Example sentences of "[verb] with more [noun sg] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She added with more assurance that Beuno would also soon return from his walk to the waterfall , and then wondered aloud where the Molesworths were , because in a minute they would be late . |
| 2 | He 'd even tried his hand at tapping boots , they were done with more enthusiasm than skill , but so far there had been no complaints from the customers . |
| 3 | Some of the individual performances could do with more definition and detail , but there 's terrific work from David Burt , who has exactly the right mixture of romantic swagger and ruthless cynicism as Macheath , as well as a first-rate singing voice . |
| 4 | Reynolds ' weighty irony was wielded with more address than arguments put forward by later traditionalists . |
| 5 | A second , conservation-oriented design met with more approval but action was blocked by the imposition of an environmental safeguard on the area by the then Minister for Beni culturali Vincenza Bono Parrino , which permitted no more than monitoring and surveying to be carried out . |
| 6 | She had been afraid to tell Nancy 's story to Dr Losberne , since the good doctor was very excitable and often acted with more enthusiasm than wisdom . |
| 7 | As they reached the door she glanced down at the small flower bed which gardeners in the congregation were trying to cultivate with more optimism than success in the unrewarding soil at the side of the path . |
| 8 | Well , so long as no one tells Phena , everything should be all right , should n't it ? ’ she asked with more hope than expectation . |
| 9 | But she was also distant kin to the Sheriff of Gloucester , and thus treated with more consideration than Isabel . |
| 10 | Indeed in the middle of the twentieth century it can be said that the majority of the world 's population lives under systems of government where the government itself and particularly the executive government are of more importance and are treated with more respect or fear than the Constitution . |
| 11 | He had got himself into a difficult position and had escaped with more luck than dignity . |
| 12 | The band you thought had no personality and were locked into a strait-jacketed genre have just made an album packed with more character and idiosyncrasies than practically any other released in 1992 . |
| 13 | These were considered old-fashioned terms in a morally rudderless society , Trent thought with more sadness than bitterness . |
| 14 | He scrambled over the wall and fell with more haste than skill into the enclosed , sun-warmed garden below . |
| 15 | Well , some of them you greet with more affection than others , it must be said . |
| 16 | Schoolboys play with more aggression and pace than in Britain . |
| 17 | ‘ Poor boy , ’ he said with more tenderness than Julia had heard from him since the crisis of her illness . |
| 18 | ‘ You 've wasted your time , Roman , ’ he said with more resolution than Claudia would have believed possible . |
| 19 | Carrington , a colonial , possibly in love , detached , watched all this with a definite slight unease and hoped the battle in the field was conducted with more competence and panache , not to say goodwill . |
| 20 | According to John Earle , writing in 1628 , the inn was a superior establishment to the alehouses and was ‘ a degree or ( if you will ) a pair of stairs above an alehouse , where men are drunk with more credit and apology ’ . |
| 21 | The Hero is Sylvia McNair , and she brings a distinct gain , for there is more tenderness in her ‘ Je vais le voir ’ than in Eda-Pierre 's singing , and the joyous mood of ‘ Il me revient fidèle ’ comes with more conviction and strength of contrast . |
| 22 | Baldwin showed them some of the curiosities of the house and gave them tea in the Long Gallery , which lie described with more pride than accuracy as ‘ the finest room in England ’ . |
| 23 | The Dickensian waiter flapped his napkin and advised with more truth than tact , ‘ Should n't have turbot today , sir , although the salmon 's passable . ’ |
| 24 | Typical is Arthur Seton in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning ( 1960 ) , described by the film 's director Karel Reisz , as ‘ a sad person , terribly limited in his sensibilities , narrow in his ambitions and a bloody fool into the bargain ’ who ends up throwing a stone towards the housing estate that is his final destination , declaring with more bravado than honesty , ‘ It wo n't be the last one I 'll throw . ’ |