Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] more " in BNC.

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1 Satisfied with this flimsy explanation for the time being , she moved on to a more intimate subject : herself .
2 However , as soon as they moved on to a more public and active presentation of their demands then councillors condemned this activity , the demands themselves were ignored , and the groups were held up to public ridicule as a threat to democracy and the general interest .
3 Instead of the old concept of teaching , according to which the teacher , possessed of superior powers and superior knowledge , attempted to pass on to the more able of his pupils that non-practical culture which would most benefit them personally , a new class-room communication should be envisaged .
4 I am going to vote against the motion , I 'm disappointed with the liberal group not come in with a more constructive amendment or even a proposal , as I would say asked you to do .
5 Rarer species of snowdrops are being indiscriminately harvested along with the more common ones .
6 You can tell that you have not been fobbed off with the more mature product by the size of the cuts and the pallor of the flesh .
7 Lennie ( 1980 ) has come up with a more challenging suggestion .
8 Doctors agree that there are no risks in regular exercise , as long as you start gently and gradually build up to the more strenuous activities . ’
9 Sometimes vulnerable old people are caught up in a more general crisis such as a major road or rail accident , or other disaster .
10 But he could not have come back at a more opportune time as far as Selkirk are concerned .
11 Other weights used larger canes spaced out in a more formal pattern .
12 Nigger barked in annoyance , and moved out into the more bearable climate of the dry heat rooms .
13 In other words , will workers in the future be increasingly herded together in large factories or offices belonging to even larger corporations or will there be a shift towards work being carried out at a more local level within small groups , perhaps operating as independent companies , partnerships , or co-operatives ?
14 Many databases which use SQL provide a QBE interface so that inexperienced users can formulate queries quickly ( the data definition will usually have been carried out by a more experienced user using SQL and complex queries will also use SQL ) .
15 Whereas the bulk of athletes being attracted to this new four-pronged sport have spilled over from the more established triathlon ranks , and so have found the canoeing discipline particularly tough , Graham has the advantage of a fine record with the paddle .
16 There 's also Bob 's ‘ Songs Of Freedom ’ , a force worldwide , but out of fashion in Jamaica , a country that has moved on to the more bodily delights of raggamuffin .
17 The couple have now moved on to the more complicated use of silks , and subjects have varied from masterpieces such as The Old Mill and The Haywain to a girl skating on a lake and a Victorian winter scene .
18 Apart from the greater urban houses , they spread out into the more rural areas .
19 They note that the molecular hydrogen emission reveals long tail-like structures which project back to a more or less common origin in the vicinity of well-known stellar residents of the Orion molecular cloud ( see cover photo ) .
20 After the very earliest period of relative non-differentiation of functions , in which the ‘ literary ’ or ‘ artistic ’ had not or not fully separated out from the more generally ‘ cultural ’ , there had been this phase of specifically instituted artists , which should not really be described in terms taken from later phases , such as ‘ official recognition ’ or ‘ patronage ’ .
21 There are some words which are simply anomalous , like women , or once or gaol ( which is , anyway , being pushed out by the more reasonable jail ) .
22 One of the polarisations which took place has centred on the question of whether management development should be focused on the provision of specific tools/skills for managers ( a competency model ? ) — or whether it would be more appropriate to set out along a more generic path which emphasised the attitudinal and interpersonal aspects of management .
23 While Toynbee Hall " expressed the spirit of Balliol " , Oxford House came out of the more " missionary " Keble College , Oxford .
24 But it is important to be aware of the limitations of the statistical concept of style before going on to a more realistic assessment of its value .
25 He had offered to take them to the local dressmaker 's to have them seamed in to a more fashionable line , but Gina would n't even let him do that .
26 The contract was quickly sold down to a more sustainable 2600 level .
27 For instance , on Big World Café they had a new and young Black male presenter ( Hawkeye Cherry ) teamed up with a more experienced White woman presenter ( Mariella Frostrup ) , so there was a kind of playing-off of inequalities , if you like , of gender against those of age and race , presumably to try and break with the hegemony of young(ish) White males in the area of music programming .
28 Growing up in the more liberal atmosphere of secularist nationalism in the 1950s and 1960s , it was easy to forget the vigour of Islam .
29 Some years earlier , the same issues had been opened up from a more consciously theological angle by the Halle professor Martin Kähler .
30 predisposing the Chinese to think of blood as circulating and of the earth as having condensed out of a more fluid state ( hence the fossil sea shells found up in mountains ) .
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