Example sentences of "more [adj] part [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the explanation of landforms found in deserts , the possibility of valley formation by streams in the more humid parts of the Pleistocene can not be ignored , as will be seen in the following chapter . |
| 2 | That is , Mrs Whitehouse and the traditionalists within the Church were extremely critical of what they perceived to be the ‘ character ’ of modern society , and their solution was largely backward-looking , dominated by the desire for the retrieval of a ‘ bygone golden age ’ where traditional religious teachings and the Church generally were a more central part of the social fabric . |
| 3 | Jackson had previously been in Japan and appeared to harbour ill will because Australia had not played a more prominent part in the allied occupation of Japan . |
| 4 | For practical purposes by the end of our period chattel slavery had retreated to the more backward parts of the Middle East and Asia , where it no longer played a significant agricultural role . |
| 5 | If a commercial buyer pays over the odds , obtaining planning permission becomes an ever more important part of the financial equation , and while the argument rages the house continues to rot . |
| 6 | It seems that the situation in the United States today has changed little since 1971 , apart from an increased awareness among the teachers in the medical schools that the long neglected subject of the sexually transmitted diseases should form a more important part of the medical curriculum . |
| 7 | The rectories and vicarages I visited played a more important part in the rural community than they have done since or are likely ever to do again . |
| 8 | Mr Threlfall said covering the more remote parts of the upper dale was a problem . |
| 9 | The dead and injured — and often there are casualties , particularly in the poorer areas , or the more remote parts of the New Territories countryside — are taken away ; the power lines and landslips are repaired ; the beached ships are tugged off the reefs ; the cost is counted ; and the colonials take to watching , with a curious mixture of pride and nostalgia , as the storm — ‘ our Agnes ’ they 'll call it — wanders away , does some more smashing and battering in Taiwan or the Yangtze valley before petering out , quite spent , and becomes just another statistic for the record books . |
| 10 | This did not mean the end of large-scale sheep-farming , which was still the basis of large fortunes in the nineteenth century : migrant merino flocks still passed from summer pastures in the Sierras along the sheep roads to Estremadura and the south ; but with the destruction of animal stock in the War of Independence , the disruption of the sheep routes , and the general decline of wool the great transhumant flocks persisted only in those regions where no other method of feeding was possible — in the more remote parts of the bleak province of Soria for example . |
| 11 | The idea that the colonies might be told to go their own way was not considered ; an administrative system was set up to make sure that the King 's orders were obeyed on the far side of the Atlantic as much as in the more distant parts of the British Isles — it was realized that he could not expect complete obedience , and in some respects the system was losing its impetus even by the beginning of the eighteenth century , but the shift from the Greek pattern of virtual independence to the Roman pattern of general obedience in the colonies had been made and there was no reason to think it would be reversed . |