Example sentences of "more [adj] [noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | " 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 ) |
| 17 | A rather more subtle case of silence on a point which appears to be dealt with exhaustively in the Convention is to be found in article 7(3) , which prescribes a conflict rule to determine the law governing public-notice requirements ( if any ) needed to perfect the lessor 's title against a trustee in bankruptcy and creditors . |
| 18 | The ancients taught of a universe built on invisible causes , the material world being the outer garment , veil or effect of a higher , more subtle order of reality . |
| 19 | There is another , more subtle effect of exercise which is to be gained from pushing ourselves periodically to the limits of our endurance , and beyond . |
| 20 | Indeed that may be a more subtle form of propaganda than a constant barrage of criticism . |
| 21 | He sees consciousness as a more subtle form of matter and movement and the source of what we perceive both of the external world and of ourselves , our so-called inner processes lying in the non-manifest , pre-physical realm . |
| 22 | A more subtle form of restriction is to proceed by a philosophy akin to that of apartheid . |
| 23 | Now the tobacco industry is going for the slightly more subtle form of advertising which is sponsorship . |
| 24 | The true definition of Cubism seems to me : the return to a sense of style through a more subjective vision of nature ( conveyed at times by a stronger emphasis on masses ) . |
| 25 | Another , more controversial form of treatment , is neutralization therapy . |
| 26 | As this case shows , an equitable charge on shares in a private company with articles conferring a lien on the company is likely to be an even more undesirable form of security than shares in private companies always are . |
| 27 | Instead of being treated as our own ancestors , the Neanderthals of Europe and the more primitive ‘ Java man ’ were dismissed as distinct forms of pseudo-humanity , driven into marginal locations by the expansion of true humans with a more advanced level of intelligence . |
| 28 | In the USA and to a limited extent in Britain , the availability of subsidies for nursing home care has encouraged a transfer of patients away from the long-stay institutions , and thus the more advanced pace of rundown in those two countries . |
| 29 | It was a more advanced type of prayer called ‘ the reformation of feeling ’ , which , in Hilton 's view , was only for monks and nuns . |
| 30 | With pupils at a more advanced stage of learning , encourage and demonstrate the use of dictionary ( see Appendix 3 ) . |