Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] [noun] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems likely that the first of these surveys probed reasons for job loss more deeply than the latter , and that the second 's estimates are too low . |
| 2 | With magnanimity , perhaps mindful of his own ambitious plans for prison reforms more than thirty years earlier , the Prime Minister minuted on 10 May : By all means mature your proposals . |
| 3 | Much to their chagrin , those who look fondly back to earlier days when things were different , believe efforts by senior officials to regulate the activities of field staff more closely have created an unnecessarily ordered and bureaucratized job . |
| 4 | These estimates suggest a sudden , huge growth in applications using multimedia , perhaps foreshadowing radical transformations of information media more generally . |
| 5 | These areas of study engender more complicated ideas about the subject than do other psychological fields . |
| 6 | In addition to such single-industry , cross-country studies the recent availability of quantitative survey data in Britain and the United States has now made it possible to test some explanatory hypotheses of bargaining structures more systematically across a much broader cross-section of industries . |
| 7 | In order to measure the effects of water transport more precisely , Korth ( 1979 ) simulated stream action by artificial attrition in a rotary tumbler , mixed with a fine quartz matrix ( grain size 2–4 mm in diameter ) and water , for a total of 80 hours . |
| 8 | Prosecutions for water pollution more than doubled between 1981 and 1988 , while an additional 40 beaches were found not to be complying with EC standards in 1990 — making a total of 20% of all British beaches . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , RAF attitudes were changing : the disbandment of Fighter Command and the probable demise of the V Force made pilot seats in transport aircraft more attractive than they used to be . |
| 10 | Consider the problems of traffic accidents more closely . |
| 11 | The figures below show this ( the basis of the official statistics changed early in 1977 ; since then charges made for credit have been excluded , and some new categories of lender included ; the changes in money terms more or less balanced each other ) : |
| 12 | Organizations that have horizontal and adaptive structures are able to meet the changes in market need more readily than those with cumbersome hierarchical structures , and create multifunctional development groups to plan new product developments . |
| 13 | It is wrong to assume , claims Gershuny , that as levels of affluence rise more generally , as a result of technological developments , the pattern of consumption of the more recently affluent will mirror that of the the Victorian middle and landed classes . |
| 14 | Third-quarter net profits at News Corp more than doubled to A$191m ( $140m ) , compared with the same period a year ago ; net profit for the nine months to the end of March increased to A$144m . |
| 15 | ‘ The newer cohorts entered a politics that was dominated by the class alignment and divided their loyalties along class lines more completely than did their elders , those who had entered politics half a century before . |
| 16 | Lawyers in Local government more than just a career . |
| 17 | In some respects their concerns run parallel to the much more extensive studies recently carried out on social work decisions in child care more generally and which have been extensively referred to elsewhere in this volume ( summarized in DHSS , 1986 ) . |
| 18 | They are fascinating in themselves , but they also offer us humans many of the benefits of pet ownership more commonly attributed to dogs and cats . |
| 19 | Even during periods of falling prices , some components of NW will remain fixed in nominal terms so that , unless other components of NW fall more rapidly than the price level , reductions in P will raise which , in turn , will stimulate consumption expenditure . |
| 20 | British Airways , which has 53 jumbos , and Virgin , which has eight , said last night they would replace fuse pins on engine mountings more often . |
| 21 | Salmonella is one of the most widely talked of hazards , and one which is most certainly on the increase : between 1983 and 1988 , the number of reports by British laboratories of salmonella infection more than doubled . |
| 22 | Freud developed the role of the death instincts in group life more fully in Civilization and Its Discontents ( 1930 ) . |