Example sentences of "a [adj] [conj] greater [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some employees like to be told what to do and prefer a standardised , uniform structure of organisation with authoritarian leadership ; other employees ( often those with a broader and greater education ) prefer to be given responsibilities and to work in teams , and to make decisions in their own ways . |
| 2 | Each of these has a different editorial policy and , to a lesser or greater degree , a political bias . |
| 3 | Whether it was approved or not — and usually it was not — it was understood on all sides that democracy meant , to a lesser or greater degree , popular power , popular sovereignty , popular participation . |
| 4 | I am sure that it will be fully appreciated by the people of Scotland when they assess the parties ' policies at the election , including the policies of those who advocate a lesser or greater degree of Scotland 's separation from the rest of the United Kingdom . |
| 5 | All the routes would therefore be prominent in the landscape creating a lesser or greater degree of visual intrusion across a wide area . |
| 6 | In waters where bream breed prolifically , spawning every season to a lesser or greater extent , the shoals of small bream — skimmers as they are commonly called — can run into thousands . |
| 7 | One is therefore , of necessity , confined to such outcomes as income , type of occupation , reading and writing achievements , and the passing of examinations , all of which are quantifiable to a lesser or greater extent . |
| 8 | All governments , to a lesser or greater extent , will also be anxious that the rates of taxation do not undermine work incentives . |
| 9 | When it comes to the summer in your options that you take there , you will to a lesser or greater extent get some more advocacy experience during the summer . |
| 10 | A 7° hinge-bending effect is observed on comparison of the two independent copies and a similar or greater range of flexion may be expected in vivo . |
| 11 | Now we all know because we 're print buyers to a larger or greater degree but they 're clients they over-estimate they add about twenty five per cent more on than they need and you have to send them back to sharpen their pencils several times before you 've seen the estimate , they of course know that all print buyers are idiots who keep forgetting all the important things and do n't give them half the information they need like the weight of paper or the fact that there 's to be a pocket at the back so , I think if we got the man I think if we maybe started off with H M S O the print buyer which is more akin to what we are and say well you know these are the problems I 've got I 'm sitting with a six million pound budget buying for the whole of the government of Scotland and I have problems and these are the problems that I have , then we get to the wee man from who says now wait a minute boys I get the rubbish that you send out , that was the message and let's make it funny but slightly aggressive let's highlight the real problems because that 's what it 's about , we 're not here for a nice night we 're here to learn |
| 12 | In the same way he himself seemed to be acquiring a greater and greater starkness , and soon after settling into Carlyle Mansions the order of his new life emerged . |
| 13 | Many studies of previous generations have shown that many young people leave rural areas before they even enter the job market , and that these migrants are the most able and motivated ( Rieger , 1972 ; Hannan , 1969 ) thus adding weight to the theory of cumulative causation , as the less able young , the old , and the redundant come to form a greater and greater proportion of the population . |
| 14 | Humility is to orient our lives towards God , so that we understand and obey him in a greater and greater sense . |
| 15 | As the town became more prosperous in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries a new and greater university was built on the ruined foundations of the old . |
| 16 | That new and greater demand must , of course , be met by a new and greater supply of goods , or all the evils of inflation and price rise will result . |
| 17 | A leaseholder ( unless prohibited by his own lease ) can himself grant a lease for any term less than that which he holds ; a grant for an equal or greater term would be merely a transfer of his own interest . |