Example sentences of "more and [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am already planning to catch more and bigger ones the next time I come . |
| 2 | RUC Chief Constable Sir Hugh Annesley last night warned of an IRA terror campaign on the British mainland with more and bigger bombs . |
| 3 | A combination of clerical opposition and papal objections thwarted his attempts to tax the clergy directly , but to the king Winchelsey constituted a far greater problem than the pope who , susceptible to more and wider pressures , gradually modified his objections to Edward 's aims and granted him a papal tenth in 1301 . |
| 4 | The forces propelling the world toward more and greater disasters will continue to outweigh by a wide margin the forces promoting a wise choice of adjustments to hazard . |
| 5 | Is the seeking of more and greater wealth ( greed ) a reason for tramping on compassion and humanity ? |
| 6 | The task of industry is continuously , year on year , to make more and better things , using less of the world 's resources . |
| 7 | The way forward involves the production of more and better services , but that in turn implies an effective flow of information about what consumers really need and want , and a strong link between field workers and the planners who determine the services to be produced . |
| 8 | These emphasize the protection of individual rights , working on behalf of the client for more and better services , and attempting to ensure that existing services meet client needs and provide care to agreed service specifications . |
| 9 | Through research and development , Rentokil is constantly seeking new ways to provide more and better services to protect health and the environment . |
| 10 | All that is left is a question about how we might open up these and other conduits to more and better funding . |
| 11 | This means more and better treatment — more immunisation , for example , and more resources for anything from hip replacements to heart transplants . |
| 12 | There were demands in the press for the militia to be allowed greater use of firearms and for Interior Ministry troops to be provided with more and better equipment ( notably computers , communications equipment and vehicles ) . |
| 13 | But even if the proposition be true , it could not be the case for more and better education because of the nature of education itself . |
| 14 | The difficulty with the argument , that more and better education leads to mobility , is that better-trained people do not , on their own , lead to an increase in the number of better-paid jobs . |
| 15 | First , the inequalities of the system lead to demands for more and better education for the majority of their peoples ; second , the authorities often regard education as a direct threat to their domination so that teachers , academics and indeed books are targets of repression and censorship . |
| 16 | It was sad for me that I had fallen in love with someone who did not love me , but it was not an experience I cared to repeat — for more and better reasons than the fear of pain . |
| 17 | On the contrary , it is a consortium of humanities scholars the likes of which we need anyway to establish more and better contact with . |
| 18 | You 're just arguing women into complete inactivity , not more and better activity . |
| 19 | This period also saw expansion of motor-car ownership which led to both the provision of more and better roads and other traffic-related expenditure . |
| 20 | Hersh argued that resale rights would help stabilise artists ' incomes and such stability , he maintained , ‘ would probably result in more and better art from artists freed from some of the anxiety of performing on a tightrope without a safety net ’ . |
| 21 | It would cease to be recognizable as the river which the local people enjoyed , but it would become a very efficient drain , so that their sitting-rooms would no longer be ruined periodically , and farmers with land adjacent to the river would be able to grow more and better crops to feed the very people who were complaining . |
| 22 | It is , therefore , worth calling the attention of villa excavators to these possibilities with the hope that they will eventually produce more and better evidence which will help to elucidate changes in this period . |
| 23 | Any demand for more and better statistics is almost bound to impose costs on industry . |
| 24 | Mr Radice 's second main objective — to provide more and better information to patients — is not in any way compromised by section 118 . |
| 25 | 4 Parents need more and better information about schooling . |
| 26 | He was deeply concerned about the need to improve social conditions ; but he concluded that the economy had the capacity for recovery and expansion to create more and better jobs and argued that government intervention was more likely to harm than to assist that process . |
| 27 | You might , for example , be concerned that more and better jobs or housing for black people might produce a white backlash and result in more , not less , racism , unless it was accompanied by educational initiatives . |
| 28 | On improving accessibility , we need to produce more and better tools which not only say what is available in theory relevant to a particular area , but how it can be consulted in practice . |
| 29 | Thirdly , having overcome our sectional tensions and established a corporate identity we can perhaps enlist the support of our universities and our professional associations to establish more and better access to the funding which in relation to the sciences , has historically been denied to us . |
| 30 | Libraries of all sizes were likely to indicate a belief that more and better planning was needed . |