Example sentences of "[art] more [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the importance of coinage for our understanding of the past diminishes , generally speaking , the more up to date we come . |
| 2 | My niece , Alison , tells me that the more up to date term is solo as in ‘ going solo . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ They have got rid of the Christian God , and now feel obliged to cling all the more firmly to Christian morality : that is english consistency , let us not blame it on little blue-stockings à la Eliot . |
| 4 | All he knew was that the Eckleys were lending the Brownings their best carriage so they might travel the more comfortably to Rome for the winter . |
| 5 | But still , the Louts were tedious , at least in the eyes of Erika and her friends , the more so to Erika who had an uneasy , and not unjustified feeling that Paul was always likely to be drawn into their orbit . |
| 6 | Conversation thus tended to be laconic and allusive and it sometimes scarcely seemed to possess a thread of connection between one remark and the next : this was however an illusion , seductive enough to a stranger ignorant of background , all the more so to a stranger not fully in command of the language . |
| 7 | However , Wyllie soon found that he and Whetton were not exactly compatible , especially when it came to matters tactical , and during the 1990 tour of France , Wyllie turned the more often to Brewer for tactical analysis . |
| 8 | For the more down to earth woodworker it is interesting that often the cordless drill is picked up in preference to the mains powered one for many tasks . |
| 9 | On 19 September the Baghdad daily newspaper al-Jumhuriyah came out with a front-page reference to the enemy as al-Unsuriyin al-furs ( the racist Persians ) , a theme which came the more readily to the lips of radio and television announcers for the uncongenial rasp to which the phonetics of the expression lend themselves . |
| 10 | Golding wrote ‘ Lord of the Flies ’ , which I am comparing to ‘ Coral Island ’ , just after the Second World War and after the Hiroshima Bomb , this gives Golding 's book a more up to date feel and makes it an easier to believe microcosm . |
| 11 | Unfortunately your head has a more down to earth message that stops you mid-melody . |
| 12 | Here is a more down to earth example than the ones suggested above : the drama is set in contemporary Britain , in a small rural area by the coast . |