Example sentences of "more [adj] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What it does not convey are the undulations , the surprising humps and bumps more redolent of a seaside links . |
| 2 | So either you say there 's no general will or there is something like a general will , but it is not easily recognizable and for either reason you would want to be much more tolerant of the role minorities , either as a way of getting to the truth , or erm as a way of as it were making up the truth as you 're going along . |
| 3 | When in May 1940 the Commons divided on an issue of confidence in the Chamberlain government 's handling of the war , and the normal government majority was seen to have dropped significantly , Chamberlain decided to resign and to make way for Churchill , a leader more acceptable to the opposition parties . |
| 4 | The wallet contained a small amount of money in francs , dollars and local gourdes , but the Doctor was more interested in the identification papers which named the man as one Robert Blake , of the British Consulate . |
| 5 | They were more akin to the machine politicians we know today than to the noble coalition builders and power-brokers who preceded them . |
| 6 | This is because the intragranular pores have been occluded by a late-stage halite cement ( Fig. 29a ; Clark 1980a ) and , only after washing the core plugs in freshwater , were porosities obtained that were more typical of the platform carbonates . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , it is fair to say that he was far more conscious of the reductionist tendencies in logical positivism than were others who passed through this particular school of thought . |
| 8 | Thus treatment with salt ( or with freshwater for marine fish ) , formalin , quaternary ammonium compounds , malachite green , and antibiotics for example can be given at high dose for short duration , making them more effective against the disease organisms while offering a better safety margin to the fish through shorter contact time . |
| 9 | Since the Revolution in 1974 , women have gradually become more involved in the decision-making processes , and no longer are they confined to the teaching and nursing professions . |
| 10 | There is a significant tendency for staff in more senior positions ( who tend also to have more years of service ) to recall the review better , to believe the introduction of the review to have been more adequate , to be more involved in the review activities , more likely to keep a special diary as part of the review and more likely to make use of information routinely available for the review . |
| 11 | Here dating becomes more and more problematical as the time spans become longer and longer . |
| 12 | The Welsh Marches and the Midlands had been far more important as the power bases of major families and indeed were to remain so . |
| 13 | But more significantly the development and widespread availability of pre-designed packages , such as OCP ( the Oxford Concordance Package ) for concordance construction , and SPSS ( Statistical Package for Social Sciences ) for statistical analysis , meant that it was possible for the humanist to become more independent of the computing experts , and to operate with at most low-level assistance . |
| 14 | Calculation of standard errors of sample statistics is generally more complicated for the sampling schemes described in this chapter than for the simple random sample . |
| 15 | There are on average some 150 days a year when rain falls , and this goes up as you move inland into the Basque country proper , whose climate gets a little more extreme as the land rises . |
| 16 | ‘ Interest groups are more vociferous at the planning stages . |
| 17 | More prophetic of the place women were to fill in the sewing trades was his description of those who sewed stays and bodices . |
| 18 | But they were more successful in the target seats on which they had concentrated their efforts . |
| 19 | Unhappy endings were more familiar to the welfare workers . |
| 20 | Litter , graffiti , vandal damage , the numbers of children in care , urine and excrement pollution all became more common as the design values worsened within each variable . |
| 21 | Over 60 per cent of cases occur in males , and it is much more common among the Negro races than Caucasians , although this may reflect the areas where it is endemic rather than any racial predilection . |
| 22 | The BEA thus increasingly looked for sites more distant from the load centres , locating them instead on the coast ( where cooling water supplies were cheap and plentiful ) or on the coalfields ( where coal would be the cheapest ) . |
| 23 | Kaszubian produce , though initially cheaper than German farm produce , was much more expensive by the time levies and taxes had been added . |
| 24 | Evaluate the claim that women are more d ob Evaluate the claim that women are more observant of the prestige norms in their speech than men are . |
| 25 | Even more significant at the grass roots level was the reversal of government policy on self-help villages , christened ujamaa villages ( which in kiSwahili means familihood ) . |
| 26 | In fact , blood revenge and warfare are more intense between the constituent subgroupings than they are between them and other groups . |
| 27 | He says one lesson the bank has learned is the need to have better trained staff , ‘ more aware of the business problems of the person on the other side of the desk ’ . |
| 28 | I hope that as a result of visiting the vehicle , you will be more aware of the career possibilities in Science and Technology and of the interesting and fulfilling work opportunities they offer . |
| 29 | I hope that as a result of visiting WISE VI you , your colleagues and pupils will be more aware of the career possibilities in Science and Technology and of the interesting and fulfilling work opportunities they offer , both through study in further and higher education and subsequently employment . |
| 30 | ‘ Charities ’ trustees are more aware of the investment issues because of the recession , ’ Mr Marlow says . |