Example sentences of "more [adj] [noun] of [noun] " 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 | The most commonly used argument for standardising delivery of meals is that it is a more economic use of resources . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Like many Welshmen in and around the Neath and Swansea valleys , he had made his way from the more rural communities of West Glamorganshire and Carmarthenshire , up the valleys towards Brecon , and then moved eastwards towards the concentration of new industries at Dowlais , Merthyr , Rhymney , Tredegar , Beaufort , Ebbw Vale , and Pontypool . |
| 22 | The 16 per cent of authorities where Independents are dominant are mostly in the more rural parts of Scotland , England and Wales , but as Widdicombe notes ( 1986 , vol. 1 , p. 23 ) ‘ the overall figure does perhaps represent a stronger resilience of the Independent tradition in an era of increasing party politicisation than might have been anticipated ’ . |
| 23 | These are particularly the upland areas of Scotland , northern Britain , Wales , and South-West England ; however , more rural parts of Northern Ireland and the East Midlands ( including the Fens ) are still lightly peopled . |
| 24 | The more rural regions of East Anglia , the South-West and , to a lesser extent the East Midlands , lost out in the nineteenth century , but their fortunes have taken an upturn in recent decades . |
| 25 | I chose to try to see the system and situation in a more rural area of Mexico . |
| 26 | Merstham was in a slightly more rural area of Surrey , and one upon which we had always looked with favour . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | But United 's trip to Hillsborough today will provide Fergie with a more revealing test of Cantona 's mettle , because Wednesday fans are unlikely to have forgiven or forgotten his walkout on the Owls 11 months ago . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Opportunities to achieve better or more cost-effective removal of contaminants from the aqueous waste due to the higher initial concentrations . |