Example sentences of "[art] more [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While she and Susan and Gay kept in the background , he hovered near the gate , ready to answer any questions put by the more curious of the passers-by , and the sight of his familiar figure reassured the villagers , and they began to think that there might n't be a catch in it , after all ! |
| 2 | The IRA says the more recent of the documents is dated 26 January 1984 . |
| 3 | There , a combination of poor housing and education , high crime rates , much of it drug-related , large-scale immigration and associated racial tensions , an exodus of jobs and the more well-off to the suburbs , high youth unemployment and welfare dependency and the break-up of traditional family structures have served to create what some commentators in the United States have described as an ‘ urban underclass ’ . |
| 4 | A period of disturbance was bound to give the more zealous of the Protestants a chance to try to gain power in order to persecute the Catholics . |
| 5 | And if the scientists felt that they could speak with certainty , how much more so the lesser publicists and ideologists who were all the more certain of the experts ' certainties , because they could understand most of what the experts said , at least in so far as it could still be said without the use of higher mathematics . |
| 6 | This concentration of the more disadvantaged within the cities has fuelled debates about the combined issues of the extent of multiple deprivation in the cities and the relative severity of that deprivation within the various cities . |
| 7 | And what a despicable set of values — rendered all the more offensive by the revelations from Wall Street , London , Tokyo and Dublin , that the mandarins , gurus and executors of capitalism are as trustworthy as a fox guarding a chicken coop . |
| 8 | The fashionable discussion of incentives usually overlooks what may be one of the more potent of the disincentives operating on the productivity of the British labour force : the anticipation of domesticity , discouraging young women from seeking training and employers and educational institutions from providing it , even to women who do not take on a family or a traditional role within one . |
| 9 | They offended some of the more straight-laced among the constructors — people who might have been more inclined to help the Fittipaldis if they kept better company — and generally put a question mark over the Fittipaldi team : how it was surviving , with whose backing , by what means . |
| 10 | Dr Clark said Leeds was regarded as the more modern of the plants . |
| 11 | The first , and only , film that I can remember seeing there was Sergeant York , the dialogue of which was very loudly interpreted by the more bilingual of the French-Canadians for their monoglot mates , much to the annoyance of the anglophones . |
| 12 | The peace and tranquility of the Norfolk countryside make me realise how fortunate we are , and all the more conscious of the trials and sorrows that so many people are suffering both in this country and around the world . |
| 13 | Their small majority made them all the more conscious of the problems they needed to surmount to win the next election . |
| 14 | She had taken to growling menacingly at the more impressionable of the remedials to keep herself occupied . |
| 15 | The 1974 Labour Government insisted that what are known as long-term benefits , such as old-age pensions and invalidity benefit , should increase in line with prices or earnings , whichever was the more advantageous for the claimants . |
| 16 | He will organize the more presentable of the boarders to do the serving . |
| 17 | Perhaps the more significant of the deals is that involving BSB , which launches five new channels in the spring . |
| 18 | Perhaps the more significant of the deals is that involving BSB , which launches five new channels in the spring . |
| 19 | ‘ The financing of small , growth businesses has always been an important national issue , made all the more important by the effects of economic recession , ’ said . |
| 20 | The pros and cons of this theory are the subject of much contentious debate by experts , but it would probably be correct to say that the greater number of specialists believe that at least the more bipedal of the dinosaurs , including small and large carnivores , were warm-blooded , active animals . |
| 21 | Probably the most important effect of his reading of Joyce was to make him all the more aware of the possibilities of his anthropological reading , especially when applied to modern city life in the context of inanity or death : city life was filled with fatal torpor and Eliot described London as shrivelling , like an aged little bookkeeper . |
| 22 | Early exponents of the " new unionism " and the more fundamental of the syndicalists had no love for the device of the joint board . |
| 23 | Born in South Uist , she became and remains a most famous woman in Scottish history , epitomising forever the more acceptable of the romances associated with the Stuart cause . |
| 24 | No more shivering on the banks of streams for you , old chap ! " |
| 25 | After this passage , there is no more city , no more savage in the Quartets . |
| 26 | ‘ I dare say thieves are no more frequent on the roads than in the town , ’ argued Ralf , saving Guy from further introductions . |
| 27 | However , yesterday 's announcement shed no more light on the moves which are also likely to involve Eurocom , the French advertising group . |
| 28 | " Monopolies are no more acceptable on the railways than elsewhere " , Rifkind said . |
| 29 | Such a proposition was no more acceptable to the Germans than to the British and they put an end to further talk of peace by declaring unrestricted submarine warfare in the Atlantic . |