Example sentences of "more [adj] and [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As public relations , and hence press relations , becomes more professional and expert , and as journalists need more ideas and information , so there is growing a greater recognition by media of the role public relations can play in a positive way to help them . |
| 2 | The members of these gangs grow up , some to become law-abiding citizens and others to graduate to more professional and adult forms of criminality , but the delinquent tradition is kept alive be the age-groups that succeed them … |
| 3 | ‘ It shows that investigations should not be based on the gut feeling of a particular officer — it has got to be more professional and CATCHEM is . |
| 4 | more basic , and the more basic things are , the more strange and sort of |
| 5 | Trying to say the right thing to calm things down or protect people 's feelings only brings more upset and confusion . |
| 6 | As industrial processes become more complex , the energy applied to them greater , substances and compounds more subtle and control processes more remote , the potential for serious accidents increases . |
| 7 | Chief inspector Walter Walker , who helped organise the survey , explained , ‘ Many said that they wanted us to be more friendly and caring , and give more information to visitors . |
| 8 | Most organisers set them rigidly in straight rows without checking whether some other design might give everyone a better view and provide more working and movement space . |
| 9 | Apscore is concentrating on re-developing its products so that they are more GUI and database independent , with an emphasis on object orientation — thus linking with Apscore 's other interests , including its representation of the ObjectStore object oriented database in Australia on the Sun platform . |
| 10 | ‘ I think we 're moving more left-field while the Fanclub are going more right-field , more melodic and Countryish , ’ says Gordon . |
| 11 | During his four-year term the police had acquired significantly more political and executive power , and Badr had been responsible for the arrests of thousands of Moslem militants and alleged leftists . |
| 12 | The more political and propagandist elements are absent from tradition . |
| 13 | For example in Newcastle , Foster et al , 1976 , had shown , from an assessment of a sample of elderly people living in the community , that even though dementia sufferers received more social and health services support than other groups , nonetheless they still had greater unmet needs than other groups of dependent elderly people . |
| 14 | It is noteworthy that the health and demographic consequences of early marriage or union of females differ in developed and developing countries , mainly because , in the former , contraceptive knowledge and practice are more prevalent and health standards are superior . |
| 15 | When it comes , in Chapter 6 ‘ A review of some major issues ’ , to this point it simply declares : There is in this assertion more sound and flannel signifying not very much than there is substance . |
| 16 | Not only does it go faster but it is also more controllable and better-protected . |
| 17 | The more detailed and final the design is before tender , the fewer the changes to the design which may be needed after the contract has been awarded . |
| 18 | You could consider making internal windows or openings in a dividing wall to get more light and airiness . |
| 19 | Tous Les Matins Du Monde needs more light and shade . |
| 20 | It not only will make the learning more effective but it makes classes more interesting and fun . |
| 21 | So if the D-32 was middley , this one 's got more top and bottom . |
| 22 | The Precision in a way is too middly , but the thing about the Jazz is that you can get more top and bottom from it at the same time , and that 's the sound I like . |
| 23 | The progressively more strident and bellicose demands of Nazi Germany were matched only by the progressively more acquiescent and neutralist responses of France and Great Britain . |
| 24 | There are slow tempos , though an overall timing of 55 minutes is not unduly extravagant , but the predominant impression is of the symphony 's dramatic conflicts and of Sinopoli 's remarkable ear for the subtlest details of instrumental colour : Elgar 's scoring has rarely sounded more translucent and fine-spun . |
| 25 | Income trust is considered the safest , growth is a bit more risky and opportunity the chanciest . |
| 26 | ’ We need a different route to Fraxilly — more tangled and roundabout , to throw off any pursuit , ’ I said tersely . |
| 27 | Their use was often more limited and specialist than was normally recognised , he said . |
| 28 | ( The obvious if partial exception here is again Frederick II ; but he never had the material resources needed for a truly Napoleonic strategy and became steadily more cautious and conservative in his later years . ) |
| 29 | more individual and group work ; |
| 30 | In an effort to make the mathematics curriculum more practically-based , the new headteacher introduced a commercial maths scheme which he thought would improve teachers ' classroom practice by shifting the emphasis away from whole-class ‘ chalk and talk ’ lessons and towards more individual and group work . |