Example sentences of "more [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The paper which is more less suitable for publishing art books has always been made in Ukraine . |
| 2 | Soldiers searched all voters as they entered the school gates and relieved them of pocket-knives , heavy belts , walking-sticks and a few more obviously offensive weapons . |
| 3 | In a dozen more highly gesticulatory paintings where angry reds again predominate , she paints both the agony and the ecstasy of childbirth and pregnancy . |
| 4 | ‘ In this new environment business requires many more highly qualified people whose skills and abilities play a major part in determining competitive advantage . ’ |
| 5 | There are few more impressively glittering sights in Britain than the summer afternoon at the start of Ascot week when the members of perhaps the most prestigious order of chivalry in Christendom process through the grounds of Windsor Castle . |
| 6 | , more further crucial problem ? |
| 7 | It would be good to have more distinctively black voices engaged in the telling of history . |
| 8 | And although he is adamant that the hardware business will not be run down , he did say that in future the firm will carefully weigh up whether it is more more cost-effective to manufacture products and components itself or buy them on the open market . |
| 9 | They formulate policies acceptable to their supporters and provide options for voters and those more directly involved in government to choose from . |
| 10 | A mix of short term policy oriented research and longer term projects aimed at the development of theory is pursued , which reflects the Centre 's intention to promote contacts between researchers and those more directly involved in policy and practice . |
| 11 | The Advisory Council for Applied Research and Development report published in 1986 amply demonstrates the mounting concern which now exists throughout the British scientific community and those more directly involved in various aspects of the decision making processes relating to the future funding of scientific research in the UK . |
| 12 | ‘ Think of it this way , ’ he urged , ‘ we are all mourners following a funeral procession and some of us , those of us more directly concerned with the departed , have dropped behind to tie a shoe-lace . |
| 13 | It privileges the music which Adorno chooses as best representing the contradictory whole — thus alongside Beethoven and the tradition following him other kinds of music ( Berlioz , Rossini , Verdi , Elgar , Stravinsky , Eisler , let alone Lehár , Louis Armstrong , Walter Donaldson or Elvis Presley ) are inevitably presented as partial , that is to say more socially specific , less autonomous ; it also reduces the possibility of struggle over the specific uses and meanings of musical materials and forms : competing ‘ viewpoints ’ are dismissed as ‘ regressive ’ or ‘ false ’ . |
| 14 | The great British bluff on freedom is nowhere more clearly exposed than in relation to freedom of assembly . |
| 15 | Avoidance is a grey area at the boundaries of legality and illegality , and though it is an approach employed in many areas of law , it is nowhere more clearly institutionalised than in tax law . |
| 16 | financial services have long been among the heaviest users of search ; Michael Brookes at Nomura referred to 20 major assignments in less than three years with many more slightly lower-level searches . |
| 17 | When I was working at British Airways we used to do a lot of technical training and erm it was sort of on er airline regulation , stuff like that and you could always tell the activists cos they did n't really want to all they wanted to do was to get on the computers and actually trying out things out themselves , they piece of furniture the activists do n't want to read the instructions , they want to start putting it together and then they 'd learn from actually putting it together rather than them reading the instructions and regulation training you could always tell the activist cos they sort of always like chopping every bit , they just want to they just want to get on the computers and start inputting numbers and they 'll actually learn , they , they prefer to do that and then somebody can come round and help them out when they get into trouble rather than some of the other which perhaps like to more up front and that 's the activist . |
| 18 | came there were n't many then when I was there , there 's more now frozen stuff . |
| 19 | We have erm , we ca n't put operator performance any more on our district , because we 've just erm , stopped that , it does n't , you know , they do n't apply it to performance any more as far as that goes , but erm , I have got three representation , three representatives , which the checkout people nominated themselves and I have a monthly meeting with those to come up with any problems but it 's still , you know , that 's tackling one issue . |
| 20 | Cameron Ferguson , the engineer whose team conquered the problems of manufacturing Ruby , is convinced the new Ruby production plant can deliver ‘ many more really good spin-offs ’ from its sophisticated use of separation technology and its knowledge of the corn syrup process . |
| 21 | Siobhan , Crilly 's mother , bashed both of her legs in the accident , though this did not keep her from crawling to the aid of those more severely injured than she . |
| 22 | This situation reflects the great demand for degree places in Arts and Social Studies and a number of the colleges could have admitted many more well qualified students if they had the resources to cope with them ’ . |
| 23 | I 'll try and do a little bit more here fine , but it 's really thinking |
| 24 | ‘ The trouble is I ca n't see any more how close our friends behind us are . |
| 25 | As I 've got older I realize much more how important and significant they were . |
| 26 | Richer households produce twice as much domestic waste by volume as poorer ones and also throw away more potentially useful material , according to research carried out by the UK government 's Warren Springs Laboratory for the Department of the Environment . |
| 27 | It makes us more fully alive , like the sap in a vine that brings life to the branches . |
| 28 | In this stubborn bent towards the hopefully open-ended ( which he lost before the end ) , Pound may legitimately seem to us more indelibly American than his fellow expatriate , Eliot . |
| 29 | This cobbled route is still a joy to follow ; the top half of it , as it curves down to the church and the river , lined with sober houses built from the local cocoa-coloured stone and dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries — datable precisely in some cases from the inscribed lintel stones ; then the church , seventeenth-century and disappointingly dull ; the old bridge over the Nive , which is the place to look up — and downstream , at the houses built along the banks with their projecting wooden galleries ; and then on towards the Porte d'Espagne , past the shops and more very decent old houses . |
| 30 | Two more very successful events . |