Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | They produced rather more appetising food than the normal congealed heap of pie and beans and dead sausage rolls which it is mandatory to decline at other resorts . |
| 2 | The frustration turned to anger on more than one occasion . |
| 3 | I asked at the meeting of the city board and I asked on more than one occasion , and did n't get a proper answer , what the labour group intended to do with the three point two million pounds that will build up in reserve say for the next three years . |
| 4 | The Staatskanzlei , which controlled the day-to-day administration of foreign policy , had already been reorganised and made rather more efficient at the beginning of his period in office . |
| 5 | His energy just left him and he became slowly more and more bitter . ’ |
| 6 | learn how to locate information in books and , where available , databases , sometimes drawing on more than one source , and how to pursue an independent line of enquiry . |
| 7 | A fair bit of pressure is needed to get the chips securely seated and a broken motherboard tends to perform rather more slowly than a complete one ! |
| 8 | The men and women of Mandru 's household interacted rather more freely than was common among the upper class of Shanariah . |
| 9 | He is putting more structure into his clothes and using rather more natural fibres than man-made miracle fabrics . |
| 10 | Any accountancy fiddles ( e. g. notionally splitting units into several ‘ farms ’ to claim on more than 50 LUs ) would need vigilance by the Agriculture Departments . |
| 11 | Perceptions of Labour chances remained more predictable , though they also became rather more homogeneous as the campaign came to an end . |
| 12 | Perceptions of Labour chances remained more predictable , though they too became rather more homogeneous as the campaign came to an end . |
| 13 | ‘ Science ’ became rather more flexible around 1870 , when organised labour looked like becoming a permanent actor on the industrial scene , rather than appearing in an occasional brief walk-on part . |
| 14 | Men can ring the changes by wearing a different shirt or tie if they do n't want to invest in more than one suit . |
| 15 | Pricing restraints are treated much more harshly than non-price restraints . |
| 16 | Though the races are obviously the centre point of the tour , Lanzarote 's Club La Santa offers much more besides . |
| 17 | The extra expense of making these sections is offset by their versatility : an uncovered DPT can be used for several different analytical purposes , and offers much more petrographic information . |
| 18 | It could equally be phrased in a way that fits in more with the way of eminence . |
| 19 | Overall most anthropologists would probably see indirect connection between all the factors which Engels considered , but these interrelations must remain much more problematic and ambiguous than they might seem at first , and the general conclusions which Engels sought in the work of Morgan are not possible . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , most natural populations , at most times , change much more slowly than they would if subjected to strong directional selection . |
| 21 | The international regatta on Sunday afternoon is an ingenious test of rowing skill and versatility , where a maximum of nine oarsmen must be deployed among six events , with no individual competing in more than three races . |
| 22 | I , I think Chairman that as , as we come out of the recession an and th that the overall erm level er quantity of development taking place increases , then we are almost bound to see perhaps more affordable housing erm in absolute terms , although I do n't see any opportunity of there being a a major hiccup in proportional terms , so I , I , like you , I think I remain er pessimistic er regarding the , the , the overview , although we might see er a turning up of the er of the graph having been bumping along the bottom for a little time a little while . |
| 23 | Probably most languages grammaticalize at least a distinction between proximal ( or close to speaker ) and distal ( or non-proximal , sometimes close to addressee ) , but many make much more elaborate distinctions as we shall see . |
| 24 | " The Giant Awakes " ( Chapter 5 ) is a good example of a highly prescriptive opening which is then used to stimulate much more open-ended work . |
| 25 | Wholemeal bread and flour can be eaten instead , as these are broken down more slowly and do not release glucose all at once . |
| 26 | All of the runners experienced muscle soreness and weakness for several days , but the resting group recovered much more quickly . |
| 27 | Many ECP programmes include options to issue in more than one currency , although the majority still only allow for issuing in US dollars . |
| 28 | As the King and his ministers struggled to escape the constitutional impasse , the seriousness of the republican challenge became daily more evident . |
| 29 | ‘ I became daily more spirited . |
| 30 | The usury paid merely to hold the conguered ground became daily more prohibitive . |