Example sentences of "more [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new substitute , made from eggshells , milk and titanium dioxide , has capilleries which make it more absorbent then other substitutes . |
| 2 | It was more alert today , staring out at its surroundings through moist brown eyes that were learning to focus , and playing with swishing its tail . |
| 3 | More striking still , fragments of the shell of Cassis rufa from the Grotte des Enfants near Mentone came from as far away as the Indian Ocean . |
| 4 | Yes , some of the departments , some department managers I think have more erm , their goals tend to be more short-term possibly than longer term . |
| 5 | The virginia creeper was a little more luxuriant perhaps and the wood-work had been newly painted and was whiter than she remembered . |
| 6 | More revealing perhaps is the number of horses he ran during those two winters . |
| 7 | ( I think that Bread Not Stone is more hesitant here than In Memory of Her : she speaks of there being one vision , whereas in In Memory of Her she appears simply to suggest that in our suffering and our courage we are one with first-century women . ) |
| 8 | It would have been much more subtle just to have allowed his wife to demonstrate it when the time came and then to turn it into a talking point . ’ |
| 9 | They would not cruelly ridicule the child but I think she would feel left out by the time the girls were ‘ settling in ’ , as she would not fit in ; girls have more subtle yet often more hurtful ways of rejecting one another and this would be felt by the outsider before long . |
| 10 | More subtle perhaps are the two blue pegs , hanging the old rag out to dry , or the pusse pink ‘ SERVICE ’ . |
| 11 | This would be a very good chance to get more friendly still . |
| 12 | The implication is clear : liberals are more advanced morally than conservatives . |
| 13 | It is more usual nowadays to use computer metaphors and refer to the programming of learning ( e.g. Pulliam & Dunford , 1980 ) . |
| 14 | It is more usual nowadays to provide decimal arithmetic ( if at all ) on a data.type derived from character string handling . |
| 15 | This interpretation was kind to Edward , because it was more normal even then to demand of a king that he produce an heir , and Edward 's childlessness unloosed on his luckless kingdom the horrors of 1066 . |
| 16 | His voice sounded more normal now , more controlled . |
| 17 | More confusing still are the practices of the agencies themselves . |
| 18 | Individually , both dogs were perfect pets , though Stan was more retiring then the effervescent Ollie . |
| 19 | It may be more profitable however to resist such diversion and to retain the focus on this distinction between knowledge and skills . |
| 20 | In fact , we 're more profitable now than we were in Andrew 's day , because of that new trade with West Africa I 've worked up . " |
| 21 | Buxtehude has set out to show that if cyclists can be persuaded to be disciplined , if pedestrians can be more tolerant and if the police will be more supportive then mixing the modes is possible . |
| 22 | This school can not be regarded as typical , partly because each school and each project is unique , but also because the practical results of the staff energy and imagination which find a focus in the project seemed greater and more far-reaching here than in most other Minor award schools . |
| 23 | The connection between this form of critique and freedom is more far-reaching still . |
| 24 | This happens even in the absence of their bête- noire , but is more concentrated whenever there is direct personal contact . |
| 25 | Group courses arranged at an area office are more common in city centres where bureaux are more concentrated geographically and less travelling is involved for participants . |
| 26 | Large waves , taking form ; the white foam crests are more extensive everywhere . |
| 27 | It 's almost as if Rene Kerfante were to say that he ought to tell The Correspondent not to use his typefaces , but they need to get something , I do n't know , more coherent though . |
| 28 | Renewed famine , more devastating even than that of 1984-85 , threatened an estimated 8,000,000 of the population , who faced starvation in 1991 unless they received 1,500,000 tonnes of food , according to relief agency estimates [ see p. 37945 ] . |
| 29 | During the housing debate , Kevin Johnston , from Eastbourne , East Sussex , was cheered as he said : ‘ The homelessness problem is even more acute now than in 1985 . |
| 30 | An area which was presumably more hideous still , in the vicinity of the ear and temple , was obscured by the tugged-down band of his beret . |