Example sentences of "more [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many women can ache for the love of a child more intensely than for the love of a man . |
| 2 | Now despite years of steady disarmament they 're all talking about nuclear war again , and more intensely than ever before . |
| 3 | More intensely than Skye , the smaller canvas of Raasay plunged Johnson straight into the life of the islanders . |
| 4 | Would you want them to be able to express their emotions more intensely and precisely , able to show how they feel ? |
| 5 | It was as if by revealing a hint of softness to Nutty , knowing that she suspected him of acquiescing in order to save Firelight from the chop , a girlish affection betrayed , he then behaved more churlishly than ever to make up for it . |
| 6 | Gischler and Jauregui ( 1984 ) have demonstrated that in Peru much of this pre-Hispanic terracing is abandoned but could be renovated to enhance food production more economically than by developing new lands . |
| 7 | Suppose your client insists on advertising his product on television when you believe his story could be more economically and effectively told in the press . |
| 8 | Those with older boyfriends seemed to fare better ; for instance , two with partners in their thirties were much more economically and socially secure . |
| 9 | People are becoming increasingly aware of the need to take more care of our surroundings , to use our natural resources more economically and to improve the quality of life . |
| 10 | A system can be designed much more economically if it can be assumed that skilled personnel are available to control and take care of it . |
| 11 | Suffice it to say that a Labour bureaucracy developed that accepted some basic tenets of bourgeois ideology more wholly than the bourgeoisie itself . |
| 12 | The internal divisions grew more rather than less apparent , however , enhanced by the populist politics from the 1890s onwards , and the imperialist ambitions , though more and more strident , were gravely disappointed . |
| 13 | If anything , the deepening and lengthening recession made it more rather than less unlikely that the electorate would turn to Mr Kinnock as an economic messiah . |
| 14 | Left to themselves , without adult interference , groups of children tend to become more rather than less aggressive as time goes by . |
| 15 | It will be an ‘ entitlement ’ to children only if the teachers ' interpretation of it and their teaching style , as it is affected by its requirements , will make them more rather than less likely to be the teachers with the sorts of qualities which are likely to engage their learners , interests . |
| 16 | The argument for this is not convincing , because relations with business remained informal and instrumental and local governments were , for a time , more rather than less troublesome for the centre . |
| 17 | Judicial views on this matter are likely to vary from judge to judge and from time to time : some judges favour more rather than less judicial review ; others less rather than more . |
| 18 | The series is a variation of Hans Christian Andersen 's fable of the Emperor — and it is more rather than less pointed because here the clothes are fabulous . |
| 19 | This did not lead him to question the principle of majority decisions ; but it did lead him to pay attention to the social , cultural and economic conditions in which the will of all , or the will of the majority , would be more rather than less likely to coincide with " the general will " , by which Rousseau meant what all of us would will if we thought of ourselves not as private individuals but as citizens identifying ourselves with the good of the community . |
| 20 | After a more detailed and refined analysis of their results , Brown and Levin concluded as follows : ‘ The evidence clearly suggests , therefore , that the aggregate effect of tax on overtime is small ; it may perhaps add about 1% to the total hours worked , since , on balance , tax has made people work more rather than less overtime . ’ |
| 21 | This variable shows a stable pattern of stratification according to social class except that one social group , the Lower-middle class , use in their more careful styles more rather than less of the high prestige variant than the status group immediately above them . |
| 22 | Finally , it is pointed out that if times are indeed bad then , in the name of justice and humanity , more rather than less should be spent on those services in cash and kind that cater for the welfare of those in need . |
| 23 | The inevitable losses in later life faced by most men and women — in terms of income , occupation , intimate relationships , physical strength — demand more rather than less adaptability . |
| 24 | Most countries had objected that they would be forced to rely on each other 's trade statistics , that exporters would face more rather than less paperwork at national borders , and that the potential for fraud would increase . |
| 25 | In sharp contrast , the returns for 1992 showed an excess of 42 per cent of companies were spending more rather than less on R&D — 9 per cent higher than had been anticipated on the basis of previous declaration by companies for their planned expenditure for the year . |
| 26 | This , he claimed , meant that they sometimes had to act more rather than less on their own initiative . |
| 27 | An interesting additional finding which is stressed is that it appears that such people are more rather than less likely to exhibit qualities of psychological balance and social responsibility . |
| 28 | If its Secretariat 's proposals are agreed to , " farming will become more rather than less intensive , global brands will erode local foods and developing countries ' food self-reliance will be undermined " . |
| 29 | Even harder to ignore the fact that her reluctant , brooding host was all male , with an attraction rendered more rather than less dangerous by his current attitude towards the female sex . |
| 30 | That document , completed last spring , has never been made public , but those who have had access to it assert that its main thrust was to give Scotland more rather than less autonomy . |