Example sentences of "[coord] more [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Permission was given for " making of such engine or Engine Buildings or Buildings for the better & more effectual discovery , working and conveying on of such mines and veins …
2 There can be little doubt that , had Jack Alderson been with a more glamorous or more successful club , he would have gained many more International caps than the single honour awarded to him when he played for England against France in Paris on 10 May 1923 .
3 Some organisations find that supporting libel actions on behalf of their members is politically convenient because it assures them a better or more polite press : the Police Federation is one example .
4 In particular the post of Secretary has become vacant and we would love to hear from anyone who may be able to help out on a temporary or more regular basis … ( see page 23 ) .
5 Term used for a multiple prayer rug — one with two or more separate prayer fields — which is also referred to as a family prayer rug ( p. 86 ) .
6 The same method using netting would make effective protection for a bed of a dozen or more high-yielding strawberry plants .
7 These may be of several kinds : point mutations involving protein coding genes or tRNA ( 5–9 ) , or more substantial deletion ( 10–12 ) or duplication type mutations ( 13 ) , localized by most studies in a highly specific single-strand zone during replication ( 14–16 ) .
8 A Coventry survey of the registered disabled showed that a half or more experienced difficulty with hills , ramps , steps and crowds , a third with crossing roads , a fifth with uneven or narrow pavements , and a tenth with kerbs .
9 It says that judges should follow whichever method of deciding cases will produce what they believe to be the best community for the future , and though some pragmatic lawyers would think this means a richer or happier or more powerful community , others would choose a community with fewer incidents of injustice , with a better cultural tradition and what is called a higher quality of life .
10 Broken Promise is a collection of vivid personal accounts by ‘ endangered children ’ — and it conveys the reality and universality of the problems they face better than a hundred or more straight world development textbooks .
11 Extra time may be spent learning the basics of editing , or more advanced camera work etc. , or this might be left to develop at a later workshop .
12 School parties of 20 or more Upper Balcony @ 50p per seat .
13 expansion , to permit the addition of new subjects or more specific subdivision of existing subjects ;
14 Thus , the main purpose of identifying these risk factors in clinical practice is to allow the physician to decide which patients will require more prolonged or more potent ulcer treatment .
15 The course , which can be taken in a specialist or more general mode , seeks to give students a thorough grounding in Fine Craft Design , to give them a firm basis for thinking about their work and a useful introduction to business practice .
16 This is not a symbiotic relationship because that involves a continuing separateness of identity throughout the period and process of partnership but it is an integrated relationship in which the enterprise — venture or project or more general association — is on a level of continued mutuality of interest and concern .
17 Opportunities to achieve better or more cost-effective removal of contaminants from the aqueous waste due to the higher initial concentrations .
18 Their recommendation to farmers is usually based upon an ad hoc or more systematic land capability assessment .
19 It also enables some additional or more recent information to be obtained .
20 discounting : it is argued that we attribute our first impressions to the person ( e.g. to a person 's traits or abilities ) , and later or more recent information to the situation ( e.g. the task , environment , influence of other people ) .
21 The amino-terminal region of the Oct-11 protein is more closely related to Oct-2 than Oct-1 perhaps indicating a conserved function or more recent divergence of these two genes .
22 Here the land rises to a thousand feet or more above sea level .
23 For hypoxia and tachycardia respectively , the criteria were summated SaO 2 readings 10% or more below baseline for at least one minute and summated pulse rate readings of 40 beats per minute ( bpm ) or more above baseline for at least five minutes .
24 With interest rates of 4 per cent or more above bank base rate , bridging loans are often seen as risky and expensive .
25 If you roll a 4 or more that wound has regenerated .
26 If you roll a 4 or more that wound has regenerated .
27 Other transformational rules have the effect of combining two or more simple sentence structures into a single more complex unit : [ 5 ] Night fell The wind freshened ) Night fell and the wind freshened .
28 This technique involves nudging two or more zona-free 8- to 16-cell embryos together in culture until they stick together .
29 As discussed earlier ( p. 101 ) , a patient thought to require further or more prolonged help may be referred for another kind of treatment .
30 ‘ To the untutored view a greater or more imposing display is necessary to afford pleasure .
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