Example sentences of "[conj] more a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Treasury and Civil Service Committee ( Second Report , 1987–8 ) recommendation that departmental reports should give information about the costs of major publicity and advertising is to apply for departments who spend £½ million or more a year on paid UK publicity . |
| 2 | We will aim to guarantee everyone out of work for six months or more a place on either a high quality training programme or on a work programme with a strong element of training . |
| 3 | The number of visits was much greater : 11 per cent had 300 or more — almost one a day , 33 per cent between 100 and 300 — two or more a week on average , 19 per cent 50 — 99 , between one and two a week , 4 per cent 20–49 — between one a fortnight and one a week , 14 per cent 10–19 — less than one a fortnight , 12 per cent had less than 10 or less than one a month . |
| 4 | That view is reinforced by the Newsons , who say : ‘ The measures that stand out as the most predictive of criminal record before 20 years are having been smacked or beaten once or more a week at 11 , and having a mother with a high commitment to formal physical punishment at that age . ’ |
| 5 | In some areas the birth of a child might add a shilling or more a week to the wage , leading to some pessimistic projections of runaway demographic increase , notably by followers of Thomas Malthus whose " Essay on Population " of 1798 was the most important ideological underpinning for the views of those who were beginning to urge a much harsher attitude towards the poor as the cost of their relief surged . |
| 6 | I fell into one of those drooly , head-lolling dozes that seem to be more and more a feature of my advancing years . |
| 7 | There ( right ) they joined together with other pilgrims in what is becoming more and more a feature of Catholic life once again in England . |
| 8 | The bus came and they boarded it , but to Erika it seemed less like the familiar old lumbering , lurching , yellow Berlin bus , and more a vehicle of romance , gliding through a night made mysterious by more than fog . |
| 9 | These will increase in efficiency , and with strong belief in hard work and more education , and with the organisation and money provided by Japan , and helped by cheaper labour , will be more and more a threat to all Western economies . |
| 10 | But maybe he thinks Hollywood is less the big break he needs and more a kind of career prat fall . |
| 11 | They have been responsible locally , particularly in areas of the highest deprivation , and they are paying surcharges to local councils of £20 , £50 , £70 and more a year for those who can not pay the poll tax . |
| 12 | However , as the medical picture became more clear , there became more and more a sense of underlying tension , with heroic care being delivered by people possessing the knowledge that it was n't going to work . |
| 13 | Though all three sides of the new diplomatic ‘ triangle ’ are interconnected , all too often , states find less connectivity and more a sense of contradictory pulls among the imperatives of choices that can not be avoided , as figure 2.1 illustrates . |
| 14 | In addition to the factors already discussed , the main stimulus to employers ' organisation in a number of countries appears to have been less that of a counter to growing union power , or an attempt to achieve market or labour force regulation , and more a response to what was perceived as a threat to common employer interests arising from increasing state intervention . |
| 15 | Under the watchful eye of the provodnitsy — the female ticket-collectors , tea dispensers and mother hens — you feel less a stranger on a train and more a member of an extended family , sharing food , drink and gossip — even if you ca n't understand a word of Russian . |
| 16 | ‘ And I am still your maid , ’ McAllister had said gaily to him , but , of course , she was now less and less of a maid and more a member of the family , working side by side with Matey in cheerful equality , living and playing with them in the evening , and when Dr Neil spoke of the wedding day again she said that she must write to her uncle at least , before anything could be arranged , and let him think that she had done so . |
| 17 | The plan of the book is related to its overall purpose of demystifying research , making it more accessible and more a part of everyday work and decision making . |
| 18 | Internationalization is the notion that each country 's economy has become less self-contained and more a part of a global process of production and change . |
| 19 | As the Quality Improvement Process becomes more and more a part of C&P 's culture , quality education will naturally become more integrated with the mainstream training programmes at all levels . |
| 20 | ‘ Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe . ’ |
| 21 | How can we possibly retain that self-reliance and confidence if we become more and more a nation of programmed consumers , stuffed with the produce of an automated technology over which we feel we can have little influence ? |
| 22 | Here is seen less of the Baltic brick approach and more a derivation of French and English design . |
| 23 | By 1880 this was more and more a matter of Great Russian chauvinism within the boundaries of the Russian Empire , and tsarist imperialism abroad , but it had great sentimental appeal among Slavs living under non-Slav rulers who were encouraged by it to look to this ‘ big brother ’ . |
| 24 | However , the cost differential is rapidly diminishing , and as some of these benefits can be obtained simply by the addition of a micro-computer to a spectrophotometer , the choice between spectrophotometer and interferometer is becoming more and more a matter for the individual spectroscopist . |
| 25 | At the secondary-school stage it becomes less a partnership between all three and more a matter for the individual student and his or her advisers , whether from inside the school or outside . |
| 26 | But whereas rap music is still very much a street-level phenomenon , jazz has become more and more a domain of the white middle classes . |
| 27 | This is because in Canada the view that rape is less a crime of sex and more a crime of violence has been pursued with particular fervour . |
| 28 | His cautious and methodical ways , once so valuable a buffer to Richard 's impetuosity , now become more and more a cause of annoyance . |
| 29 | For him negotiating is less a game of poker and more a game of chess . |
| 30 | ‘ I was thinking more of Pretty In Pink , but I really like the idea of music in films , where the song 's less incidental but more a part of the film . |