Example sentences of "[adv] more [adj] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Commission thinks this would would present businessmen with new paperwork perhaps more burdensome than border checks themselves . |
| 2 | It is perhaps more likely that Freeman has been deceived by the fact that the linguistic patterning of King Lear so under-determines how it is to be interpreted that it is compatible with his and a large number of other theories of metaphor which all equally predict it , and hence appear to explain it . |
| 3 | Perhaps more significant than evidence of this kind is the simple fact that Jesus , on a number of crucial occasions in the Gospels , acts like a king , and does so quite deliberately . |
| 4 | It may be harmless enough if mail-order suppliers of gardening sundries sell their mailing lists to publishers of gardening encyclopaedias — it is perhaps more questionable if access to share registers of companies is used to circulate shareholders with party-political propaganda about privatisation or nationalisation . |
| 5 | It is when we turn to practices based ( in whole or in part ) on the use or transformation of non-human material objects and forces that the social relations become much more complex and variable . |
| 6 | Disc is therefore much more versatile than videotape for storing and playing back sound , moving pictures , still pictures , and all kinds of data . |
| 7 | But , to me , jazz was always , and still is , much more rebellious than rock'n'roll , especially now . |
| 8 | Much more reactive than carbon monoxide . |
| 9 | At all times , electors find PPBs or PEBs very much more useful than party leaflets . |
| 10 | He was being much more friendly than Father who had n't spoken a word to me all evening . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've had such a lovely time , ’ she said as Ethel fell on her in ecstasy , ‘ and Ethel 's lick is much more efficient than cleansing cream . ’ |
| 12 | Is the Minister further aware that there has been an enormous erosion of confidence in the reliability and roadworthiness of buses since deregulation , especially in south Wales during a period in which monopolies have been created as stronger firms capture weaker ones and cowboy fleets undercut the operations of firms that are much more conscientious and safety conscious ? |
| 13 | The more arresting flip side of this 12″ contains the real beef through ‘ Volumina ’ , with its toyed-around Tranceporter vocal sample and the much more effective and piano cruising ‘ Allround ’ , which lifts the basis of the pretty uninteresting A-side into a more dripping acidic romp . |
| 14 | Pop videos themselves are consistently reactionary in their sexual imagery ( and this is an aspect of the cooption of new pop to which I will return ) if only because they draw on visual conventions of masculinity and femininity ( taken from cinema history and television commercials ) that are much more coherent than pop 's adolescent ambiguities . |
| 15 | They are usually much more expensive than timber types , and also tend to be aesthetically unsuited to many older-style properties . |
| 16 | They said the light emitted was much more dangerous than sunlight . |
| 17 | I like to write , but I think it 's much more exhausting than sketching . ’ |
| 18 | These results suggest that underlying health is much more important than age in determining prognosis after hospital care with community-acquired pneumonia . |
| 19 | As in the case of genes , fecundity is much more important than longevity of particular copies . |
| 20 | I mean hearing from God is much more important than scotsport , is n't it ? |
| 21 | We believe the most likely explanation is that , over 2 years , physiological age is much more important than calendar age . |
| 22 | The role of the bus becomes much more important if rail services disappear and are to be replaced by bus services . |
| 23 | The evidence about other types of kin support in the past — whether within or across households — is much more fragmented than evidence about household composition . |
| 24 | The return of the former when realized on sale represents a capital gain , and if untaxed would be much more attractive than interest payments which would be taxed as part of income . |
| 25 | XLRs really are heaps better than jacks : the connections are much more positive while power losses in the cable are minimised . |
| 26 | These involve much more open and distance learning and the creation by photocopying and electrocopying , of ‘ customised ’ packs of materials for students . |
| 27 | Surprising though it may seem , fieldwork in a cultural context of which you already have intimate first-hand experience seems to be much more difficult than fieldwork which is approached from the naive viewpoint of a total stranger . |
| 28 | Handwriting recognition is much more difficult than OCR due to the variety of handwriting styles between writers . |
| 29 | It 's possible that the increased understanding that we now have of miocenia gravis will help us to understand more about diseases such as multiple sclerosis which are , unhappily , much more common than miocenia gravis . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's much more aggressive and mean-looking , so it might make people think again before joyriding , ’ said Mark , of Lambeth Road , Linthorpe , Middlesbrough . |