Example sentences of "[art] more [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last of those three comments was , it is true , written almost fifteen years ago , long before the more than ‘ adequate ’ gay images of My Beautiful Laundrette or Law of Desire or Torch Song Trilogy , but I think the general point stands : before we stampede to dispense with ‘ identity ’ , let us consider whether it still has its uses as a rallying point for political action . |
| 2 | Elsewhere there is some very good singing , especially from the excellent Marina of Stevka Mineva , the more than usually listenable Grigory of Michail Svetlev , and Boris Martinovich 's splendidly sinister Rangoni . |
| 3 | Both electric and acoustic guitars feature in his attempt to assemble a piece , with the multi-track guitar-playing chores in the more than capable hands of Milton McDonald . |
| 4 | By judicious use of the more than adequate graphic , a wide variety of sounds can be accessed . |
| 5 | The rise in water level is due to the melting of snow and ice in the Andes — it rails all year round over the rain forest , half of the moisture being recycled , due to evaporation from the surface of the water and moisture given off by plants ( transpiration ) , with an increase in rainfall in late February , March and April and the more than normal rainy season ( Monsoon ) . |
| 6 | The more than generous amount of RAM you have fitted with not influence graphics performance . |
| 7 | The nurses were well trained in dealing with rich patients who were used to doing as they pleased and often disliked accepting the discipline of routine ; they knew that the very old , the alcoholics , and the more than slightly batty patients ( called ‘ eccentric ’ ) had to be carefully supervised . |
| 8 | This recognition of the more than local effects of major retail development confirms how crucial it is to place such development within a strategic context . |
| 9 | To which he uttered the classic comment , in the more than usually low drawl he employed for such deliverances : ‘ There 's always bound … to be a certain amount of iniquity … in these matters ’ . |
| 10 | Once the more than 7,000-strong audience had packed the Albert Hall , and the smell of pot had begun to drift across its Victorian arches , it became clear that not all had gone according to plan . |
| 11 | Of the more than half-million students in full-time higher education in 1980 , fewer than 200,000 were at a university . |
| 12 | It will occur all the more if there is residual moisture in the cavity arising from the building process , or if it seeps in either from inside the house or from some external source . |
| 13 | Whether you do n't know an opera at all or whether it is an old friend , you will still enjoy the show all the more if you have been to the pre-performance talk . |
| 14 | It might benefit him the more if the money were to be withheld until he is older . |
| 15 | We have no authority to issue such letters , yet the matter is urgent , all the more as his Grace is absent in such a vital cause . |
| 16 | Pound 's forbearance towards Williams remains astonishing , the more when we realize that Williams 's challenge to him came when he was remarkably uncertain and at sea about his own talents and the direction in which he should go . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , Beth , I do love you , ’ she said : the two of them laughing all the more when a little voice piped up from its place at the table , ‘ I do love you too ! ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Those who have been around for a while and waited on an international chance tend to appreciate it all the more when one arrives , ’ he said . |
| 19 | It cost me many night-hours the more because I was reading of one thing and thinking of another . ’ |
| 20 | But we need to get our moral thinking clear on this matter all the more because in the first stages of unbridled conflict both sides seem to be suggesting that there really was no moral problem at all because the principle that they were obsessed with was the only one that mattered . |
| 21 | It was known that a change was taking place and Perhaps it was felt the more because of the very success of the Concert ; humanitarian impulses and liberal assumptions had disguised the fact , axiomatic to professional diplomats , that the interests of states often conflicted . |
| 22 | No one , but no one , had ever spoken to her like that before , and she did n't like it , all the more because she knew he had a point . |
| 23 | ‘ We are playing better and looking forward to Rangers ’ visit all the more because of UEFA 's decision to allow our fans to see the match . |
| 24 | Or being liked the more because of it . ’ |
| 25 | In pretending here to be someone other than himself who keeps murdering people , he does a tremendous job : this is a more than serviceable argot for the age in question and for the wizard in question . |
| 26 | The second story is set in and around a country hotel , where the wife of a coarse doctor takes a more than kindly interest in a Klima wide-awake to the sights and sounds of this paradise . |
| 27 | It is of a more than usually splendid birthday party , of jolly music , beer and sausages , goose-stepping , displays of rocket transporters and President Gorbachev saying ( without mentioning his loaded off-the-cuff remarks , or those by his spokesman , Gennady Gerasimov ) all the right things about West German revanchism . |
| 28 | John Gallagher , meanwhile , proved a more than useful stand-in for Grant Fox in the goal-kicking role , missing the sticks just once . |
| 29 | First there had been the stone tubs on the forecourt , a constant temptation to vandals who got a more than commonly satisfying kick from ravishing these particular flowers . |
| 30 | A real page-turner , with a more than satisfying conclusion . |