Example sentences of "more a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their shapes gave off no tremor or threat , more a priestly absorption in the radar of the appetites that had brought them there . |
| 2 | The loose shroud impedes his progress and his feet strain in vain against the tie of the bottom knot , a highly stylized gathering , resembling more a crimped ruff . |
| 3 | His kiss was neither violent nor demanding , more a gentle reconnaissance , and her lips remained immobile under his . |
| 4 | But in this very satisfaction lies the difficulty that for twenty years or more a good deal of self-esteem and affirmation has depended upon the parenting role . |
| 5 | Once more a good sinusoidal source and ganged , tuned detector are desirable . |
| 6 | ‘ Not so much a naan bread , more a toasted duvet , ’ I 'd said . |
| 7 | Total orders for the second quarter , to April 30 , were 28.5% up at $5,370m ; orders for computer products rose 32.9% to $4,120m , making it clear that the company , where computers accounted for less than half of the business only a few years back , is continuing progressively to become more and more a pure computer company . |
| 8 | Total orders for the second quarter , to April 30 , were 28.5% up at $5,370m ; orders for computer products rose 32.9% to $4,120m , making it clear that the company , where computers accounted for less than half of the business only a few years back , is continuing progressively to become more and more a pure computer company . |
| 9 | Barcelona became once more a great Mediterranean port — its trade , which had been the pride of medieval Catalonia , had quintupled since the early years of the century — and it now started its career as an industrial city . |
| 10 | ‘ And he 's not really a journo , more a jumped-up PR man . |
| 11 | It was once more a typical scene on any war-time station in Europe . |
| 12 | There is thrust into their lives of monotonous tasks and grey streets an epic hour of colour and strife that is no more a mere matter of other men 's boots and a leather ball than a violin concerto is a mere matter of some other man 's catgut and resin . |
| 13 | This bristling empire built on the bones of peasants and political prisoners and denying the most fundamental rights to the workers themselves seemed more and more a mere mirror image of the capitalist system rejected by western radicals . |
| 14 | " Socrates and Greek-Tragedy " was the immediate source of the central part ( 8-is ) , but was more a final than a preliminary version . |
| 15 | ‘ Truth to material ’ , like any other passionately held belief , can inspire good work , but it is no more a necessary than it is a sufficient condition , and Greek art is none the worse for being innocent of the notion . |
| 16 | The embryonic inequality and private property in the family continues to develop through time as the head of the family becomes more a patriarchal family chieftain ( the lineage elder of modern anthropology ) controlling the labour of the other members of the lineage . |
| 17 | But , as it turned out , it was the last instance of a complete Blitzkrieg triumph accompanied by the minimal losses which were once more a central element in the popular response to the Balkan success . |
| 18 | ‘ That 's not sour grapes or anything like it more a professional belief in myself that it would have been better in the long run for ME Eithne Browne and probably for Chrissie , too . |
| 19 | Tradition suggests Rome , especially now that it is once more a major tournament in every way , despite suffering from so many lack lustre performances from some of the leading players this year . |
| 20 | Delta Personal is not so much an upgrade , more a cut-down version of Delta Five . |
| 21 | Old Mel returned to her corner and became once more a shapeless dark bundle . |
| 22 | More a bland statement of fact from a man whose decision to return to horse racing two years ago rescued him from a life of increasingly worrying seclusion following his term in prison for tax evasion . |
| 23 | Once more a terrible curiosity overcame him , to know what the third girl looked like . |
| 24 | But this is not a general suppression of the immune system , more a specific interaction between the sex hormones and Candida . |
| 25 | It is more a wide bay with mostly low foreshores , opening out to the north-east into the Barents Sea . |
| 26 | I am more a Rhodesian than Jack Kennedy was an American . ’ |
| 27 | Thus Kohlberg 's theory seems more a political manifesto than a scientific statement . |
| 28 | It is more a general feeling that the ways in which we work and consume , trade and invest , obtain our salaries , wages or profits , own property and have entitlements to welfare , are all changing dramatically . |
| 29 | In some ways the more temptation is increased , the more a strong character might want to resist . |
| 30 | ( Do remember , these chains were not really a penance , more a sharp rebuke to the pleasure-loving flesh and a curt reminder of vows taken . ) |