Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] more [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forester 's fiction is as meticulous in detail and as active in plots as that of O'Brian , yet the Hornblower novels are basically romantic adventures , built on sentiment as much as on action and answering more directly than the Aubrey tales to the simplest conventions of the adventure story . |
| 2 | Such a subjective process is controversial by its very nature and becomes more so when changes are introduced each year that may have important consequences for the grants payable to individual local authorities . |
| 3 | Both plays tell the universal and timeless tale of family relationships and how , when supposedly they are a place of union , harmony , love and protection , they are in fact in reality a source of discord and suffering more often than not . |
| 4 | They have a pleasant , slightly sweet flavour and cook more quickly than other dried beans . |
| 5 | Salaries were now arranged in a more systematic hierarchy and paid more regularly than in the past . |
| 6 | In a union in which both the lobon-gur solution and the rice-salt solution had been taught , LGS was also preferred over the rice-salt therapy , despite the recognition by the mothers of the fact that children treated with the latter recovered from diarrhoea and vomiting more quickly than those treated with LGS . |
| 7 | But this peripheral vision processes input very fast , with visual information reaching the brain and mind more rapidly than from the binocular area . |
| 8 | If the casserole is still quite liquid , remove the lid from the pan and simmer more quickly until the sauce is reduced . |
| 9 | Moving into summer , he took advantage of the dry weather and lived more outdoors than in , drawing the same subjects repeatedly if they appealed to him , toiling incessantly in an effort to improve himself . |