Example sentences of "[adv] more [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drawing on research by Nordenstam ( 1979 ) , Rogers ( 1981 ) and Trudgill ( 1982 ) , Trudgill reaches the conclusion that the fixed route of acquisition is confined to adults , or perhaps more probably to adolescents . |
| 2 | By diminishing the outward evidence of his authority almost to the point of invisibility , he demonstrated to the people and perhaps more importantly to himself that he could perform his duties not only without resort to force but without any discernible support at all : like Hugh Clifford 's Sir Philip Hanbury-Erskine choosing to deal with rebellion not as a governor but as ‘ a man ’ , he was effacing not himself but his institutional context . |
| 3 | Each of these signals can be fed back either visually or , perhaps more usefully to the client , audibly . |
| 4 | Okay , so therefore it 's gon na appeal , perhaps more so to self-employed , but even so , the employed would still need it . |
| 5 | Kenneth Clarke , the Minister of Health , now proposed to introduce the market mechanism , to give doctors more control over their own budgets and , perhaps more alarmingly to many , to allow hospitals to contract out of the health service altogether if they wished . |
| 6 | are greatest and where the greatest problem there are or , or , er exist under normal circumstances to which the trunk roads , the A roads , the primary roads , the principle roads , these roads are where the traffic is greatest and this therefore constitutes in my mind at least the most important roads , I think your correct term , we will er consider the phraseology used in perhaps more accurately to described the , the , the title road which we are talking about here , but I certainly take the point you make . |
| 7 | Such a policy could be applied much more effectively to colonial territories , where British control of trade and payments was well grounded . |
| 8 | A work such as Judith Weir 's A Night At The Chinese Opera ( 1987 ) plays with narrative continuity and frames of reference in ways that tie it much more closely to modern literary devices than to any musical antecedents ; Harrison Birtwhistle 's The Mask of Orpheus ( 1986 ) uses all the dramatic devices and timeshifts an opera can muster to tease out the contradictory bundle of myths around the Orpheus legend . |
| 9 | Although magistrates are officially supposed to be broadly repre-sentative of the community that they serve , in reality they conform much more closely to Lord Devlin 's cliché about the composition of the jury in pre-reform days . |
| 10 | It is evident that US and EC competition policy conform much more closely to the desired shape for competition policy institutions than does current UK policy . |
| 11 | Perhaps the most important function of deprivation payments was to compensate practices with low lists after the introduction of the new contract , which linked income much more closely to capitation . |
| 12 | Because the staff and student mix on modules varies so freely , quality judgements on the Modular Course have come to relate much more closely to statistical properties of modules in relation to other modules . |
| 13 | They relate in fact much more closely to economic and agricultural units , albeit often within larger estates and holdings . |
| 14 | Some work has been done on this topic in recent years , but this study will differ from previous approaches by linking the unemployment flows much more closely to the other flows in the labour market . |
| 15 | Erm I think that certain elements of the structure plan erm strategy have been well documented er , the environmental issues , erm high priority to conservation , erm protection of the county 's natural resources , of development restraint and relating the scale of development much more closely to local needs . |
| 16 | In the early 1950s the Shah endured his greatest test , one that committed him much more strongly to the United States . |
| 17 | also thought that the media had , in recent years , turned their attention much more strongly to the downside environmental impact of coal , especially to its producing large amounts of carbon dioxide which could well be changing the earth 's climate in undesirable ways . |
| 18 | They will also come over much more convincingly to the viewer or radio audience . |
| 19 | It appears that the application of Gauss 's law leads much more quickly to the required result . |
| 20 | His words confirmed the opinion of the Sisters of Misericord that the two children , so clever and musical , were at risk on the boat , spiritually and perhaps physically , and that someone ought to speak much more seriously to Mrs James . |
| 21 | Wilde took poetic licence to the extreme , for the true story is much more down to earth . |
| 22 | Later the word was applied somewhat more loosely to capital letters and others of large size , introduced in the fifth to eighth centuries . |
| 23 | ‘ A delegated budget will give the opportunity to respond rather more accurately to perceived needs . |
| 24 | For those who like to be a little more up to date , I recommend the ‘ Digital DDD ’ series ( CD or cassette ) ; recordings featuring Previn , Tennstedt , Marriner , Ozawa , Sawallisch , Slatkin , Muti , Ousset , Gavrilov and Zacharias from the mid '80s . |
| 25 | More modern hymns and I should have thought , you know , er I would have liked him being a little more up to date |
| 26 | ‘ And the least I can do , after the way your plans have been disrupted , is to try to make it up to you , in part — help you adapt a little more cheerfully to the circumstances . ’ |
| 27 | A bold , and on first acquaintance awkward , start leads to the corner which is well protected and followed ever more steeply to the crux at the top . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , the colonization , settlement and economic exploitation of the Siberian mainland continued throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , binding the territory ever more closely to metropolitan Russia and reflecting , contributing to or suffering from every stage of the nation 's overall historical development . |
| 29 | While Rome aspired ever more ambitiously to a new imperial ideal , the Egyptian monasteries prided themselves on a much purer , much more faithful and accurate record of Jesus himself , his kin and his teachings . |
| 30 | If the fear of being alone causes us to cling ever more insistently to others we are , at some point , likely to be left more on our own than we would otherwise be . |