Example sentences of "more [adv] [subord] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt the distance from England far more acutely than her preoccupied spouse ; her thoughts were with the children , and , even at this early stage , she longed for the voyage home . |
| 2 | British garages also work more slowly than their French counterparts . |
| 3 | The central irony of the courtroom crusade — what might be termed " the Spycatcher effect " — is always present : seek to suppress a book by legal action because it tends to corrupt , and the publicity attendant upon its trial will spread that assumed corruption far more effectively than its quiet distribution . |
| 4 | What struck me more forcibly than his physical courage was the fact that he made no reference to his own illness but only to the trips and plans to make life better for others . |
| 5 | The judgement could be applied more widely than its immediate target . |
| 6 | Parsons ' view is that the modern industrial family is relatively isolated from society , certainly more so than its pre-industrial predecessor . |
| 7 | The topic he is speaking on is one which interests him greatly ( much more so than his own lecture topic ) but it is also one on which he is not recognised as an authoritative speaker . |
| 8 | I shall think of you at Christmas , the more so as my own father died one Christmas Eve , and Richard 's wife in the week before Christmas , so I know how it feels to have sadness at that time . |
| 9 | More so if your hard disk is yesterday 's technology ( there are still a good number of 65 millisecond access Seagates and Miniscribes in use ) , as the difference between memory and disk read rates is astonishing . |
| 10 | We are assumed to be failed heterosexuals , feeding into the myth that the lesbian communities accommodate fat more easily than their straight equivalents . |
| 11 | This should ensure it rides more comfortably than its Japanese rivals on the road . |
| 12 | Many older disabled people may also perceive themselves as ageing more rapidly than their non-disabled contemporaries . |
| 13 | Relief came more quickly than my troubled heart expected , for it had been decided that the matron of the SPG hospital at Mandalay could be spared for rural medical work . |
| 14 | It thus may need to be understood , incidentally , more strictly than its original proponent intended . |
| 15 | Perhaps , in the fourth century , Christians recognised , far more clearly than their modern counterparts , how closely such attitudes conformed to the historical facts . |
| 16 | If a correct subjective attitude to credit costs is taken to embrace all the factors relating to credit terms , and not just APR , then it would be difficult to quarrel with the general accuracy of this overall ranking ( except perhaps that bank loans have been labelled ‘ expensive ’ more often than their true cost would deserve ) . |
| 17 | YOUNGSTERS in Northern Ireland smoke more , drink less and have been offered drugs more often than their British counterparts . |
| 18 | Yet all around , E4 's and E5 's were white-caked : obviously ascended far more often than my lowly objective . |
| 19 | The Central Authority also felt that Whitehall pruned the Area Boards ' budgets , which could be relatively easily adjusted to meet short-term government policy , more severely than their own budget for generation . |
| 20 | More even than our present MPs he would have to ensure that any success he might achieve was widely reported . |
| 21 | Although diesels cost more initially than their petrol-engined equivalents , they are economical to run and hold their second-hand value relatively well . |
| 22 | Cecil Melling ( the chairman of the Eastern Board , who had supported Schiller 's work since before nationalisation and took costing more seriously than his fellow chairmen ) for a time gained the support of the Central Authority 's commercial department for the better reflection of off-peak costs in the bulk tariff , but the other Area Board chairmen strongly opposed the initiative . |