Example sentences of "more [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was all the more striking because the boast that he ran his papers just to make money contrasted strongly with the more complex motives , combining profit with politics , that were still typical of the proprietors of the early 1960s . |
| 2 | She opened the front door and stepped out into the corridor , which was more private than the flat if mother was only pretending to be asleep , which was possible . |
| 3 | ‘ But it was more wrong that the chairman and vice-chairman ( Lord Barnett ) , representing the wider public interest , did not insist on that change in contractual arrangements , ’ he said . |
| 4 | ‘ But it was more wrong that the chairman and vice-chairman , Lord Barnett , representing the wider public interest , did not insist on that change in contractual arrangements , ’ he said . |
| 5 | For instance , it would surely seem reasonable to suggest that a theory that anticipates and leads to the discovery of new phenomena , in the way Clerk Maxwell 's theory led to the discovery of radio waves , is more worthy of merit and more justifiable than a law or theory devised to account for phenomena already known and not leading to the discovery of new ones . |
| 6 | What could be more sensible than the suggestion that the best way of evaluating a thing for its very own self , and not for its effects or its contribution to the value of larger wholes , is to consider what value it would possess if it existed in complete isolation ? |
| 7 | The claim that none of our beliefs about the future are ever justified is more important and more interesting than the claim that although our belief that the sun will rise tomorrow is quite probably both true and justified , we can not really be said to know that the sun will rise tomorrow . |
| 8 | Well , of course , it is inevitable that one thinks of it from that angle from the way one has been brought up but actually one ca n't think of anything more barbaric than the Crucifixion and that way of killing somebody . |
| 9 | It 's hardly more noticeable than the fact that , as the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman likes to point out , the cinema audience is sitting in total darkness for 50 minutes of that time , while the projector beam is masked during the change of frame — the indispensable ‘ intermittent movement ’ of movie film as it goes through the projector 's gate . |
| 10 | ‘ The Disabled ’ is a non-disabled construction , a representational framework no more real than a hologram but which has to contain two properties if it is to have any cathartic meaning for society . |
| 11 | The book , said Beatrice , was used like opium or cocaine by poets and painters as a ‘ defence from modern life , this very modern life of noise and advertisement which they profess to find more real than the glory and the grandeur of earlier civilizations … |
| 12 | It was a delight more magical than the panto and the circus had held when I was little . |
| 13 | It looked the same as the other one to her , except perhaps that the knuckle bone of the little finger was more prominent than the rest and the finger itself rather stiff . |
| 14 | If the money falls in law to be repaid , a direct order for its repayment is more appropriate than a declaration that it should repay it or an order setting aside a refusal to be repaid . |
| 15 | ‘ Most of them have never held anything more dangerous than a knife and fork before but after just nine hours training they are doing really well , ’ he said . |
| 16 | However , he is no more dangerous than a dog that barks but does not bite . |
| 17 | But although they were terrified of the Magistrate , who in more peaceful times had so often savaged their verses , the ladies in the billiard room stoutly refused to volunteer for the banqueting hall , which they wrongly believed to be more dangerous than the Residency except for Lucy , who was generally acknowledged to have nothing to live for anyway . |
| 18 | If it is somewhat bizarre that after all the arguing , all the effort , the video souvenir of the event should be enormously disappointing to the band , it 's not more ironic that the fact that after the show the support act stole all the headlines — for all the wrong reasons . |
| 19 | A willingness to accept greater liability under a contract in return for payment of a higher price may make it more likely that an exclusion or limitation of liability will satisfy the test of reasonableness ( Woodman v Photo Trade Processing Ltd ( 1981 ) , unreported ; see Lawson , Exclusion Clauses p174 ) ; however , the fact that the client has a second set of terms of business , containing less restrictive terms , may be taken as recognition that the more stringent terms are unreasonable . |
| 20 | In spite of that it was probably more comfortable than the home that they 'd left anyway . |
| 21 | Bainbridge has a lovely village green which was the setting for nothing more remarkable than the fact that I arrived there one day to walk over from Bainbridge to Cam Houses with Tony and Eddie , the landlord from my local pub , only to discover that I 'd left my walking boots back at home in Dentdale and had to do the entire walk in a pair of fur-lined cowboy boots , which earned me the nickname of Roy Rogers for the rest of the week . |
| 22 | Persuasion based upon religious belief can also be much more compelling and the fact that arguments based upon religious beliefs are being deployed by someone in a very close relationship with the patient will give them added force and should alert the doctors to the possibility — no more — that the patient 's capacity or will to decide has been overborne . |
| 23 | As Daniel Rogers warned in 1642 , ‘ No prison can be more irksome than a son or daughter 's house ’ . |
| 24 | Artists who group together for financial reasons may choose a name which is no more explanatory than a number or numbers . |
| 25 | If that aim failed to materialise , it was no more extraordinary than the life that followed . |
| 26 | Classroom interaction is even more complex than an interview because of the size of the group and the choices the teacher constantly makes about how to respond to what learners say . |
| 27 | As the crack gets longer , the tip radius remaining the same , the stress concentrations get more severe but the pattern and proportions remain similar . |
| 28 | Thus it could be argued that a doctor is functionally more important than a nurse since his or her position carries with it many of the skills necessary to perform a nurse 's role but not vice versa . |
| 29 | For Geoffroy , the superficial adaptations were less significant than the underlying unity of structure — the laws governing the modification of form were more important than the function that the resulting structures would serve in allowing the animals to live within their environment . |
| 30 | If the memory of the association of a given flavour with illness can be taken to be more important than the memory that the flavour has also been experienced without harmful consequences , then the latter memory would interfere after a short but not after a long retention interval . |