Example sentences of "more [adj] [conj] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some ways , dynamic recognition is more restrictive since both the writer and a suitable input device must be present at the same time , and the technique is evidently only applicable to handwritten text . |
| 2 | Their smaller size — an adult male weighs around 150 lb ( 70 kg ) and a female perhaps 30 lb ( 14 kg ) less — makes them more adaptable than either the lion or the tiger , as does their athleticism . |
| 3 | As the surface approaches infinity ( b ) , the distances from the two eyes to all squares on the surface become more similar and thus the perspective views become identical . |
| 4 | The legislation does therefore not set up any presumption in the employee 's favour ; rather it is for him as claimant to lead evidence which tends to establish that it is more likely than not the employer gained from possession of the patent . |
| 5 | The disk is round , to slightly pentagonal , diameter up to 13 mm ; covered by trifid spinelets , rarely the spinelets may be more elaborate but often the crown is indistinct and the spinelets appear to be rugose . |
| 6 | On the contrary , unions appear to have been more effective and even the loss of trade union membership may be a consequence of the inability of the unemployed trade unionists to pay their unions fees rather than due to a loss of sympathy with the unions . |
| 7 | Their problems were far more complex than any the teacher might have set them . |
| 8 | Thereafter , however , their share increased steadily until by 1850 this market was more important than either the European or North American market , in both of which home cotton manufacture had become significant . |
| 9 | All this simply reinforces my earlier point that not only must the field anthropologist pay close attention to the difference between normative rules and social practice but that the study of kinship is something far more complicated than simply the study of genealogies or the ramifying biological links of the domestic family . |
| 10 | But regarding 2 this teacher was not especially charismatic — in fact more self-effacing than naturally the centre of attention . |