Example sentences of "more [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More and more the struggle to express it intensified . |
| 2 | It is perhaps more the stuff of epigrams than analysis . |
| 3 | The second case reveals even more the extent to which the legitimation of the state was a Roman catholic affair , at least as one of the two principal sources of power in the alliance . |
| 4 | But the more we try the more the feeling of familiarity evaporates . |
| 5 | ‘ And be even more the obvious suspect ? ’ asked Ethel pityingly . |
| 6 | When something happens and I ca n't look after myself any more the situation will be different , but at the moment what I 'd really like most is my independence back . ’ |
| 7 | The anger over losing his father had barely diminished , and the older he grew , despite his uncles ' attentiveness to many of his needs ( as they saw them ) , the more the loss was felt . |
| 8 | The title is indicative of a movement generally in Canada away from the ‘ social environment towards the more permanent world of archetypal forms and myths , ’ ( as Desmond Pacey reviewed it ) ; but it represented much more the interests uppermost in Leonard 's own mind : the juxtaposing and conflicting ‘ mythologies ’ of his youth in cosmopolitan Montreal . |
| 9 | That planning has been poor is more the fault of the economy than BR , the high interest rates at the end of 1989 being seen as likely to repeat the recession of 1981 out of which we climbed so painfully . |
| 10 | Sony 's recent acquisition — for $3.4bn — of Columbia pictures highlights still more the fact that artists and portfolios of titles , whether music , films or television programmes , are considered very precious indeed . |
| 11 | Once more the world was treated as a convenience wrapping for Labour 's parochial and predominantly internal preoccupations . |
| 12 | This might sound like irresponsibility , but , given how the performance pans out , you could also read it as professional commitment ; the longer the show goes on , the more the drink goes down and , in a remarkable contradiction of physics , the tighter the playing becomes . |
| 13 | You would be better spending a weekend in Antwerp , about 15 miles to the east , less well preserved architecturally but with more comprehensive museums and galleries , and much more the feel of a ‘ real ’ town . |
| 14 | It was a great shock to him , though , after years in the House of Lords , to encounter once more the bear-garden of the Commons : he was unprepared for the shock of the sheer weight of noise from the opposition benches ( which were more crowded in those days ) . |
| 15 | However , the dispute reflects more the growing mistrust between the two sides rather than an argument over visas and numbers . |
| 16 | While Hamnett may be seen as the campaigning Bob Geldof of fashion , in design terms she is more the Tony Blackburn , making a living , like him , out of replaying Golden Oldies . |
| 17 | Not long , I think , now that internal revolution , disruption and secession , external interference , aggression and absorption are likely to be more and more the fate of these often unstable and highly artificial British ex-dominions . |
| 18 | The failure was not just one of execution , nor even one of mistaken concept ; it was more the product of a profound ambivalence in the relationship between the World Bank and the government . |
| 19 | The small group became more the centre of attention than the stage itself . |
| 20 | Bachofen and Maine were soon followed by J. F. McLennan , a Scotsman whose work in part coincided with that of Bachofen and Maine but which developed much more the study of kinship systems . |
| 21 | The more I looked into it the more the paintings seemed to go beyond simple unitary ideas of authorship and meaning . |
| 22 | But that 's more the price of a Cavalier 16v 4x4 than a Carlton 24v , so the Dodge still represents terrific value . |
| 23 | But once more the Paseo flatters to deceive . |
| 24 | A couple of grand prix wins came in 1963 and two more the following year before another highly successful season in 1965 saw three victories and a string of second places for Jackie Stewart and Hill . |
| 25 | Behind the closed door the programme had changed from athletics to wrestling and once more the baby had begun to cry . |
| 26 | Chores are kept to sensible levels of cleanliness and tidiness — no more the mindless round of polishing and ‘ dagging ’ for their own sake . |
| 27 | For the time being , he ceased to be a cloistered academic and became once more the son of the police-court solicitor in Belfast , the city where the most popular political slogan at election times was ‘ Vote early , vote often ’ . |
| 28 | The less biographical or historical evidence there is for this view of Milton , the more the scholars believe it , producing readings of Paradise Lost which ignore Lewis 's golden rule , ‘ You must , so far as in you lies , become an Achaean chief while reading Homer , a medieval knight while reading Malory , and an Eighteenth Century Londoner while reading Johnson . |
| 29 | Because the more people who go vegetarian , the more the agricultural industry — and it is an industry these days , as mechanical as any other — will be forced to re-assess its methods of operation and adjust its swollen meat production policy down as demand dwindles . |
| 30 | That a visa for travel to West Germany can be refused on ‘ moral ’ grounds is highly unusual ; a regard for ‘ national security ’ is much more the norm … will it mean no visas for all ‘ bearers of state secrets ’ , a category which can be variously defined from one individual case to the next ? … |