Example sentences of "more [adj] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Devolution was seen by heads as a process that lent itself to a more collaborative style of management . |
| 2 | Perhaps there is a need for a more glaciological type of geomorphology and a more geomorphological type of glaciology . |
| 3 | You will not easily find a more absorbing box-set of piano discs , or one that will be so frequently played while others languish in dusty oblivion , often examples of the dull respectability Cortot so demonstrably shunned . |
| 4 | Past years , according to some analysts , have witnessed the emergence of a more professional member of Parliament . |
| 5 | Because this conventionally liberal response to the prevailing mood disguises the fact that the them as which arranged themselves around the flogging solution reflected a much more mature retrenchment , and a much more solid base of opinion and material circumstance than is usefully summarised by the word ‘ panic ’ . |
| 6 | Elwood brings his will o' the wisp style of play into direct opposition to the more solid technique of home skipper Derek McAleese who is keen to give early notice that his side are worthy of a higher standing . |
| 7 | When men and women are talking together , for example , it seems that men interrupt more , talk more , swear more and use more imperatives ; whereas women ask more questions and tend to use more polite forms of speech . |
| 8 | By contrast , it was pointed out that a more striking pattern of cataphora is established early on with the pronominally reduced form " they " used to refer to the soliders . |
| 9 | More striking examples of lawlessness took place in Makarenko 's dealings with several local authorities . |
| 10 | Write in a wide variety of forms with a more assured sense of purpose , organising and presenting subject matter appropriately for specified audiences , both known and unknown . |
| 11 | These masterpieces showed Bonington ( and Delacroix ) how to achieve a new breadth of handling , a more assured command of form , and a more naturalistic use of colour in their pictures . |
| 12 | By the late 1930s , hire purchase payments , a more respectable form of credit which increased twenty-fold between 1918 and 1938 often totalled 3/ a week in the budget of a labourer earning about £2 . |
| 13 | Psychogenic reactions of this type are most likely to occur in those whose symptoms are purely psychosomatic , but who prefer to think they are ‘ allergic ’ to food , because they see this as being a more respectable sort of illness . |
| 14 | Also extremely important because not only will this remove the more entrenched areas of dirt and grit , but it will also put a degree of essential moisture back into the fabric . |
| 15 | Erm so we decided that it was important to try and find some more formalised way of testing what er the market satisfaction was and the service we are providing . |
| 16 | But any approach to seeking more economic choice of credit by consumers ( probably from a wide range of competing options ) has to recognise the recurring weekly caller 's collection round as an obstacle . |
| 17 | Possible changes would include the reporting of sensitivity analyses in league table documents or , as more economic evaluations of health care interventions are undertaken alongside controlled clinical studies , the use of confidence intervals around estimates . |
| 18 | More economic patterns of resource allocation will result as underlying comparative advantages are allowed to exert their full potential . |
| 19 | Since her marriage , she had become accustomed to a less competitive and more rural way of life and therefore regarded her return to court as a duty , an onerous duty . |
| 20 | The notion of centrifugal launchers was based on the idea that rather than using a long , straight runway , the aircraft could take-off following a circular path around a tower , or possibly a more mobile type of launcher , rather in the manner of ‘ round-the-pole ’ model aircraft . |
| 21 | However , beneath what was sometimes only a thin veneer of civility more covert expressions of resistance to the depredations imposed upon the farm worker took place . |
| 22 | Sometimes new health care technologies produce savings on the ones they replace or allow more cost-effective patterns of care . |
| 23 | " Only in the 1840 's and later did the situation begin to improve markedly ; and the class which now emerged into comparative prosperity was not an elite of labour aristocrats but a more homogenous class of factory workers … " ( p.47 ) |
| 24 | The trench warfare of the early 1980s was replaced by more subtle forms of guerrilla conflict , in which the guiding principles are no longer so straightforward , yet the consequences of change may be rather more significant , to the extent that the '80s as a whole might justifiably be seen as a period of structural change . |
| 25 | An incidental effect was that more subtle forms of propaganda began to appear , from which it was difficult for a jury to infer that the defendant intended to stir up racial hatred . |
| 26 | The emphasis on athleticism , power play , sustained long-ball assaults , blitzkrieg , has bred a proliferation of muscular but blunderingly naive defenders who appear to be alarmingly , untidily vulnerable when required to cope with more subtle forms of attack ; show them dribblers , runners with the ball or an incisive exchange of sharp passes , and panic sets in . |
| 27 | Government influence , ranging from direct bribery to more subtle forms of patronage and manipulation , it has been argued , played the key role in shaping the outcome of elections , with the result that , at least under Anne , the ministry of the day never lost a General Election . |
| 28 | Most employees in this country are now reasonably certain of their supply of food , drink and shelter , and more subtle forms of comfort have become important goals . |
| 29 | But Abdulrakhim Pulatov , the head of Birlik , says that President Islam Karimov is trying to use slightly more subtle forms of repression to avoid deterring the growing army of businessmen and politicians from abroad . |
| 30 | Common Law treated a contract as voidable if made under duress , i.e. threats of violence to life or limb ; it took no account of more subtle forms of pressure — the unfair advantage taken of a man in distressed circumstances , the influence exercised in certain relations , such as that of a guardian and his former ward , or solicitor and client . |