Example sentences of "has [vb pp] a more [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This point is also being registered in relation to sexism in schools ( Wolpe , 1989 ) and has provoked a more general rethinking of educational processes in which poststructuralist theorizing is beginning to exercise a belated , but in my view welcome , influence ( Walkerdine , 1991 ) . |
| 2 | She has just started at Luton Sixth Form College , in Bedfordshire , but she has picked a more varied menu than the traditional sixth form diet of three A-levels . |
| 3 | A report to the policy and resources committee says the council has adopted a more friendly approach in its letters . |
| 4 | In the North and West of England , however , the presence of fewer middle-class people , poorer communications and more difficult terrain has imposed a more limited distance on commuting . |
| 5 | ‘ No class in Russian history ’ , to quote a leading liberal historian , ‘ has had a more momentous impact on the destinies of that nation or indeed of the modern world . ’ |
| 6 | In the meanwhile , it appears that the over-elaborate Kenyan system of import licensing has had a more dampening effect on the animal spirits of entrepreneurs than the more selective Brazilian CACEX system . |
| 7 | This practice , common in America and spreading to Europe , has had a more dramatic effect on corporate attitudes to waste management than almost anything else . |
| 8 | But while this has injected a more diverse element into the Lords , it is still an establishment made up largely of rich people . |
| 9 | No factory has played a more central role in France 's industrial and social development , particularly after Renault was nationalised in 1945 as a punishment for collaboration . |
| 10 | Not only have expectations of the future of oil prices been progressively lowered thus making most synfuel projects appear more expensive but investment cost estimates of these huge projects have also risen inexorably as the industry has reached a more exact comprehension of the real engineering costs . |
| 11 | Modern philosophy has reached a more satisfactory understanding of the importance of language , language games and grammar , in the sense of the informal logic of language games , than was available to Freud . |
| 12 | She has become a more equal partner in decision-making , in the enjoyment of sex , and in control over domestic resources . |
| 13 | In a somewhat different sense , involving to some extent the balance of rights between generations , the natural environment of human life and more generally the ‘ quality of life ’ , has become a more prominent issue in relation both to economic development and to population growth , through the rapidly expanding activities of ecology movements . |
| 14 | In the modern construction industry , however , quality control has become a more integral part of the building process , and our clerks of works were spending more of their time acting as assistant project managers . |
| 15 | Why is it only recently that Humberside has become a more attractive growth point for industries ? |
| 16 | However , SERPs has become a more marginal system as a result of recent changes in the legislation relating to pensions . |
| 17 | Traditionally , markets are held in the open air , often on a certain day , or days , of the week , but in many towns the market has become a more permanent set-up , incorporated into a modern shopping precinct . |
| 18 | In the 1980s stock-taking has become a more unfashionable activity and many libraries check their stock rarely or not at all — despite the opportunities for more streamlined stock-taking offered by automated stock records . |
| 19 | However , given that people 's personal valuation of environmental qualities ( such as the open countryside ) has tended to increase in proportion to the degree to which they are degraded through development , it is reasonable to assume that what may appear to be a net benefit to the present generation in a trade-off between the environment and a proposed development , is quite likely to be considered a net loss in retrospect by a future generation for whom the natural environment has become a more precious commodity . |
| 20 | However , given that people 's personal valuation of environmental qualities ( such as the open countryside ) has tended to increase in proportion to the degree to which they are degraded through development , it is reasonable to assume that what may appear to be a net benefit to the present generation in a trade-off between the environment and a proposed development , is quite likely to be considered a net loss in retrospect by a future generation for whom the natural environment has become a more precious commodity . |
| 21 | The mortgage market has become a more competitive arena in the years since the early 1980s . |
| 22 | The family has become a more isolated unit , relatively separate from wider sets of kin , and functioning chiefly as a conjugal or nuclear unit . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , the UK has experienced a more rapid growth in both investment and output in the past decade than in the previous decade . |
| 24 | He is more cultured , more thoughtful , has led a more normal life . |
| 25 | She disagrees with the implication that the DoH has cast a more favourable glance over the needs of health authorities and is adamant they are judged along the same lines as SSDs . |
| 26 | But on other occasions ( see box below ) Sit Patrick has taken a more robust view of juries . |
| 27 | We began this section by noting that , unlike the United States which takes a structural approach to anti-trust policy , in which the possession of monopoly power is itself regarded as objectionable , the UK has taken a more open view of the benefits of promoting competition . |
| 28 | Recognising the sheer impossibility of providing an adequate number of conversion courses of the 52 week full-time mode , the UKCC has outlined a more flexible approach to the problem by allowing for appropriate course content arrived at in ways outlined by PS & D/88/05 . |
| 29 | This season — a vital chapter in his progress — has required a more psychological approach . |
| 30 | In the latter part of the 1980s , the government has initiated a more wide-ranging change in the curriculum so that all secondary school pupils should do one or more ‘ practical ’ subjects . |