Example sentences of "more [adj] [conj] [adv] [conj] [art] " in BNC.

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1 So I think that er to put parental investment theory centre stage is more reliable and better than the rather old-fashioned biological approach which in talking about sex emphasise things like sex chromosomes and hormones , so that a sex chromosome in a mammal for instance was something that a male had but a female did n't and this gave rise to hormonal effects like those of testosterone erm which are thought to be very important .
2 ‘ As I look at the shabby , commercialised and demoralised society in which I write I am more convinced than ever that the political analysis on which I was brought up was right .
3 It is more likely that rather than an increase in potency level itself , the large number of succussions produce a lateral intensification or energising of the solution within the confines of the dilution factor — a concept upheld by the LM method .
4 This message is as relevant now as it was in 1940 and is more urgent than ever as the myth of material progress loses its power .
5 Compulsory admission for treatment ( section 3 ) is possible , but the conditions are now more stringent than formerly and the periods of initial and subsequent detention have been reduced to six months , a further six months and then for one year at a time , and the patients ' rights of appeal to the Mental Health Review Tribunal have been strengthened .
6 The practice started when postmortems were more common than now and the intention was to protect the ‘ outsider ’ from the smell .
7 Lloyds Bank fund manager Michael Smith says : ‘ If the stock market picks up , as many are suggesting it will , PEPs will look more attractive than ever because the tax-free capital gain will be more valuable for someone who has consistently invested . ’
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