Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [prep] [art] more [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bevin , impressed by Soviet intransigence during the foreign ministers ' conference at the end of 1947 , decided that the time had come for a more overt display of Western unity . |
| 2 | The warmth of a moment ago that had so overwhelmed her had cooled to a more familiar glint of contempt . |
| 3 | The Repton boy 's horror at Churchill 's anti-Bolshevist campaign had turned into a more adult and less ferocious criticism . |
| 4 | As they could no longer live in trees and needed the plants with which they had co-evolved in the more seasonal habitats in the beginnings of agriculture , at least vegeculture , those who did not cultivate had to trade . |
| 5 | They took what was left after the church schools had creamed off the more academic pupils and the upper classes . |
| 6 | Within a year he had moved to a more creative agency and four years later was working at the then most creative agency in London . |
| 7 | The EC had moved toward a more flexible position in October when the German cabinet agreed that subsidies to farmers could be reduced and partly replaced by direct income support . |
| 8 | Many analysts had called for a more ambitious target in reducing the budget deficit . |
| 9 | For practical purposes by the end of our period chattel slavery had retreated to the more backward parts of the Middle East and Asia , where it no longer played a significant agricultural role . |
| 10 | They included Henri de Lubac , later to be raised to the rank of cardinal , though only after he had retreated from the more extreme position on the relationship between nature and grace he had adopted in 1946 in his book Surnaturel ; Marie-Dominique Chenu , one of whose books was placed on the Index in 1942 for daring to suggest that Thomas Aquinas ought to be studied against the history of his times ; and Yves Congar , who survived to become one of the leading theologians of Vatican II . |
| 11 | The officials had opted for the more prestigious Royal Mail charge , rather than the more tenuous one of murder of the post-boy . |
| 12 | In 1798 the threat of military invasion from Napoleonic France had only just ebbed when the Bishop of Durham announced to a startled House of Lords that it had come to his attention that the only reason the enemy forces had backed away from military invasion was because they had hit on a more sinister method of bringing Britannia to heel . |
| 13 | But it seemed , a generation later , that even the writers whom Eliot chose to publish — like W. H. Auden , George Barker or Vernon Watkins — had reverted to a more insular if not parochial tradition . |
| 14 | Most heads could identify changes that had led to a more balanced or improved curriculum , either as a result of the purchase of additional facilities or due to a change in curriculum planning . |
| 15 | Greece had hoped for a more favourable frontier with Turkey ; she got some of what she wanted in 1881 . |
| 16 | It was clear that the Adjudicator had hoped for a more detailed explanation . |
| 17 | Jonadab had followed at a more leisurely pace , not wishing to appear too eager to hear Annie 's news . |
| 18 | They have relied upon the ideas of novelists and playwrights with no deep interest in cinema , or the work of second-raters who might have produced something good if they had worked within a more stimulating environment , but never had the chance . |
| 19 | If in fact she had proceeded along a more orthodox path , she could have become one of the great political women of our time . |
| 20 | No marriage had begun with a more definite understanding of what each required of the other . |
| 21 | He liked to make his own discoveries and follow his own direction , but their father had insisted upon a more rigorous approach . |
| 22 | Harry had been all for building a full-blown ship of three hundred tons or more , with four masts , three decks , two castles and ten brass pieces into the bargain , but Sam Gristy had insisted upon a more modest outlay , and a three-masted bark had been agreed upon . |