Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] more [adv] [adj] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Larger and rather more uniformly dark than Little Swift , and with a markedly narrower white rump and distinctly forked tail . |
| 2 | Where in the past this tended to be a self-contained exercise — and perhaps more obviously artificial because of it — the pattern nowadays is for the group treasury function to be moved offshore en bloc . |
| 3 | It results in intense competition between the males , and this may be one reason why the males of lekking birds are larger and much more brilliantly coloured than the females . |
| 4 | Much more common , and much more readily recognizable as collective expressions of depressive tendencies , are the ceremonial ‘ wailings of Tammuz ’ celebrated in ancient Mesopotamia , or the mourning for the dead Osiris which figured so prominently in his cult in ancient Egypt . |
| 5 | Ito was subtle , shrewd and slightly more liberally inclined than the other genro . |
| 6 | Within systems quite as impersonal and even more technically complex than the printed book , the manifest cultural relations have this apparent and often real immediacy . |