Example sentences of "[adv prt] to the more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , innovative ideas do tend to work their way down to the more affordable guitars and equipment , so it might not be for you now , but maybe in a year 's time it will be . |
| 2 | Finally , as the worst of the winter sets in , the goats move down to the more wooded foothills , where the trees moderate both the wind and the snow . |
| 3 | There was something about cutter work — glamour , adventure , battling the elements , or just plain escapism — call it what you will , but once you had experienced it you had great difficulty in settling down to the more prosaic existence ashore . |
| 4 | ‘ But it has yet to filter through to the more expensive properties . ’ |
| 5 | The principal results in Section 17.3 go over to the more general case with only minor modifications . |
| 6 | Doctors agree that there are no risks in regular exercise , as long as you start gently and gradually build up to the more strenuous activities . ’ |
| 7 | But this will have to involve levelling up to the more advantaged rather than levelling down to the lesser , although future benefits can be reduced so long as diminution is applied equally to both sexes . |
| 8 | Yep , yep erm these officers are all trained in , in fire prevention work erm at the Fire Service 's technical college at Morton Marsh , and er they practise those skills they learn there over many years erm I 'm looking back , I mean the time that I spent in training schools and er and in , in the job er I suppose when you total it all up it must be two or three years away from home really , er in courses you know , in my day we went away on fire prevention training classes six months , six months ' course was the , so you went away to the Fire Service college which in those days was at Dorking , a lovely place in Dorking , and you did six months there solid , and then nowadays about thirteen weeks , the courses run about thirteen weeks , and you are constantly fire , fire officers from the ranks of erm probably a Sub Officer , leading fireman in some places , but Sub Officer onwards and particularly Station Officer up to the more senior ranks are away on courses regularly for , it 's really updating people erm new legislation coming in , new techniques coming in , erm which have to be these people have to be updated so they are very well trained , erm more so than most local authority people I would think , fire , fire officers are , erm purely because the job is such a wide range of , of things to deal with . |
| 9 | After the war Attlee went back to the more responsible system . |
| 10 | But despite flying back to the more forgiving climate of Cairns , his fever showed no signs of leaving him . |
| 11 | In the London case at least , this recovery can no doubt be attributed in part to the strength of its economy , the support given by central government to the Docklands redevelopment and other schemes , and the associated attraction of young professionals back to the more central parts of the city . |
| 12 | I think back to the more rigid skills studied by foot-sloggers such as myself . |
| 13 | His policies looked back to the more aggressive activities of his father ; he fought the Alans , and he attacked Arles . |
| 14 | It is when you get on to the more high tech aspects of English Hops ' work that small and muted alarm bells begin to ring . |
| 15 | Discussions of film and television genre habitually nod towards the broad stylistic categories fundamental to literary aesthetics since Aristotle — epic , lyric , drama , comedy , tragedy — and quickly move on to the more immediately recognizable categories under which industry products are branded and sold — horror , western , musical , soap opera , crime series . |
| 16 | Instead of the old concept of teaching , according to which the teacher , possessed of superior powers and superior knowledge , attempted to pass on to the more able of his pupils that non-practical culture which would most benefit them personally , a new class-room communication should be envisaged . |
| 17 | Once you can carve gybe and water start with ease , you can move on to the more advanced funboard skills . |
| 18 | Before moving on to the more advanced aspects of wave riding let us consider what should happen in the first attempts . |
| 19 | That is because the offspring of the traditional older working class have gone on to the more pleasant and remunerative employments , the employments that are also called work . |
| 20 | There 's also Bob 's ‘ Songs Of Freedom ’ , a force worldwide , but out of fashion in Jamaica , a country that has moved on to the more bodily delights of raggamuffin . |
| 21 | The evidence from elsewhere in America and Britain is that exhibitors increasingly took the masses for granted and were always investing in better and better cinemas so as to hang on to the more respectable lower middle-class audience . |
| 22 | We might feel tempted to say that Wittgenstein 's account may be true of sensations ; but that there is no such thing as a sensation of blue , and so there is no reason why a private linguist could not start by naming the way things look to him before moving on to the more difficult talk of the way things actually are . |
| 23 | Having got his attention-grabbers out of the way , Mr Beckman went on to the more serious stuff . |
| 24 | The couple have now moved on to the more complicated use of silks , and subjects have varied from masterpieces such as The Old Mill and The Haywain to a girl skating on a lake and a Victorian winter scene . |