Example sentences of "more [adj] [noun prp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope this set may yet surface on CD , though it has to be admitted that it is largely eclipsed by the more complete EMI anthology . |
| 2 | The second CD-Canterbury match at New Plymouth saw a more emphatic Cantab victory by six wickets . |
| 3 | ‘ Instead , the Secretary will be importuned to revive their appetites through more extensive US involvement , ’ he said . |
| 4 | This is typical of those years in which prolonged and more extensive PSC formation would be most likely , and the column ozone was reduced by 40 Dobson Units ( DU ) where PSCs formed . |
| 5 | Although the inverted-U and the more specific Yerkes-Dodson law were initially related to task performance generally , they have frequently been assumed to predict the same pattern of results with performance in memory tasks . |
| 6 | In a series of meetings with employees he explained : ‘ A slimmed down , more agile Wedgwood Group will be much better placed to take advantage of worldwide recovery when it comes and to fight off our increasingly aggressive overseas competitors . |
| 7 | The more reliable FIFA enquiry found no significant evidence of the misuse of drugs . |
| 8 | It was typical of him that after serving as an assistant White House physician during the eight years of the Eisenhower Administration , he became restless after eight months with the more liberal Kennedy Administration and left the White House for service as a deputy surgeon with the Pacific Air Forces , becoming command surgeon of the 7th Air Force in South Vietnam . |
| 9 | The companies involved are all foreign : at Ballymoney the Australian Meekatharra Minerals Ltd ; at Loughbeg , Anglo United Development Corporation , an associate of Northgate of Canada and Grenmore Holdings Ltd ( a British company which later changed its name to the more local-sounding Tyrone Lignite Ltd ) ; in the Coagh and Washing bay areas BP Coal Ltd , a subsidiary of the giant BP oil company . |
| 10 | But he represents a different style of monarchy , a different style of man from perhaps Prince Andrew , who might have made a much more typical Windsor king . |
| 11 | Thus , while the Giorgio show bristled with understated elegance this spring , the Emporio extravaganza was a riot of wild colour and audacious shapes , featuring eye-popping tartans and sizzling satin trenchcoats along with the sludgy , tweedy garments which constitute the cut-price clothes of more typical Armani fashion |
| 12 | The museum 's elegant sloping design , by Jerusalem architect Ze'ev Schoenberg , has , on the other hand , won general applause , the atmosphere of airiness and intimacy being a happy contrast to the more cavernous Israel Museum . |
| 13 | As they were certain about only one thing , their fourth child was not going to Holland Park Comprehensive , they followed the psychologist 's advice and Emma , from eight years onwards , had a happy , if conventional education at boarding school , first at Knighton House in Dorset and then , at thirteen , moving to the more traditional Cranborne Chase . |
| 14 | Access to Tiree is not easy from Inverness but there was an opportunity before Loganair adopted their Summer flight schedules in April and this enabled me to link Scarinish in with my more regular Lewis/Uist/Barra trip . |
| 15 | ( If more volume really were needed then the direct outputs could be fed to a stereo power amp and then to additional speakers , but I 'm sure Marshall have aimed the S80 at a specific player who would find its volume adequate and who , if he or she needed more , would probably upgrade to a more powerful Marshall product . ) |
| 16 | Friendship is more important than mountaineering , and so for their sakes I told them they 'd done very well and we turned back to the prospect of a more leisurely Sunday afternoon , with colour supplements , cats , coffee and carpets to lie on . |
| 17 | Paisley holds no terrors for Maginnis , who contrasts the meticulous preparation of the Ulster Unionist team during the talks with the more casual DUP approach . |
| 18 | Benn won and lost the WBO middleweight title in 1990 , but returned from boxing 's wilderness to beat lame Italian Mauro Galvano last month — in three easy rounds — to capture the more meaningful WBC crown . |
| 19 | Despite warnings of impenetrable ice , the crew of Knox-Johnston 's boat , the Suhaili , found the fjord clear and continued up the more problematic Watkins Fjord , dodging icebergs to reach the starting point for the climbing section of the expedition . |
| 20 | People knew of him because he took the pictures of more collective Sheringham life — weddings , school celebrations . |
| 21 | Colin McEvedy has even proposed ( 1989 ) that the Phaistos Disc is a modern fake , a more successful Aegean equivalent of the Piltdown hoax , but this seems unlikely in view of the recurrence of some of the symbols on other Minoan artefacts . |
| 22 | Although the aim of Microsoft is to bring out a more standardised SMP version of NT , there is a general consensus among SMP NT implementors that a HaL — hardware abstraction layer — architecture will have to integrated into NT to limit the amount of adaptation that hardware systems vendors are currently having to endure . |
| 23 | Current musical fashion may dictate a leaner , more vital Mozart style , but it would be a great pity to dismiss these beautiful and extremely musical accounts just because they fail to match present-day ideas . |
| 24 | I think back to the recommendations made at the inquest into that more tragic Cairngorm incident , now nearly 20 years ago , and my mind boggles . |
| 25 | Decca is offering a more modest Mozart sampler of about a dozen compact discs . |
| 26 | I would like to see a much more outspoken UKCC membership , with more support for nurses who get into trouble through upholding their code of conduct . |
| 27 | London chatter , beginning with tigers in India , involves themes such as Montenegro peasants , primitive Guardians , libation rituals , and unrest among natives as well as more expected Hampstead material . |
| 28 | The Lazio player was the scorer of one of the goals when a more orthodox Scotland side lost to Germany in Sweden by a larger margin during the European Championship . |
| 29 | Glenn Rainey opened the scoring for the home team after minutes but a more experienced Lurgan side always had the edge and goals from Kennedy , Williamson and Smith sealed their victory . |
| 30 | MIDDLESBROUGH lost 2–0 to a more experienced Derby County side at the Baseball Ground . |