Example sentences of "[prep] more [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh it 's a fill in , I thought that was sort of more like a personnel type phrase . |
| 2 | Then the first jeep , war surplus , came into the dale and it was cut down to turn it into more of a wagon . |
| 3 | After a plain breakfast they went out again , still taking it slowly but this time with more of a distance in mind . |
| 4 | This process provides the manufacturer with more of a profit because the bacon soaks up the salt and water which increases its weight . |
| 5 | The Junior Gaultier collection presents his ideas with more of a sportswear or street feel , more for club-goers and it 's just right for the new designer room we have opened at our branch at 362 Oxford Street in London . ’ |
| 6 | Those with more of a penchant for market relations will ‘ tend to deal with uncertainty by being highly flexible and evolutionary in their patterns of strategic change ’ . |
| 7 | In the third movement March his speed is less hectic than that of Pletnev or Jansons , but this allows him to bring out the rhythms with more of a swagger . |
| 8 | Kano regarded his judo as more of a sport than a fighting system . |
| 9 | I think he thinks of me still as more of a child . |
| 10 | On the other hand , girls ' lack of femininity or their ‘ masculinity ’ may be seen as more of a problem than that of underachievement . |
| 11 | It was noted that the Hibbs contribution suggested that right-wing governments tended to see inflation as more of a problem than unemployment . |
| 12 | Wesley Smith visits one of the sets in studio and Producer , Mike Richardson talks about how the shooting is split between studio and location and that he prefers to think of ’ Family Pride ’ as more of a drama than a soap . |
| 13 | As PW2 Advantage Plus PCs , available next week , the boxes will run SCO Unix , seen by Unisys as more of a desktop offering . |
| 14 | While this system may have been satisfactory when inflation was negligible , it has been seen as more of a disadvantage in recent years . |
| 15 | Elizabeth Holt , a Fleming director , said : ‘ Given the share register we regarded the rights as more of a placing . ’ |
| 16 | Do you think of yourself as more of a rhythm guitarist than a lead player ? |
| 17 | but they might exacerbate another problem , that of slalom-style riding by adventurous , youthful moped-riders who often view the street furniture as more of a challenge than a deterrent to speed . |
| 18 | I think it is fair to say that this act has come about more as a result of the conduct of estate agents in the South . |
| 19 | Perhaps the title led one to hope for more of a synthesis than is possible in the space . |
| 20 | And Rital , whose east European eyes had seen been and done it all for more of a century than she chose to admit , merely shrugged and locked the door . |
| 21 | As such , we can not claim to cater for everyone , but there are plenty of ideas in the group ( including plans for a retreat in the autumn ) which we hope to put into practise and hopefully cater for more as a result . |
| 22 | Indeed , for a long while the possession of a domestic clock or a watch tended to be restricted to the wealthy and was looked upon more as a sign of affluence than as a social necessity . |
| 23 | His clothes were in more of a mess but just because he had been in the city longer . |
| 24 | In recent weeks stories ( strenuously denied ) have circulated of disagreements between the Fed 's chairman , Alan Greenspan , and the members of the committee that decides the Fed 's interest-rate policy : Mr Greenspan , it is said , is in more of a hurry to push rates down than are his colleagues . |
| 25 | Tropical grasses like maize are often in more of a hurry — their sugar-precursors have four carbon atoms . |
| 26 | Young people are usually in more of a hurry . ’ |
| 27 | In the 1980s Britain 's public spending fell by more as a percentage of GDP than that of any other big industrial economy : from 47% in 1982 to around 40% last year . |