Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [adv] [prep] the more " in BNC.
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| 1 | But despite flying back to the more forgiving climate of Cairns , his fever showed no signs of leaving him . |
| 2 | As you can see , unless you feel that there is something suspect about the property , such as an extension which you feel may be badly constructed , or it is very old ( say , 18th century ) it is really not worth paying out for the more in-depth survey in the initial stages , which costs twice as much as the ordinary valuation survey . |
| 3 | He milks every dramatic gesture for all it is worth , extending sections such as the dolce con grazia ( 5'08 ’ ) till they seem to stretch into infinity , before sprinting away in the more volatile or highlycharged pages with an immaculate bravura and articulacy . |
| 4 | Before moving on to the more advanced aspects of wave riding let us consider what should happen in the first attempts . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This pattern reflects both the tendency for school-leavers to leave the more rural and remote parts of the country and the fact that many people at or near retirement age see advantages in moving away from the more expensive and congested metropolitan regions . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She had taken to growling menacingly at the more impressionable of the remedials to keep herself occupied . |