Example sentences of "the [noun sg] of [noun pl] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Report of HM Inspectorate concludes that the need is now paramount for careful planning to match the provision of courses more effectively to the needs of students and employers . |
| 2 | The Earl 's Wood secure unit for young offenders is certainly no hotel — but staying here can clock up the kind of bills more usually seen at the Ritz . |
| 3 | Those who will not be God 's sons become his tools ’ ; and Ilúvatar to Melkor , ‘ no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me … he that attempteth this shall prove but mine instrument in the devising of things more wonderful , which he himself hath not imagined ’ ( my italics ) . |
| 4 | We would do well to transpose Orwell 's transposition of Chesterton : the metabolism of the Western world is founded on the work of women more completely than we realise until we stop to think about it . |
| 5 | Benjamin ( 1975a , pp. 83–4 ) , like Weber , observed that the autonomy of the aesthetic and the separation of spheres more generally result in a ‘ shrinkage of experience ’ , or what Weber called the creation of a class of ‘ specialists without heart ’ . |
| 6 | In 1338 he had issued the so-called ‘ Walton Ordinances ’ to help make the raising of supplies more efficient . |
| 7 | We will discuss the nature of interests more fully in Chapter 6 , and will be discussing the nature of social control more fully in Chapter 10 . |
| 8 | In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries this reforming enthusiasm was channelled into the foundation of Orders more oriented towards service of the whole community — the mendicant Dominicans and Franciscans were travelling preachers and the Augustinian Canons ( known as Austin Friars ) were committed to lives of pastoral service . |
| 9 | In theory this should make the content of jobs more satisfying and skilled , and allow more scope for innovation . |
| 10 | Estate owners had begun to find the grazing of animals more profitable per acre than the tenanting of farmers . |
| 11 | The results of behavioural surveys have been mixed , with the pattern of activities more varied than in traditional streets , but few residents encouraged to go out more . |
| 12 | We wish to note the potential of specialist library staff for the INSET of teachers more generally , and to pose the question of how this potential might be developed and exploited . |
| 13 | As we have made the choice of stations more sensitive , particularly in Scotland , the system itself will be more sensitive . |
| 14 | Nothing confirms the stature of artists more clearly than the way they tackle the potboilers of the repertory , and here as soloist in the Grieg Piano Concerto we had another artist who can be unpredictable , sometimes nervily so , Radu Lupu . |
| 15 | A socialist society will greatly exaggerate these tendencies : ‘ The heads of a communist or collective republic would control the will of others more tyrannically than ever ’ ( Mosca , 1939 , p. 286 ) . |
| 16 | A shadow may lie across a surface , giving a sharp change of brightness ; such exceptions to the rules make the interpretation of images more difficult . ) |
| 17 | For example , insisting on conditions that would in theory make the employment of women more likely often has the opposite effect . |
| 18 | According to the US Mortgage Bankers ' Association , the number of homeowners more than 30 days behind in their repayments fell in the second quarter of the year to its lowest level in 10 years . |
| 19 | The number of teams more than doubled as word spread round the pubs , and £120 was raised through sponsorship for charity . |
| 20 | If we conceive of the least pleasant experience which is still a pleasure , then one way of quantifying its intensity would be by characterising the number of times more pleasant a pleasure is at a particular moment than that . |
| 21 | There has been a sharp escalation in the number of chartered accountants resorting to individual voluntary arrangements to try and resolve their financial crises and avoid bankruptcy the number of IVAs more than doubled last year . |
| 22 | Between 1966 and 1981 the number of conversions more than doubled in Greater London and , according to the Nationwide Building Society , conversions accounted for between 30 and 60 percent of all mortgages granted in central and inner London in 1984/85 . |
| 23 | During the same period the number of apprentices more than trebled from 80 to 250 as the town became a specialist craft centre offering a wide variety of trades . |