Example sentences of "[coord] more [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well-laid hedges of thorn , hazel , holly , or beech ( or more generally a mixture of several species ) form very effective barriers , and provide shelter for livestock and a habitat for wild life . |
| 2 | Within Kent itself it may be possible to identify a shift , or more probably a division , of power through the distribution and date of certain imports . |
| 3 | Benzene is possibly a chain with triple bonds or more probably a ring compound with double bonds ( see fig 3.1 ) . |
| 4 | She is a historian , or more properly a micro-historian , and she is writing a history of our hillside — the road I walk up from the station and the various lanes and alleyways that open off it . |
| 5 | A daughter ( or more rarely a son ) who has never left the parental home , or who has returned after widowhood or divorce to stay on indefinitely to care for an elderly parent or parents , does not make this choice automatically . |
| 6 | The control structure of any organization consists , by and large , of a definition of the relationships between controllability and responsibility , or more precisely a specification of which managers are responsible for which resources in the organization . |
| 7 | Smith argued that where a print run — or more likely a reprint — had left hundreds or thousands of unsold copies , it made sense in times of crippling warehouse costs and tight cash flows to unload slow-selling stock . |
| 8 | It is accurately spelled out but the wrong word ; it is a homonym or more technically a homophone , i.e. a word that sounds the same but is spelled differently , e.g. hair — hare ; threw — through . |
| 9 | The main part of the animal consists of a cup ( or calyx ) to which the stalk is attached at its upper end , and from the top of the calyx stretch long arms , which are five in number or more usually a multiple of five . |
| 10 | The search for alternative means of supplying services might derive its urgency from perceived rather than real crisis , and more particularly a disenchantment with state social planning as such . |
| 11 | Since then the site has been home to a nursery and more lately a garden centre , attracting more than 20,000 visitors a year . |
| 12 | Other specialists might be expected , among them bone-workers , tanners , bakers and millers , and perhaps other food retailers , as well as a local potter and more rarely a glass-blower , where the necessary raw materials were available . |
| 13 | ‘ A doctor , and more especially a surgeon , has to be involved . ’ |
| 14 | After 36 years of right-wing dictatorship , and more recently a decade of Mr Gonzalez 's rather unsocialist socialism , most Spaniards seem to want more , not less , left-wing government . |
| 15 | The isolation of ephedrine from ma huang in 1923 and more recently a group of antimalarial drugs qing hao from Artemisia in the 1970s has exemplified the important compounds in the armamentarium of traditional Chinese herbs . |
| 16 | The writer of those lines and I enjoyed many a lunch time snack in the Hotel Vancouver cafeteria , and more often a glass of lager in the upstairs lounge . |
| 17 | ( An influence on Leonard equal to that of A. M. Klein , also a lawyer , but more importantly a poet-novelist of considerable skill , whose familiarity with literature equalled his Jewish erudition and commitment unlike Leonard he was a ‘ ghetto ’ Jew of Montreal ) . |
| 18 | The next most important feature is a heavy weight ; at least a 1½oz bomb , but more likely a bomb of 2oz , and up to 3oz . |
| 19 | In its original form waveform detection was based on the modulating effect on the phase current of the motional voltage ( which in turn is a function of rotor position ) , but more recently a scheme using the variation of phase inductance with rotor Position has been proposed . |
| 20 | In some instances the researchers accepted that this pattern might be explained by the preponderance of mode B schemes ‘ but more often a process of ‘ guided drift ’ could be detected , based on a stereotyping of both young people and mode delivery ’ ( pp. 38 — 9 ) . |
| 21 | But more often a class will achieve an economic interest at the expense of an ideological one , or an ideological one at some cost to its political strength , and this interplay of interests in the course of the class struggle contributes to an exceedingly complex class structure . |
| 22 | They sometimes take the form of a palace garden seen from above , but more often a garden is simply implied by the juxtaposition of vegetal and foliate forms . |
| 23 | Increasingly however , they will have to look to other institutions , sometimes another school but more often a College of F.E. , to provide specialised courses for their students at set times in the week . |
| 24 | But what it correlates with is not a gender role but more specifically a child-rearing role . |
| 25 | To us , St. Joe 's embodies our own history : a history of caring and campaigning for homeless people , but more vitally a history of " Simon " and its ideas , principles and values . |
| 26 | If the historical trajectory of the Scrapbook is followed ( SI through Fluxus , Heatwave , King Mob , Jamie Reid , Vivienne Westwood , and the Sex Pistols ) the Situationist role for the intellectual as an informed but passionate critic gives way to philistine incitements to violence ( typified by King Mob in Britain , the Motherfuckers in the USA , and also indirectly the punk phenomenon ) but more commonly a laidback and philosophically weak critique of everyday life . |
| 27 | The determination of M is absolute when S and D are known , but more commonly a relation of the form is established , using polymer fractions of known M , for a given solvent + polymer system . |