Example sentences of "[prep] more confidence [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A new race of novelists may result , making it possible to refute with more confidence than hitherto B. S. Johnson 's fear that the British novel has never fulfilled the huge potential created by the irruption of modernism into the literature of the twentieth century . |
| 2 | ‘ A great deal , ’ Hari spoke with more confidence than she felt , indeed , she was trembling inside and she could only hope her nervousness did n't show . |
| 3 | ‘ Right , ’ Emily said with more confidence than she felt , ‘ please send Letty in with a tray of tea , I 'm quite thirsty . ’ |
| 4 | ’ That 's all right , then , ’ I said with more confidence than I felt . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't believe you , Luke , ’ she said with more confidence than she felt . |
| 6 | Soon you will look both slimmer and younger , and will walk with more confidence because the exercises will improve your posture . |
| 7 | People can plan their affairs with more confidence if they have more guidance about when and how the state will intervene , and the community will therefore be better off if it can reasonably look to past judicial decisions to predict future ones . |
| 8 | 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 . |