Example sentences of "more [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He does n't prove by feat of arms , but by words , that he is not any more the dissipated boy that he was ; but that is enough . |
| 2 | It is an aspect of Karajan 's work and influence that makes him more the forebear of Simon Rattle than the successor of Arthur Nikisch . |
| 3 | Rather than just giving a ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ to a carefully put question from the interviewer the informant can control much more the direction of the discussion and can therefore decide what is or is not relevant to a particular situation . |
| 4 | It is true that during bouts of acute psychotic illness — or as an accumulating effect of several episodes — there may be impaired social and intellectual functioning , but this has more the appearance of a secondary consequence and , in any case , is by no means seen in all individuals . |
| 5 | But for many more the importance of relatives — especially of grandmothers — lies in their availability as people who can be called upon in a crisis , or as people to fall back on when other arrangements break down . |
| 6 | The north wing with its range of rooms has more the appearance of a hostelry than a house . |
| 7 | The town square , where neighbours chatter , has a tranquil atmosphere and has more the feel of village life about it . |
| 8 | He holds it through a riveting performance of the Toccata , a sumptuously lyrical adagio ( although perhaps here it has more the air of an andante amabile ) and a gloriously ebullient Fugue . |
| 9 | Already for nearly a century the syllabub had been keeping company with the trifle , and in due course the trifle came to reign in the syllabub 's stead ; and before long the party pudding of the English was not any more the fragile whip of cream contained in a little glass , concealing within its innocent white froth a powerful alcoholic punch , but a built-up confection of sponge fingers and ratafias soaked in wine and brandy , spread with jam , clothed in an egg-and-cream custard , topped with a syllabub and strewn with little coloured comfits . |
| 10 | Give it another fifty years or so , and one should then be able to understand much more the system . |
| 11 | ‘ And I could n't see , so we could n't do any more the things we used to — just little things , like watching the sunset , or laughing at a holopic when we turned out the lights in bed , or me reading a poem to her . |
| 12 | This and his expression of heavy-lidded scepticism gave him more the appearance of an Old Etonian stockbroker than a policeman . |
| 13 | I 'd like to go into a little more the composition of the net debt which again is something that er interests some of you we have er a reduction both on gross debt and equally an increase in cash as you would expect as a result of the Elsivir sale the increases are not fixed debt fixed term fixed rate debt is a function again of the exchange rate we have n't in issued any more the whole of the reduction of debt therefore is confined to our floating rate or variable debt and that amount 's ready to the repayment of the gilder drawings we had under our to hedge or partially to hedge our holding in Elsivir We have increased our cash holdings and they remain concentrated in sterling as part of our sterling er asset er portfolio which is managed from Millbank and which we regard as our investable funds as and when needed . |
| 14 | This clerk is amorously alive and even experienced : — " " deerne love " " is as double in meaning here as it is at the beginning of Dame Sirith , and the same must hold for the semantically similar " " privee " " ; slyness is very much more the quality of a fabliau lover ( cf. |
| 15 | Jim Gear , the councillor for the island , urged the council to move as quickly as possible on the project : ‘ I do n't know how much more the economy can stand . ’ |
| 16 | So the more the more that you understand , the less you 're gon na be |
| 17 | Have have you found out any more the cost Harry of this ? |
| 18 | I 'm not , I 'm not I 'm not putting it on you anyway mostly it 's c mainly fucking Catherine , I 'm beginning to s not like her any more the way she 's going and do n't you dare mention a word of this that I 'm saying to you |
| 19 | And yet , from a , any visitor from a , another country or another planet would notice much more the things were the same , than the things were different . |
| 20 | Oh , what the whole part of the problem running is , is the depreciation thing , the more , the more you spend on a car the more the more depreciation you 're going to get |
| 21 | Erm but other than that yes , they did n't , th they 'd play more a sort of football , the boys would . |
| 22 | Ryedale has more a higher proportion of National Park , A O M B , local landscape designation and greenbelt than Hambleton but is unconstrained . |
| 23 | These figures were confirmed even more when we saw when we saw that we spent twenty five pound more a head of population on our schools than the average Metropolitan District . |
| 24 | And it does n't happen very often , it was more a one-off , but it was also very necessary , because of the different types of jobs , it , it was n't just sales people sitting in there , it 's was people different departments , cab drivers from outside and we had , yes , |
| 25 | I was gon na ask you that , you you moved into er more a a more supervisory capacity when you |
| 26 | I 'm more a fair weather gardener . |
| 27 | Yeah well I I remember it was more a it was more or less like a feeling of physical revulsion er I felt erm on occasions like that , partly because of the person but partly because it was a bit of an imposition on on my on my intimacy as it were y'know erm so er |
| 28 | I mean , twenty years ago when the volume of work was n't so high as it now , then erm every police officer was doing that , but because time has marched on and problems have become more an more , erm we we tend to have left the traditional way of policing behind . |