Example sentences of "more [adj] [noun sg] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has a characteristic shortness of the leg between knee and fetlock and a much thicker and more solid conformation than the Kerry . |
| 2 | Given the emphasis currently being placed on the role that schools should be playing , by providing a more socially relevant curriculum , more student-centred learning and a less alienating environment so as to prevent truancy , it is clearly important that education becomes the focus of any intervention . |
| 3 | A mild recession may cause far more economic damage than a one-day stockmarket fall of , say , 25% , but it is much less unsettling . |
| 4 | In theory , and ( with due allowance for the uncertainties involved ) in practice too , this approach clearly generates accounts of far more economic use than the historical cost mumbo-jumbo that still appears in so many corporate accounts . |
| 5 | This approach clearly generates accounts of far more economic use than the historical cost mumbo-jumbo that still appears in many corporate accounts |
| 6 | The Turks , whose team contained four members of the squad which won the European youth championship last summer , were always the more cohesive unit and the more skilful collection of individuals . |
| 7 | If it is still stable at temperatures in excess of 100 K above T g , the temperature dependence has an exponential form where according to the Eyring rate theory ΔH is the activation enthalpy of viscous flow and is a more representative parameter than the energy . |
| 8 | Although he is a versatile director , the emotional notes he specialises in teasing out tend to be of a more subtle nature than the full-blooded chords of sexual ecstasy . |
| 9 | Five years ago this would not have been possible , and it is a measure of the success of the Cleveland Classics series of concerts that a mass audience has been gradually persuaded to sample music of a more controversial stamp than the usual ‘ pops ’ . |
| 10 | Most skinheads see themselves as straightforward blokes and birds , more honest than the soul boys , more working class than the punks and the posers , rougher and tougher than the mods . |
| 11 | The normal women showed more obsessional symptoms and more obsessional distress than the normal men . |
| 12 | Children are seen as learning to write by direct imitation of adult models , and accurate imitation is implicitly regarded as a more advanced achievement than the child 's own attempts to represent the writing system through ‘ pretend writing ’ . |
| 13 | Most important , however , is the integration of StreetTalk III , recognised as a far more advanced system than the basic directory services now been introduced by the likes of Novell Inc . |
| 14 | Most Koi keepers will claim that their larger ponds require more advanced filtration than a box unit . |
| 15 | There are several varieties of the taegeuk , each forming a more advanced pattern than the one before . |
| 16 | So far as we can tell , the men-folk ruled in every sphere ; but it may be that the further one got from the world of high feudalism the less of a slave the woman became ; it is certainly true , in a rather different way , that the Norman Conquest brought both a more complete feudalism and a fall in the status of women . |
| 17 | Not only does this result in a more palatable food but the extrusion process makes the food more digestable and therefore more nutritious . |
| 18 | The Tannoy announces the opening of the buffet , and up we get , not stopping for an instant to reflect that even standing in line for seven hours outside Moscow 's GUM department store in pursuit of half a mouldy cabbage would be a more profitable venture than a futile pilgrimage to a British Rail catering outlet . |
| 19 | These two easily ( or too easily ) targeted objectives of personality and performance are given much more extensive treatment than the more politically contentious issues of professional status and recognition , and the basic conditions of teachers ' work . |
| 20 | The court does not , however , have the power to create a more extensive lease than the original expired lease . |
| 21 | Or is the Department of the En Environment looking for something a more specific area than a district ? |
| 22 | In effect , this means that the use of feminine forms provides more specific information than the use of masculine forms can be said to provide ; it rules out the possibility of masculine reference , whereas the use of masculine forms does not rule out the possibility of feminine reference . |
| 23 | Whatever one thinks of this judgment , it is not immediately obvious that it entails the rejection of the more specific claim that the state is the tool of the ruling class ; for the latter makes no explicit mention of a class 's consciousness of its interests , real or otherwise . |
| 24 | A long , sleek C-pillar gave the car a more muscular look and the side scoops became bigger and wider . |
| 25 | The 1940s and war made seditious literature a vital concern ; the 1950s and anti-communism made left-wing literature seem so threatening ; the 1960s and permissiveness eventually caused us to think we could go too far with ‘ indecent ’ and ‘ obscene ’ books ; and the 1970s and 1980s and the move towards a more multicultural society and the assertiveness of nationality made us conscious of the damage of racist and religiously intolerant literature . |
| 26 | Although the sea is a much more stable environment than the air and the habitat enjoyed by land animals , fluctuations occur which have a special influence on the shore , where the extremes are greater , and cold air temperatures can influence the fauna in winter , and the concentrated rays of the sun can make some pools uninhabitable during the summer . |
| 27 | I plead guilty , partly , but in my defence I want to return to the point I signalled earlier , that a biographical approach has more political justification if the project being undertaken is one concerned with the cultural history of a marginalized group . |
| 28 | It carries more textual meaning than an adverbial occurring in the same position . |
| 29 | The CDS , which is more right wing than the PSD , has two deputies in the Regional Parliament . |
| 30 | The essential difference , I feel , is that they are operated by humans in a much more direct way than a computer or beatbox . |