Example sentences of "greater [noun] [prep] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bone china tableware accounts for the greater part of output at the Wedgwood factory , where about one hundred designs are currently used in the production of this distinctively English ceramic ware . |
| 2 | Despite the greater reliance on petrol in the U.S. , the van fleet there is starting to swing towards diesel , says Harris . |
| 3 | So I would see it as something of a network , internationally , to try and provide research and study related to how all countries can move better to take account of the never greater level of inter-dependence within the world economy . |
| 4 | Using a NAMAS accredited facility may provide a greater level of confidence in the test results . |
| 5 | However , it could have hidden a greater reduction in flow in the deeper layers of the bowel wall , which may be the main site of vascular compromise . |
| 6 | Its directors had to sustain wars in Asia , try to devise means of governing newly conquered Indian provinces , and cope with the demands of the national government and of Parliament for an ever greater measure of control over the Company . |
| 7 | In more practical terms Gorbachev pointed to the need for a greater measure of agreement on the reduction of all forms of armaments and on the elimination of regional conflicts . |
| 8 | Clearly , such adjustments were likely to be restricted to relatively low levels of the bureaucracy because of the greater centralization of control at the upper echelons , but this probably applies to other systems as well . |
| 9 | However , while the process of electing a national president went smoothly , state party elections revealed high levels of factionalism within the BJP and led to the intervention of the central leadership in attempts to restore a greater semblance of unity to the party . |
| 10 | Thus where the issue is the width of the use covenant , the application of the contra proferentem rule points towards greater freedom of use on the part of the tenant rather than narrower , even if the tenant is arguing for a narrower use so as to secure a benefit on rent review ( Skillion v Keltec Industrial Research [ 1992 ] 1 EGLR 123 ) . |
| 11 | For example , some surgical implants may have a greater durability or offer greater freedom of movement to the patient than others . |
| 12 | Looking at the environment , as market demands become more sophisticated so there is a need for operator flexibility in production system outputs , which has its counterpart in greater variety of work within the production system ( Lupton and Tanner , 1980 ) . |
| 13 | ‘ The Americans have a greater variety of shot around the greens and there is no doubt they putt better than us . |
| 14 | As public relations , and hence press relations , becomes more professional and expert , and as journalists need more ideas and information , so there is growing a greater recognition by media of the role public relations can play in a positive way to help them . |
| 15 | A reasonably typical example is provided by Kenchester , where the early ribbon development , extending over some 700 m ( 2300 ft ) , was apparently modified in the course of the second century by a much greater concentration of streets within the defended enclosure ( see fig. 15 ) . |
| 16 | Since the blend of the wind-group is not so perfect as that of the strings , owing to the greater uniformity of tone of the latter , passages of which the texture can be resolved into its component patterns , each of which suits the individual character of some particular instrument or small group of instruments , ‘ come off ’ best on the wind . |
| 17 | The greater abundance of mare basalts on the mare than in the highlands is not explained in any detail , but the greater variability of rocks within the highlands could be the outcome of the maria impacts which excavated the Moon to large depths and thus brought up a great variety of layers . |
| 18 | In addition , the system , when compressed , allows for a greater circulation of air around the foot , keeping it cool and dry . |
| 19 | The suggestion put forward by Kraemer and Roberts ( 1984 ) ( see above , p. 119 ) that the retrieval of more ‘ important , associations will be less dependent on contextual cues implies that a change of context might produce a greater loss of effectiveness in the inhibitory than in the excitatory association . |
| 20 | Indeed when in Opposition amendments had been moved unsuccessfully to give greater effect to reparation during the passage of the Criminal Justice Bill in 1966/7 . |
| 21 | The greater proportion of boys in the sample reflected more high scoring boys than girls being in the lower mathematics sets in the schools working with the project . |
| 22 | Tei and Owen provide no breakdown of their data in terms of the angular separation between adapting and test stimuli on their " different " trials so it is net possible to see whether adaptation is effective over a greater range of orientations in the LVF compared to the RVF . |
| 23 | The ‘ floating cloche ’ makes it possible to cover much greater areas of plants for the same outlay . |
| 24 | As well as this , the trend over the past few years has been towards greater accountability from business in the form of information about matters other than profit and loss . |
| 25 | It is probable that the economic situation in the industrial countries will deteriorate further in the longer term as some of the constraints upon growth which I discussed earlier take effect ; and there will then be a much greater likelihood of conflict among the rich nations themselves in the struggle for natural resources , markets and some kind of economic growth , while the poorer developing countries will experience increasing hardship and may reach a point of economic collapse . |
| 26 | This suggests that there is now a greater degree of overlap in the characteristics of people accommodated in different forms of care . |
| 27 | " We ourselves would not have used a comma in the example above because we think in that example there is a greater degree of interdependence between the parts of the sentence . |
| 28 | Furthermore , this ‘ coolness ’ is carried over into a somewhat dull performance of the final movement Precipitato — I can certainly think of several lesser mortals who bring a greater degree of excitement to the music than does Gavrilov . |
| 29 | Women who combine their responsibilities in the home with a greater degree of participation in the labour market , together with men and women without those responsibilities will be subsidising them . |
| 30 | The broking scandals came at a time when the Japanese government was already under pressure , both at home and abroad , to improve the supervision of its financial markets , to make insider trading illegal , and simultaneously to allow foreign institutions a greater degree of involvement in the domestic securities markets . |