Example sentences of "more [adj] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the team had been instructed by the Scottish team doctor to avoid taking any medicinal substances which might be banned by the laws of the game , Johnson frequently took either smelling salts or the mild psycho-motor drug Reactivin at club level to make him more alert when he went out to play . |
| 2 | Even though it was just a small black cube , it somehow always looked more alert when it was listening . |
| 3 | We should read the catalogue descriptions with circumspection — what they do not say is invariably more important than what they do — and we need to be more guarded when reading articles by newspaper reporters whose effusions are often more flamboyant than they should be . |
| 4 | Grasmere , too has lost its galleries but evidently they were there once as de Quincey wrote describing them in his Recollections , ‘ A very interesting feature of the elder architecture , annually becoming more and more rare viz the outside gallery , which is sometimes merely of wood , but is much more striking when provided for in the original construction of the house and completely enfoncée in the masonry . ’ |
| 5 | But all this only makes the capacity to travel the more striking when we meet it . |
| 6 | This reticence is all the more striking when contrasted with the plethora of Second World War movies made both during the war and for many years afterwards . |
| 7 | The difference is still more striking when it occurs in the same work , e.g. Arnold von Bruck 's ‘ O du armer Judas ’ ( published by Hans Ott of Nuremberg in his collection of 121 newe Lieder , 1534 ) which ends with a Kyrie : |
| 8 | The union achievement in establishing and applying standards for design and safe use of VDUs is more striking when one considers that these policies had already been formulated before the Government Health and Safety Executive had to issue information and advice on the subject . |
| 9 | Not only Kleon but the equally detested figure of Hyperbolus ( detested , that is , by Thucydides and Aristophanes ) looks a little different and more respectable when tested against documentary evidence , just as radio broadcasts of puerile exchanges in the House of Commons ignore the work on Select Committees on which most MPs spend most of their time . |
| 10 | That 's what made it seem all the more strange when she turned in on herself , so to speak , in the end . ’ |
| 11 | The situation is even more strange when one considers that IT is , above all , a practical subject which has no manifestation , benefit nor significance unless it is applied . |
| 12 | ‘ No , but he was more upset when Wickham had finished with him . |
| 13 | She 's going to be even more upset when Mitch goes and we 've got to be ready for it . ’ |
| 14 | The strings are more resonant when not ‘ stopped ’ by the pedals . |
| 15 | In hindsight , with Crowe having led the team imaginatively and been the most successful batsman of the World Cup , this initiative of the selectors does not seem bright , but it was more understandable when it was made . |
| 16 | This makes it easier to lean your weight into the turn and it is even more exaggerated when you turn on a wave face . |
| 17 | Of course there 's no one more supportive when the chips are down , and no one is prouder of you when you 've done well than your old mum … . |
| 18 | By being excluded in this way , it should soon learn to become more receptive when told to sit under these circumstances . |
| 19 | The variations in prosperity in the North Side become more acute when observed on the smaller scale of the census tract . |
| 20 | And , the discomfort is made even more acute when two or three of them arrive by the same post . |
| 21 | This opposition became more acute when , in 1813 , the liberated areas , where a modern administration was only known as a French imposition , came within the new constitution . |
| 22 | One problem we have discussed as affecting the writer of the blueprint detective story is likely to be even more acute when embarking on an inverted story : the difficulty of making a static situation into an ongoing narrative . |
| 23 | This is all the more annoying when one person 's attack was n't valid anyway because it missed the scoring area , or was otherwise unacceptable . |
| 24 | Because he was just doing the same job as he 'd been doing under the private under the L N E R. Management were more conciliatory when nationalization came on . |
| 25 | If presence was inadequate by itself as a strategy to extend the Kingdom in the ministry of Christ , it is even more deficient when left to his stumbling followers . |
| 26 | The psychological , physical and sexual abuse of weaker members of the family by the stronger is more possible when there are no casual droppers-in , no family friends to turn to , no habit of exchanging confidences . |
| 27 | They thicken the curd , giving it extra body and making it more stable when spread into flan cases or flat , open plate pies . |
| 28 | Since electrons are more stable when paired together in orbitals , radicals are generally more reactive than non-radicals . |
| 29 | Gorby ! ’ which became louder and more prolonged when he emerged from the war memorial . |
| 30 | Everyone felt more alive when he was around : there 'd be so much fun and games and nonsense — and there was always a bit for everyone , do you know what I mean ? |