Example sentences of "[adv] more of a [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This transformation occurred primarily in the northern and western provinces , which were always more of a liability and less a source of wealth and culture than the southern and eastern provinces . |
| 2 | Although Iraqi forces behind the front line put up more of a fight than those overrun in the initial phase of the offensive , resistance remained both light and sporadic . |
| 3 | For some the only problem encountered with dogs is getting the brown stuff out of their outsoles , but dogs are clearly more of a pest than this , if our postbag is anything to go by . |
| 4 | However , he could also be a tiresome prankster and thus often more of a hindrance than a help about the house — Briggs tells of practical jokes such as ‘ blowing ashes over shelled oats spread out to dry ’ ( from The Fairies in Tradition and Literature ) . |
| 5 | Soviet influence , moreover , was overwhelmingly concentrated among the poorest and least important countries in terms of population and GNP , whose support was often more of a liability than an asset ; the world 's major military and industrial powers , by contrast , were all allied or aligned with the United States . |
| 6 | Although Korda was now more of a financier than an active producer , it was his suggestion that led Graham Greene to visit Austria to see if he could find the background in the four-power occupation of Vienna which would inspire him to extend his one-line story : ‘ I had paid my last farewell to Harry less than a week ago , when his coffin was lowered in the frozen February ground , so that it was with incredulity that I saw him pass by , without a sign of recognition , among the host of strangers in the Strand . ’ |
| 7 | It is perhaps understandable why these men , who earn their livelihood in the very embrace of the Goddess of the South Seas , should take her so seriously , but it came as more of a surprise that the Sultan of Surakarta should do the same . |
| 8 | No no er erm well er there is Prunus that 's a plum I mean a cherry that grows up and various ones like that the only trouble is with these type of things they can be more of a nuisance than the trees that you do have now because those trees growing up those spindly ones as you put it erm some gardeners call them or whatever name they use I but the trouble is bits die in the centre of those and they tend to drop down and they can be in time more far more of a nuisance than the trees they 've got now which seems to me quite suitable . |
| 9 | It 's far more of a risk than being overweight , so do n't let the fear of putting weight on stop you from giving up cigarettes . |
| 10 | Buckley has been in this job since 1988 and in the department since 1981 , but she started as a lawyer in private practice , a profession where equality is far more of a reality than in industry . |
| 11 | It is even more of a coincidence that your letter arrived at the same time as Mrs Hart 's . |
| 12 | A mikva is central to the setting up of a Jewish community , and building a mikva is even more of a priority than building a synagogue . |
| 13 | It would put her at even more of a disadvantage than she already was . |
| 14 | Definitely more of a passacaglia than a jive . |