Example sentences of "the more [adj] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , the more recent history of pension provision shows more concern on the part of both governments and occupational pension providers to increase widows ' benefits ( themselves symbolic of the financial dependence of wives in marriage ) , than to help women build up their own occupational pension records . |
| 2 | Indeed , the more recent history of community mental handicap teams is even more impressive . |
| 3 | The more recent studies of discourse analysis have captured the tones which people use to talk of others . |
| 4 | I am encouraged to see that in the more recent case of Ensign Tankers v. Stokes the House of Lords has now rejected the notion that the mere fact that a transaction is undertaken for the purpose of obtaining a fiscal advantage compels the court to ignore and nullify all the fiscal consequences which are beneficial to the taxpayer . |
| 5 | Nowadays the keen water gardener has become far more selective when purchasing waterlilies , either trying to obtain some of the rarer varieties or experimenting with some of the more recent introductions of nymphaea , especially some of the outstanding new varieties that have been produced in America . |
| 6 | The common experience of Christianity , of similar concepts of family , together with the more recent experience of urbanisation and industrialisation , all mark Europe out as fundamentally different from the Arab world or from India . |
| 7 | Among the host of popular classes that have been running for several years — upholstery , art , body conditioning , keep fit , body talk , jazz dance , electronic organ , and two levels of French — there are also the more recent additions of appreciation of poetry , yoga for beginners and dressmaking . |
| 8 | They also claim that these discontinuities were aggravated by the more frequent turnover of party control in the government in the 1970s and the influence exercised in both parties by its more partisan groups . |
| 9 | There are three techniques which amount to working rules for the more efficient discovery of pollution . |
| 10 | If we are to prevent the industry from repeating the mistakes of the past , we should seek ‘ more imaginative investment strategies that promote the more efficient use of capital ’ . |
| 11 | The more efficient use of energy which may be in prospect does not ensure economic viability , particularly when interest rates are so high . |
| 12 | ‘ It is plainly in the interests of the more efficient administration of justice that there should be split trials in appropriate cases , as even where the decision on the first part of a split trial is such that there will have to be a second part , it may be desirable that the decision shall be appealed before incurring the possibly unnecessary expense of the second part . |
| 13 | Other factors were deployed , but the standpoint of the report was predominantly that of the legal profession and local affinities , rather than the interests of the accused or the more efficient despatch of business . |
| 14 | Much the same range of locations seems to prevail for the more romanized forms of housing . |
| 15 | The origins of many of these will be the unresolved issues in the process of children growing older , and growing away from their parents , problems which are the more usual subject of family therapy . |
| 16 | There are also the more usual options of Output for saving and printing , Help and Quit . |
| 17 | On the less dramatic level , we can see in Dr Scott 's account the more usual performance of mystery — the acceptance of responsibility by mere presence . |
| 18 | This is because the church has an asymmetrical plan with a single southern aisle rather than the more usual arrangement of south and north aisles flanking a central nave . |
| 19 | Part One encompasses Part Two , the more usual form of accreditation as it covers the design of distribution contracts as well as their operations . |
| 20 | THE National Health Service will be permanently transformed as a result of the Conservative victory , with fund-holding family doctors and self-governing hospitals becoming the more usual form of organisation of health care over the next five years . |
| 21 | Then each instruction at the normal level of machine code ( such as " store accumulator " ) is implemented as a sequence or microprogram of such primitive operations or micro-instructions ; the more complex instructions of course require looping and conditional jumping in the microprogram , just as in conventional programming . |
| 22 | This approach is most likely to apply to the more complex issues of quality control , and to the improvement of processes , where machine functioning and location , materials used and other factors need to be seen in context , if changes are to be made in the process . |
| 23 | It is informal in operation , by its nature unequal in its distribution and in practice a means of subverting both unredeemed meritocracy and the more complex goals of equality of opportunity . |
| 24 | However , the whole question of the effects of teaching around ‘ race ’ , whether in multiculturalist or other forms , requires recasting in the light of the more complex understanding of racism and racist subjectivities being proposed here . |
| 25 | The main principle is that the secretarial aspect should not be allowed to predominate in the assessment while the more complex aspects of composition are ignored . |
| 26 | In pairs of this type , the work being done by " you know what I mean " and " you know " is fundamentally different from the work they are doing in the more Standard sort of exchange in ( 1 ) . |
| 27 | He is guaranteed to find his plans frustrated by the more powerful departments of state , unless he runs constantly to Major for backing . |
| 28 | Yang Shangkun 's younger half-brother , Yang Baibing , although promoted to the politburo , was removed from the more powerful post of secretary-general of the CMC . |
| 29 | It is , I believe , this same ‘ sthenic spur , ’ or determination to survive as a self-defined individual , which causes the anorexic to reject suicide — another form of surrender — and to choose the more arduous life of self-starvation , not in order to die , but in order to live and go on living . |
| 30 | Policies of " hiving-off " non core services , compulsory competitive tendering in local government and the health service , a greater role for the private and voluntary sectors in the provision of welfare and the more effective incorporation of business into the " local state " ( Cochrane 1991 ) have all been politically willed , often against considerable opposition . |