Example sentences of "more [adj] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This helped give French unionism an elitist philosophy , organising a minority of politically conscious and literate workers in contrast with the more solid and comprehensively organised , dues-paying membership of the British model ( Kendall , 1975 ) . |
| 2 | In general , therefore , subcontract labour will tend to be more mobile than directly employed labour . |
| 3 | The House is aware of a number of recent announcements , particularly for new equipment , to ensure that our forces , though smaller , will be more flexible , more mobile and better equipped than ever before . |
| 4 | As listening-posts attuned to balancing all shades of community opinion , they see themselves as more representative than formally elected representatives , who may represent a merely temporary or apparent majority . |
| 5 | Since the locality in the case of a rural community is a village , with obvious territorial limits in contrast to the more amorphous boundaries of suburban neighbourhoods , many people have migrated to the countryside in search of a more friendly and obviously defined community . |
| 6 | However , while some reports are well drafted , others could do with being both more complete and more pointed in terms of their recommendations . |
| 7 | By that time , higher real wages allowed ordinary families to rent more spacious and better equipped accommodation ( 95 per cent of households rented until after the First World War ) and encouraged builders to improve quality . |
| 8 | It is also known that the Indus Valley civilization was far more extensive than formerly realised , embracing areas as far away as the Oxus River , now called Amu Darya , in Central Asia and forming part of the Soviet Afghanistan border on its course . |
| 9 | Initial indications are that the basic rocks responsible for the gravity anomaly are more extensive than originally mapped . |
| 10 | These last were soon replaced , on 9 May , by a more specific and highly organized pressure group headed by many who had previously mounted the Pro-Life Anti-abortion Campaign . |
| 11 | For students whose background is more creative the treatment of the core subject areas would be more descriptive and more geared to understanding new applications of the existing technology rather than developing the technology itself . |
| 12 | It seems probable that if the programme had addressed the curriculum in a more direct and sharply focused way , concentrating attention and resources on particular curriculum areas at a time , then the impact on the quality of children 's curriculum experiences , and hence on their learning , would have been much greater . |
| 13 | It is also more reliable and better suited to their needs . |
| 14 | The small operation at " Hartriggs " ( see " Haggrieg 's Mine at Hawk Rigg " page 91 in the Field Guide ) , was providing a " rich liver coloured ore " ( cuprite ? ) , whilst at Muckle Gill , above the top waterfall in Tilberthwaite Gill , the veins , even then , " as the shafts get deeper , become less rich … getting more coarse and more mineralised with sulphur . " |
| 15 | Love children , he had read , were more beautiful , more charming and more favoured by destiny than those born in wedlock . |
| 16 | The information required in the offer document is more detailed than currently required under most national takeover rules and includes such matters as the maximum and minimum percentages or quantities of securities that the offeror undertakes to acquire , the names of concert parties , details of the offeror 's holdings in the target company and those of concert parties . |
| 17 | Do you believe that women feel more empowered or less empowered now than they did last year ? |
| 18 | PORSCHE GB 'S buyback scheme is more generous than originally reported ( Pink Pages , 4 November ) . |
| 19 | The importance of east Asia in the general consular picture is especially marked in the case of Britain : by the end of the nineteenth century , when there were rather less than 200 salaried members of the British general consular service spread across the world , the more specialised and highly trained one which operated in China alone numbered seventy-five ( including student interpreters and assistants ) . |
| 20 | It goes on to recommend that role modelling should itself be the subject of teaching so that its functions may become more explicit and better recognised . |
| 21 | The former regions were more developed and better educated , often with advanced civilisations of their own and with nationalist movements established before the war . |
| 22 | Now that 's when the movement was erm mainly underground , it was erm s organization and working together er in a sort of a covert manner , things were very secretive er and then after June it became more open as it became , the , the er movement became more accepted or well known , it became difficult to continue it underground so it became more open . |
| 23 | The new restrictions have been triggered by further studies of survivors of the Hiroshima explosion , which have revealed that long-term radiation hazards may be more serious than previously thought . |
| 24 | they are more comprehensive and open ended than assignments ; |
| 25 | This suggests that the computer assisted protocol was more comprehensive and probably covered more infrequent clinical scenarios . |
| 26 | This relative generality of development is of great sociological importance , by contrast with the much more uneven and often specialized and exclusive development of forms of cultural production which depend on the use or transformation of non-human resources . |
| 27 | The combined effect is to leave individual teachers feeling more accountable , but more confused and less supported . |
| 28 | A more diverse and better developed flora would result ; erosion would be reduced and many groups of animals , insects for example , would increase . |
| 29 | This more sophisticated and rationally expressed conspiracy theory of anti-semitism was combined with gutter racist anti-semitic abuse in its publications . |
| 30 | The French Atomic Energy Commission has reawakened concerns over plutonium contamination at a former nuclear dump near Paris , by admitting that radioactivity at the site is more widespread than previously thought . |