Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] more [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pope despatched two pallia in June 634 ( HE 11 , 18 ) , but the death of Eadwine in battle in Hatfield Chase against combined Welsh and Mercian forces , either in October 633 or more likely October 634 , and the subsequent collapse of the ecclesiastical community at York with the flight of Paulinus to Kent ( HE 11 , 20 ) ( see below , p. 83 ff. ) , terminated this phase in the history of the church of York and arrested its development as an archiepiscopal see for a hundred years . |
| 2 | Thus , the main purpose of identifying these risk factors in clinical practice is to allow the physician to decide which patients will require more prolonged or more potent ulcer treatment . |
| 3 | Make them more stable or more volatile ? |
| 4 | Academics and journalists lend what Terkel terms ‘ overviews ’ , though their contributions seem no less subjective or more privileged than anyone else 's . |
| 5 | The provision of a basic screening regimen in no way prohibits physicians from recommending more extensive or more frequent examinations if clinically indicated . |
| 6 | Maintaining your new figure has never been simpler or more effective . |
| 7 | Braque 's interest in space gives his work an ‘ overall ’ quality , which has ever since remained one of the main features of his style , whereas in Picasso 's painting the attention is usually riveted on the subject while the background or surround is often treated in a simpler or more cursory fashion . |
| 8 | SunSoft holds quarterly DOE non-disclosure updates for 75 or more independent software vendors under the auspices of a Distributed Object Council , and has up to 100 engineers working on object stuff . |
| 9 | In other words the old offences under ( f ) and ( g ) above now apply to eight or more seated motor cars or goods vehicles 3,500 kg or under and to the other categories of vehicle not mentioned here . |
| 10 | They breed from mid-May onward , hatching eight or more young in good years but only one , two or none when food is scarce . |
| 11 | And because nothing ever seems healthier or more warming than looking back at something we have just done and realising , ‘ Mmmm . |
| 12 | For the rest of us crying is a hit or miss experience , sometimes satisfying but sometimes leaving us drained , exhausted or more hopeless than when we started . |
| 13 | those not based on formal membership or any sustained collective public manifestation , but in which there is conscious association or group identification , either informally or occasionally manifested , or at times limited to immediate working or more general relations . |
| 14 | First , it is progressive : in some sense , each succeeding level must be more advanced or more difficult than its predecessors . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | What has been called his ‘ exact and scientific attitude to bird-life ’ then gave rise to a series of important books on birds — Bird Display ( 1942 ) and its sequel Bird Display and Behaviour ( 1947 ) , The Wren ( 1955 ) , The Folklore of Birds ( 1958 ) , A Study of Bird Song ( 1963 ) , and The Life and Lore of Birds ( 1975 ) — as well as a number of shorter or more popular works . |
| 17 | They usually need new and improved or more affordable equipment and the future growth of service industries such as travel , broadcasting and entertainment , and increasingly in education and health care activities and environmental protection , will depend upon continued technical innovation . |
| 18 | And handbag designers do n't come much younger , prettier or more stylish than Anya Hindmarch . |
| 19 | He added : " It is a strange world we live in where it is not all right to kill some animals because they are prettier or more intelligent than others . " |
| 20 | The third sub-type of academic course is less easy to describe , but it is broader or more general than the two-subject degree . |
| 21 | But the term was also available for broader or more informal tendencies . |
| 22 | Thus , we were not surprised when we found that the effect of preconditioning was lost in rabbits that had forty or more 5-min occlusions over 3–4 days ( unpublished observation ) . |
| 23 | This was the normal relaxation of a king 's leisure : Henry I of Germany was so keen a huntsman that he ‘ would take forty or more wild beasts in a day ’ ; the Norman kings turned a substantial proportion of their kingdom into game preserves ; hunting was the natural sport of a militant aristocracy , venting on animals the energy and spleen left over from fighting their own kind . |
| 24 | With 30 or more Tory Euro-sceptics still holding out last night , tonight 's vote threatens to be a cliffhanger . |
| 25 | The figures given are readings from from single experiments , typical of 2 or more independent determinations . |
| 26 | Disqualification Overshot , undershot ( when incisors do not touch or mesh ) ; markedly wry mouth ; 2 or more missing teeth . |
| 27 | Overshot or undershot ( where incisors do not touch or mesh ) ; markedly wry mouth ; 2 or more missing teeth ; long coat ; any base colour other than black ; absence of all markings . |
| 28 | One foreign ministry clerk in the early years of the twentieth century " soon decided that it was not worth the trouble to go to the office to sleep when I could sleep more comfortably in my own bed or pass my time in more interesting or more amusing tasks " , while an Italian ambassador is said to have spent only fifteen days of a year in residence in a post which he disliked . |
| 29 | As is unhappily all too apparent to the student of human nature , purely conscious intentions , even when whole-heartedly adhered to , are ready subject matter for forgetting , for mistakes , or for plain abandonment the moment something more interesting or more desirable comes along . |
| 30 | Manual assembly with ‘ stand alone ’ automated equipment was less expensive , less risky and more flexible — and was therefore a better fit for the business . |