Example sentences of "and more [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Plymouth , for example , where in 1941 he was invited to prepare a redevelopment plan for the city , in cooperation with the City Engineer , H. Paton Watson , his starting point was that he should not be constrained by local authority boundaries : in his view Plymouth extended six miles and more beyond the city centre and should be planned on that basis . |
| 2 | However , as there is a shift away from the concept of the State as a provider , and more towards the private sector making provision on a market basis , there arises an alteration in the balance of social power . |
| 3 | And , in the country at large , the administration is seen more and more as a high-tax collector . |
| 4 | Travel companies are featuring Japan more and more as a destination in their brochures , and more foreign visitors are encountering the Japanese way of hotels . |
| 5 | According to Bulpitt , ‘ in so far as monetarism was associated … with ‘ arms ' length ’ , anti-corporatist government , then … the statecraft ( of monetarism ) must be viewed as less a radical break with the past and more as an attempt to reconstruct it' . |
| 6 | But the petty snobbery and priggishness of which it is sometimes accused are in my view much less serious ( and in any case demonstrably declining ) than are two tendencies : the first , to make the curriculum and the public examination system a closed circuit ; the second , to be increasingly concerned with training — in other words , to think of its pupil-product more and more as an instrument rather than as an end . |
| 7 | The increasing affluence of the rural population wrought by the urban middle-class exodus has tended to mask the continuing and severe pockets of poverty which exist in the countryside and has led the ‘ problem ’ of rural housing to be regarded less as a problem of social welfare and more as an issue concerning land use planning and countryside preservation . |
| 8 | The first is that of the relationship between theory and practice , about which much has been heard since the Second World War as higher education has been used more and more as an entry route by professions seeking higher status . |
| 9 | He was behaving more and more as an autocrat , The State of emergency inherited form Mossadeq had been lifted only on 1956 . |
| 10 | At the same time , at the level of practical pedagogy , there is a counter-tendency in the study of the national canon to concentrate more and more on a small and diminishing number of texts . |
| 11 | I have … often been worried that we are imposing more and more on a system of collective ministerial decision-taking that was designed for quite a different era . |
| 12 | In Britain support for families has focused less on parent education and teaching parenting skills and more on a range of informal support services ( De'Ath , 1982 , 1983 ) . |
| 13 | Increasing market share , becoming the low-cost producer , developing new products , and/or increasing employee productivity depend more and more on the kinds and quality of information systems in the organisation . |
| 14 | Agrarian policies have come to be focused less on land tenure arrangements and more on the growth and distribution of food . |
| 15 | Ollivier had already been forced to remake his Ministry , which was now weakened by the presence of many who gave him only grudging support , and this in turn forced him to rely more and more on the Emperor 's personal intervention when difficulties arose . |
| 16 | Moreover , we should concentrate less on the education of an élite , and more on the average standards of attainment . |
| 17 | As the life of the city began , haltingly , to achieve some simple routine , Nicholas spent his time more and more on the business of medicine . |
| 18 | With machinery being used more and more on the farms , the village has seen the number of people employed on the land drastically fall , and is now one of many with commuters travelling further afield to their place of employment . |
| 19 | We will have to rely more and more on the back-up squad to keep us going . |
| 20 | After this the folk of Nagarythe became ever more desperate , relying more and more on the blackest of sorceries for their defence . |
| 21 | The emphasis would be less on workers and families as individuals and more on the roles they play , and how these roles are constrained by certain formal and informal rules . |
| 22 | 2 But since the rise of structuralism in the sixties Marxist criticism has been more and more on the defensive . |
| 23 | He spoke increasingly less about Hollywood and more on the political issues of the day . |
| 24 | Such a view tends to place less emphasis on the war between two countries and more on the internal conflict between the king of France and the duke of Aquitaine , a struggle between two blocks of territory and two rather different legal traditions : the ‘ Angevin empire ’ , once ruled by the English , representing the area of customary law and local independence , the other part of France the more centralising tradition based on Roman law . |
| 25 | There was less emphasis on integration into a white-dominated society and more on the need to define a black " identity " based on black culture and black values . |
| 26 | Purity workers developed their own re-reading of the Darwinist debate , though they placed less stress on integrating the two systems and more on the subordination of science to the dictates of morality . |
| 27 | Almost all the maritime alga-lichen-moss communities are richer in species and more luxuriant in growth than their continental counterparts , more so on the outlying island groups than on Antarctic Peninsula , and more on the northern than on the southern peninsula . |
| 28 | He thus put less emphasis on military drill and weapons training and more on the mastering of the legal and technical aspects of police duties . |
| 29 | The emphasis will be less on the mechanics of neutralisation and more on the means to exclude certain forms of involvement in Southeast Asia by outside powers . |
| 30 | ‘ There was a certain amount of dandruff on the shirt collar and more on the collar of the jacket . |