Example sentences of "[prep] the more [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | these matters be king 's games , as it were stage plays , and for the more part played upon scaffolds . |
| 2 | Indeed , Britain 's forthcoming presidency of the European Commission might be used as an opportunity for the more dirigiste members of Mr Major 's staff to press for a move to the narrow band of the ERM , in which case interest rates must be locked into those of Germany . |
| 3 | It would make an ideal present for a young person whose railway consciousness was just being awoken and , perhaps , light reading for the more railway aware person who still has a hankering to remain in touch with history . |
| 4 | They really only showed the official part of today 's procession and cut it pretty speedily , in fact as the more alarmist banners started to come into view . |
| 5 | ‘ The amateurs do things you 'd never see in the commercial stuff , ’ I was told by one connoisseur of raunch , an unemployed factory worker named Jesse who I found sitting on the floor of a porn shop in Manhattan 's Times Square , diligently sifting through dozens of the more hardcore amateur tapes . |
| 6 | It was only some years later , when the over-expansion he had forecast had materialised , and some of the more obscurantist leaders of the industry had been replaced by new men , that the industry came to terms with the problem ( see pp. 212–17 , below ) . |
| 7 | Coarser gauges and of course knitting some of the more specialist yarns like Channel which in particular . |
| 8 | Even one of the more conservative of Willaert 's disciples , Andrea Gabrieli ( c. 1515–1586 ) , expressly mentions the use of instruments ( ‘ tum viva Voce , tum omnis generis Instrumentis ’ ) in his Sacrae cantiones ( 1565 ) and again in his Penitential Psalms ( 1583 ) . |
| 9 | While many of the more stock responses regarding the " flatness ' of Hemingway 's prose style were produced , there were problems in explaining how this " flatness ' was created in the text . |
| 10 | Half of the more acid lakes in southern Norway have no fish at all . |
| 11 | Hospital services were developed without general practitioners being asked whether they were required and often at the expense of the more routine but essential treatment our patients required . |
| 12 | Some Scots activists argue that this is more effective in the context of the more collectivist Scottish political culture . |
| 13 | Some of the more alarmist projections estimated this would need to rise to one in two in the early 1990s to maintain current intake patterns ( Callender and Pearson 1989 ) . |
| 14 | This did not mean , as some had assumed , that Man might recklessly pillage Nature for what he sought ; indeed , Nature was deserving of the more respect because it was a divine creation . |
| 15 | Lemurs are considered to be amongst the more primitive of the primates . |
| 16 | ‘ Hopes And Fears ’ , an ocean of strings ( courtesy of The Reggae Philharmonic Orchestra ) , is set against the more pizzicato rhythms of ‘ Self ’ . |
| 17 | He compares these people with the more conservative of our piscatorial ancestors who , a billion years ago , resisted the temptation to clamber on to dry land and decided to stay where they were . |
| 18 | Sex actually raises testosterone levels — so perhaps that 's why sexual drive seems to accelerate with the more sex you have , and partly why people who stop having sex forget about it . |
| 19 | And the 105bhp XR3i is rated four groups higher than the 103bhp Citroen ZX Furio , while the 137 bhp Renault Clio 16v is rated in group 11 along with the more pedestrian 93bhp Renault 19 RT turbo diesel saloon . |
| 20 | That either they have n't been able to think about it very carefully , not looking at the real options , or have n't got an electric point , so they ca n't have an electric shredder , or whatever the appropriate way of dealing with the more sort of shrubby erm waste that they 're likely to have . |
| 21 | Graduates from the more specialist ( and less prestigious ) Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications ( ENST ) are found throughout the top management of the DGT and , in particular , in the key positions within the R&D division of the DGT , the CNET . |
| 22 | But a sequential approach runs the risk of entering some markets too late to catch the wave of fashion or of meeting already entrenched opposition from the more fleet of foot . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , back in raffish Brighton , their Daleyesque lock-ups and ‘ shops ’ , nestling uneasily between tea-rooms and boutiques in the more louche fringes of the town , serve simply as warehouses . |
| 24 | As class sizes will be limited , the earlier you get your entry in the more chance you have of being included in your preferred classes . |
| 25 | The European Community competition commissioner Karel Van Miert is endorsing proposals — bitterly contested in the more state corporatist member countries — for breaking up national telephone monopolies by 1998 to free markets for calls both within and between member states ; the idea of an interim deregulation that would affect only transborder traffic has now been abandoned ; the UK is the only Community member open to phone call competition ; Denmark will follow suit next year and the Netherlands is expected to move as well ; Van Miert wants the Community to set liberalisation priorities and a timetable by year end , including proposals for regulatory changes by the end of 1994 , with market-opening to start in 1995 . |
| 26 | Bourdieu 's Distinction , in common with several other approaches to consumption , such as that of semiotics , is largely based upon the mapping of differences between goods on to differences between social groups , which , in the more reductionist instances , are often treated as prior social divisions unaltered by this process of signification . |
| 27 | Their choice to negotiate for them over the property group 's restructuring is the American financier who , after a colourful career in the more maverick corners of the Euromarkets , agreed to buy the Marshalls money-broking business from British & Commonwealth but failed to find the cash . |
| 28 | ( Spinoza was opposed to the more life denying aspects of the Calvinism of his time . ) |
| 29 | There , in the spring , they lay their eggs at a great depth and the minute larvae float up to the more surface waters with the onset of summer . |
| 30 | Now , APX quality and sound are available to the more budget conscious musician with the launch of three new guitars ; the APX-4 , APX Special I and APX Special II . |