Example sentences of "[subord] more [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This emerged in the practical group planning sessions , where more critical members joined diligently with others in working on the details of communicative teaching programmes . |
| 2 | Informal , even oral , arrangements may be acceptable where reconnaissance work is being undertaken , but where more costly exploration work is contemplated the company should seek a written agreement with the mineral owner . |
| 3 | But where more intensive support is required , over a longer period , he or she needs to be able to put the patient into contact with a relevant mutual aid group , befriending scheme , counselling service , or psychiatric crisis support scheme . |
| 4 | I glance , speculatively , towards the window , where more bad weather has blown in from the North Sea . |
| 5 | " Quiss she began quietly , He shook his head , kicked the small chair he had been sitting on , and marched off across the squeaking , grating glass floor , heading for his own apartments , Before he left the games room for the short corridor which led to his rooms , he stopped by the side wall of the room , where more conventional paper and cardboard books lined the slate fabric of the castle — the masons ' lame attempt at insulation . |
| 6 | An appropriate set of product communications needs to be sent out at the very earliest opportunity and more expensive , albeit more responsive media , such as a telephone , should be brought into effect . |
| 7 | By the Monday they were to shout down with peculiar virulence a similar although more long-winded question by Churchill . |
| 8 | One spoke of the painting ‘ … being to do with life … as life goes on ’ but , although more actual surface aspects were noticed , the judgment could be taken no further . |
| 9 | The value of the elasticity of demand ε is based on an estimate by Metcalf and Cowling ( 1967 ) , although more recent estimates by Burrell ( 1989 ) suggest a similar value . |
| 10 | Although more recent documents have been produced , a study of the main political parties ' policies on tax , the social security system and poverty during the 1987 General Election campaign summarises clearly the different strands of opinion expressed during the 1980s . |
| 11 | Later in the sequence the gastric contents take on a slightly more homogeneous quality , which may be caused by a reduction in particle size , although more prolonged imaging would be required to confirm this conclusively . |
| 12 | This having been said , the consultation generated almost three times the volume correspondence as the last major consultation on the revision of the practice rules in 1990 , and roughly four times as many responses as were received in connection with the consultation on multi-disciplinary partnerships in 1987 ( although more local law society responses were received to the 1987 consultation ) . |
| 13 | The focus will be upon the routine ways in which the majority of complaints are dealt with inside these organizations , although more formal procedures will also be looked at . |
| 14 | Commission chairman , P.K. Iyengar , claims that such work is labour intensive , and hence India will be better placed to offer an economical service than more developed nations . |
| 15 | Mothers who had finished full time education before age 17 were more likely to have their membranes artificially ruptured before labour than more educated women ( 120/972 ( 12% ) v 33/422 ( 8% ) , p<0.05 ) . |
| 16 | ‘ Square ’ stones are more difficult to remove than more rounded ones . |
| 17 | Results show that interviewers who have worked for over five years have lower refusal rates than more recent recruits . |
| 18 | The table also makes it clear that older publications were not necessarily in a significantly greater state of disrepair than more recent items . |
| 19 | Indeed , Leonard 's main recollection of his father lies in that style , rather than more personal attributes or memories , and he is wont to describe him with his top hat and gloves , his cane and spats , and miniature service medals . |
| 20 | ‘ Why should you suppose me any less proud than more fortunate females ? ’ |
| 21 | Narrow topics like " Whig reforms 1 830–41 " or " the suffragette movement " are less likely to be overburdened with detail than more general topics like British foreign policy , 1815–65 " or " Britain 's inter-war economy " . |
| 22 | Not surprisingly , less familiar shapes are named incorrectly more frequently than more familiar ones . |
| 23 | Israel began to integrate elements of the military government into its own civil ministries , proving that the kind of autonomy it had in mind implied less rather than more Palestinian control over their affairs . |
| 24 | We report here that ganglion cells near the fovea were allocated 3.3 to 5.9 times more cortical tissue than more peripheral ones , and conclude that the cortical representation of the most central retina is much greater than expected from the density of its ganglion cells . |
| 25 | The report , Indoor Pollution , concludes that the low quality of air in commercial buildings has led to " reduced health and efficiency for many people over long numbers of years ' , which may have had " greater economic impact than more life-threatening conditions " . |
| 26 | A move towards supporting business activities is likely to lead to more investment in favourable rather than more depressed economies , as the SDA attempts to assist ‘ winners ’ . |
| 27 | There was no evidence , however , that older material was necessarily in a greater state of disrepair than more modern publications . |
| 28 | Thus jobs which involve social interaction with other workers are generally more satisfying than socially isolated work ; monotonous , repetitive work is more likely to be linked with job dissatisfaction than more varied work ; jobs which involve responsibility and the ability to organize work time and work methods are generally preferred over those which lack these qualities , and so forth . |
| 29 | Increasingly , it is this type of study , rather than more expensive excavation , which is allowing new discoveries to be made at Pompeii . |
| 30 | Why should more capital spending on hospitals make the National Health Service more ‘ productive ’ than more current spending on nurses ? |