Example sentences of "[prep] more [noun] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By seven , after more coffee and a cigar , he had still not been able to bring any order to his confusion of thoughts . |
| 2 | The training of more specialists and the provision of more day hospital care was duly set out . |
| 3 | Recently , the recovery of more texts and the reassessment of those long known have shown that many of the accepted similarities are in fact illusory . |
| 4 | Product mix improved with the export of more manufactures and the import of fewer luxury consumer goods . |
| 5 | It is this too which causes me personally to be deeply resentful of the practice so prevalent in the mass of fiscal and planning legislation of relegating provisions of real substance to Schedules which are sometimes cross-referenced between one another , so that construing the statute becomes a sort of verbal jigsaw puzzle that can only be solved by laying out numerous copies of the Act open at different pages or by the judicious use of more fingers than the number with which nature has been pleased to endow us . |
| 6 | This can be traced back as far at least as Lord Mansfield , who said : ‘ In all mercantile transactions the great object should be certainty and therefore it 's of more consequence that a rule should be certain , than whether the rule is established one way or the other . |
| 7 | Thus the financial health of the company seemed to be of more importance than the community 's concern over the health of its children . |
| 8 | Why does a barrow boy selling bunched radishes and salad greens in the market at Chinon know by instinct so to arrange his produce that he has created a little spectacle as fresh and gay as a Dufy painting , and you are at once convinced that unless you taste some of his radishes you will be missing an experience which seems of more urgency than a visit to the Chateau of Chinon ? |
| 9 | ‘ As my mother no longer had means to live , she died ; and I took myself off to the south in search of more sunshine and a master who asked no questions . ’ |
| 10 | Pointed comments are made about racial discrimination within the army , the insensitivity of television journalists , and uninformed liberal political views : indeed , the anti-war movement at home comes under more criticism than the NVA regulars entrenched at the top of the hill . |
| 11 | ‘ OK , ’ says I with more composure than a Confucian in a comfort station . |
| 12 | Moreover , there is no one in all Chung Kuo with more experience than the Marshal . |
| 13 | This would be an on-going promotional campaign along the lines of what we already do , but with more co-ordination and the addition of posters and a greater number of redesigned Promotional leaflets ( to replace existing ones ) . |
| 14 | ‘ OK , ’ said I with more determination than a sybarite in a sacristy . |
| 15 | Jenny laughed with more enthusiasm than the witticism merited . |
| 16 | Beautiful scenery , fresh air and good food , a chance to live the simple life , staying in accommodation with more character than a motel and more comfort than a tent . |
| 17 | Very often a second film and newsreel would be interspersed with more acts and an organist . |
| 18 | The afternoon continued with more games and the day was finished off with a ‘ Hamburger Hill ’ scenario , just like the film . |
| 19 | Scientists discovered the atom vibrates with more regularity than the earth turns on its axis . |
| 20 | ‘ I did n't mean to , ’ said I , slipping into the first-person with more delicacy than a dog log in a dowager 's duffle bag . |
| 21 | ‘ Do it now , ’ said I , with more authority than a gymnosophist in a lesbian love-dungeon . |
| 22 | Forcing his useless legs to work he made his way to the bridge , awkwardly at first , hobbling , as if in some grotesque mimicry of his wife , then with more confidence as the blood began to flow , his muscles come alive again . |
| 23 | I walked into the bar with more finagle than a ferret in a tinker 's trouser . |
| 24 | ‘ Speak on , ’ said I with more encouragement than a Brahman temple dancer at a Brown Shirt 's bump supper . |
| 25 | Moving to a residential home or nursing home can have many advantages — such as more company and a feeling of security — but it also means a major change in someone 's way of life . |
| 26 | They began to look for more drink and the Junior showed his initiative by going up to the off-licence with the Porter and bringing back armfuls of the stuff . |
| 27 | Sex is important in marriage for more reasons than the begetting of children . |
| 28 | For more details and a colour brochure please contact your travel agent or telephone Clare at our Reservations office on 01– . |
| 29 | See DATA for more details and an example of the use of DATA and READ . |
| 30 | For more information and a brochure on the Island Hotel or Tresco call 0720 22883 . |