Example sentences of "greater [noun] of [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bone china tableware accounts for the greater part of output at the Wedgwood factory , where about one hundred designs are currently used in the production of this distinctively English ceramic ware . |
| 2 | So I would see it as something of a network , internationally , to try and provide research and study related to how all countries can move better to take account of the never greater level of inter-dependence within the world economy . |
| 3 | Using a NAMAS accredited facility may provide a greater level of confidence in the test results . |
| 4 | Its directors had to sustain wars in Asia , try to devise means of governing newly conquered Indian provinces , and cope with the demands of the national government and of Parliament for an ever greater measure of control over the Company . |
| 5 | In more practical terms Gorbachev pointed to the need for a greater measure of agreement on the reduction of all forms of armaments and on the elimination of regional conflicts . |
| 6 | Clearly , such adjustments were likely to be restricted to relatively low levels of the bureaucracy because of the greater centralization of control at the upper echelons , but this probably applies to other systems as well . |
| 7 | However , while the process of electing a national president went smoothly , state party elections revealed high levels of factionalism within the BJP and led to the intervention of the central leadership in attempts to restore a greater semblance of unity to the party . |
| 8 | Services greater freedom of choice in a variety of sectors , e.g. banking and insurance , liberalisation of regulations covering air transport |
| 9 | Thus where the issue is the width of the use covenant , the application of the contra proferentem rule points towards greater freedom of use on the part of the tenant rather than narrower , even if the tenant is arguing for a narrower use so as to secure a benefit on rent review ( Skillion v Keltec Industrial Research [ 1992 ] 1 EGLR 123 ) . |
| 10 | For example , some surgical implants may have a greater durability or offer greater freedom of movement to the patient than others . |
| 11 | In Norway the company secured a greater variety of work as a result of record tendering levels and a higher local profile . |
| 12 | Looking at the environment , as market demands become more sophisticated so there is a need for operator flexibility in production system outputs , which has its counterpart in greater variety of work within the production system ( Lupton and Tanner , 1980 ) . |
| 13 | ‘ The Americans have a greater variety of shot around the greens and there is no doubt they putt better than us . |
| 14 | This term was coined by Berry ( 1976 ) to denote a turnaround in net migration flows , away from greater concentration of population in a small number of major agglomerations , and towards a revival of population growth in more rural areas and peripheral regions . |
| 15 | Since the blend of the wind-group is not so perfect as that of the strings , owing to the greater uniformity of tone of the latter , passages of which the texture can be resolved into its component patterns , each of which suits the individual character of some particular instrument or small group of instruments , ‘ come off ’ best on the wind . |
| 16 | In addition , the system , when compressed , allows for a greater circulation of air around the foot , keeping it cool and dry . |
| 17 | The suggestion put forward by Kraemer and Roberts ( 1984 ) ( see above , p. 119 ) that the retrieval of more ‘ important , associations will be less dependent on contextual cues implies that a change of context might produce a greater loss of effectiveness in the inhibitory than in the excitatory association . |
| 18 | It is probable that the economic situation in the industrial countries will deteriorate further in the longer term as some of the constraints upon growth which I discussed earlier take effect ; and there will then be a much greater likelihood of conflict among the rich nations themselves in the struggle for natural resources , markets and some kind of economic growth , while the poorer developing countries will experience increasing hardship and may reach a point of economic collapse . |
| 19 | This suggests that there is now a greater degree of overlap in the characteristics of people accommodated in different forms of care . |
| 20 | " We ourselves would not have used a comma in the example above because we think in that example there is a greater degree of interdependence between the parts of the sentence . |
| 21 | Furthermore , this ‘ coolness ’ is carried over into a somewhat dull performance of the final movement Precipitato — I can certainly think of several lesser mortals who bring a greater degree of excitement to the music than does Gavrilov . |
| 22 | Television may have made inroads on the number of live spectators but , if anything , it has encouraged a greater degree of participation in a far wider range of activities . |
| 23 | Women who combine their responsibilities in the home with a greater degree of participation in the labour market , together with men and women without those responsibilities will be subsidising them . |
| 24 | The broking scandals came at a time when the Japanese government was already under pressure , both at home and abroad , to improve the supervision of its financial markets , to make insider trading illegal , and simultaneously to allow foreign institutions a greater degree of involvement in the domestic securities markets . |
| 25 | A greater degree of interaction between the statutory and voluntary agencies could foster mutual education and understanding , and initiatives need to be undertaken by both sides . |
| 26 | For at least some Western observers Soviet action was not simply a violation of international agreements but an attempt to establish a greater degree of influence in the Persian Gulf , an area of enormous significance for Western oil supplies and one in which the Western position had already been weakened by the overthrow of the Shah of Iran . |
| 27 | LDCs ' governments also insisted on domestically-generated funds being used to finance economic development programmes and thus sought a greater degree of control over the operations of British banks . |
| 28 | The House of Commons was moving forward to assert a greater degree of control over the colonies than before ; partly to evade this , William created a Board of Trade and Plantations , made up of civil servants and privy councillors , that was unlikely to pay much more attention to the Commons than its predecessor , the Lords of Trade , had done . |
| 29 | Since this case law was developed in the context of the exercise of delegated powers by the Commission , it would seem highly unlikely that the Court would wish to exercise a greater degree of control over the exercise of original legislative power by the Council of Ministers . |
| 30 | The export volume series shows a rather different pattern , with a more modest rise from 1977 to 1981 and a greater degree of fluctuation in the following years . |