Example sentences of "[noun] [be] more [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Old Cumberland Beggar is more obviously a sermon addressed to the political economist , who believes that only ‘ people who show a profit ’ are important , and that people who are poor or old or ill should be shut away because they are ‘ useless to society ’ . |
| 2 | His separation of science and religion was more accurately a differentiation in which theological arguments played a prominent role . |
| 3 | However the cases are not identical , for registration is more obviously a procedural act than the means of manifestation of consent . |
| 4 | At a time when so many natural phenomena remained both inexplicable and uncontrollable , and when medical knowledge was more often a force for harm than good , many individuals continued to feel a pressing need for supernatural assistance , and to seek it indiscriminately through both Christian prayers and magical charms . |
| 5 | More convincing is the idea of ‘ structured dependence ’ , which suggests that dependency in old age is more usually a social than a biological or individual creation . |
| 6 | The creation of such schemes is more often a reaction to political pressure than the result of a rational approach to the issue of compensation for the effects of government action . |
| 7 | And therefore , in the County Council 's erm opinion , the test which I need to adopt when I go to the site again , is to look at it and er simply make a decision as to whether or not in my opinion the land is more properly a part of this built-up area which can not perform a greenbelt function , or is a part of the general extent of greenbelt around there , and therefore by definition performs a greenbelt function . |
| 8 | Other sources claim Herne was more likely a woodland spirit , whose home was a particular oak tree now long gone . |