Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] the more " in BNC.
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| 31 | His policies looked back to the more aggressive activities of his father ; he fought the Alans , and he attacked Arles . |
| 32 | Discussions of film and television genre habitually nod towards the broad stylistic categories fundamental to literary aesthetics since Aristotle — epic , lyric , drama , comedy , tragedy — and quickly move on to the more immediately recognizable categories under which industry products are branded and sold — horror , western , musical , soap opera , crime series . |
| 33 | Alan set up the legal part of it and the political side and I would come in with the more spiritual side of it : the demand for separation from the Irish Presbyterian Church that was operating in cahoots with O'Neill at that time . |
| 34 | Finally , as the worst of the winter sets in , the goats move down to the more wooded foothills , where the trees moderate both the wind and the snow . |
| 35 | I think back to the more rigid skills studied by foot-sloggers such as myself . |
| 36 | There was something about cutter work — glamour , adventure , battling the elements , or just plain escapism — call it what you will , but once you had experienced it you had great difficulty in settling down to the more prosaic existence ashore . |