Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] more of a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sport is becoming ever more of a circus . |
| 2 | When occasionally they asked her what was the marketing strategy or the business plan and she said , openly , that there never had been one , her patent naturalness and honesty made the whole thing appear even more of a fairy story . |
| 3 | It is perhaps understandable why these men , who earn their livelihood in the very embrace of the Goddess of the South Seas , should take her so seriously , but it came as more of a surprise that the Sultan of Surakarta should do the same . |
| 4 | A three year old is comparatively weak and easy to get to the bottom of , whereas a four or five year old will be able to put up more of a resistance ( if that is in his nature ) . |
| 5 | ‘ I feel in more of a muddle about politics every moment . ’ |
| 6 | That puts still more of a premium on shrewdly imaginative lineout tactics , married to throwing in of just the right pace and parabola . |
| 7 | Although Iraqi forces behind the front line put up more of a fight than those overrun in the initial phase of the offensive , resistance remained both light and sporadic . |
| 8 | Disadvantages include handwriting as an obstruction to understanding , the element of personal ‘ ownership ’ which discourages the release of the book to some central point at the time of completion and so the sharing of data therein ; the primitive linking of support data ( anything from staples to sticky tape ) with the accompanying disincentive to completeness and tendency to data loss ( e.g. through sticky tape perishing ) ; some support data presented even more of a problem , such as photographs and outsize computer print out which led to separate support folders to the actual laboratory notebook . |
| 9 | This incentive , combined with a period of cost containment in which public hospital funding from state and federal governments has been under increasing pressure , has created even more of a temptation to attract privately funded patients in preference to patients solely supported by public funds . |
| 10 | As the plastic card industry expands worldwide , holiday money becomes even more of a dilemma for tourists . |
| 11 | Mathilde 's brother , Prince Napoleon Jerome , better known perhaps under his nickname of ‘ Plon-Plon ’ , was to prove even more of a burden to his cousin , for his activities were political , to such a degree that he seemed frequently to take pleasure in publicly opposing Louis-Napoleon 's policies . |
| 12 | They have even more of a right to know if they are not being told at home . |