Example sentences of "more [adj] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more rigorous the enquiry , the more elusive become the real grounds for opposition . |
| 2 | The more he thought about schoolgirls , the more distasteful became the forty-year-old debs that his mother had lined up for him . |
| 3 | But surely it would be more appropriate to see the two perspectives as complementary . |
| 4 | Unlike their Western counterparts , who usually strive for individual expression and the creation of a new visual language , oriental textile artists are more content to reproduce the time-honoured designs of their ancestors and seek to express a collective rather than an individual view of their world . |
| 5 | Where the findings are even more startling involves the social attitudes of young people . |
| 6 | Generally speaking , however , novelists are much more likely to celebrate the domestic virtues that , given half a chance , the working class can be expected to display ; and , in order to produce that image , a certain amount of cleaning-up goes on . |
| 7 | In the 1980s Conservatives have been more likely to evaluate the mediating institutions according to whether or not they are in the public sector . |
| 8 | Certainly , the social psychoanalysis of the oral aspects of the cultural superego seems far easier than the corresponding attempts to analyse pre-Oedipal oral superego elements in the development of the child where the crucial phenomena have occurred long before the acquisition of language , and where analytic ‘ reconstructions ’ are more likely to reflect the theoretical expectations of the analyst than they do the reality . |
| 9 | This contrast may , of course , reflect to some degree the personal inclinations of the authors : it has been suggested in the previous chapter , for example , that Taskopruzade 's interests tended to the antiquarian , which would make him all the more likely to emphasize the old virtues of piety and learning . |
| 10 | Female-identified procedures may even strengthen such demand characteristics , since they are more likely to involve the intense demands of a social encounter . |
| 11 | The shift we commend — from a stance which teachers view as authoritarian and bureaucratic to one founded on professional partnership — is not only preferable in terms of the quality of relationships within the Authority , but is also far more likely to deliver the very improvements in professional practice for which the Primary Needs Programme was established . |
| 12 | Secondly , if you listen carefully you are more likely to make the right responses to what is being said to you . |
| 13 | For this reason , it is often much more effective to press the different parts of the spray individually and then reconstruct them once they have been pressed . |
| 14 | Secondly , in designs where a 3D effect is required , it may in general be more effective to select the higher-toned timbers for background elements ( eg distant hills ) and keep dark-toned veneers for foreground work . |
| 15 | It is more important to study the structural relationships maintained by bureaucrats , and the potential power coming to them from their control over much of the information required for the administration of a modern state . |
| 16 | In most cases it is more important to note the regional trends ; thus care must be taken to ensure that these are not obscured by local variations . |
| 17 | ‘ Instead of employing these appalling tactics with these families , it would be statesmanlike and more courageous to press the United Nations to lift its economic boycott of Vietnam now that Vietnamese forces have left Cambodia , ’ he said . |
| 18 | The multi-national corporations , the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund are prolonging the process still today , and individuals have to , I believe , look at their own patterns of consumption and look at the way society in general works and work towards reducing levels of consumption in the rich countries so that we are more able to help the poor countries help themselves . |
| 19 | I feel even more uneasy to find the alien proceedings wearing such an everyday look . |
| 20 | If the access to an up-market development is via a local authority housing estate or area lacking in amenities it may prove more difficult to sell the completed units . |
| 21 | One further point of possible confusion : because venture capital from investors looking for capital gains is not available to co-operatives , they are likely to find it more difficult to raise the larger sums of money needed to start capital-intensive projects . |
| 22 | Would such a move have m–de it easier or more difficult to confront the local police about their failure to protect the black community from racial attack ? |
| 23 | Thirdly , the debates over how far to forge a strategy either for winning power or for promoting economic development in a post-revolutionary society have not been satisfactorily resolved , and indeed perhaps can not be , given that counter-revolutionary response to any successful formula will ensure that it will be that much more difficult to apply the same tactics in another situation . |
| 24 | However difficult it is to measure short-term effects of library instruction , it is far more difficult to measure the long-term effects of the instruction given . |
| 25 | ‘ I missed out on the Olympics , but that made me even more determined to join the paid ranks . ’ |