Example sentences of "more [adj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The change is from control through the exercise of authority to a more collaborative leadership role . ’ |
| 2 | Holdaway ( 1977 ) documented the difficulties police managers in Hilton had in overcoming wellaccepted practices in order to introduce more professional police practice in the form of unit beat policing . |
| 3 | In retrospect , it was not ideal for the Promenade and Fleetwood route , with its more resilient sleeper track and the blowing sand , which affected the roof-mounted control unit . |
| 4 | She cracked the last egg , one-handed , on the rim of the pretty , primrose bowl with the vine leaves painted on it , let the ochre centre and its more resilient aura slither into the middle of the mixture , threw the shattered shell into the pedal-bin and then beat the eggs furiously until she could see no separation at all . |
| 5 | This has resulted in a growing need for a more detailed and more formalised information system . |
| 6 | A study of Cornwall in the early 1970s revealed that average earnings in the more rural employment office areas ( in the west or the north-east of the county ) were as much as 6 per cent below the county average , while earnings in the more urban areas ( for example , near Plymouth or Camborne — Redruth ) were 6 to 7 per cent above the county average ( Cornwall County Council 1979 ) . |
| 7 | This will be of crucial importance in 1992 when Common Market deregulation leads to open competition in Europe and a more mobile labour market . |
| 8 | And this is where Derek comes in ( think how useful his fax would have been with the more timid cross dresser ) . |
| 9 | Leasing is therefore the more cost-effective financing option . |
| 10 | It is this relatively more subtle classification system which explains why policemen and women were so concerned from the very beginning with the field-worker 's background , schooling , area of residence , affiliations , political opinions , and so on , even those visited on only a few occasions . |
| 11 | Disodium ethyl diaminotetracetic acid ( diNaEDTA ) is an even more subtle etching agent : it has a chelating ( complexing ) action with comparatively little effervescence , thus reducing gas bubble damage of delicate structures . |
| 12 | Conversely , ‘ the simultaneous and combined economic and political struggle of European workers … helps account for the more articulated class character of [ their ] labour movements ’ ( Kassalow , 1982 , p. 210 ) directed against a very visible and expanding bourgeoisie and , in part , a response to a more repressive state apparatus ( Geary , 1981 ) . |
| 13 | Among management practitioners and government advisors the consensus of opinion was that if manufacturing industry could become more flexible it would be more responsive the perceived more turbulent market environment of the 1980s and 90s . |
| 14 | ‘ After all , we will always be offering a more progressive tax system than the Conservatives . ’ |
| 15 | Underlying this argument there may well be a different one , namely , that there is a need for a more progressive tax structure , and that this can not be achieved without a greater emphasis on direct taxation . |
| 16 | The downgrading of domestic industry may be compensated for by the more progressive business environment that foreign , and particularly high technology US , European or Japanese companies promote . |
| 17 | Shortly after this , he decided to ditch the one-liner style of stand-up and get rid of his immortal catch-phrase ( ‘ Put that chicken away , missus ! ’ ) in favour of a more confessional comedy routine ; he would gather up the rough , rotting scraps of his experience and weave them into balmy theatrical monologues . |
| 18 | The standard left response to the kind of argument put by Gaitskell was that the party should be ‘ more socialist ’ and would thereby gain more working class support , but it is not clear that the left opposition within the party had a political project which could have commanded mass popular support among the working class in the 1950s . |
| 19 | More advanced expert system tools have a greater range of construction and testing facilities and allow for very sophisticated representation of problems , but at much greater investment cost and technical requirement . |
| 20 | Indeed , in many industries there would be little point in raising the skill level unless workers are given more advanced capital equipment on which to work . |
| 21 | Although a self-contained operating system , it co-exists happily with Computervision 's EDM Engineering Data Management system , which is a far more advanced storage system . |
| 22 | The University of Leeds briefly experimented with computer-assisted instruction , is although the emphasis was on more advanced subject instruction . |
| 23 | Hewlett-Packard too is fonder of its own proprietary iteration of Unix , HP-UX , than OSF/1 and is talking seriously of staying with that , at least until more advanced microkernel work becomes available . |
| 24 | This was because the higher pressures and temperatures required more advanced materials engineering , which was often only worthwhile if there were also economies of scale ( the 200MW sets with advanced steam conditions built later , for example , used less than half as much steel per MW as the simple 30MW sets the BEA were installing ) . |
| 25 | The contemporaneous occurrence of a dinosaur as primitive as Eoraptor with the ornithischian Pisanosaurus and more advanced theropod Herrerasaurus supports the hypothesis that dinosaurs diverged rapidly at small body size from a common ancestor during the early Carnian ( Fig. 3 b ) . |
| 26 | When you are on to more advanced machine knitting and attempt some intarsia knitting , that is , knitting blocks and strips of colour adjacent without floats at the back , by means of an intarsia carriage , you will be able to make coloured cable strips without knitting the contrast separately simply by knitting strips of colour side by side and cable crossing them . |
| 27 | He would have liked a more advanced drawing course , but as that is not on offer has settled for a painting course . |
| 28 | For example , at least some of the 50,000-odd Sun users in the telecommunications sector could do with more advanced network management tools , he says , claiming there are already a couple of initiatives under way . |
| 29 | For example , at least some of the 50,000-odd Sun users in the telecomms sector could do with more advanced network management tools , he says , claiming there are already a couple of initiatives underway . |
| 30 | The road traffic management system , similar to that used by electricity companies to operate the national supply grid , will be built around an improved version of the CITRAC system currently used on the M8 in Glasgow coupled to the more advanced FEDICS system used around the Firth of Forth . |