Example sentences of "[adv] more [subord] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 And so more than ever the ‘ voluntary ’ CAB finds itself carrying out what should be in effect a statutory task .
2 The team working on the Elton project says it 's had definite results — increasing some children 's concentration and that they join in more than before .
3 But the relations that developed were much more than simply instrumental ; when families did survive it was more than a product of what Stone called , for an earlier period , ‘ psychic numbing ’ .
4 Gina got nastier and nastier when she did n't have money ; she hit him much more than before .
5 Houses , particularly in Western society , confer upon their occupants much more than merely the roofs over their heads ; they involve status and an expression of place in society .
6 Their conditions of work bring people together more than ever before , in factories , offices and towns ; and yet at the same time these people are isolated from one another .
7 Contrary to the all too common belief that ageing is essentially an unavoidable process of retreat , of withdrawal into passivity and dependence , the truth is that for most men and women later life is a time of active challenge : a time when perhaps more than ever they need to be able to respond imaginatively to change .
8 But — perhaps more than ever before — personal stresses within marriage and stress upon marriage mean that life will not always be blissful or even comfortable .
9 There , perhaps more than anywhere else , the hunger for tabloid trivia never seemed to satisfy the public .
10 She 'd gone to bed with Rune willingly , with both eyes wide open in a metaphorical sense , knowing his background and aware that , in the natural , uncomplicated atmosphere of Scandinavia , perhaps more than anywhere else in Europe there were fewer taboos regarding physical relationships between couples .
11 When these designs were published , it was remarked that ‘ the room as left by the builder before it is inhabited at all , is already more than half finished . ’
12 Brown 's was already more than half full , but Bridget and Loretta were able to find a table in a relatively uncrowded corner where an old-fashioned ceiling fan was doing an effective job in keeping stuffiness at bay .
13 No system has been described in which positional signals have to be transmitted over more than about half a millimetre , or about 30–50 cells .
14 And , finally , those extra , necessary words — grouped and coloured — somehow more than just a list of words !
15 At the other end of the scientific spectrum , organic chemists were reluctant to extend their studies beyond compounds consisting of small molecules with not more than perhaps 50 or 100 atoms .
16 Except in 1953 , when a party of 67 was seen , not more than about 25 birds have been seen in any year since 1947 , and it is of interest that influxes have not occurred in recent severe winters .
17 A short length of aerial wire ( not more than about three metres ) may be necessary in order to receive signals at the high frequency end of the medium waveband .
18 This means that the total household cash contributions to every form of charity , of which social services are only a small part , was not more than about 5,000 million , or one fifth of the cost of the NHS .
19 " Not more than about six hundred a year , and that would n't worry him .
20 Not more than so many other things .
21 Their keen intellects and powerful personalities could spark off more than just brilliant ideas at times .
22 Cut off more than ever from the society of my peers , I fell back on my mother .
23 Even 17.8 per cent , however , was still more than double the growth of average earnings over that period .
24 The dog 's big dish was still more than half full .
25 The writing of the book was hardly more than half-way done , but did it need to be done here , ferchrissake ?
26 A better approach merely underlines what was said above , that the regress shows that if all justification is inferential , no belief is ever more than conditionally justified .
27 But was it ever more than just a project for a project ?
28 They comprise some 21 per cent of rural housing stock on average , and Shucksmith ( 1981 ) indicates that , during 1968–73 in England and Wales there were usually more than double the number of local authority houses being built per 1,000 population in urban than in rural districts .
29 I 'd put on weight while I 'd been in bed , and the zip on my slacks would n't do up more than half-way .
30 Mixed up more than ever before .
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