Example sentences of "[adj -er] [conj] more complex [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A further and more complex instance of this has been the National Accelerated Development Programme ( NADP ) .
2 Cheque book journalism is a broader and more complex issue than the confiscation of the proceeds of crime and is bound up with the more general question of media reporting of the criminal justice system .
3 The point , therefore , is to validate Marxism , to show that it is not simply a method of interpretation , nor even that it is the best method of interpretation that can most successfully account for the facts and the course of history , but to prove a priori that history works according to dialectical structures , and to demonstrate ‘ the moments of their inter-relations , the ever vaster and more complex movement which totalises them and , finally , the very direction of the totalization , that is to say , the ‘ meaning of History ’ and its Truth , ( I , 69 ) .
4 Frequently dependent on assumptions of common cause with film theory and criticism , television genre theory is uncomplicated by the longer and more complex history of aesthetics and poetics .
5 The cordaite ‘ cone ’ was a longer and more complex structure than that of any living conifer .
6 In this way , the ‘ ideal ’ reality of the church was seen as involved in a continual process of dialectical movement through history , a process in which conflict and separation had their place as necessary but provisional moments in the growth towards a fuller and more complex unity .
7 " Survival of the strongest " , for instance , and its tooth-and-claw ethic which became associated with Social Darwinism , is not at all what Wallace had meant by " survival of the fittest " , where fitness was defined by him as a far subtler and more complex weave of forces than mere pugnacious self-interest .
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