Example sentences of "[art] [adj] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | The smallest constituency in Britain has only 23,500 electors , the largest more than 100,000 . |
| 2 | In front of the church of St Maurice I met Lenka , a music student who had promised to show me what she described as ‘ the biggest organ in Central Europe ’ , all 2,311 pipes of it , the largest more than thirty feet tall , the smallest eight millimetres of solid silver . |
| 3 | I believe the magazine was read quite widely even by some of our hierarchy , and sometimes I felt obliged to censor the odd more outspoken word when I considered it might cause trouble . |
| 4 | The lower more level land , around Balerno , for example , is good agricultural land . |
| 5 | The incoming immune adults then graze the lower more fibrous echelons of the herbage which contain the majority of the L3 . |
| 6 | True to the Romantic tradition from which this belief sprang , the imagination was valued more than the analytical intelligence , the specific more than the general , experience more than discourse , connaitre more than savoir . |
| 7 | Are the rich more prepared to break the law because they are more likely to view laws as unjust ? |
| 8 | Nowhere was the stolid exceptionalism of the British more evident than in the rejection of constitutional reform and in the way in which Conservatives sought to portray this reform as the road to chaos — as if the US , Australia , Germany , Spain and other developed democracies had not prospered with more representative systems . |
| 9 | The long wars against France had left the British more confident about their position overseas than before , but not necessarily more interested in activity outside Europe . |
| 10 | To differentiate , one might say that Persians held the British more responsible for Iran 's misfortunes , but the Russians were more feared . |
| 11 | Are the old more likely to be invested with potential power , even supernatural ? |
| 12 | Instances of the second more sudden realization are rarer . |
| 13 | Following such a process the following more detailed set of criteria could be derived . |
| 14 | Simon 's decision to dispense with normal syntax implies that stylistically the intention is to render the real more satisfactorily than the conventional novel would allow . |
| 15 | All the indications are that the Hebridean flora and vegetation were more diverse than today , presumably as a result of the widespread more fertile , unleached mineral soils present immediately after deglaciation and the cessation of periglaciation . |
| 16 | Two towering Indian performances lit up the fourth day , with the ‘ boy wonder ’ Tendulkar going on to his second mouthwatering century of the series , lifting his side to 272 after a ninth-wicket stand of 81 with the stubborn More , who made 43 . |
| 17 | Again , it highlighted something that , as a teacher , I knew but failed to utilize in other aspects of my work — that simple pictures and diagrams highlight the obvious more easily than paragraphs of words . |
| 18 | Less capital outlay per bird than in the larger more automated units . |
| 19 | The gradual perception of this has gone with the still more necessary shift by which people have at last gradually begun to realise that human welfare too converges very considerably with both these things . |
| 20 | The matter was adjourned till Monday , with the threat of Lord S 's resignation hanging over everybody and the still more alarming possibility that Winston , if thwarted , would resign , split the country and the party and produce a situation of real gravity . |
| 21 | He was unwilling to disclose the still more impressive amount accruing on his retirement at age fifty-five , but this was of purely theoretical interest to me . |
| 22 | Yet , running through them , the still more ancient river Indus had existed for millions of years before their rise . |
| 23 | In Poplar , as elsewhere in the winter of 1902–03 , and in the still more severe distress of 1903–04 , public funds were opened for the ‘ relief of distress ’ , often sponsored by newspapers . |
| 24 | Taiwan kept some tariffs high , and until coerced by the United States had used the still more effective trade weapon of an undervalued currency . |
| 25 | A speechless ape presumably has some sort of feeling for the opposition " I " / " Other " , perhaps even for its expanded version " We " / " They " , but the still more grandiose " Natural " / " Supernatural " ( " Man " / " God " ) could only occur within a linguistic frame . |
| 26 | This consideration points to the fact that the very restrictions imposed on societies by the Rawlsian principles of justice make the implementation of some conceptions of the good more difficult and their pursuit by individuals less attractive than that of others . |
| 27 | now she has an iris mountain , with Sir Cedric 's and the many more she grew from seed brought back from America , fenced off from the main garden in her ‘ Stalag 13 look ’ . |
| 28 | The Conservative election victory did owe something to Mrs Thatcher 's past efforts ; these efforts included a re-ordering of the social hierarchy , making the poor more down and out , and bringing the lower middle class ( as we old Marxists used to say ) or C2s in class-free speak , within shopping distance of middle class ( B/C1 ) comfort . |
| 29 | And because higher prices would hurt the poor more than the rich , it is essential that environmental problems are not seen in isolation from social ones . |
| 30 | In the 1970s more than one million Cambodians died at the hands of Pol Pot of the Khmer Rouge . |