Example sentences of "more [adj] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Giles Worsley explains in Architectural Drawings of the Regency Period , the term ‘ Regency ’ is technically understood to cover the period from 1811 to George III 's death in 1820 , but in matters concerning architecture , decoration and furniture , it is more appropriate to apply it to the years from 1790 to 1837 with the accession of Queen Victoria . |
| 2 | It is even more dangerous to show it to the sitter 's wife ! |
| 3 | So I would congratulate her on her good prospects as a statesman , or she would warn me of the dangers of dancing all night ; but if the stars looked town they would be no more likely to see her on a rostrum than me on a dance-floor . |
| 4 | Thus the large datasets are still there , but those who manage them are more likely to place them on a file server with appropriate network access ( Knight 1993 ) . |
| 5 | I CA N'T think of anything more likely to get us through the pre-Christmas traumas than a new play by Don Hayworth . |
| 6 | ‘ It is much more helpful to get it from an eyewitness , than from scribbled notes . ’ |
| 7 | However , it is more helpful to consider it in the context of Canguilhem , who emphasized that the life sciences , like the natural sciences , require their own specific mode of history ; they show that historical method itself must be heterogeneous , in the sense that there is no single method applicable to the whole range of different histories . |
| 8 | Practical theories and theoretized practice meet somewhere in the middle , and it may be more fruitful to see them as a continuum than as a dichotomy . |
| 9 | We then considered its claim to be scientific , humanistic and atheistic ; concluding that it was more accurate to describe it as an ideology than a science , that its humanitarianism was very real yet flawed , and that its atheism was fundamental to an understanding of the ideology . |
| 10 | This difference is usually formulated in terms of a difference in knowledge ( pure as against applied , theoretical as against practical ) but it may be more accurate to see it as a difference of stance . |
| 11 | Those peasants who had not disappeared became ever more anxious to migrate while the pomeshchiks became ever more anxious to tie them to the land . |
| 12 | Consequently , rather than viewing the totalitarian structure of the PCF as a source of oppression , it is more productive to view it as the chosen institution within which Nizan found not only political asylum but also emotional and moral equilibrium , a refuge in short which provided him with a necessary disciplined working environment . |
| 13 | At times they find it more amusing to portray her as a disco-Princess . |