Example sentences of "more [adj] [prep] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What can be more refreshing to the feelings of an artist , than to observe the localities of colour subdued and almost amalgamated with the floating atmosphere ; the fore-ground in chastened tones and tints , and the distances swimming in celestial blue ? ’ |
| 2 | Cerecloth , a waxed unbleached linen — nowadays only seen as the protective sheet between the top of an altar and the fair linen — was rarely used for shrouds and is more associated with the wrapping of embalmed corpses , having been used as an adjunct to such hygienic treatment . |
| 3 | Because it is on that occasion that you will already have , and will on your final visit , have made up your mind as to the nature of the northern part of the village of Skelton , the nature of the land immediately surrounding it , whether it be a paddock , or a small field , whether it be more associated in the minds of some with the open country , or in the minds of others with the village . |
| 4 | In the Foreign Office case it was felt that the responsible ministers should have been more alert to the possibility of aggression by Argentina . |
| 5 | Even more striking as a pointer to the greater importance of political rather than social factors in the rebellion was the participation of men from higher up the social scale ; over ninety participants are described as ‘ gentleman ’ or ‘ esquire ’ , and there was even one knight in the list of those pardoned , Sir William Trussel of Aylmesthorpe , Leicestershire . |
| 6 | This anomaly became even more striking as the increase in merchant prosperity was accompanied by deterioration in the economic position of the ruling class . |
| 7 | The differences between wild-type and truncated polymerases are more striking in the presence of the cAMP-CRP at the lac UV5 promoter . |
| 8 | You 've made things admirably clear , and I 'm the more grateful to the Commissioner for taking what may turn out to be my unfounded worries so seriously . |
| 9 | Various links have been proposed and discussed , but they are on the whole more revealing of the disparity between the two problems than of their convergence . |
| 10 | Kelly grunted , seemingly no more upset by the destruction of his diner than he would have been by a broken plate . |
| 11 | Such free-text sources were identified as being more representative of the type of text that the system would eventually have to recognise . |
| 12 | Successive Lord Chancellors have gone on record stating their keenness to create a judiciary more representative of the population as a whole . |
| 13 | Internal party reforms in recent years have ensured that the delegates to American party conventions are more representative of the population as a whole , with increased numbers of young people , ethnic minorities and women participating . |
| 14 | For he considered that had the defendants been more subtle in the presentation of their defence , they might have been acquitted . |
| 15 | Yeah , she 's more friendly with the rest of them int she ? |
| 16 | Perhaps she was more fiery in the days of her youth , when her agitation and organized campaigns resulted in Manitoba becoming the first Canadian province to grant the franchise to women . |
| 17 | Our early ancestors lived in a world fraught with danger ; yet they were far more advanced in the art of survival than many of us in the modern world could ever envisage . |
| 18 | This contrasts with projects done in junior or earlier secondary classes where it is more usual for a group of pupils or even a whole class to participate , often sharing the work between them , pooling the results and producing a joint account . |
| 19 | The great British car manufacturing companies , among them Daimler , Lanchester , Rolls-Royce , Sunbeam and Vauxhall , all of which are represented in the Dolls ' House , made their own engines and chassis with a standard body , but it was more usual for the owners of such cars to have special bodywork built to their own requirements by coachbuilders . |
| 20 | This will be made more complete with the help of archaeologists , architectural historians , furniture specialists , social historians and others . |
| 21 | Paul Scott 's Raj Quartet , a fictional foursome collected in 1976 and with the pendant of a fifth novel , Staying On ( 1977 ) , is a vast canvas devoted to the transfer of power in India and its sequel : too close in time to be seen , altogether clearly , as historical fiction , too distant in place to be a shared world ; though like E. M. Forster before him , Scott chose an alien sun to define the outlines and shadows of the English abroad , where their habits of mind look all the sharper , odder and more endearing against the background of an exotic land . |
| 22 | In recent years the Bank of England has become more profitable as a result of high interest rates and good yields on the investments that these non-interest bearing deposits are placed in . |
| 23 | If we assume that some investors within each group were " not interested " in an activity made more profitable by the construction of a canal but only in dividends or , after 1790 , in speculative profit , and that this was almost wholly true of women investors , substantially so of the clergy and of the majority of those from the professions , then it is clear that overall at least a quarter of investment in canals was drawn from a net cast unprecedentedly widely . |
| 24 | These procedures were even more extensive by the time of the petition campaign of 1792 . |
| 25 | The ties of dependence that originated during the period of slavery became even more extensive in the period of the formal colonization of Africa , and after dependence too , creating economies substantially dependent on a limited range of cash crops and raw materials required by the metropolitan economies which retained control over major sectors of production , pricing and the flow of profits ( Brett , 1973 ; Leys , 1975 ; Howard , 1978 ; Rodney , 1972 ; Davidson , 1974 ) . |
| 26 | their attitudes would , would lead you believe that they have changed and they have become more receptive to the kind of things women have been saying over the years . |
| 27 | It is often suggested that in Italy the general public is more receptive to the idea of mental hospital residents returning to live in the community . |
| 28 | Martin Lee , leader of the United Democrats of Hong Kong , said that he hoped that a politician would be more receptive to the will of the people than a diplomat . |
| 29 | ‘ Earlier people were more receptive to the universe around them than we are . |
| 30 | So far says William Luers , business leaders have become more receptive to the arts as a component of economic development : the New York Partnership , a business organization , is participating in the Port Authority study , which is expected to cost $650,000 . |