Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] more [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It comprises nearly 150 oil paintings , collages , gouaches and sculptures from all periods of Picasso 's career and is a rich illustration of the opinion advanced by John Richardson in the first volume of his biography of the artist that still-life was a subject which Picasso ‘ would eventually explore more exhaustively and develop more imaginatively than any other artist in history ’ . |
| 2 | Can we not do more even than we 're doing at the moment to restore to the centre of the life of the church the glorious concept of a team of pastoral care and a high command of power strategy in which dominance by ministers will be reduced to the minimum in order that together we may be ready to let the lifeblood of Christ flow through us in such a way that we will be better able to welcome the twenty first century in his name . |
| 3 | Since trust in Hitler had owed a great deal to the belief that he would lead Germany to a rapid and glorious peace , since despair of an early end to the war was the essential reason for the waning morale , and since the failure of the Blitzkrieg in the USSR and the declaration of war on the USA made it difficult in logic to hold anyone other than Hitler responsible for the prolonging of the war , it is worth enquiring why the ‘ Hitler myth ’ did not collapse more quickly than was evidently the case . |
| 4 | Luke could scarcely underline more strongly that the supreme object of prayer is the Holy Spirit of God . |
| 5 | The play 's strength is that it draws on Eliot 's earlier work and makes that earlier work transferable to the West End , a triumph in itself ; its weakness , like that of most of the plays , is that it offers us little we can not find more concisely and intensely expressed in the poetry . |
| 6 | One could also say more impersonally that the statement ‘ It is raining ’ expresses the belief , not merely the speaker 's belief , that it is raining . |
| 7 | Those issues all interact , of course ; like those fiendish three-dimensional puzzles that children can often do more easily than adults , the pieces have to be put together simultaneously , or the whole thing falls apart . |
| 8 | Though its importance has always been assumed , culture should now feature more strongly and be studied more vigorously . |
| 9 | Like her , the General had prayed and hoped for the violet 's return , and now it had come and it would surely blossom more gloriously than ever before . |
| 10 | Ptyr 2 DNA contains only one such site , position 6 ( TGCC ) , from which actinomycin does indeed dissociate more rapidly than the other sites . |
| 11 | Landowners and farmers implicitly recognized this division , but they also realized that life both on the farm and in the village would ultimately run more smoothly if the socially divisive effects of potential class conflict could be dissipated or overcome . |