Example sentences of "more [adj] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | With Nigel Clough withdrawn into a defensive position , Forest looked more solid at the back — even though they conceded a 12th minute Rod Wallace goal that gave Leeds fleeting hope of registering their first away win for almost 12 months . |
| 2 | Ah , I 'm just more alert at night times you know . |
| 3 | The ordered patterns become even more striking at greater levels of magnification . |
| 4 | He was more upset at having caused this worry to Lachlan than at the near-strangling ; and it had n't once occurred to him to draw his dirk to save himself . |
| 5 | Having already paid for my return ticket I was cross at having to buy another one , and even more upset at having to pay extra for the one-way ticket and convert sterling at an unfavourable rate . |
| 6 | He 'd just been rather cleverer and more subtle at how he 'd gone about seducing her , even ensuring that she 'd initiate the first moves . |
| 7 | Many people also become more accident-prone at such times . |
| 8 | I expect to double the yield of Tobacco this harvest , but I am sensible that you desire us to put more land under the cane , this sugar trade being the more profitable at home and the Negroes most apt to its cultivation . |
| 9 | We 've re-aligned our cost space which makes us more profitable at the existing levels of demand and potentially very profitable indeed er er when you consider that we have the capacity to respond to any upturn in demand without increasing our costs . |
| 10 | ‘ We 've proved we can do it , and we 're more innovative at the moment than the Americans , ’ says Steve , who admits his career would have been far more difficult without the success of groups like Soul II Soul . |
| 11 | You may think of Simply Red as being more hollow at the centre than wild and crazy guys , but this shows neat exuberance and Hucknall 's increasingly inspired songs . |
| 12 | Norm was more pleasant at the dinner table when the boys were not there . |
| 13 | I mean supposing women 's football did get more support and i wen and i it did become more widespread , more popular at every level , there was time , the resources to do it , do you think the things that people complained about football at the top of this programme er , the bigotry , the aggression , the rowdiness , do you think they would begin to overwhelm women 's football in the way that some of you think they 've overwhelmed men 's football ? |
| 14 | low eighty , low eighty it various from season to season as upholstery is more popular or less popular as beds are more popular at the |
| 15 | It just generally makes you more aware of the closness of the ground and that you 've got to be more careful at these sort of heights |
| 16 | Further , discomfort is much more prevalent at the base of an organization than it is at the top , both physically and psychologically . |
| 17 | The model contributes little to our understanding of why ‘ hooliganism ’ is synonymous with soccer , why it is more prevalent at certain times in history than others , and why it is predominantly a male , lower-working-class phenomenon . |
| 18 | to back him through thick and thin , but not before I had consulted the eight or nine senior legal Members ( some of them more distinguished at the Bar than myself ) and got their promises of support . |
| 19 | And indeed , with old age , Rita Ablewhite was beginning to appear slightly less abnormal : behaviour strange in a healthy thirty-five-year-old was more acceptable at seventy . |
| 20 | A calm relaxing feeling flows throughout the body as though lead weights were slowly pulling the body down into the chair , heavier and heavier , more and more calm at every moment . |
| 21 | The Germans were more interested at that time in hunting Communists , but later came the Gestapo and then things became much more dangerous . |
| 22 | Would n't my dismissal , inevitable eventually , have been a whole lot more unpleasant at that stage ? |
| 23 | But of the two , her father was the more proficient at acting out his part , for he could play the jolly man , the thoughtful husband , and the caring parent . |
| 24 | Initially the Germans were more proficient at this than the Allies , for they kept their snipers in the same sector for long periods so they became familiar with the enemy 's trench systems there , while the Allies rotated their snipers with the units to which they belonged . |
| 25 | In his own way Gerald was more skilful at whitewashing the family than his Aunt Sara . |
| 26 | Some of the grand sidereal events of the universe are more accessible at night . |
| 27 | Doubtless this view is influenced by the fact that children 's reading ability is more limited at this time . |
| 28 | On Aug. 30 he was more explicit at a press conference , urging political solutions and a calm and consistent policy to prevent escalation , and warning that " any resort to military force is unacceptable " . |
| 29 | The middle-class YCs had been far more serious at school than Willis ' lads . |
| 30 | It must be more democratic at every level . |