Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] the more " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Rarer species of snowdrops are being indiscriminately harvested along with the more common ones . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | Nigger barked in annoyance , and moved out into the more bearable climate of the dry heat rooms . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Apart from the greater urban houses , they spread out into the more rural areas . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | While Toynbee Hall " expressed the spirit of Balliol " , Oxford House came out of the more " missionary " Keble College , Oxford . |
| 13 | Growing up in the more liberal atmosphere of secularist nationalism in the 1950s and 1960s , it was easy to forget the vigour of Islam . |
| 14 | As you can see , unless you feel that there is something suspect about the property , such as an extension which you feel may be badly constructed , or it is very old ( say , 18th century ) it is really not worth paying out for the more in-depth survey in the initial stages , which costs twice as much as the ordinary valuation survey . |
| 15 | One is that it displaces wage costs out of the more expensive core to the somewhat cheaper periphery ; another is that it leads to stable long-term relations with suppliers which open up multi-directional flows of information between the partners in the subcontracting network . |
| 16 | Most popular are precast concrete paviours and slabs , but look around for the more interesting surface textures and designs . |
| 17 | But this will have to involve levelling up to the more advantaged rather than levelling down to the lesser , although future benefits can be reduced so long as diminution is applied equally to both sexes . |
| 18 | It is when you get on to the more high tech aspects of English Hops ' work that small and muted alarm bells begin to ring . |
| 19 | Before moving on to the more advanced aspects of wave riding let us consider what should happen in the first attempts . |
| 20 | We might feel tempted to say that Wittgenstein 's account may be true of sensations ; but that there is no such thing as a sensation of blue , and so there is no reason why a private linguist could not start by naming the way things look to him before moving on to the more difficult talk of the way things actually are . |
| 21 | Once you can carve gybe and water start with ease , you can move on to the more advanced funboard skills . |
| 22 | Cheque book journalism is a broader and more complex issue than the confiscation of the proceeds of crime and is bound up with the more general question of media reporting of the criminal justice system . |
| 23 | War began with an unsuccessful attempt to return to the city-plundering strategy of the previous century , went on with a great commerce-raiding voyage round the world by Anson , and ( not before it had at last ended the trading career of the South Sea Company ) was swallowed up by the more far-flung clash of British and French . |
| 24 | But despite flying back to the more forgiving climate of Cairns , his fever showed no signs of leaving him . |
| 25 | The evidence from elsewhere in America and Britain is that exhibitors increasingly took the masses for granted and were always investing in better and better cinemas so as to hang on to the more respectable lower middle-class audience . |
| 26 | Having got his attention-grabbers out of the way , Mr Beckman went on to the more serious stuff . |
| 27 | That is because the offspring of the traditional older working class have gone on to the more pleasant and remunerative employments , the employments that are also called work . |
| 28 | The principal results in Section 17.3 go over to the more general case with only minor modifications . |
| 29 | ‘ But it has yet to filter through to the more expensive properties . ’ |
| 30 | After the war Attlee went back to the more responsible system . |