Example sentences of "[art] [adj] but more [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The de Warrenes had died out in the later middle ages , the priory was pulled down in 1538 , and with the disappearance of traditional authorities attention turned to the lesser but more numerous town houses of prosperous local merchants and the gentry who needed homes for the legal and social seasons . |
| 2 | In Boltzmann 's theory the functional is the integral but more general forms may be found which then allow representation of the non-linear properties of materials . |
| 3 | Compare the delicate creamy taste and springy texture of a Charme de France Brie with the softer but more traditional flavour of St Benoit Brie , both have a floury edible rind . |
| 4 | In Halliday and Hasan 's model of cohesion , reference is used in a similar but more restricted way . |
| 5 | A similar but more limited process of delegation ( centre de responsabilité ) started in 1991 at the Musée d'Orsay and will be introduced in a further five national museums . |
| 6 | A similar but more dramatic shift occurs in the wedding scene , which begins in a relaxed prose until Claudio takes over , with his mistaken hurt dignity : ‘ Give not this rotten orange to your friend , /She 's but the sign and semblance of her honour ’ ( IV.i.23ff . ) . |
| 7 | John Conway , a mathematician at Cambridge University , had already developed a similar but more poetic notation but I did not see this until the summer of 1979 . |
| 8 | A similar but more complicated arrangement of alternatively spliced exons was reported for the Drosophila muscle MHC ( 15 ) , which showed that multiple isoforms could exist with only small differences in apparent molecular weight . |
| 9 | The design objective was to provide a knowledge based testing and diagnostic support facility that would present information and advice in a familiar but more efficient manner . |
| 10 | A longer but more interesting approach is possible by leaving the cart track at the viaduct and keeping along the east side of the railway ; join the track from Winterscales to Dentdale by passing over a bridge near the entrance to Blea Moor tunnel . |
| 11 | A faint but more hopeful splutter , this time . |