Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] more [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The third view of the company is one which has prevailed in the academic literature rather more forcefully than in company law doctrine itself . |
| 2 | A direct question may not always be the ideal approach — a hint or oblique reference can sometimes be better — but a direct approach will gain response much more often than people think . |
| 3 | It followed the discovery that many old people metabolise the drug much more slowly than normal . |
| 4 | These measures , derived from the basic data , contrasted the two groups much more clearly than did simple counts of frequency of behaviour in the original catalogue of 120 categories . |
| 5 | And banks reckon they can distribute life products much more cheaply than big insurers , which have costly and old-fashioned national sales networks . |
| 6 | Levels one and two are by far the commonest in education but there is a new type of partnership which appears to be developing and which may meet the needs of the future rather more fully than the other two — though those will always continue in existence because they fulfil real short term needs . |
| 7 | They should have had much better control and devised their computerisation rather more effectively than they did . ’ |
| 8 | Modern publications were consulted by readers much more frequently than older material : 85% of all issues were twentieth-century publications , and 42% had been published only since 1970 . |
| 9 | The pattern recognition should also be able to identify the beginnings of words much more accurately than at present , and more investigation of the efficacy of some measure of word length would be useful . |
| 10 | As it is , I have reservations about the application of the user interface in the Windows version , and will have to wait to see what the next version brings before I can make up my mind any more firmly than I can at present . |
| 11 | In the United States , the frame rate is 15 frames per second because the domestic electricity supply pulses slightly more rapidly than in Europe . |
| 12 | Alyssia ended up looking forward to her lunch with André far more eagerly than she had originally thought possible . |
| 13 | In anything like calm weather either climb is a good bet , remaining in good condition far more often than many options of adjacent crags . |
| 14 | As the days passed I might have been telling him the truth , for I lost weight far more successfully than on any diet I have ever attempted . |
| 15 | While it is a fact that we often eat much more than we imagine we do ( try writing down everything you eat over a period of a week and prove the point ) , it is a fact that some people put on weight far more quickly than others . |
| 16 | Hope walked back into Grasmere even more thoughtfully than he had left it . |
| 17 | Either he loved Kirsty less than she had given him credit for , or he hated Shiona even more fiercely than she had ever suspected . |
| 18 | Television will infiltrate into the national consciousness even more copiously than is already the case the personalities of the two main party leaders . |
| 19 | We were so confident of each other 's love that should one of us make that final , selfish decision the other would feel his friend 's sense of loss even more keenly than his own . |
| 20 | The change of role and gender in the second half is extremely disturbing ; somehow Fisher 's transformation into a mute , trembling wall-flower stresses the woman 's vulnerability even more plaintively than she could do herself . |
| 21 | Subjects woken during an REM burst have been shown by S. Molinari and David Foulkes to report highly vivid visual experiences much more frequently than when woken from periods of REM " quiescence " . |
| 22 | Born in the North at Cesena 56 years ago , he fits the stereotype of rational northern European much more comfortably than that of fiery Latin . |
| 23 | Born in the North at Cesena 56 years ago , he fits the stereotype of rational northern European much more comfortably than that of fiery Latin . |
| 24 | The other European countries acted much more like the Romans : they had conquered large existing populations in the territories to which they had gone , and had established substantial colonies that were ruled by the sovereign power at home much more directly than was the case in the English colonies . |
| 25 | Recent reports on current or just completed land-drainage schemes emphasize the trend whereby large farmers accrue the benefit much more commonly than small men . |
| 26 | Nephrite pebbles show up by their colour and translucency much more clearly when viewed through flowing water than they do when dry . |
| 27 | It seemed that he did want to , for he answered her question far more fully than he need have done . |
| 28 | She felt the distance from England far more acutely than her preoccupied spouse ; her thoughts were with the children , and , even at this early stage , she longed for the voyage home . |
| 29 | Yet most modern models of language , from Saussure 's onwards , give a fuller and more coherent account of it than traditional grammar ever did , and therefore offer the possibility of describing the linguistic features of texts far more exactly than was possible with the rag-bag of grammatical and metaphorical terminology on which criticism has traditionally depended . |
| 30 | The Evangelical movement , despite its minority status , cast its influence far more widely than the actual numbers of its adherents might suggest ; it is of especial interest to students of child rearing attitudes , in that its followers were so prolific in their writings that their beliefs ( or watered-down versions of their beliefs ) dominated both the advisory literature available to parents and the children 's own reading matter for upwards of two centuries . |