Example sentences of "their more [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This particularly applies to the more beautiful showpiece villages , which by their very reputation attract more newcomers and by their more picturesque appearance prompt a premium to be placed on the price of local homes . |
| 2 | Owing to their more extensive use of inflections , examples are much rarer in other languages . |
| 3 | Not always content to watch from the sidelines , some of them have joined in with their more confident brand of anti-lesbianism . |
| 4 | The views of Rome as they travel about by car are the objective form of their longings , before their more practical embodiment in such continental charmers as Rossano Brazzi and Louis Jourdan . |
| 5 | Campese was virtually surplus to requirements as the injury-torn and weary Wallabies showed their more practical face by kicking the leather off the ball . |
| 6 | Third , Greeks in the fourth century and later are described in written sources and inscriptions as coming from Naukratis , which was the old port of trade between the Greeks , with their silver to sell , and the xenophobic Egyptians with their more stagnant economy — but a surplus of wheat . |
| 7 | The woods and fields , now somewhat solitary , being deserted by their more tender summer residents , are now frequented by these rich but delicately tinted and hardy northern immigrants of the air . |
| 8 | In particular they felt that they might have tried to cover up their worst failings and made a public show of only their more successful work . |
| 9 | Moreover , there are a number of other types of measurement , such as time sampling , which because of their more specific nature are not included here . |
| 10 | The five B–17s were ferried back to the mainland to resume their more mundane tanker duties . |
| 11 | The best wines show much the same style as their more expensive Collio counterparts . |
| 12 | Meanwhile the women would make their more leisurely way to the quays with their ‘ gurries ’ , or hand-barrows . |
| 13 | What is wrong , however , is the comparison which places universities at the top because they are thought to be concerned with the abstract and academic , polytechnics below , because of their more technological emphasis ( which is itself , as often as not , a myth ) , and which deems schools to be worth considering only if they are seen as primarily devoted to academic ‘ standards ’ , imposed from above by the universities themselves . |
| 14 | Basic literacy , which was all that was aimed at , would allow the people to grasp more easily the intentions of the ruler and thus ensure their more effective cooperation in his policies . |
| 15 | At the same time , in much of the Western world there was a growth of social democracy through an extension of the civil , political and social rights of citizens , and their more effective implementation in many cases as a result of the campaigns of civil rights movements . |
| 16 | The parents and four children — three boys and a girl — lived in an air of smug bourgeois prosperity and Catholic pedagogy , not unlike the cameos of their more famous namesake , James Joyce , in the earlier chapters of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man . |
| 17 | Their more recent work emphasizes the very considerable regional variations which reflect relative unemployment rates . |
| 18 | Today 's high performance engine technology means higher temperatures inside the engine owing to their more efficient combustion technology . |
| 19 | With the above background in mind , the task of selling services is perhaps more difficult than that of selling products because of their more abstract nature . |
| 20 | Comparatively unfettered by the vexed relations between labour and capital , with their more ready sympathy and common interests with all other women , they would begin hopefully where men would have little chance ’ . |
| 21 | Their more popular style of public activity was a measure of their marginality in relation to the political class . |
| 22 | Although their more militant stance was probably vital for the development of the nationalist movement , the bombastic and buccaneering approach of the new breed of politician has led to accusations that they ‘ lowered the tone of political life ’ . |
| 23 | THE difficulty in watching this match was to ascertain how it was Glasgow High-Kelvinside who have anchored themselves in the relegation battle and not their more illustrious Border rivals , Hawick . |
| 24 | The Reserves will play an even more important role and we will introduce legislation to allow their more flexible use . |
| 25 | The report by Germany 's five leading economic research institutes said their more optimistic autumn predictions had been confounded because of east Germany 's failure to turn the corner . |
| 26 | But whoever these men had been , they had not expected stone and stone had won the day against the metal of their more ferocious weaponry . |
| 27 | Special high frequency dog whistles are available for this purpose , which although virtually inaudible to the human ear , can be heard by dogs with their more sensitive hearing a good distance away . |
| 28 | Use traditional English apples for their more intense flavour . |
| 29 | Having now examined the objectives and formal structural characteristics of trade unions in market-type economies , it is also necessary to consider their more informal organisation at workplace level since , in many Western European countries during the post-World War II period , there has been a notable growth of bargaining at plant level — often outside official union channels — along with a progressive enlargement of its scope ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 30 | Indeed , many of the distinctive characteristics of the ‘ peasant-proletarian ’ — the relatively low level of their skill , wages and education , and even their marked tendency to marry earlier than their more urbanized counterpart — appear to have weakened their commitment to sustained protest . |