Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] more [adv] [subord] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | For instance , they used to play a kind of game ( about twice a week , or rather more often if Odilo put his foot down ) , where she must lie still and show no sign of life , throughout . |
2 | Subsequent popes would exercise their right to provide far more often and much more widely than John did , but never again would a king of England be quite so impotent in the choice of his bishops . |
3 | Edward never proposed to me , I never ‘ accepted ’ him , yet here we are just as much engaged and much more so than lovers of whom I have read . |
4 | JR was suspicious by nature , and even more so when figures came together as easily as this . |
5 | It was so fascinating to observe that I was very sorry when the party broke up , and even more so when Margaret did not ask her old pal Richard to stay on for supper with us after the Rolls drove away . |
6 | Labour members , though generally more committed to old-age pensions , free school meals and redistributive taxation than Liberals and considerably more so than Conservatives , gave greater primacy in their election addresses to unemployment and hours of work , which they regarded as the major social issues . |
7 | The figures in Table 4 show how many of these responsibilities were eventually reduced , prior to the Korean War , but much more slowly than Keynes and others called for . |
8 | Iran has made it plain that it would take it amiss if it were left out of any post-war security arrangements for the Gulf — but even more amiss if outsiders ( read Americans ) were to stay on . |