Example sentences of "[prep] [art] more [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | these matters be king 's games , as it were stage plays , and for the more part played upon scaffolds . |
| 2 | Indeed , Britain 's forthcoming presidency of the European Commission might be used as an opportunity for the more dirigiste members of Mr Major 's staff to press for a move to the narrow band of the ERM , in which case interest rates must be locked into those of Germany . |
| 3 | It would make an ideal present for a young person whose railway consciousness was just being awoken and , perhaps , light reading for the more railway aware person who still has a hankering to remain in touch with history . |
| 4 | They really only showed the official part of today 's procession and cut it pretty speedily , in fact as the more alarmist banners started to come into view . |
| 5 | ‘ The amateurs do things you 'd never see in the commercial stuff , ’ I was told by one connoisseur of raunch , an unemployed factory worker named Jesse who I found sitting on the floor of a porn shop in Manhattan 's Times Square , diligently sifting through dozens of the more hardcore amateur tapes . |
| 6 | It was only some years later , when the over-expansion he had forecast had materialised , and some of the more obscurantist leaders of the industry had been replaced by new men , that the industry came to terms with the problem ( see pp. 212–17 , below ) . |
| 7 | Coarser gauges and of course knitting some of the more specialist yarns like Channel which in particular . |
| 8 | Even one of the more conservative of Willaert 's disciples , Andrea Gabrieli ( c. 1515–1586 ) , expressly mentions the use of instruments ( ‘ tum viva Voce , tum omnis generis Instrumentis ’ ) in his Sacrae cantiones ( 1565 ) and again in his Penitential Psalms ( 1583 ) . |
| 9 | While many of the more stock responses regarding the " flatness ' of Hemingway 's prose style were produced , there were problems in explaining how this " flatness ' was created in the text . |
| 10 | Half of the more acid lakes in southern Norway have no fish at all . |
| 11 | Hospital services were developed without general practitioners being asked whether they were required and often at the expense of the more routine but essential treatment our patients required . |
| 12 | Some Scots activists argue that this is more effective in the context of the more collectivist Scottish political culture . |
| 13 | Some of the more alarmist projections estimated this would need to rise to one in two in the early 1990s to maintain current intake patterns ( Callender and Pearson 1989 ) . |
| 14 | This did not mean , as some had assumed , that Man might recklessly pillage Nature for what he sought ; indeed , Nature was deserving of the more respect because it was a divine creation . |
| 15 | It was not long before disagreements emerged between Fatah and the NGC , particularly once the radical mayors Shak'a and Khalaf emerged as leaders of the NGC , to the detriment of a more accommodationist tendency . |
| 16 | To be honest , there are puzzles of a more arcade variety — timing jumps to get to a specific point is an integral part of the game — but we already take these for granted in cartoon adventures . |
| 17 | The spread of literacy and of universal education may be more crucial in precipitating fertility decline , even if it can not occur without the development of a more market oriented economy , less based upon family and subsistence production , and a perception of real income growth . |
| 18 | It is hard to think of a more signal change of economic course in the post-war history of the world 's biggest trading nation . |
| 19 | Another foresees a more conservative role for the middle class , expressing itself in active opposition to socialism as a process of increasing public ownership or control of industry and expanding welfare services , and in a reassertion of the desirability of a more laissez-faire type of economy . |
| 20 | But despite the undeniable tendency in financial markets towards a more laissez-faire environment , the term deregulation does not give us the full flavour of events . |
| 21 | However , generalisations about the sexuality of women is of no more relevance in a criminal trial than generalisations about sadistic tendencies or pornographic fantasies in men . |
| 22 | As we saw in World War II when SOE agents in France were deliberately sacrificed in order to plant deception schemes upon the Germans , ' ! espionage is a very brutal-game in which human lives are of no more significance than pieces on a chess board . |
| 23 | It is sometimes said that the difference of sex is of no more significance than the difference of race . |
| 24 | Of no more strength and substance against inertia |
| 25 | But the creation of the European Community over 30 years ago was inspired by the idea of no more war in Europe . |
| 26 | In that year , 1955 , when McCarthy was of no more consequence , twenty-two witnesses plucked up courage not to testify , including the folk singer , Pete Seeger , who got a year in jail for his stand . |
| 27 | The above two examples give body to the suggestion by Alan Clarke that early learning , in itself , is of no more consequence than learning at any other stage of development , and that it will bring about long-term effects only if it is repeatedly reinforced throughout subsequent childhood . |
| 28 | Without them we had been , as formerly , a Prey to every petty Invader ; and the flourishing Empire of Great-Britain would be of no more consequence in Europe than the petty Republick of Lucca in Italy . |
| 29 | But for her the difference of sex is essentially of no more import than are differences of race . |
| 30 | The fact of Jesus ’ maleness then would seem to be of no more import than is his or her sexuality in the case of any other human being . |