Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [vb pp] a greater " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But , in recent years , alcoholism has become a greater and nationally recognised social problem . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Recent work has suggested a greater production of CRP stimulating cytokines from mononuclear leukocytes in Crohn 's disease patient . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 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 | The current rage for portable computing has prompted a greater need for packages to help tired executives move their files from notebook to desktop . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |