Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] a greater " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speculation as to the causes of queues has included a greater public awareness of the CAB , growing numbers in receipt of state benefits , unemployment and the availability of credit , the rising divorce rate , and a complex legislative programme that has affected clients detrimentally . |
| 2 | ‘ With our own staff I believe the Company has fostered a greater sense of confidence in what it is seeking to achieve and the way it is going about achieving it . |
| 3 | The longer term has seen a greater willingness on the part of the judiciary to challenge the exercise by Ministers and civil servants of their discretionary powers . |
| 4 | The advent of the private car has made a greater percentage of the population mobile , we can reach many different areas today by private car . |
| 5 | A great deal of the argument against central controls has stressed that local government has shown a greater ability to reduce spending than the departments of central government and even the Audit Commission — in the early 1980s — has acknowledged that the operation of central rules may actually have encouraged increased levels of spending and a reduction in the accuracy of information feeding into the centre ( Audit Commission , 1984 ) . |
| 6 | Some observers have suggested that the decline of the village as the main social unit in Japan has produced a greater heterogeneity in the smaller groups which go to make up society as a whole . |
| 7 | The Gold Cup has had a greater than usual bearing in the Grand National build-up this year , with Cool Ground , the winner , and Docklands Express , the close third , renewing rivalry . |
| 8 | A plaque on a wall is admittedly not much to look at for those with a passion for working machinery and dramatic industrial landscapes , but this one marks the site of the foundation of that industry which has had a greater impact on civilization than any other . |
| 9 | No one has had a greater influence on intellectual life in twentieth century Spain than Jos'e Ortega y Gasset ( 1883-1955 ) . |
| 10 | But , in recent years , alcoholism has become a greater and nationally recognised social problem . |
| 11 | Will the hon. Gentleman tell the constituent of mine who is over 21 and earns £50 for a 40-hour week why he has taken a greater percentage of the young man 's earnings than he has from his right hon. and hon. Friends who go to the City and , for part-time work , earn hundreds of thousands of pounds ? |
| 12 | Television may have made inroads on the number of live spectators but , if anything , it has encouraged a greater degree of participation in a far wider range of activities . |
| 13 | Japan 's growing influence as a member of the Western camp has encouraged a greater questioning within Japan of how far to accept what the West has to offer . |
| 14 | No major country house has faced a greater catalogue of danger and decay than Barlaston , with the combined problems of twenty years of rain cascading through the roof and repeated bouts of coal mining subsidence . |
| 15 | The increasing ownership of telephones has created a greater inclination to get in touch with the police . |
| 16 | Recent work has suggested a greater production of CRP stimulating cytokines from mononuclear leukocytes in Crohn 's disease patient . |
| 17 | The current rage for portable computing has prompted a greater need for packages to help tired executives move their files from notebook to desktop . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | After the majestic setting of Old Trafford , Middlesbrough could not have expected a greater contrast than Roots Hall . |
| 20 | Even so , it may be doubted that he would have made a greater impact upon the course of history . |
| 21 | It may be that he had missed his metier , and that he would have made a greater mark had he gone into politics . |
| 22 | And this must in part have reflected a greater diversity among its patrons . |
| 23 | Never though can it have housed a greater galaxy of scientific and industrial leaders than on that Thursday last month . |
| 24 | Of course , there have been historical fluctuations in revolutionary activity , as well as considerable variations between societies — with revolutionary parties having had a greater influence in France and Italy than in the rest of Western and Northern Europe or in North America — but the predominant style of working-class politics everywhere has been reformist , directed toward a gradual attrition of the unregulated market economy . |
| 25 | Since the last war , however , strains of the gonococcus which produce fewer symptoms will have had a greater chance of being passed on before treatment could be instituted . |
| 26 | Her publications list appears to consist of only two papers , but she may have had a greater influence than this suggests ( J. White , personal communication ) . |
| 27 | The government , at no additional cost to the Exchequer , would have had a greater impact on the individual 's welfare . |
| 28 | This independence and opportunity for large profit must have been the most important distinction between riches and grinding poverty and must have played a greater part in creating the economic hierarchy of rural society than any other factor . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , they did not forget the main object of their expedition and kept a careful record of all the plants found , though they commented that had the journey been made a month or two sooner , they would have found a greater number of rarities . |
| 30 | Would I have cut a greater dash in the world ? |