Example sentences of "more [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes a more matronly dame may preside at a table whereon is a large basin of curds , jugs of cream , a number of strong dessert-plates and horn spoons , and a goodly array of oaten cakes ; so you may thus have curds and cream in the land of brown heath — and if lovely scenery lends a zest to wholesome fare , you should not fail to patronize this vendor of good things . |
| 2 | ‘ We are more acutely business focussed than ever before , though the issues have n't changed , ’ he added . |
| 3 | A North American bird recently established in English West Midlands ; smaller than White-headed Duck , with much less white on head of more uniformly chestnut drake . |
| 4 | The face of the boards was occasionally covered with leather ( Leeds and Shortt 1953 , p. 56 ) , and even more rarely metal decoration was also added . |
| 5 | It acts as a bridge between the natural and the synthetic systems giving greater biocompatibility , or perhaps more properly biotolerance , and confers membrane properties on the hydrogel , allowing transport of oxygen and water soluble metabolites through the polymer matrix . |
| 6 | Hence in addition to being counts they are also Electors , and for this reason their full title is more properly Elector Counts . |
| 7 | So what bits are more up market more down market |
| 8 | Leonard could be fastidious to the nth degree in completing his own work — he has always said that he works ‘ one word at a time , ’ and can spend months , even years , in adding finesse to it ; he is nevertheless dismissive of anything approaching scholarly exactitude , still more so pedantry . |
| 9 | But substitute something like modern art , or even more so religion , and the repercussions of positive or negative statements on the people who do it are likely to be considerably greater . |
| 10 | There she would stand conveying the burden of being a creature and the sorrow to which humanity ( but more so caninity ) is heir to . |
| 11 | It is only possible to lay down general rules , perhaps the most important of which is that grass , and more especially clover , must always be sown early enough in the growing season to have become fairly established before the continuous wet conditions of winter set in . |
| 12 | They viewed the law as providing a basis for the teacher 's authority to exert discipline within the school , but lamented the fact that the legal limits were derived from a collection of diverse sources , more especially case law or precedent under common law . |
| 13 | Sport , more especially rowing , was his constant pleasure . |
| 14 | As it is , going to Lourdes out of season , in the late autumn or winter , brings one even more starkly face to face with what the Catholic Belloc calls this supernatural place's ' detestable earthly adjuncts ' . |
| 15 | The film both fulfils the Powell-Pressburger partnership 's aim to produce ‘ original stories , written for the screen , keeping pace with events and trying to put into action what people were thinking and saying at the time , ’ which is what the more obviously documentarist filmmakers were also trying to do , and articulates its own vision of the mystical forces in nature , culminating in the healing miracle that arrives for each of the three Canterbury pilgrims on their way to the cathedral . |
| 16 | Wilfulness is more obviously part of the mens rea than of the actus reus . |
| 17 | Because she was going she became much more obviously part of the firm . |
| 18 | This should not lead us in turn , however , to ignore the impact of industrialisation or more generally proletarianisation on sexual mores . |
| 19 | Long-time open systems advocate , Bernard Hulme , former vice-president of worldwide marketing — more lately director of vertical marketing programmes in Europe — for Santa Cruz Operation Inc has been appointed vice-president , field operations , Europe , Middle East and Africa at the Unix software firm . |
| 20 | Any public rebuke to the BBC , still more any action , will need to be based on watertight evidence . |
| 21 | Erm , this idea that the police had more more money , yes they have had more money , what , what er , has been very conveniently ignored is the enormous amount of money we 've had to spend on special protection duties . |
| 22 | It appears that deaf people using BSL , sign in a more recognisably BSL way than do hearing people who have acquired BSL as children ; for those who have to learn BSL as adults ( like signer 2 ) their target seems to be a form of BSL greatly influenced by English . |
| 23 | More usually street gangs such as the Nachos , Montañeros and Calvos are hired by drug barons for a ‘ kill ’ for between £1,000 and £5,000 , depending on the importance of the victim and the risks of being caught . |
| 24 | The more concentrated the odour , the more quickly fatigue becomes complete , resulting in temporary amnosia . |
| 25 | The more quickly alcohol gets to the brain , the sooner its effects become evident . |
| 26 | For a century or more both Parliament and the courts have been careful not to act so as to cause conflict between them . |
| 27 | ‘ They 're asking for trouble — disillusionment at the very least , more probably betrayal . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Although only heaven or more probably hell knows why I must , ’ he murmured unevenly , apparently as an addendum to the words that had been dragged from him just before he kissed her . |
| 29 | I think that was more up North . |
| 30 | She had spent most of her life wishing she had ‘ more up top ’ . |