Example sentences of "more [adv] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | Considerations in favour of a more flexible approach towards new building in the South East include the need to continue the momentum of the national economic recovery and the search for alternative uses of surplus farmland , but if no firm guidance on this matter is forthcoming in the near future , decentralization is likely to occur more slowly but take place over longer distances . |
| 2 | ‘ In a largely illiterate society this oral epic singing also had the function roughly corresponding to the modern mass media — it spread the political news , much more slowly but perhaps not less reliably than the modern press , radio and television . ’ |
| 3 | The work of co-ordinating the activities of the National Federation and the Central Association proceeded more slowly but some progress was made , most notably in candidate selection . |
| 4 | The 80-litre US specification bag fitted to Vauxhalls , as well as Mercedes-Benz and other luxury models , deploys more slowly but fills a far greater volume than the 35-litre Eurobag . |
| 5 | The spread of home ownership has spread wealth a little more widely but the ownership of capital in private industry has remained highly concentrated . |
| 6 | Print-on-paper publishing remains the dominant force in the information industry more widely but electronic media have established practical , affordable alternatives . |
| 7 | But it was the ritual tramp across Ilkley Moor — or Rombalds Moor , as it is more properly but less popularly known that was the favourite pilgrimage ( and so it remains , to the extent that the track through the purple heather has been worn down in part to bare rock ) . |
| 8 | If you freeze your Brazils ( 24 hours is ample ) they not only crack more easily but separate delightfully . |
| 9 | Bifurcation , which we mentioned earlier , can be seen as another product of law and order ideology , combined with the pragmatic imperative to do something to limit the numbers in custody : visibly dealing more harshly with the ‘ serious ’ offenders who can be most easily scapegoated ( in the popular press and the public mind ) , while dealing more leniently but less visibly with the much greater number of ‘ run of the mill ’ offenders , is an apparently rational response to a situation where one 's own rhetoric conflicts with practicalities . |
| 10 | I mean we could cook it much more cheaply but we we do that then they 'd just they 'll throw the book at us , we ca n't do it . |
| 11 | ‘ Somebody will be asking you questions more formally but perhaps you could tell me if you went out at all last evening ? ’ |
| 12 | Not only will you read more quickly but you will absorb more of what you read and will be better able to remember it . |
| 13 | You will tan more quickly but the tablets may increase the damage UVA rays do to your skin . |
| 14 | A typical pattern is described by a former minister of transport and subsequent chairman of BR : ‘ Over and over again we could have settled much more cheaply by settling more quickly but , at each stage , we were told that we must not settle quickly because the Government really were going to fight this one to the bitter end … |
| 15 | It was n't its actual speed there will be sometimes it will be going very slowly , sometimes it will be going much more quickly but its average speed was sixty miles an hour because at sixty miles an hour it would cover a hundred and twenty miles , which was the distance , in two hours . |
| 16 | High adventure drew from Dickson McCunn a latent heroism : Thomas Carlyle Craw had buried his sense and courage far more deeply but they are at least glimpsed at the end of an adventure story which interprets the concept of honour in terms of individual rather than of chivalric motives . |
| 17 | So you can test it more thoroughly but in that case , A you put the costs up and B it takes longer before it gets actually , before patients get the benefits of it . |
| 18 | In my opinion Anna acted more childishly but through no fault of her own . |
| 19 | The online catalogue , unlike its predecessor should provide the user with the opportunity for search negotiation ; i.e. , the system should assist in the formulation of the compromised need ( Q4 ) so that the system can be searched not only more efficiently but also so that the compromised need satisfies the visceral need ( Q1 ) . |
| 20 | A pencil is the first prerequisite , so that the inevitable errors can be rubbed out ; softer leads need sharpening more often but stand out better . |
| 21 | I wanted to go more often but did n't feel confident enough to do so . |
| 22 | Mow with a free conscience , ride your bike more often but leave the real culprit , the car , in the garage . |
| 23 | She u she no she has n't she , she used to be a really bad tomboy and like she 's not any more really but |
| 24 | you see I moved a bit more now but and I I 've still got good hearing er apart from this ear here , this ear , I ca n't hear so well , quite so well , this side , you see so I always have to say excuse me while I , hang on while I turn off the television , you see , and then they have to wait a minute till I turn it off and then what I do is because I have this phone extension put in |
| 25 | The institution should not deny these needs even more drastically but offer , at no matter how late a date , opportunities . |
| 26 | He would have read more reconditely but equally haphazardly in some more private precinct . |
| 27 | ‘ Mother , ’ repeated Simon more loudly but with a rough caressing gentleness in his voice , ‘ He needs your help . ’ |
| 28 | The Corrado feels subjectively as though it is screwed together just a little more tightly but neither car suffers from rattles or shakes . |
| 29 | Once she 's in a routine a bit more then but we are still trying to do as many |
| 30 | Late fetal death ratios vary with maternal age even more markedly but in the same matter as infant and , particularly , neonatal mortality ( Table 11 ) . |