Example sentences of "more powerful [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Findings which are replicated throughout a number of countries , or which can be shown to vary under specified conditions , become much more powerful since ‘ an explanatory theory of industrial relations can not be based upon the narrow range of industrial relations processes observable in one , or even a few , countries ’ ( Walker , 1967 , p. 108 ) . |
| 2 | You are the only woman I know — apart from Lucy — who wears skirts and dresses and make-up and turns me on more powerful than a monsoon with all the steam and heat … |
| 3 | The apparent paradox is that , on the evidence provided by such teams as Neath and Llanelli , the clubs individually are more powerful than the country collectively . |
| 4 | To an increasing degree , the government and its outlying establishments bore the Prime Minister 's stamp ; her press secretary , Bernard Ingham , seemed more powerful than most Cabinet ministers , somewhat on the pattern of Lloyd George 's use of ‘ Bronco Bill ’ Sutherland in 1918–22 . |
| 5 | It simply is not true that ‘ within the Western countries the press has become more powerful than the legislative power , the executive and the judiciary ’ . |
| 6 | Lewis was fully aware of the fact that there was a purely irrational intellectual snobbery abroad in England at that time , more powerful than any genuine intellectual stumbling-block to faith . |
| 7 | The micro-revolution of the eighties gave the world not only cheap machines — which are now more powerful than the mainframes of the seventies — but tools like spreadsheets , 4GLs , Case ( computer-aided software engineering ) tools and data management languages . |
| 8 | The most likely surmise is that the hardliners are now more powerful than the reformers , but are unable to press home their advantage . |
| 9 | The wind was much more powerful than he had realized . |
| 10 | Hall is more powerful than Jesse Jackson ; if he has Jesse on the show , he 's doing the guy a favour ! ’ |
| 11 | It was clearly far more powerful than the subjective test the day before . |
| 12 | More powerful than you guessed , I suspect . ’ |
| 13 | He had no great domain ; many of the nobles and churchmen — and especially the latter — were richer and more powerful than he . |
| 14 | Mary was indeed brought up in a country far wealthier and more powerful than that which she was to rule . |
| 15 | And the tally of crown successes over its opponents far outnumbers its few failures ; Douglases , Crichtons , Livingstones , Erskines , Gordons , Hamiltons and many other members of aristocratic families who lost out to the crown over a huge range of disputes , from the heights of violent conflict to the crown 's ability to beat off rival claimants to lands , would have been astonished by the belief of later historians that they were more powerful than the monarchy . |
| 16 | It was no longer a matter of one family or political grouping showing that it was domestically more powerful than any other . |
| 17 | The British people have in the past found them rather more powerful than the corporations which are popularly supposed to finance the Conservative party . |
| 18 | A £1,000 computer , several orders of magnitude more powerful than machines which cost £3,000 even five years ago , has very little profit built in for the supplier . |
| 19 | The Zeitgeist has proved more powerful than her own undoubted moral fibre and the historical influence of her own Church and family . |
| 20 | What Nicky discovered is that responding to God is an act of submission — of giving in to a force much more powerful than our own . |
| 21 | One , the one they choose to worship , is so much more powerful than all the others that He belongs to what is in effect a different category of being . |
| 22 | He kept to the inside of the bends where the current was fastest and more powerful than the onshore wind . |
| 23 | The Discovery engine will fit the 90 but will require an intercooler and much modification to cables exhaust and pipework The 90 Turbo engine is more powerful than the normally aspirated and will fit in more easily If you need much more power then a large capacity turbocharged engine is required such as the Nissan 3 5 available from many suppliers who advertise in LRO |
| 24 | The turbo unit is more powerful than the normally aspirated unit . |
| 25 | It is certainly more powerful than your original unit . |
| 26 | The Syrians used their tanks against the leftists without compunction , but by October they were armed with a weapon far more powerful than their armour : a mandate from the Arab League to enter Beirut as an ‘ Arab Deterrent Force ’ . |
| 27 | As an environmental incentive the aerials can be small because Marcopolo 's signals are more powerful than Astra 's , especially in Scotland where large , ugly dishes are needed for Astra . |
| 28 | The desire for happiness is deeper and more powerful than we know . |
| 29 | As a matter of interest , Dr Jean Valnet and other doctors in the field of clinical aromatherapy have discovered that blends of certain essential oils are not only more powerful than when used singly , but that the mysterious factor of synergy is at work — the whole becoming greater than the sum of its equal parts . |
| 30 | A blend of clove , thyme , lavender and peppermint , for example , is far more powerful than the chemist might expect of the blend ( taking into account the combined chemical constituents of the oils ) . |