Example sentences of "more [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then more slowly a second time . |
| 2 | A daughter ( or more rarely a son ) who has never left the parental home , or who has returned after widowhood or divorce to stay on indefinitely to care for an elderly parent or parents , does not make this choice automatically . |
| 3 | Flight note , nearly always uttered when flushed , a clear far-carrying ‘ chu-chu-chu : also an insistent redshank-like ‘ chip ’ note and more rarely a disyllabic call not unlike Spotted Redshank . |
| 4 | Other specialists might be expected , among them bone-workers , tanners , bakers and millers , and perhaps other food retailers , as well as a local potter and more rarely a glass-blower , where the necessary raw materials were available . |
| 5 | Another support worker was introduced more successfully a week later ( but see below ) ; |
| 6 | And therefore , in the County Council 's erm opinion , the test which I need to adopt when I go to the site again , is to look at it and er simply make a decision as to whether or not in my opinion the land is more properly a part of this built-up area which can not perform a greenbelt function , or is a part of the general extent of greenbelt around there , and therefore by definition performs a greenbelt function . |
| 7 | Anorexia nervosa usually develops in adolescent and young women : it is the third most common chronic illness in teenage girls , is seen only rarely in males , and is more properly a dieting disorder than an eating disorder . |
| 8 | She is a historian , or more properly a micro-historian , and she is writing a history of our hillside — the road I walk up from the station and the various lanes and alleyways that open off it . |
| 9 | It is this kind of inference that Grice dubs an implicature , or more properly a conversational implicature . |
| 10 | ( An influence on Leonard equal to that of A. M. Klein , also a lawyer , but more importantly a poet-novelist of considerable skill , whose familiarity with literature equalled his Jewish erudition and commitment unlike Leonard he was a ‘ ghetto ’ Jew of Montreal ) . |
| 11 | Later in 1991 came Adams Laboratories ( at $77m ) , with a series of branded prescription drugs , especially for respiratory disorders , but even more importantly a sales force throughout the US . |
| 12 | Later , once a variety of diplomatic initiatives had been tried and discarded , it became more literally a ‘ War Cabinet ’ . |
| 13 | Look at any photograph of men , in a group , ( at work or play ) and more especially a large crowd . |
| 14 | ‘ A doctor , and more especially a surgeon , has to be involved . ’ |
| 15 | The Old Cumberland Beggar is more obviously a sermon addressed to the political economist , who believes that only ‘ people who show a profit ’ are important , and that people who are poor or old or ill should be shut away because they are ‘ useless to society ’ . |
| 16 | However the cases are not identical , for registration is more obviously a procedural act than the means of manifestation of consent . |
| 17 | In the first place , there are universal factors which contribute powerfully , in almost all cases , though in different measure ( see Brubaker , 1992 ) , to the formation of a sense of nationality : common descent ( that is , the idea of belonging to a distinctive ‘ people ’ ) , the occupation of a definite territory , a common language , and more broadly a common culture . |
| 18 | If anything it 's probably more just a suggestion . |
| 19 | But I thought good structure control overall , painted pictures well erm and I think perhaps just probe a bit more just a little bit stronger than you are at painting pictures but as you see a picture paints a thousand words . |
| 20 | Erm a little bit more just a touch more Mollie ? |
| 21 | Well-laid hedges of thorn , hazel , holly , or beech ( or more generally a mixture of several species ) form very effective barriers , and provide shelter for livestock and a habitat for wild life . |
| 22 | Since then the site has been home to a nursery and more lately a garden centre , attracting more than 20,000 visitors a year . |
| 23 | Some astronomers think that the more rapidly a body accretes the hotter it gets , and that for the outer Moon to have melted it is necessary for the Moon to have accreted in roughly 0.01 Ma . |
| 24 | To us , St. Joe 's embodies our own history : a history of caring and campaigning for homeless people , but more vitally a history of " Simon " and its ideas , principles and values . |
| 25 | It is accurately spelled out but the wrong word ; it is a homonym or more technically a homophone , i.e. a word that sounds the same but is spelled differently , e.g. hair — hare ; threw — through . |
| 26 | Charlie Mears , the bank clerk , however , is more usually a secondrate poet who does not understand the value of his ‘ dreams ’ , scorning to think of them in terms of actual reincarnations , though these dreams are so vivid that reality and unreality seem mixed . |
| 27 | The main part of the animal consists of a cup ( or calyx ) to which the stalk is attached at its upper end , and from the top of the calyx stretch long arms , which are five in number or more usually a multiple of five . |
| 28 | More convincing is the idea of ‘ structured dependence ’ , which suggests that dependency in old age is more usually a social than a biological or individual creation . |
| 29 | Everywhere the most important element was a department or more usually a series of departments divided along geographical lines , which handled correspondence with missions abroad , of which those in the major European capitals were by far the most significant . |
| 30 | I mean suddenly we had the example of a women 's support group from the miner 's strike th that we had the idea you know fr from that erm and Yona really put it in a nutshell when she said I think er er you know behind closed doors the women worrying about what was gon na happen next you know they felt very frustrated and in a way it was a way to channel o our energies away i i i it was seen as that really in the beginning you know as a a sort of a more as a way of getting rid of the well y you know the sort of desperation er the impotence one felt of not being able to do anything in this situation and it 's er and by now of course we 've all become as a group very close er you know we 're we 're more like a big family now really an sort of er a lot of the women have never really sort of regularly been to meetings an th the commitment there is very strong really that we all turn up to our Tuesday meetings sort of . |