Example sentences of "and the much [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Family work with elderly people as described in Chapter 1 involves the elderly person , the immediate family members , the family network , and the much wider social support network reaching out into the neighbourhood . |
| 2 | The wrangle over airline stakes has already forced British Airways to rethink its plans , and the much wider argument over farm policies is still holding up the long-delayed Uruguay round of GATT talks on the further liberalisation of international trade . |
| 3 | In the 1930s and 1940s , although the impact of man was becoming increasingly more evident from situations like the dust bowl , the Tennessee Valley Authority ( TVA ) , and the much greater use of fertilizers , this situation was not fully acknowledged in physical geography and this is perhaps particularly startling given the appearance of books on soil erosion ( e.g. Jacks and Whyte , 1939 ) . |
| 4 | To some extent the far greater proportion of farms with large numbers of sheep in Powys , and the much higher proportion of small sheep farms in Cantal , reflects the historically much smaller size of French farms ( including those in the LFAs ) , as illustrated in Table 11 . |
| 5 | A key reason for the upheavals in the foreign exchange markets is the disparity between the short-term interest rates ruling in the US and the much higher ones obtainable in Germany , where the Bundesbank is battling to slow the growth of money supply and curb inflation following the higher than expected costs of reunification . |
| 6 | However , the apparent success of retail development and the much higher land prices and rents which sites developed for out-of-town retail purposes command , has led to continuing pressure on industrial sites in general , including sites in and around North Shields . |
| 7 | Particularly striking were the much higher percentage of men than of women who were heads , and the much higher percentage of women than of men who were on the lowest two scales . |
| 8 | All that strange ‘ beat ’ talk of the late fifties and the avant-garde personality of the earlier Sixties that had become the language of kids in the coffee bars and campuses throughout the English-speaking world , was giving way to a more cynical view of life and the much harsher realities of the rock ‘ n ’ roll years . |
| 9 | So there is an important contrast here between the groundmass of tiny , felted crystals and the much bigger , separate phenocryst minerals . |
| 10 | The narrative maximizes Stepan 's vulnerability , perching him on a platform amid the malcontents and troublemakers and the much larger number of those humble , obscure people who are enduring more or less passively the chaos of the fête . |
| 11 | The general concept of Kinmount , with its vast Soanic central saloon rising into a tribune gallery and a lantern tower , was reproduced in neo-Tudor form as his ambitious enlargement of Saltoun , East Lothian ( 1817 ) ; without the lantern tower , at his neo-Classical Adderston , Northumberland ( 1819 ) and the much larger Camperdown , Dundee ( 1821–28 ) ; and , at Blairquhan , Ayrshire ( 1820 ) where he retained the lantern tower but began to experiment with asymmetrical planning and to adopt more archaeologically correct Tudor forms , following the example of William Wilkins ' Tregothnan ( 1816 ) and Dalmeny ( 1814 ) . |
| 12 | The book is designed to bridge the gap between the very simple and inadequate descriptions of use given with many Homoeopathic remedies and the much larger texts , the depth and complexity of which would put Homoeopathy quite beyond all but the most dedicated of beginners . |
| 13 | ‘ Among those interested in ( and the much larger number pontificating on ) the history and philosophy of science , I notice an increasing tendency to attribute changes and advances to a mysterious but almost omnipotent entity called ‘ social-and-economic-factors- . ’ |
| 14 | She was never to equal her first novel , That Lass o' Lowrie 's ( 1877 ) , a robust account of a Lancashire mining community in which she had taken great care with background and dialect , though Through One Administration ( 1883 ) , a study of a failed marriage against a turbulent background of Washington political life , was noteworthy , and the much shorter The Making of a Marchioness ( 1901 ) is a indictment of Edwardian society . |
| 15 | Arctic Ocean waters are continuous with the Pacific Ocean via the 80-km wide Bering Strait , and with the north Atlantic Ocean on either side of Greenland , via the 1400-km wide Norwegian Sea in the east and the much narrower channels of the Canadian archipelago in the west . |
| 16 | This involves grasping the dynamic inter-relation between new scientific knowledges and the much broader public debates over national efficiency and imperial survival . |
| 17 | Both the P-E Inbucon annual survey of executive salaries , and the much smaller Jonathan Wren city salary survey , confirm that salary increases have been bigger at the top end of business and the City than at the bottom . |
| 18 | And the re-concentration of growth , and the much smaller impact of decline , in the south since the mid-'70s has been very much focused on the previously less industrialized regions ( and parts of regions ) . |
| 19 | His 70 appearances were only improved over that period by the evergreen John McCormick , goalkeeper John Jackson and the much younger Mel Blyth , and they tell us something of the fitness and sheer determination of the man . |