Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] [prep] the more " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can tell that you have not been fobbed off with the more mature product by the size of the cuts and the pallor of the flesh . |
| 2 | This should not be particularly surprising since the main element has been price support for commodities such as grain and sugar which are produced principally in the more favoured farming areas . |
| 3 | The converse , however , is the case , and the difference can probably be explained simply by the more widespread use of assay of α fetoprotein concentration during the period studied . |
| 4 | But do n't for one moment think that Munich should be left solely for the more seriously-minded visitor . |
| 5 | Within months , Scargill 's warnings of substantial pit closures were transformed into reality : the NUM was unable to resist — with most of its members at the affected pits rapidly opting for the generous redundancy terms — and with the privatization of the electricity-generating industry at the end of the 1980s the ability of many British mines to compete was in question ; closures were instituted even in the more productive fields . |
| 6 | There are some words which are simply anomalous , like women , or once or gaol ( which is , anyway , being pushed out by the more reasonable jail ) . |
| 7 | Keith was able to appoint officers even to the coveted rank of captain , which was in that period for all practical purposes the ultimate promotion , since admirals were drawn automatically from the more senior members of the captains ' list . |
| 8 | They were to figure prominently among the more tragic case histories . |
| 9 | Whatever the method chosen , these invitations were issued only for the more important — i.e. expensive — funerals ; those of lesser rank had to rely on word of mouth . |
| 10 | Few of those who can read actually believe what is said even in the more responsible newspapers ; like many Middle Easterners they prefer the racy , outlandish explanation . |
| 11 | The word demises is used instead of the more popular lets . |
| 12 | Cheque book journalism is a broader and more complex issue than the confiscation of the proceeds of crime and is bound up with the more general question of media reporting of the criminal justice system . |
| 13 | Some of the most important petrographic uses of CL are outlined below for the more common sedimentary rock types . |
| 14 | War began with an unsuccessful attempt to return to the city-plundering strategy of the previous century , went on with a great commerce-raiding voyage round the world by Anson , and ( not before it had at last ended the trading career of the South Sea Company ) was swallowed up by the more far-flung clash of British and French . |