Example sentences of "[art] more [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is still some scope for the more deprived to move . |
| 2 | East Suffolk at university because a lot of erm the more well to do parents would erm would probably turn up their noses at the small amount of |
| 3 | Cuddly Saddam Iraq is not a country one normally sees being defended , so it is all the more intriguing to read a glowing account of this thuggish regime by Tony Marlow , the right-wing Tory MP for Northampton North . |
| 4 | Marx was merciless in his indictment of the horrors inflicted upon subject peoples by British imperialism , but without repudiating the general right of the more advanced to develop the backward . |
| 5 | Knowing that nearly every parish in the country had their own guild or fraternity at one time , it is all the more frustrating to learn that little exists from the once vast stock of pre-Reformation funerary artefacts . |
| 6 | ‘ Villagers would be all the more anxious to get the responsibility for him off their hands . |
| 7 | While Miller was preparing the Kalendar , he was told of the ‘ ungenerous intention ’ of others to use Dictionary information for the same purpose , ‘ upon which I was the more intent to have it published before such a design could be accomplished by any other hand , which was not very difficult for me to do , having a complete Diary of my own , so that I had little more to do than to transcribe my loose papers and dispose them into the method wherein they are here presented to the world . ’ |
| 8 | Because I have such regard for the right hon. Gentleman , it makes me all the more discontented to disagree with him about the proposition of permanent or automatic timetables . |
| 9 | I think for me I love erm er er er I love a challenge , and er I suspect the fact that before I went into it people said it was erm something which was erm absolutely impossible er er and that the their was no way that one could make a go of it erm made it made it made it perhaps all the more challenging to try to prove them wrong . |
| 10 | Different curvatures would give different results in the sense that it would often be optimal for the more risk-averse to have some small part of the risk . |
| 11 | In fact , gardens that are long and narrow are among the more simple to design because they can be broken down very easily into separate garden areas or ‘ rooms ’ , each of them having a different function or theme . |
| 12 | Furthermore , as a result of high levels of unemployment in the 1970s and 1980s ( and possibly also as a result of the capacity of the more affluent to accumulate enough resources to enable them to retire early if they wish ) , the percentage of those in their late fifties and early sixties who regard themselves as permanently retired has increased ( Walker 1980 ; GHS 1986 : 73 ; Johnson 1989 ) . |
| 13 | So it is all the more striking to see what happens when those known language experiences are translated on to the page of a book . |
| 14 | But if that examination were dropped , would it not be all the more necessary to retain A levels , emphasizing their role both as school-leaving certificate and as entry test for higher education ? |
| 15 | Our everyday awareness of these value-laden distinctions makes it all the more necessary to stress that in social anthropology ( and sociology ) ‘ culture ’ is a neutral term . |
| 16 | In such a situation it is therefore all the more necessary to recognize the unique place the ethnographer holds and to capitalize on it . |
| 17 | But this makes it all the more unreasonable to suppose that any a priori argument could show that one strategy will always be the right one . |
| 18 | After their loss of Normandy in 1204 the king-dukes were all the more concerned to hold on to their southern lands . |
| 19 | Tiguary , at the north tip of the island , could muster about five hundred men ; from the length of the northern shore , the chiefs there could raise another four hundred ; on Oualie , Dulé could promise a force nearly two hundred strong of a mixed crowd of men , a core of maroons from islands in the archipelago colonised already , some redlegs , or tallow men , renegades to their own people and the more ardent to fight for that very apostasy ( some of them former prisoners and others who had been press-ganged into sailing service ) . |
| 20 | If , of course , you reach the end of a marvellously sweet decade , it feels all the more threatening to leap pretty well blindfold into the uncertain next . |
| 21 | ‘ Marty Quinn and myself have been trying to rebuild the side and , considering the turnover in players , it 's all the more pleasing to have got this far in the cup . |
| 22 | The Signature 's body is the more comfortable to hold , even though it 's slightly heavier , since the JD 's bound body means sharper edges . |
| 23 | And it was Silvia , not Ronni , who was the first to arrive and the more reluctant to leave at the end of each lesson . |
| 24 | She looked away , but not before her normally pale skin had flooded with colour , and it was all the more infuriating to know he 'd seen that too . |
| 25 | And therefore my brothers , be all the more eager to make your calling an election sure . |
| 26 | That glacial exterior only makes a man the more eager to find it . ’ |
| 27 | Because the elite , through their superior wealth , are better able to live up to the so-called modern values , which are all the more costly to support because of their external source , they are further differentiated from the poor . |
| 28 | It 'll be the more willing to do so if Britain is alongside it . |
| 29 | Most trade union leaders favoured the war , among them Havelock Wilson , and it was easy for the more romantic to suppose that , now there was a common enemy , all other conflicts would be shelved " for the duration " which would not , as most supposed , be a long one . |
| 30 | He was all the more able to claim the triumph for himself in view of the fact that General Mola , leader of the Army of the North and " Director " of the 1936 conspiracy , was killed in an air crash on 3 June 1937 . |