Example sentences of "more [adj] form of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the late 1930s , hire purchase payments , a more respectable form of credit which increased twenty-fold between 1918 and 1938 often totalled 3/ a week in the budget of a labourer earning about £2 . |
| 2 | Indeed that may be a more subtle form of propaganda than a constant barrage of criticism . |
| 3 | He sees consciousness as a more subtle form of matter and movement and the source of what we perceive both of the external world and of ourselves , our so-called inner processes lying in the non-manifest , pre-physical realm . |
| 4 | A more subtle form of restriction is to proceed by a philosophy akin to that of apartheid . |
| 5 | Now the tobacco industry is going for the slightly more subtle form of advertising which is sponsorship . |
| 6 | Another , more controversial form of treatment , is neutralization therapy . |
| 7 | As this case shows , an equitable charge on shares in a private company with articles conferring a lien on the company is likely to be an even more undesirable form of security than shares in private companies always are . |
| 8 | It would provide the multitudinous popular committees and activities with a more advanced form of organisation and structure . |
| 9 | The Community began by taking the line that federations were clearly a more advanced form of government than nation states : it refused to countenance any challenge to ‘ the integrity of Yugoslavia ’ and , under the presidency of Luxembourg , made clear to the Slovenes that small countries were not viable in the new Europe . |
| 10 | Part One encompasses Part Two , the more usual form of accreditation as it covers the design of distribution contracts as well as their operations . |
| 11 | THE National Health Service will be permanently transformed as a result of the Conservative victory , with fund-holding family doctors and self-governing hospitals becoming the more usual form of organisation of health care over the next five years . |
| 12 | The conservative aspect of the new bourgeoisie is that it establishes a more durable form of capitalism , but as Becker does not see socialism as the only way of ushering in progress , this does not present a problem for him in his depiction of the new corporate bourgeoisie as promoters of development . |
| 13 | From this has emerged the suggestion that villages were an aberration in the landscape and that , in many cases , hamlets and farmsteads predated the villages and in some way represent a more normal form of settlement . |
| 14 | House ownership not only confers higher social esteem than council accommodation but it is also a more profitable form of investment , particularly during periods of high inflation . |
| 15 | At the level of political debate the message has also proved widely attractive , though with the qualification that whilst the political right has tended to adopt the common form , the left has preferred the more acute form of de-industrialisation . |
| 16 | Equally , it may be socially desirable to enforce partial abatement of the fixed charge element for small users of electricity or gas rather than having to identify a more specific form of assistance . |
| 17 | The need to make films longer , in order to compete with American and French imports , also bred a more insidious form of dependence . |
| 18 | As long as the pressure is large , this energy saving is sufficient to tip the balance in favour of diamond making it the more stable form of carbon . |
| 19 | Suppose now the pressure is increased so that diamond is the more stable form of carbon : that is , so that carbon has less energy when bonded as diamond than is graphite . |
| 20 | Much more closely associated with the state than was the case in the Christian churches that owed their allegiance to Rome , Russian Orthodoxy helped to promote both a more communitarian form of politics and a feeling that Russians were a ‘ special people ’ with a particular destiny to fulfil in terms of world civilisation . |
| 21 | Sight is also used in a more direct form of communication . |
| 22 | Adorno , says Susan Buck-Morss , argued that " aesthetic experience was in fact the more adequate form of cognition because in it subject and object , idea and nature , reason and sensual experience were interrelated without either pole getting the upper hand in short , it provided a structural model for " dialectical " , " materialist " cognition " . |
| 23 | At this level of analysis it is not possible to distinguish adequately between a diurnal raptor , some of the owls , or mammalian carnivores , and a rather more detailed form of analysis becomes necessary . |
| 24 | Earlier attempts to defuse the Polish problem , including a more generous form of Emancipation designed to detach the peasantry from the nationalist nobility , gave way to reliance on force majeure and an aggressive policy of Russification . |
| 25 | The children of the rich may work in health food shops or other faddish and esoteric pursuits which utilize their educational experience and may provide a more acceptable form of class reproduction than simple inheritance . |
| 26 | And it was criticised on the Right by neo-liberals who favoured a more liberal form of capitalism . |
| 27 | The next distinction suggests itself : ballet is a higher , more developed form of dance , and as such is art , while ballroom dancing is at best only marginally so , and normally not at all so . |
| 28 | There can therefore be little doubt that , in general , sexual assaults constitute a substantially more serious form of harm than mere property offences — which is not to deny that some forms of theft or destruction of property can be more serious than some minor sexual assaults . |
| 29 | Instead he proposes a more democratic form of professionalism in which there is a more equal exercise of power between individuals and groups within the caring professions and between them and others . |
| 30 | John Hunt developed a more stylized form of briefing . |