Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] to the more [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of the old concept of teaching , according to which the teacher , possessed of superior powers and superior knowledge , attempted to pass on to the more able of his pupils that non-practical culture which would most benefit them personally , a new class-room communication should be envisaged . |
| 2 | Doctors agree that there are no risks in regular exercise , as long as you start gently and gradually build up to the more strenuous activities . ’ |
| 3 | There 's also Bob 's ‘ Songs Of Freedom ’ , a force worldwide , but out of fashion in Jamaica , a country that has moved on to the more bodily delights of raggamuffin . |
| 4 | The couple have now moved on to the more complicated use of silks , and subjects have varied from masterpieces such as The Old Mill and The Haywain to a girl skating on a lake and a Victorian winter scene . |
| 5 | It is when you get on to the more high tech aspects of English Hops ' work that small and muted alarm bells begin to ring . |
| 6 | Before moving on to the more advanced aspects of wave riding let us consider what should happen in the first attempts . |
| 7 | We might feel tempted to say that Wittgenstein 's account may be true of sensations ; but that there is no such thing as a sensation of blue , and so there is no reason why a private linguist could not start by naming the way things look to him before moving on to the more difficult talk of the way things actually are . |
| 8 | Once you can carve gybe and water start with ease , you can move on to the more advanced funboard skills . |
| 9 | But despite flying back to the more forgiving climate of Cairns , his fever showed no signs of leaving him . |
| 10 | The evidence from elsewhere in America and Britain is that exhibitors increasingly took the masses for granted and were always investing in better and better cinemas so as to hang on to the more respectable lower middle-class audience . |
| 11 | Having got his attention-grabbers out of the way , Mr Beckman went on to the more serious stuff . |
| 12 | That is because the offspring of the traditional older working class have gone on to the more pleasant and remunerative employments , the employments that are also called work . |
| 13 | The principal results in Section 17.3 go over to the more general case with only minor modifications . |
| 14 | ‘ But it has yet to filter through to the more expensive properties . ’ |
| 15 | After the war Attlee went back to the more responsible system . |
| 16 | His policies looked back to the more aggressive activities of his father ; he fought the Alans , and he attacked Arles . |
| 17 | Finally , as the worst of the winter sets in , the goats move down to the more wooded foothills , where the trees moderate both the wind and the snow . |
| 18 | I think back to the more rigid skills studied by foot-sloggers such as myself . |
| 19 | There was something about cutter work — glamour , adventure , battling the elements , or just plain escapism — call it what you will , but once you had experienced it you had great difficulty in settling down to the more prosaic existence ashore . |