Example sentences of "if [adv] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edward ( 1817–1905 ) , George ( 1815–1902 ) and Thomas ( 1823–1906 ) Dalziel ( there were in all seven brothers Dalziel ) , who were in the forefront of the revival of the woodcut after the temporary predominance of the steel engraving , may be bought cheaply in a profusion of books ( if rather more expensively in Lear 's Book of Nonsense and some of Lewis Carroll 's classics ) . |
| 2 | Another notable , if rather more junior long-term presence in Cologne is Galerie Jöllenbeck , founded in Essen in 1965 ( as Galerie Thelen ) , and moved to Cologne in 1969 . |
| 3 | Messing about in boats is more fun in Venice than anywhere , if rather more precarious , and on such an afternoon as this people are enjoying themselves all over the water . |
| 4 | While waiting for them to reach the outer limit of their seaward tack , we fished for our enormous aviator 's chart which was larger and more colourful , if little more useful , than theirs . |
| 5 | Cannelini beans replaced tinned and a bechamel mixed with Pecorino Romano from Lina Stores , Brewer Street , London W1 , stood in for the cottage cheese , It was every bit as good as the original , if somewhat more sophisticated . |
| 6 | If only more leading Bolsheviks had left their ivory tower in the Kremlin in early NEP in order to examine Russia at first hand , as Yakovlev did , the reifications that poured out from their pens and mouths might not have succeeded in obscuring the realities of actual life in the 1920s . |
| 7 | The majority of the other group of mainstream Protestants , so frequently castigated by these Puritans , held fast to an alternative religious outlook which , if perhaps more relaxed , was often no less valid or deeply felt . |
| 8 | For many centuries people assumed that animals had a similar , if perhaps more limited , view of the world . |
| 9 | Dependence on charity is just as debilitating as dependence on the state , if not more so . |
| 10 | ‘ It is absolutely as effective as anti-depressant drugs , if not more so . ’ |
| 11 | If J. A. Hobson was justified in speaking of a ‘ crisis of Liberalism ’ in 1909 , it is equally if not more justified to think of the Edwardian period in terms of a ‘ crisis of Conservatism ’ . |
| 12 | These CMHTs were in some respects advantaged by serving large areas because ‘ community of interest ’ is as important if not more so for people with learning disabilities ( and their carers ) as is community in the sense of neighbourhood . |
| 13 | So , although breast feeding is protective against allergies , late gradual weaning is probably just as important , if not more so , especially for bottle fed babies . |
| 14 | But the Thatcherite counter-revolution is much more all-encompassing : it is an assault on social democracy and all that that term entails , just as much if not more so than on simply ‘ taking out ’ pockets of resistance in specific local areas . |
| 15 | In a quite different part of the world , the volcano Pacaya , only thirty-two kilometres from Guatemala City , in Central America , is just as active , if not more so , and the red glare from the volcano can easily be seen from the city on a clear night . |
| 16 | In the short run , disengaging from state activity is just as difficult and time-consuming as getting into it — if not more so . |
| 17 | But in the UK there is also as much if not more local and regional co-ordination as there is at national level . |
| 18 | This response is one of the pitfalls of self-treatment , but it can occur just as readily — if not more so — with treatment by fringe practitioners who use ineffective methods of diagnosis . |
| 19 | This was just as important , if not more so , he said , than the flash of inspiration that comes out of the blue . |
| 20 | on , it was equally if not more dreadful to him to think that this successor might treat the emirs ‘ as superiors — as Royalties ’ , thereby incurring ‘ their astonished contempt that the King 's representative — the conquering dynasty — should so behave ’ . |
| 21 | Aldous Huxley may well have been echoing Gandhi when he maintained that the means whereby we attain something are as important as the end if not more important . |
| 22 | Unfortunately for such critics it has been found that acupuncture works equally well , if not more effectively , on animals . |
| 23 | The call to the Navy or RAF might be made indirectly through Forward Observation Officers or others but the effect was the same , if not more devastating . |
| 24 | The reason being that she had found something as satisfying , if not more so . |
| 25 | He reports 96% correct recognition for 12,600 words , and the approach is at least as successful , if not more so , as any reported so far . |
| 26 | In my opinion , these acts were equally if not more severe than the ones we saw in Paris , but there was no sign of any dismissal by the referee . |
| 27 | A fertile soil is dependent upon its physical structure just as much , if not more so , than upon its mere plant nutrient content . |
| 28 | Yet … such concepts as ‘ quantitative and qualitative superiority ’ , ‘ nuclear war as a continuation of politics ’ and ‘ victory in a nuclear war ’ are as much a feature , if not more so , of the political-military literature of the [ Chief Political Directorate ] as they are of the journals and books which are more clearly military . |
| 29 | The ‘ societal response ’ seemed to determine the outcome in much the same way , if not more so , as social and economic variables in sociological positivism . |
| 30 | Equally troublesome , if not more so , is the domiciliary assessment which turns out to express total income from all sources . |