Example sentences of "[adv] more [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , many patients receive extensive and expensive investigations , perhaps more for clinical interest than to benefit the patient . |
| 2 | Perhaps more to the point , he is a corrupt man . |
| 3 | She had once thought of herself as unique , had been encouraged ( in theory at least ) by her education and by her reading to believe in the individual self , the individual soul , but as she grew older she increasingly questioned these concepts : seeing people perhaps more as flickering impermanent points of light irradiating stretches , intersections , threads , of a vast web , a vast network , which was humanity itself : a web of which much remained dark , apparently but not necessarily unpeopled : peopled by the dark , the unlit , the dim spirits , as yet unknown , the past and the future , the dead , the unborn : and herself , and Brian , and Liz , and Charles , and Esther , and Teddy Lazenby , and Otto and Caroline Werner , and all the rest of them at that bright party , and in these discreet anonymous dark curtained avenues and crescents were but chance and fitful illuminations , chance meetings , chance and unchosen representatives of the thing itself . |
| 4 | A small but increasing number of commentators would like to stop or turn back the clock and , in the absence of hard data , the debate has been perhaps more about political models of social care than about what works in practice . |
| 5 | The south of the region , South Durham , Cleveland and North Yorkshire , has often felt neglected by the Tyneside emphasis on news coverage , perhaps more by the BBC than by Tyne Tees , and the promise of a £1m investment into a local news service from Middlesbrough is long overdue . |
| 6 | Agronomic techniques of conservation are perhaps more in terms of preventing the start of the process of removal of soil particles , by the introduction of farming practices which will provide stable yields through time . |
| 7 | Figure 3 is perhaps more in the realm of aesthetics than biology . |
| 8 | And , as I have said before , the further away we get from the original blueprint formula , the more scope there is for books that do less in some directions and perhaps more in others than the standard design would seem to indicate as being possible . |
| 9 | Moreover these gods are said to be more part of the world 's spiritual furniture than transcendent of it — perhaps more like the saints in Catholic tradition . |
| 10 | of total local authority revenue and people on higher incomes will contribute to local authority expenditure much more through the taxes that they pay . |
| 11 | None the less it is clear that Marx felt that before he could complete a book on pre-capitalist societies , he had to find out much more about these societies and their transformations . |
| 12 | The term ‘ the inner city ’ may tell us much more about the manner in which an agenda of social problems is set by the combined and unequal influences of a variety of interest groups than about the political economy of cities but its very reproduction in a set of discourses about ‘ the urban ’ guarantees it a status of its own . |
| 13 | It 's very odd , but I find Margaret Thatcher enormously attractive — this may tell you much more about me than I really want you to know . |
| 14 | Thus , while both firms have the same overall goal of selling furniture for profit , the more detailed breakdown of goals tells us much more about the different ways in which the two businesses will be run . |
| 15 | He taught her much more about the Lord in whom she believed , rather as Paul , Aquila and Priscilla did to Apollos . |
| 16 | You can make this tell you much more about your machine by using the command PROMPT . |
| 17 | She 'd already found out much more about Puddephat than she 'd hoped — she 'd even got a promising suspect in the shape of Theo Sykes — and there was no point in banging on about her non-existent book outline . |
| 18 | ‘ This technology means that community groups and local people are able to find out much more about an issue and how it has been tackled elsewhere much more than they ever were in the past . |
| 19 | Council leader , Coun John Williams ( Lab ) , when told of the plans by The Northern Echo said : ‘ I will need to find out much more about this before we can decide we can support it or not . ’ |
| 20 | This was a very important speech in developing the plot of the play because it tells you much more about the slightly muddled character of Brutus and his reason for killing Caesar ( to help the public ) . |
| 21 | The most important problem , however , that set-aside presents us with — I know that my right hon. Friend will relish tackling it — is that Mr. MacSharry must be told that any reform of the common agricultural policy must ensure that set-aside takes environmental factors much more into account . |
| 22 | By placing one foot behind the other , as in figure B , the standing position can be very much improved , resulting in our whole structure being much more at ease . |
| 23 | They are much more at home with stimulation . |
| 24 | Her concerns are much closer to home , much more for people and individuals than cosmic matters , which provides a perfect foil for her husband . |
| 25 | Instead , he wants more money paid to all farmers for environmental virtue , and much more for ‘ set aside ’ — paying for fields to remain uncultivated . |
| 26 | There are carved wooden picture frames , fabrics , sandalwood garlands , screens , antiques , basketware and much more for sale , as well as the items shown here : tobacco boxes from £34.95 , camel pots from £25 and a huge selection of jewellery . |
| 27 | As a general guide , you will need 12 to 20mm ( 1/2 to 3/ 4in ) for a hem or seam , much more for a pocket . |
| 28 | In the second and third years the course comes together as it concentrates on communications as a discipline , taking the discourse of sociology and psychology much more for granted . |
| 29 | Michael can arrange hotel accommodation , baby sitting and much more for you . |
| 30 | The assistant commissioner reported troubles with the farmers , but much more with the labourers . |