Example sentences of "[conj] more [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , the customs or more exactly the usages , on formal markets — for example , the London Corn Trade Association , the London Stock Exchange , and the London Tallow Market — as well as those in particular trades and professions , were recognized and given effect to . |
| 2 | Well-laid hedges of thorn , hazel , holly , or beech ( or more generally a mixture of several species ) form very effective barriers , and provide shelter for livestock and a habitat for wild life . |
| 3 | Yet it contains a contradiction , since the class-struggle , or more generally the struggle against oppression , is thought of as always visibly at work in history in a clearly timeless way . |
| 4 | First of all , we are virtually deprived of the Seleucid , or more generally the Hellenic , version of the events in Judaea . |
| 5 | In general we can write where n is the amount of substance in moles ( or more simply the number of moles ) , m is the mass of the substance in grams and M is the molar mass . |
| 6 | Within Kent itself it may be possible to identify a shift , or more probably a division , of power through the distribution and date of certain imports . |
| 7 | Benzene is possibly a chain with triple bonds or more probably a ring compound with double bonds ( see fig 3.1 ) . |
| 8 | She is a historian , or more properly a micro-historian , and she is writing a history of our hillside — the road I walk up from the station and the various lanes and alleyways that open off it . |
| 9 | It is this kind of inference that Grice dubs an implicature , or more properly a conversational implicature . |
| 10 | A daughter ( or more rarely a son ) who has never left the parental home , or who has returned after widowhood or divorce to stay on indefinitely to care for an elderly parent or parents , does not make this choice automatically . |
| 11 | Sometimes this knowledge is supplemented by some familiarity with theoretical linguistics illustrated by examples from the language in question , or more rarely the knowledge of literature is wholly or partly replaced and supplemented by knowledge of the contemporary history , sociology and economics of a country where the language is spoken . |
| 12 | But there is another way in which the Anthropic Principle , or more strictly a Biothropic Principle , could be indisputably self-evident , if it means that animal and biological life on just one planet has its genesis in cosmic forces . |
| 13 | Frequently the plan of a few words may be the first thing that comes into a student 's head or more ominously the only thing in the student 's head ! |
| 14 | The control structure of any organization consists , by and large , of a definition of the relationships between controllability and responsibility , or more precisely a specification of which managers are responsible for which resources in the organization . |
| 15 | GEOMETRY is the branch of mathematics , or more precisely the root , that derives from spatial intuition and insists upon visual expression of its theory . |
| 16 | The dialectic of the modern capitalist , or more precisely the modern mixed , economy , all but exclusively involves the role of government . |
| 17 | An atomised serialised mass of proletarians demand to be given by society , or more precisely the state , what they are unable to take or produce ’ ( 1982 : 240 ) . |
| 18 | Cost , or more precisely the economies of scale in service and housing provision , is another major argument proposed in favour of a selected settlement policy . |
| 19 | The literature on both temporary working and labour-hoarding suggests that the higher the skill level , or more precisely the specific skill level , of his labour force , the more likely an employer is to seek to maintain continuity of employment and so protect the training investments he has made . |
| 20 | The rectum was packed with stool in 64% of patients , either of hard consistency , or more commonly the outside of the faecal impaction felt like clay and the core of the impaction was hard . |
| 21 | Smith argued that where a print run — or more likely a reprint — had left hundreds or thousands of unsold copies , it made sense in times of crippling warehouse costs and tight cash flows to unload slow-selling stock . |
| 22 | The history of a castle on this site dates back to 1231 when a stone castle , or more likely a fortified manor was built by Robert de Tattershall . |
| 23 | In this even more marginal world of cross-cultural perception and social contrast , the statistical truths I was consistently having to produce for local politicians , senior officers , the press , and the public in Newcastle were of little value , especially when discussion on the structures surrounding approval or illegality of some drug use was a matter which might encompass problems of economic , geographical , cultural , or even religious boundaries , or more likely the changing political whim or opportunity of the moment . |
| 24 | He was wearing some kind of rock ‘ n ’ roll suit , the sort of thing that Jerry Lee Lewis might have worn — or more likely the duds you 'd see on a young country buck in one of those dreadful fifties US musicals like Carousel or County Fair . |
| 25 | If they were the transmitter , or more likely the conductor , then as the receiver I was probably not tuned to their wavelength . |
| 26 | The cause after all lies not in the nature of the test but in the context of its use , and if the pay of the teachers ( or more likely the viability of the school ) depends on the results , there will be a temptation to massage the outcome . |
| 27 | The Lithuanian government said that it believed the group to be a " protective cloak for OMON or more likely the KGB " . |
| 28 | Either in that or more likely the following year Earl Hakon was drowned at sea , and Olaf took the opportunity to return to Norway . |
| 29 | First the Bank of England would usually back up any change in MLR with open market operations in the bond or more likely the bill market . |
| 30 | He questions the validity of such a statement and argues that , in Devlin 's formulation , it was intended to be a statement of empirical fact , or more likely an a priori assumption . |