Example sentences of "[art] more [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The eclipse of electricity as a means of propulsion has been one of the more curious facets of the evolution of transport . |
| 2 | On one of the more curious items of this scale , they answered liberally : there were nine yesses and two noes to ‘ Pyjama Parties ’ . |
| 3 | PAMELA COUNTESS OF ONSLOW , who has died aged 76 , became a celebrity in 1973 when she emerged as a key figure in the ‘ Littlejohn Affair ’ — one of the more curious spy stories of recent years . |
| 4 | The more selective bibliographies — such as those in ‘ lists for further reading ’ — are often more useful than the sort of lengthy , unclassified bibliographies which give no clue to the standing of individual items . |
| 5 | It 's a compromise between the straight-ahead disco that guarantees a toehold in the charts — the retread of Never Can Say Goodbye is a rather cheap cash-in on the success of Do n't Leave Me This Way — and the more varied explorations where their hearts probably lie . |
| 6 | Nearer to Papeete , and within a five minute flight , is the more varied island of Moorea , the sister island of Tahiti , which offers enormous visual variety for photographers intent on building up a library of ‘ tropical island ’ shots . |
| 7 | If a competing offer is made , the first bidder will be hampered by the more cumbersome procedures under the Court Scheme . |
| 8 | The more versatile chickpea can be spiced up in salads or puréed with garlic for deep frying or serving in dips . |
| 9 | There is often conflict between the unrefined , basic desires of the id , the more reasoned operation of the ego , and the idealism of the super-ego . |
| 10 | However , the more recent evidence reviewed in this chapter clearly indicates that children are able to give and understand explanations well before the age of seven years . |
| 11 | The contribution which adults other than teachers , both employers and trade unionists , can make to the school curriculum has gained widespread recognition over the past ten years , through the activities of the SCIP , the Royal Society of Arts Industry Year ( 1986 ) , and the more recent DTI initiatives . |
| 12 | At the ‘ top end ’ the peculiarly British mutual accommodation and interpenetration of the bourgeoisie and aristocracy has licensed an extension of the term ‘ middle class ’ until there is only a vestigial ‘ upper class ’ against which to draw a contrast , while at the same time there have been successive waves of new recruits which have enlarged the base of the ‘ class ’ : the new groups of professionals , managers and technical experts which expanded from the latter half of the nineteenth century onward with the development of capitalist industry and trade ; the more recent expansion of salaried employment in education , research , health , social welfare , administration and planning . |
| 13 | Indeed , the more recent history of pension provision shows more concern on the part of both governments and occupational pension providers to increase widows ' benefits ( themselves symbolic of the financial dependence of wives in marriage ) , than to help women build up their own occupational pension records . |
| 14 | Indeed , the more recent history of community mental handicap teams is even more impressive . |
| 15 | All this does not mean that the more recent history books are necessarily the best . |
| 16 | The academics had earlier studied chapter 11 between 1978 and 1984 ; the amounts gained by shareholders at the expense of senior creditors were even higher then than in the more recent cases . |
| 17 | Although decisions in this type of case will very much depend upon their own facts , it is not easy to reconcile some of the more recent cases with the principles enunciated in Reg. v. Heston-Francois and Reg. v. Derby Crown Court , Ex parte Brooks , 80 Cr.App.R. 164 . |
| 18 | Results of the more recent studies of fluctuations in the amplitude of synaptic responses have produced conclusions ranging from purely presynaptic , to predominantly presynaptic , to purely postsynaptic and , finally , to a mixture of purely presynaptic , purely postsynaptic and both pre- and postsynaptic . |
| 19 | The more recent studies of discourse analysis have captured the tones which people use to talk of others . |
| 20 | Some of the more recent studies , which have been able to use a longer data set , have found evidence that the absolute size of mispricings has declined over time . |
| 21 | The more recent armies to arrive in Lebanon all suffered similar indignity . |
| 22 | Before examining the more recent developments in self-advocacy and normalisation , however , we need to consider the two approaches which have been prominent and have dominated the emergence and style of professional practice over the past 50 years : the medical and educational approaches . |
| 23 | erm The more recent developments in erm women 's fiction , feminist fiction , erm the lead has come there certainly from America so that not only do you have leading erm women novelists but you have leading women black novelists and black women novelists and this erm of course may very well come , and I hope it does , in this country , but it has n't come at the moment . |
| 24 | Pain and its Conquest concentrates on perception cognition and emotion , and the ways of manipulating these by verbal and intellectual means rather than concentrating on the more traditional methods of control by cutting , by blocking or the more recent manipulating of existing control systems by chemical or electrical stimulation . |
| 25 | One of the more recent visitors was the Richmond Design Group , one of the largest in the world , who chose special carpet designs for the Metropole Hotel in London and the Old City Hall in Amsterdam , R M J M Architects chose one of the most individualistic designs yet woven by Stoddard Mercia , using circular carpet in New Zealand House , London while Conran Design chose a custom made design based on Celtic knots for the gift shop at the headquarters of Glenfiddich . |
| 26 | These arguments tend to be supported by a detailed study of the impact of the war on East London ( Bush 1978 ) , and the more recent work of Waites ( 1987 ) in which he demonstrates that during the war the working class was able temporarily to reappropriate nationalist sentiment , articulating it with an assertive , class-conscious resistance to perceived excesses of capitalist exploitation . |
| 27 | Neville Ward , who with his brother Duncan , has been deeply involved with the projects from the start , outlined the more recent work on the loco . |
| 28 | Some of the more recent work on organization behaviour ( e.g. Brunnson , 1982 , 1985 ; Gioia , 1986 ; and Lord and Foti , 1986 ) reflects this notion of learned response based on prior knowledge , even if it is then referred to as a basis of order rather than disorder . |
| 29 | This article contains a historical survey of the projects from 1982 up to December 1987 , a summary of the results of some of the more recent work and a brief discussion of some specific aspects of online catalogue research and design . |
| 30 | Ackner , L. J. in the more recent case of A. Lambert Flat Management Ltd. v Lomas pointed out the need for the defendant to have encountered some ‘ special difficulty ’ preventing compliance with the nuisance order , such as illness , or non-receipt of the notice . |