Example sentences of "[adv] more [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The argument was heard that even if , in the 1930s , there were other and perhaps more dangerous aggressors in the world , the latest imperialists had been inspired and encouraged by the deplorable yet seductive empire-building example set by the British . |
| 2 | I hope that another place will have a perhaps more inspired attitude to these matters . |
| 3 | Though less in contact with students , the more senior and perhaps more influential members of the clinical teaching staff also offer a wide range of role models , which students may choose to emulate or reject . |
| 4 | This is proving useful to them as well as to mothers with push-chairs , who are perhaps more frequent users . |
| 5 | Often , he says , ecosystems are at their most diverse when they are shifting from one state to another , as the dominant types are temporarily swept aside , and many other , perhaps more specialist species , take over the vacant niches . |
| 6 | As the parent of a daughter who has had to struggle and cope with dyslexia , I have perhaps more personal knowledge of the difficulties that it causes than many hon. Members . |
| 7 | Do plants , then , also communicate by means of airborne pheromones or in some other , perhaps more subtle fashion , as well ? |
| 8 | Small numbers of French had been parachuted into Indochina under SEAC auspices before the Japanese coup but a much larger and perhaps more effective intervention by the French Corps Léger d'Intervention , a specialist unit of some five hundred men recruited and waiting in Algeria , was frustrated for various nominal reasons ; the effective one being that the US , until the very last moment , was unalterably opposed to French units participating in the war against Japan , and especially , if this involved Vietnam . |
| 9 | Only the Germans , with their endless internal quarrels ( and who are perhaps more faction-ridden Buddhist than Quaker in their attitudes ) , challenge the rules of green decorum . |
| 10 | The treatment of the two sisters as objects for possession and domination is given a further and perhaps more insidious turn by their mother , Eleonora , who by ‘ serpentizing Fraud ’ uses her daughters to gain political advantage . |
| 11 | A second , perhaps more plaintive voice says : " Is this not too much of a laboratory experiment ? |
| 12 | As a result , a function can be replaced by another , perhaps more efficient version , without changing the rest of the program as long as the external behaviour remains the same . |
| 13 | Lord Lane said there was a risk of the girl suffering further and perhaps more serious damage if her father went to prison , and of the family suffering hardship if he could work . |
| 14 | Or perhaps more sophisticated methods are applied along the lines suggested by Friedman 's permanent income hypothesis . |
| 15 | They are always popular stocking-fillers , especially for those who are keen to re-live younger and perhaps more vibrant days . |
| 16 | But there is another , perhaps more promising category of deterrent effect : general deterrence . |
| 17 | Now what remains to be settled is the status of those claims for moral rights that do not enjoy the reflected sanction of the law ( examples of which I have already slighted as rhetoric ) , and those , perhaps more all-absorbing ones , that are thought meritorious enough by some to become laws . |
| 18 | To define law in terms of one means of obtaining conformity , especially when that means is a manifestation of one of the very phenomena that we are seeking to eliminate ( the use of force ) is to foreclose on other perhaps more defensible methods . |
| 19 | Finally , on the general and perhaps more important point of his letter , the Committee 's firmly held view is that the Institute 's future lies in attracting an increasing number of members qualified via the examination route . |
| 20 | In any given week on the average stand of a local newspaper shop there is a choice of dozens of magazines directly aimed at women readers from Cosmopolitan , catering for the fashionable and liberated career woman to Women 5 Weekly for the perhaps more satisfied housewife . |
| 21 | He goes on to say he 's ‘ curious to know whether it is open to a wider and perhaps more aggressive audience with access to fax machines ’ . |
| 22 | The second and perhaps more complicated system was designed with the capability to respond to the " what if " type of question . |
| 23 | But for Miles , Haynes , and others a perhaps more significant event had taken place in April 1964 at the Renaissance Pleasure Faire on the outskirts of Los Angeles . |
| 24 | To a large extent relationships and contacts with the media appear to be related to information giving and receiving , but there is a deeper and perhaps more significant aspect . |
| 25 | If that is so , the end would be the same as I have reached by a more laborious , and perhaps more questionable route . ’ |
| 26 | An even wider and perhaps more profound range of images is suggested by the mudyi tree . |
| 27 | My Lords , may I ask my Noble Friend if it would n't be better really to lease the land for a period of time , perhaps long enough for the anguish felt about the cost of the library as it currently stands and when perhaps more optimistic views could be entertained , because the piece of land it 's on is not going to be recoverable once it 's sold . |
| 28 | Do you say ‘ Hands up all those that feel that they are better today than they were yesterday , or do you apply some perhaps more objective criteria of describing that ? |
| 29 | I , I think Chairman that as , as we come out of the recession an and th that the overall erm level er quantity of development taking place increases , then we are almost bound to see perhaps more affordable housing erm in absolute terms , although I do n't see any opportunity of there being a a major hiccup in proportional terms , so I , I , like you , I think I remain er pessimistic er regarding the , the , the overview , although we might see er a turning up of the er of the graph having been bumping along the bottom for a little time a little while . |
| 30 | But in Germany it also involved the apparently more advanced form of ‘ codetermination ’ , which aroused considerable interest . |