Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] more [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sexton quoted in Ranson ( 1990:115 ) argued that " it supposes that the wisdom of parents , separately and individually exercised , is more likely to achieve higher standards more quickly and more acceptably to the public than the collective wisdom of present bureaucrats , no matter how well-meaning those bureaucrats may be " . |
| 2 | This is a cultural fact , the obsession with the past which has marked European civilization more and more strongly since the romantic era . |
| 3 | Throughout Scotland , academics have seen this stretching of resources coming to dominate the debate on the market , with the strains showing more and more clearly throughout the system : large classes , overflowing libraries , inadequate book provision , reducing levels of student financial support , falling relative pay levels for academics , lowered morale , and less time for research . |
| 4 | The elevation of their leaders ' wives to positions of political power in their own right happened more and more often by the 1970s , but it was not well regarded even in countries where the wife was not like Elena Ceauşescu in combining arrogance , brutality , stupidity and self-confidence . |
| 5 | But while these public performances continued to the general amusement of the audience , Joyce was dedicating himself more earnestly and more narrowly to the triumph of National Socialism in the world struggle . |
| 6 | ‘ Hawk ’ is often used as a general term for smaller birds of prey , as well as more strictly for the genus Accipiter . |
| 7 | Many middle-class mothers share the care of their children on an informal basis of friendship , as well as more formally through the pre-school playgroup movement . |
| 8 | We need now to look more closely and more precisely at the role of knowledge , and how it interacts with language to create discourse . |