Example sentences of "more of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's time to give it more of a chance here . |
| 2 | Is Lucy giving you more of a hard time ? |
| 3 | ‘ I was very pleased when it rained , as Silver Fling is best really at five and a half furlongs , and the easier ground made it more of a test ’ . |
| 4 | Not only is she pretty ; she has a reputation for being more of a Socialist than her husband and far more level-headed than he about the trappings of prime ministerial power . |
| 5 | ‘ For some reason I hate to lose , ’ said Chang , ‘ and that makes me more of a fighter . |
| 6 | They want to give new competitors more of a chance , even if it means intervening in the market to do so . |
| 7 | If it turns out that this is not the case , if it is discovered that the prohibition denies the would-be rapists more of a chance to pursue the good life than it gives their possible victims , then one may have to adjust other features of the political framework to make sure that this does not result in inequality of ability to pursue one 's conception of the good . |
| 8 | The only way I could have done real justice to the subject would have been to cut down on other chapters , and that would have made it more of a carp book than anything else . |
| 9 | By choosing to write from interviews , Glen is being more of a journalist ( in the great American style ) than a historian . |
| 10 | Abie was never too close to my lot , being more of a ‘ loner ’ . |
| 11 | The format was changed slightly , to make it more of a gala day . |
| 12 | Note that I added a minor 3rd ( C ) in this run to give it more of a country flavour ! |
| 13 | The seventh degree being flat will give you more of a blues feel , as opposed to the normal seventh as found in a major seventh chord ( 1st , 3rd , 5th and 7th ) which I discussed in my July ‘ 92 column . |
| 14 | It is likely that the courts , being more of a known quantity , were held in less awe than the spirits and demons . |
| 15 | I 'm prepared to give things more of a go now , and I do n't mind if they fail . |
| 16 | In the meantime , yesterday 's contract sets up EDS as KF 's partner in managing the Stockholm-based company 's computer systems , making it more of a ‘ cosourcing ’ than an ‘ outsourcing ’ contract , Carroll said . |
| 17 | Three weeks into the job and Richard Jaross , Uniforum 's spanking new executive director , is talking about revitalising the place and giving it more of a customer focus . |
| 18 | Colchester GP Nick Dixon said a continuing increase in daytime work was making the responsibility of being on duty at night more of a strain . |
| 19 | Thereafter an employee is rotated through several sections or jobs making them more of a generalist rather than a specialist in one skill . |
| 20 | But she felt it more of a command . |
| 21 | It appears that post-primary education is both a cause and a result of economic prosperity but most circumstantial evidence points to primary education being more of a cause than a result in this relationship . |
| 22 | I thought the dead whiteness of the dress made me more of a corpse than a bride but had n't enough energy to infuriate my mother by telling her so . |
| 23 | Is it based on the positive pull of their policies , or is it more of a protest vote reflecting a generalised sense of disenchantment with the workings of the two-party politics ? |
| 24 | Wearing the uniform of the wrestling ring , where masked men representing the forces of good fight others representing evil , Superbarrio has found other pursuits more of a challenge . |
| 25 | Is the availability of donor organs more of a limitation on the transplant programme than the availability of resources ? |
| 26 | Are not 51 days in the Gulf more of a training exercise than running around the sand dunes at Barry with thunderflashes ? |
| 27 | I thought you more of a man than that . ’ |
| 28 | With anxiety uppermost , she flicked an abstracted glance to her rear-view mirror and , oh , grief , she thought , realising only then that the road she was on being more of a lane really , she was stuck bang in the middle of it and there was a sleek black Mercedes sat behind her , patiently waiting to pass . |
| 29 | Tom O'Connor more of a European Tour than a European Community man stepped off the golf course to chip in a Eurojoke . |
| 30 | It also gave them more of an opportunity to chat . |