Example sentences of "more [adj] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has perhaps been no more striking an example of the word preceding the deed . |
| 2 | A clear communications policy is necessary for both external and internal communications — and the more hierarchical the structure of the organisation , the more inflexible the communications are likely to be . |
| 3 | The segregation becomes more marked , the more detailed the level of investigation . |
| 4 | The point being that the more detailed the categorization of the restrictions becomes , the more likely it is that qualitatively different kinds of restrictions will emerge . |
| 5 | The more menacing the progress of the tank , the more absorbed the boy becomes in his physical discomfort . |
| 6 | These latest goals and targets have been used to make more explicit the challenge of achieving greater equity in health . |
| 7 | Where the breach is caused by inadvertent default the more serious the type of breach covered by the clause , the less likely it is to be reasonable . |
| 8 | This confused me until I realised that the more shadowy the figure of the ex then the greater her power , because no-one can compete with a phantom . |
| 9 | All terrorist crime is detestable , whoever the victims , but does not my right hon. Friend agree that the recent upsurge of violence has made more urgent the granting of the Chief Constable 's request for at least 400 additional men in his establishment ? |
| 10 | In general , habituation and dishabituation follow certain clear rules : the more rapid the frequency of stimulation , the stronger the habituation ; the stronger the stimulus , the weaker the habituation . |
| 11 | It is a fact that the more serious the crime , and the more awful the act , the more costly the nature of reconciliation . |
| 12 | On the other hand , the younger the children ( including gestational age ) the more obvious the effect of the biological factors . |
| 13 | The longer the clock runs the more distal the position of the cells . |
| 14 | Good working relations are essential : the more effective the staff , the more effective the quality of teaching and learning . |
| 15 | The longer the period of separation , the more unfamiliar the environment , the more frequent the change of people offering alternative care and attention , and the more discomfort the child was in , the greater the trauma of the separation . |
| 16 | Since conventionalism is at best no more powerful a conception of law than pragmatism , this marriage would hardly improve the case for the latter . |
| 17 | In general , it appears that the more complex the level of stimulus processing required , the more likely it is that a difference between the ears will be revealed with monaural presentation . |
| 18 | As services have become more selective the importance of the welfare rights movement has increased . |
| 19 | However this would seem to be no more awkward an issue of fact than those which dally confront the criminal courts . |
| 20 | The harder the pruning the stronger the response , therefore the more growth required in one direction the more severe the pruning of that part of the vine should be . |
| 21 | Bias is a problem in all aspects of social research and no more important a case of bias problems can be found than in sampling . |
| 22 | That , of course , makes even more important the question of the ultimate financing . |
| 23 | The more media permeated life from 1945 to 1990 , and the more they became concentrated in international conglomerates , the more important the accountability of media themselves became . |
| 24 | The more abstract the mode of analysis of the problem and therefore the more connected the items on the check-list become , the less likely that one can solve them alone . |
| 25 | The consequence of this progressive decline in popularity has been not only a sustained attack on what are perceived as the inadequacies of communist ideology and the Soviet system itself in the 1980s ( and there is no more iconoclastic an exponent of this form of criticism than Nizan 's own grandson , Emmanuel Todd ) , but more specifically , a tendency to overplay the critically dissident aspects of Nizan 's life and work , and to pass over in silence the more constructive , orthodox communist slant of his writings . |
| 26 | Indeed , the nearer to the date of the birth , the higher the risk of death and the more dominant the influence of the endogenous factors . |
| 27 | Distributional factors tend to make more difficult the task of housing management , the second main aspect displayed in figure 5.3 . |
| 28 | There is no more exacting a yardstick of free-market principles than the pop charts , where the successful bask unashamedly in the spotlight and conspicuously consume the fruits of their success , while scant sympathy is expended on the failures . |
| 29 | But the Royal Fort as a house , or to be more precise a suite of reception rooms added to an older complex , has something of much greater imaginative reach than a mere froth of writhing plaster feather-work and gilding such as London 's lost Chesterfield House once displayed . |
| 30 | The first thing to be done is to make more precise the role of the tonic syllable in the tone-unit . |