Example sentences of "[verb] [art] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Chapter 5 we met the more sophisticated idea of the evolutionarily stable set of genes . |
| 2 | Pedestrianism remained a source of extra money for good runners , who were willing to sacrifice the more socially prestigious amateur laurels . |
| 3 | In all three cases there has been a marked increase in the proportion who favour the more liberal status quo . |
| 4 | It is rare for a house of this size and date to remain thatched , for so often the roof pitch would be changed to accommodate the more convenient slates or tiles . |
| 5 | Longer-term trading considerations may be far from the Chancellor 's mind as he tackles the more urgent problems of balancing the books by squeezing maximum contributions from energy supply , but a quick tax fix is no substitute for a well-defined investment strategy to ensure the best balance is struck between available supply and demand . |
| 6 | As a subject , travel photography was immensely popular from the beginning , if you could n't do it yourself , you could always buy a print or two which depicted the more interesting scenic points of your journey . |
| 7 | As a subject , travel photography was immensely popular from the beginning , if you could n't do it yourself , you could always buy a print or two which depicted the more interesting scenic points of your journey . |
| 8 | Both the sheep and the cows , after drying off in early June , went to the high mountain meadows during the summer , allowing the more accessible grass around the farm to be conserved either as hay or silage . |
| 9 | Here near to Foxton are examples of all sorts of things that excite the blood of the canal enthusiast : a delightful cut through the centre of the village taking the boatman to the once prosperous wharves and building yards of Market Harborough ; a wonderful hand-operated swingbridge allowing the more adventurous visitors to negotiate Swingbridge Lane on their own ; visible and tangible memories of boatmen 's inns . |
| 10 | ‘ Based on market research , we 're locating the new Wine Racks to target the more affluent , urban areas . |
| 11 | ( 3 ) A change in the processes of teaching and learning is justified because it is believed to enable the more effective transmission and reception of the content of the curriculum ; i.e. we change process as instrumental in acquiring knowledge of content . |
| 12 | Nearly one quarter ( 8/33 ) of those who had received the more comprehensive list of complications thought that they had been given ‘ too much ’ information , compared with just 6% ( 2/36 ) of those who had been given a simple explanation ( p=0.04 , Fisher 's exact test ) : anxiety scores did not differ significantly between patients who thought the amount of information given was too much and those who thought it was ‘ about right ’ ( data not shown ) . |
| 13 | While mass-bred imports often lose the more difficult traits of the natural fish , she has mixed species that prefer hard water with those that prefer acid . |
| 14 | Although this has led some farmers to renounce the more extreme forms of continuous cropping , the new minimum cultivation methods ( described in Chapter 3 ) may allow a return to monoculture on suitable light soils . |
| 15 | Thus the dealers were forced to bluff the more , which amazingly , made them into more effective salesmen . |
| 16 | There were roped walkways to channel the more energetic spectators round the course , with approved crossing-points on the fairways . |
| 17 | Béroff plays the more spectacular pieces ( such as the ‘ Regard de l'espirit de joie ’ ) with rhythmic energy and sheer bravura which few others have even approached . |
| 18 | It is hardly surprising that the Largo of No. 88 , one of the loveliest slow movements that Haydn ever wrote , should encourage expansive treatment , but Kuijken makes it far too heavy , seriously holding up the flow of the great melody with overemphasis and exaggerated pauses , all made the more obtrusive without continuo . |
| 19 | Even today , decades after I saw my first such microscope slide , I still think them extravagantly beautiful and can easily get lost in contemplation of the cellular thicket the microscope reveals , made the more intriguing by the curious , almost three-dimensional effect the stain gives ; as it brings into vision only a few of the total population of the neurons present , the cells seem to stand out like trees in a winter mist ( Figure 10.6 ) . |
| 20 | Made the more appealing , perhaps , by alcohol and half-light , she was nonetheless beautiful , her elfin face crossed by a touching sadness , her brow furrowed by some longing she could not define . |
| 21 | Let us consider the problems that there may be in proving the more serious offence of criminal damage . |
| 22 | Although the status difference may be emphasised in the style of the relationship , with client addressing the patron as usted , but the latter using the more familiar tu , the whole relationship is imbued with a personal element . |
| 23 | If she 's frightened of using the more adventurous play equipment at playgroup or in the park , start with gentle activities — playing in the sand pit , painting and reading — letting her gradually develop an interest in the other equipment . |
| 24 | Using the more optimistic earnings forecasts , we get . |
| 25 | Now two things have happened — one is that better , safer pills have been introduced , but secondly a lot of the scares which there were of five or ten years ago , have been shown to be quite unjustified , so we now know that using the more modern of the oral contraceptives erm there 's really very little risk indeed . |
| 26 | Those wanting to spot the more unusual wild flower would appreciate the Autumn Gentian which like the Chiltern Gentian has been successsfully cultivated here . |
| 27 | With these we may compare the more primitive diagrams of reactions set out in an earlier and elementary work , J. B. Scoffern 's Chemistry no Mystery , of which the second edition was published in 1848 . |
| 28 | But this does n't answer the more important question : how , and when , did a simple ( if magnificent ) living bird of the 1830s get turned into a complicated , transcendent parrot of the 1870s ? |
| 29 | Prevalence rates for severe mental handicap are , however , considerably lower than this , perhaps four per 1000 , and given the more limited life expectancy in more severe cases , the most frequently quoted rate for severe mental handicap is 3.2 per 1000 suggesting that there are around 160,000 severely mentally handicapped people in the country . |
| 30 | The earlier this is given the more likely is the chance of an open vessel and the greater the salvage of myocardium and of the patient leaving hospital earlier . |