Example sentences of "[vb pp] more [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bells have far more impact , and tempos are more extreme — to the benefit of the first two fast movements , but to the detriment I think of the following two slow ones ( which reminded me why I had not responded more positively first time round ) . |
| 2 | By the end of the meal , made exuberant by his anarchic wit , she realised she had never felt more intensely alive . |
| 3 | In more recent years the resistances have often adopted more explicitly political forms as sex-reform organisations or as sexual liberation movements . |
| 4 | The joke could not be made today because Bragg ( in response to that gibe ? ) has now written more overtly popular fiction , including two bestsellers . |
| 5 | Sites will be easier to find on the edges of existing settlements as low-grade agricultural land is made more easily available for development . |
| 6 | In this way , individual schools and their teachers would be made more closely accountable for the education they provide since their work will be directly assessable against the results of other schools in the locality and against the national standards . |
| 7 | In many ways these reflexive moments are invaluable in helping to explain the specificities of what Evans-Pritchard ( 1951 ) suggested we might consider as an ‘ anthropological history ’ , especially as these alternative periods and the movement through the liminal phase create points in a social process when aspects of structure seem to be made more clearly apparent to the analyst . |
| 8 | The London Boroughs derive considerable extra assessed needs from their higher population densities , particularly when the figures are made more nearly comparable ( those in parentheses ) ; moreover , density is used in several of the other expenditure needs assessments and is probably one of the major factors in providing the higher assessed needs for London , especially Inner London , in comparison with other major Metropolitan Districts . |
| 9 | Subject matter has to be made more generally intelligible if it is to be seen no longer as self-contained but as part of a wide and complex body of knowledge . |
| 10 | We have campaigned for better rural transport , and for unleaded petrol and catalytic converters to be made more widely available . |
| 11 | It seems likely that documents that have hitherto been limited largely to Board discussions will shortly be made more widely available to staff . |
| 12 | ( A very similar point was made more rigorously three decades later in a provocative and potentially devastating critique of econometric policy evaluation by one of the leading lights of the new classical macroeconomics , R. E. Lucas ( 1976 ) . ) |
| 13 | There is government concern in all advanced industrial societies of how to restructure higher education so that it is made more directly relevant to the needs of the economy . |
| 14 | To succeed fully with this photography the viewer must be made more fully aware of the risky nature of sexuality and exposure , must go beyond the gloss . |
| 15 | Some infections may be seen more commonly due to defective immunity and exposure to infections in a community . |
| 16 | Cases of strangles were rarely reported in the ‘ 60 's and ‘ 70's but the disease appears to be seen more often these days . |
| 17 | Output has fallen more slowly this time , and unemployment has risen less fast . |
| 18 | As a consequence , banks have become more heavily involved in project financing , a trend reinforced by other factors affecting banks . |
| 19 | At that time , from all accounts , he must have become more outwardly Jewish in his attitudes . |
| 20 | And with the young doctor who tries to help Raskolnikov , the voice of the underground man has become more accessibly funny : ‘ I admit there 's scarcely such a thing as a normal human being . |
| 21 | As Smith points out , ‘ ethnic ties and national loyalties have become more deep rooted than ever ’ . |
| 22 | Waldock 's Draft Article 63 was much criticised , at a time when the whole issue had become more politically sensitive with the conclusion of the Antarctic Treaty in 1959 . |
| 23 | They have ensured that competition for rural housing has been carried out on increasingly unequal terms and that the population of many villages has become more socially exclusive . |
| 24 | It seems to have become more stridently partisan in the 1970s and 1980s than it was in the 1960s . |
| 25 | Originally the Irish FA considered spending the entire period on tour but making the two trips has proved more financially viable . |
| 26 | The implications of what we are presented with are left more dramatically open , challenging more directly the containment implied by the morality tradition . |
| 27 | The interference between one kind of virus and another was investigated more fully late in the 1950s by an outstanding research worker , Alick Isaacs ( 1921–1967 ) , at the National Institute for Medical Research . |
| 28 | Do you have a feeling that poetry is taken more seriously these days than it was , perhaps , erm twenty or thirty years ago ? |
| 29 | That advice was given in 1957 , and captured a reality described more soberly six years later by William Taylor : ‘ The ideals of the period ( after 1945 ) involved not only a concept of the Modern school , but also a concept of society , in which the strains and stresses of occupational and social competition would be considerably reduced , and motives higher than those of profit and personal gain would direct human endeavour . ’ |