Example sentences of "its more [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | S ( The Optere family is undoubtedly more familiar under its more usual spelling of ‘ Hotteterre ’ . ) |
| 2 | By " aptitude " Carroll meant " the amount of time needed to learn a task under optimal instructional conditions ' and not its more usual connotation of how much a student is capable of learning . |
| 3 | Yet it is clear that there is significant and sustained conflict , over some crucial cultural issues , between the state in its simplest form ( as in legislation on obscenity or on official information ) or the ‘ apparatus ’ in its more complex form ( as in religious or educational campaigns against ‘ sex-and-violence ’ or ‘ materialism ’ ) , and the actual profitable operations of the capitalist market . |
| 4 | Its more complex area — socially , economically and politically — bringing with it a new and more complex set of issues , calls for a more sophisticated policy response . |
| 5 | That at Hyderabad with its wide cornices and balustraded roof detail was somewhat less austere than its more utilitarian neighbour at Secunderabad . |
| 6 | Alternatively , the subjects linked by ‘ see also ’ references may be a general subject and its more specific subdivision , for example : Crime see also Crimes without victims . |
| 7 | ( 15 ) Lotus : purity and summer , in addition to its more specific Buddhist and Taoist meanings . |
| 8 | In its more moderate form ‘ litigiousness ’ was linked with government policy . |
| 9 | The gossips say the issue is whether OSF , under pressure to become self-sustaining , should continue to spend its resources on further development or focus its energies on its more innovative software DCE , DME and Motif . |
| 10 | This word is sometimes used with the sense of forming a conclusion or deduction , e.g. ‘ she left at 8 o'clock , so she must have arrived by now ’ ; when ‘ must ’ is used in this way , it is rather less likely to occur in its weak form than when it is being used in its more familiar sense of ‘ obligation ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ Here we are , ’ gushed the presenter of Gardeners ' World , ‘ we 're in my very favourite corner of the estate now , with its magnificent , sweeping views down to the river.just look at this superb example of Metasequoiaglyptostroboides , or Dawn Redwood to give it its more familiar name , I do n't think I 've ever seen a better specimen anywhere . |
| 12 | In the distance I used Quink ink with its more blue tinge and in parts diluted this to maintain a lightness of touch . |
| 13 | It needed to be bigger , for it was widely used as a plough ox on the very heavy , stiff clays of the Sussex Weald and in its more distant past it played a valuable role in the Sussex iron industry by hauling hefty loads of timber and metal . |
| 14 | Thus , when a child who calls a stool ‘ chair ’ is corrected and introduced to its more accurate name and subsequently uses the term ‘ stool ’ , it would be reasonable to say that the child had learned a new word . |
| 15 | The dictionary gives ‘ lover ’ as an admirer , a suitor , or simply someone who loves , as well as its more accepted use . ’ |
| 16 | More recently there have been criticisms of the balance between these two areas and , on occasions , the GAO has been accused of neglecting its more traditional audit responsibilities in the area of financial compliance and regularity . |
| 17 | A new development is the QUANT/NMR option providing an integrated solution for spectral processing , analysis and molecular modelling for the NMR spectroscopist using the unique X-PLOR package as the compute engine for handling distance geometry , relaxation matrix refinement and simulated annealing in addition to its more traditional role as a unique refinement tool for protein engineers . |
| 18 | In retrospect , it was not ideal for the Promenade and Fleetwood route , with its more resilient sleeper track and the blowing sand , which affected the roof-mounted control unit . |
| 19 | She cracked the last egg , one-handed , on the rim of the pretty , primrose bowl with the vine leaves painted on it , let the ochre centre and its more resilient aura slither into the middle of the mixture , threw the shattered shell into the pedal-bin and then beat the eggs furiously until she could see no separation at all . |
| 20 | It was originally launched at the turn of the century as a woman 's paper and was re-launched in the period 1935 — 7 in its more working class , non-Conservative mould . |
| 21 | The application of such skills led to the greater control of an army and , as a consequence , to its more effective use as a military arm . |
| 22 | Its more political purpose would be to show Bosnia 's Serbs that the world 's threats to use force are not empty and that they must change their minds and return to the peace table . |
| 23 | Instead of class analysis and the more obvious communist objectives the Party was to advance on a broad front as the dominant power of the League For The Independence Of Vietnam : the Viet Nam Doc Lap Dong Minh or , in its more memorable form , the Vietminh . |
| 24 | Before leaving London I saw the sights , from the Tower to Trafalgar Square and I also had a wander through Soho which I remember not so much for its more dubious side but for all the stalls of fruit and vegetables , every type , colour and description . |
| 25 | A member of the Pontypool and District League , Abersychan has always been over-shadowed by its more famous neighbour , the Pontypool club itself . |
| 26 | Now cleared , it has a unity and humanity of scale not found at Karnak , its more famous neighbour . |
| 27 | This is partly because , as we have seen , the Court of Appeal showed no inclination to formulate a coherent set of sentencing aims for the guidance of sentencers , and partly because the self-regulatory mechanisms on which it sought to rely in the pursuit of its more limited policy objectives were themselves seriously defective . |
| 28 | But , it 's probably a good long-term bet because of its more professional drawing tools , and extra features like converting text to outlines , 50 levels of undo , 200 named layers and locking objects in place to avoid moving them by mistake . |
| 29 | This case is so important , by comparison with the social situations of artists in later societies , that it is often presented as if it were singular and uniform , and this can have important effects on its more general interpretation . |
| 30 | There are , however , highly specific concerns in business-oriented research , which limit its more general interest . |