Example sentences of "more [conj] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The passage has virtually no narrative progression : indeed , it begins more or less at the end of the interview . |
| 2 | Now before we step the mast , we need to turn the boat more or less into the wind and that 's a good chance for us to start thinking about where the wind 's coming from . |
| 3 | And any join Well not anyone but most of the joiners did the undertaking more or less in the area they were in . |
| 4 | But er course we n n never got any money because we er m it more or less disbanded the Notts miners ' union that did , it er it took everything away was That was when we were er er s the Spencer union was formed more or less by the management . |
| 5 | The seething had been going on more or less from the time Taylor took over as manager . |
| 6 | In that sorry , in agriculture when there was a good harvest , prices would fall more than proportionately to the change in quantity . |
| 7 | If she looked a bit to the right , northward , rather more than half-way into the forest , it was often there . |
| 8 | Because cervicitis , cervical erosions , and discharges are so common in sexually active women , none of these features help more than indirectly with the diagnosis . |
| 9 | He thus revealed that he was out of touch with contemporary reality and that the complex dynamics of civilian society were more than ever beyond the grasp of his mechanistic , military mind . |
| 10 | As the 21st century approaches , solicitors are more than ever at the forefront of commercial and community life . |
| 11 | It was unshakable in its main bastion , Britain , and elsewhere the prospects of social revolution paradoxically seemed to depend more than ever on the prospect of the bourgeoisie , domestic or foreign , creating that triumphant capitalism which would make possible its own overthrow . |
| 12 | ‘ More than ever before the beer drinker and pubgoer needs a watchdog to protect their interests . ’ |
| 13 | Managers are more than ever in the public eye ; the scientific approach , in tactics , medical treatment , ground improvements , is commonplace ; floodlighting , numbered players , the ten-yard semi-circle are taken for granted . |
| 14 | Cut off more than ever from the society of my peers , I fell back on my mother . |
| 15 | She saw more than enough in the guilt and pleasure on his face to make questions redundant . |
| 16 | It 's irritatingly easy to crash at first , as the pushscroll is only activated when you 're more than halfway across the screen , giving you little time to see and avoid hazards . |
| 17 | How would you feel if someone flew more than halfway around the world to say to you , ‘ I am at a loss . |
| 18 | It 's very dangerous because lots of people looking at you makes you think more and more about the image that you 're presenting to the world . |
| 19 | Unless local Bars are then strong enough to cope with the demand for advocacy , this will pass more and more to the solicitors . |
| 20 | Decision-making and prioritizing therefore fall more and more to the kind of people whose forte is attending meetings and getting the support of those present . |
| 21 | By 1804 Wordsworth had embraced an attitude usually described as Stoical — his poems refer more and more to the virtue of endurance in the face of suffering , age and death ( Michael , The Small Celandine , Resolution and Independence , Ode to Duty ) . |
| 22 | Mr Collum felt that implementation of international standards in the future would fall more and more to the Accounting Standards Board , although ideally he felt leadership should come from the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Accounting Standards Board in the US and , ‘ if it can ever get its act together ’ , the European Commission . |
| 23 | As you gradually get more and more into the thoughts you suddenly shout ‘ STOP ! ’ very loudly and clap your hands loudly simultaneously . |
| 24 | As we enter more and more into the transcendent , the material world recedes and it is as if we mount the carriage of the transcendent and speed through a blurred landscape of the mundane , seeing it only as scenery , not as something threatening or important to us . |
| 25 | And of course , you could say that , that could be happening more and more with the advances in medical science . |
| 26 | We will have to rely more and more on the back-up squad to keep us going . |
| 27 | Ollivier had already been forced to remake his Ministry , which was now weakened by the presence of many who gave him only grudging support , and this in turn forced him to rely more and more on the Emperor 's personal intervention when difficulties arose . |
| 28 | Increasing market share , becoming the low-cost producer , developing new products , and/or increasing employee productivity depend more and more on the kinds and quality of information systems in the organisation . |
| 29 | As Sartre insists more and more upon the virtues of specificity ( II , 200 — 05 ) , such is his distaste for Marxist or any other universalizing categories that he refuses even to countenance them , attempting to replace concepts with specificities , universals with singulars . |
| 30 | They stared in fascination at the imperfect outline which did indeed look more and more like the print of a shoe the longer they gazed . |