Monopolies and Mergers Commission to demonstrate that a monopoly is acting against the public interest , and the same principle carries over to the assessment of prospective mergers . |
| 4 | Write in a wide variety of forms with a more assured sense of purpose , organising and presenting subject matter appropriately for specified audiences , both known and unknown . |
| 5 | These masterpieces showed Bonington ( and Delacroix ) how to achieve a new breadth of handling , a more assured command of form , and a more naturalistic use of colour in their pictures . |
| 6 | These included weekly visits to each fieldworker by a supervisor , who observed interviews , revisited compounds , and either conducted full re-interviews or checked a more limited set of information on a sample of recently completed interview forms . |
| 7 | However , in some important respects there are differences in treatment the most notable being as follows : ( 1 ) The hirer is granted a more limited right of termination under s101(1) of CCA 1974 . |
| 8 | The massive duchy land grant of May 1469 was replaced by a more limited package of office , although even this was subsequently whittled down further , presumably under pressure from the Stanleys , and parts of the grant of 1471 seem never to have taken effect . |
| 9 | The massive duchy land grant of May 1469 was replaced by a more limited package of office , although even this was subsequently whittled down further , presumably under pressure from the Stanleys , and parts of the grant of 1471 seem never to have taken effect . |
| 10 | The need to make films longer , in order to compete with American and French imports , also bred a more insidious form of dependence . |
| 11 | In the industrial type of society there is , according to Spencer , a tendency for central regulation and coercive control to decline and to be replaced by representative institutions and a more diffuse system of regulation ; but this view is then qualified in various ways , and Spencer finally concludes that representative government depends largely upon the existence of a particular type of economy the laissez-faire free-enterprise economy — which creates the conditions in which ‘ multitudinous objects are achieved by spontaneously evolved combinations of citizens governed representatively ’ . |
| 12 | But we must distinguish between a type of interaction which is precisely regulated by the syntactic structure of the sentence , and a more diffuse type of interaction , not dependent on syntax , but merely on discourse propinquity . |
| 13 | Er a bus system however is more able to provide a more diffuse pattern of access to those areas , from outside , wherever the new settlement is located . |
| 14 | As in many other African countries , political developments in Burkina were dominated by moves to create a more pluralistic form of government . |
| 15 | ( Montaigne said that ‘ even constancy is a more sluggish form of movement ’ . ) |
| 16 | The Arabs have a more thorough grasp of medicine than we . |
| 17 | Only a more thorough duty of disclosure ( perhaps achieved indirectly through a doctrine of unilateral mistake ) could satisfy the former interest , for the common law generally limits its protection — in line with a narrow conception of the reliance interest — to reliance upon false statements . |
| 18 | We should hope that it presages a more thorough review of alcohol taxation . |
| 19 | If you prefer to do a more thorough job of sound-monitoring , a better alternative to the earpiece is a pair of full-size headphones . |
| 20 | Finance director Tony Isaac believes that the 27% fall in the audit fee to £1.1m is also attributable to ‘ moving internally into having a more uniform set of management reports ’ . |
| 21 | There would be a more uniform distribution of traffic across the area and traffic volumes would be brought into line with area functions and land-use policies . |
| 22 | My further example of the stylistics of self-reference , from the writings of Michael Riffaterre , is a more recent instance of deviation-theory , but assigns to it a more restricted role than the Prague School did within the literary text . |
| 23 | A more recent example of population loss is to be seen in the Wells area of north Norfolk ( Drudy and Wallace 1971 ) . |
| 24 | A more recent summary of profit trends arrived at similar conclusions and also showed that the decline in profitability in the UK was sharper than that in other countries , as Table 5.3 indicates . |
| 25 | The notion of centrifugal launchers was based on the idea that rather than using a long , straight runway , the aircraft could take-off following a circular path around a tower , or possibly a more mobile type of launcher , rather in the manner of ‘ round-the-pole ’ model aircraft . |
| 26 | groups and a number of London based teachers who want a more honest appraisal of drama education as a political tool . |
| 27 | Patterned sampling erodes the field man 's personal discretion while it offers a more visible index of activity for the organization . |
| 28 | Containing his curiosity for the moment , Vologsky smiled and adopted a more casual tone of voice . |
| 29 | Rather there had been a subtle unravelling of what had once been a more integrated pattern of recreation . |
| 30 | Studies which illustrate the pain and distress many relinquishing mothers experience for years to come ( sadly , information about fathers is unavailable ) would suggest a more inclusive form of adoption ( Panor and Baran , 1984 ; Winkler and Keppel , 1984 ) . |