Example sentences of "more [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does Mr. Kemp not recollect Hofmannsthal pointing out to Strauss that the more light-heartedly he could handle the composition , the better it would be ? |
| 2 | I think of people , grand old British artists , like Turner for example , going on grand tours and coming back to Britain and going through , as it were , a period of painting where he is influenced by what he 's seen and heard and experienced in Europe , and then more latterly I think of France as being , Paris as being the centre of art and British artists going and spending their period in Paris and coming back and going through an impressionist or an expressionist phase . |
| 3 | The more blatantly they were prepared to use their charm , the smoother was the way of escape . |
| 4 | If you were advised to speak more slowly it would probably take months of effort , repeated conscious effort , before you succeeded in altering the speed at which you spoke . |
| 5 | The defendant was held liable as if he had driven more slowly he could have avoided the accident . |
| 6 | ‘ The older the doctor and the nurse , the more effectively they foster the self-reliant , independent behaviour in the elderly patient . |
| 7 | Mistakes of that sort apart , it would seem that , as had always been the case , some sort of checking system was needed to give lenders the required degree of confidence to carry on , and that the more thorough and ‘ scientific ’ it was the better for both borrower and lender , the more effectively it reduced the incidence of overindebtedness , and saved borrowers from overstretching themselves and indulging in mad bouts of impulsive buying . |
| 8 | There is increasingly a feeling that the larger the firm the better it can withstand recessionary periods and the more effectively it can compete with other firms ; and these two sentiments may succeed each other as , say , a regional grouping for mutual protection develops into a nationwide conglomerate for enhanced profits . |
| 9 | The more time you spend with horses observing their behaviour , the more effectively you will be able to judge their moods . |
| 10 | More fundamentally they criticized the reduction of their power to make residential orders and the merging of treatment for delinquent and non-delinquent children . |
| 11 | In part this has been promoted by fundholding , but more fundamentally it has been stimulated by health authorities engaging in a dialogue with general practitioners and giving greater priority to primary care as a result . |
| 12 | Even more remarkably he holds his head high among even the finest pianists in the Second and Third Sonatas . |
| 13 | Grasping life 's nettles takes courage but the more powerfully you do it , the less it hurts . |
| 14 | To those activists of the Catholic right who eventually came together in the CEDA it was an illegitimate document calling for drastic ‘ revision ’ ; more widely it helped to render the passive majority of Spanish Catholics immune from the appeal of conservative Republicanism and drive them into the CEDA 's welcoming embrace . |
| 15 | The more tired she became the more bitterly she blamed James . |
| 16 | Still more rarely we go to a place simply because of what someone has written about it and that journey becomes both an expression of gratitude and a way of filling a need within ourselves . |
| 17 | They are usually adapted for cutting or crushing the food and frequently also for defence ; more rarely they are modified into sickle-like or stylet-like piercing organs . |
| 18 | Gerry : Even though we talked about the report on ethnic minorities for a bit , more importantly we discussed setting up an independent Black group with our own structures and demands . |
| 19 | But also more importantly we 're looking at it from er an employee health and safety point of view because we feel it 's just as important to have our employees aware that their |
| 20 | But more importantly we can tell the Vikings had sheep , okay ? |
| 21 | More importantly we urgently need a limit on the amnount of packaging chemicals that can migrate into food . |
| 22 | Perhaps more importantly they provide play material : ideas , content , and stimulus for play . |
| 23 | But more importantly they were the forerunners of a new species that were survivors in a harshly changing Earth . |
| 24 | Thus large firms employ twice as many graduates , but perhaps more importantly they can take their pick of the best graduates from the best universities . |
| 25 | More importantly They were also recruiting persons whom they had been obliged to make redundant in the face of earlier downturns and who were fully conversant with their own particular operations . |
| 26 | There was a case for the introduction of much more systematic and thorough random checks : these might detect or deter wrongdoers , although the vast majority of solicitors would be unlikely to risk their livelihoods for trifling amounts ; ‘ more importantly they would … allay public concern and official suspicion about improper use of the green form scheme . ’ |
| 27 | The Council takes the view that although late submissions impose problems upon the Council officers and members , more importantly they cause difficulties within the bodies themselves in respect of budgeting and cashflow . |
| 28 | More importantly they have admirable zest and wide interests . |
| 29 | More importantly they provide training for local volunteers and they give health education advice . |
| 30 | But more importantly she had buried him in her heart . |