Example sentences of "[pron] more [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was essential that we become more professional in our outlook and make ourselves more financially viable . |
| 2 | Already some teachers have thought and acted upon ingenious schemes to increase membership and to make ourselves more financially self-supporting . |
| 3 | Mr Bill Patterson , a market analyst with Mintel , said : ‘ Consumers are saying : ‘ If we are eating more healthily , why ca n't we mend ourselves more healthily too ? ’ ' |
| 4 | We marked ourselves more harshly on whether we were making satisfactory progress , in other words showing a strong degree of optimism but no complacency . |
| 5 | Outside , I would always walk briskly , urging on my more sluggardly companions , or walk along walls , rails , edges , like a child , delighting in my ability to balance myself . |
| 6 | Whatever the risk of shock to my more mathematically allergic readers I must write this celebrated equation just once : |
| 7 | It also seemed to inspire a sort of motherly affection in others , so that I was more likely to get away with carelessness or naughtiness than were my more physically mature contemporaries . |
| 8 | I more fast . |
| 9 | I More recently there have been frequent criticisms of the injustice of examinations and of their effects on school . |
| 10 | When he went home to Basle he showed the photographs to his family and pointed out to them ‘ my very good neighbour Canon Ramsay [ sic ] from Durham , an authentic Anglo-Catholic , with strange views concerning tradition , succession , ontology and so on , but also with a very convincing twinkle in his eye … a man with whom I more often agreed than disagreed … the outstanding figure in the picture of my first ecumenical experience ! ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Then you 'll need to go down on your knees in that chapel Christian Timms built and call on someone more highly qualified than either me or Doctor Cheatle . |
| 12 | This Committee is an operational extension of trilateralism , intended originally to enable the DPP to interpose himself more effectively on the practical interface between the CPS , the police and the courts . |
| 13 | But the man who desires to know himself more completely — however strange and confusing his discoveries may be — he is drawn further within until he finds in the texts a mirror of his own complexity . |
| 14 | The Navigator shuddered and focused himself more acutely on the immaterium without , alert for maelstroms . |
| 15 | Hauser settled himself more comfortably in his chair . |
| 16 | Buchanan settled himself more comfortably . |
| 17 | Amiss arranged himself more comfortably in his armchair and dangled his leg over the arm . |
| 18 | But while these public performances continued to the general amusement of the audience , Joyce was dedicating himself more earnestly and more narrowly to the triumph of National Socialism in the world struggle . |
| 19 | In fact , the action was widely seen as an attempt by George Bush 's close pal , President Turgut Ozal , to prove himself more militantly anti-Kurd than his chief rival , Suleyman Demirel , in the run-up to the October 20th general election . |
| 20 | In last week 's Tribune , Sawyer suggested that ballots of affiliated members in leadership contests might be made compulsory and that block votes could be split , although he expressed himself more cautiously than Gould intends to . |
| 21 | He settled himself more deeply in his seat . |
| 22 | Here , on a small island of some 2,000 or so souls , pocketed by the encircling hills around its charming port , was the ideal place for him to gather his thoughts and address himself more seriously than he had been able to do in busy Montreal , grim London or frenetic New York . |
| 23 | I think that James knew in his heart that Niki was a more complete driver than himself and I remember him saying back then that while he was taking himself more seriously every race that went by , he knew that , compared to Niki , he was still the less ‘ thoughtful ’ and the more ‘ instinctive ’ driver . |
| 24 | Digby Wyatt 's earliest extant building is the Gothic Aldingham Hall , Cumbria , of 1846 to 1850 , and although he designed the Pompeian , Byzantine , English Gothic , Italian and Renaissance Courts at the re-erected Crystal Palace at Sydenham in 1854 , and The Art Journal commented that he had ‘ in practice attached himself more heartily to the classic ’ , he felt , like Scott , that the nineteenth century should have its particular form of architecture , but unlike Scott , he thought that this should be an adaptation of the Cinquecento style . |
| 25 | In ordinary life , if someone says something that you do not understand , you ask him to explain himself more fully . |
| 26 | Hocazade soon gave up the kadilik in order to devote himself more fully to but remained as muderris in Iznik until the death of Mehmed II ( 886/1481 ) . |
| 27 | And to devote himself more fully to his hobby . |
| 28 | De Gaulle used the Interministerial Councils in order to inform himself more fully on important issues or to give momentum to policies that he favoured . |
| 29 | Some were critical of this orthodoxy and — behind the scenes — nobody more effectively so than Toby Weaver , the most powerful civil servant of his generation in the formulation of educational policies . |
| 30 | The pride taken not only by many staff but passengers in their more clearly identified ‘ Lines ’ is paying handsome dividends . |