Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [art] [noun sg] more " in BNC.

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1 It has made me a lot tougher and a lot more businesswise . ’
2 It has made me a lot tougher and a lot more businesswise .
3 Over time , the organization becomes more rigid and the culture more uniform .
4 Seldom has the time been more appropriate or the need more urgent for a Bill of this kind .
5 Where a man can become more male and a woman more female by coming together in the full rigors of the fuck … homosexuals , it can be suggested , tend to pass their qualities over to one another , for there is no womb to mirror and return what is most forceful or attractive in each of them .
6 He was part of her past now , and the future was a little more serious and a lot more dedicated .
7 Er like i we if I saw a vase that was a little bit bigger and a bit more expensive than what you 'd have
8 Different but in perfect harmony was the grotto scene , dark and the darkness more and more revealed when a glow of the outer night entered .
9 In the third and final phase the area of dispersal is larger and the distribution more dense .
10 Shrubs are expensive , os taking cuttings will be cheaper and a lot more satisfying than buying plants .
11 They will make things there which , if the climate were better and the labour more flexible and less expensive , they would have continued to make in this country .
12 Because I was older and a bit more staid I was going to have a hard time .
13 The Golden Hind was smaller and a lot more cheerful than the Lord Howe , a busy little place with an obvious hard core of regulars wedged into their favourite corners .
14 Quite often a series of progressively unpleasant interchanges will take place with the child becoming more obstinate and the parent more angry .
15 As their relationship develops , the comedy gets blacker and the eroticism more perverse .
16 Almost all accidents start with a simple error on the part of the pilot that leads to a chain of events , each of which makes the situation worse and an accident more and more difficult to avoid .
17 The idea 's to make hospital less daunting and the treatment more successful .
18 She published it entirely by herself so it is a bit makeshift but the advice more than makes up for that .
19 The slopes of his eyelids were infinitely dark , making the stare louder and the smile more furtive .
20 Now sailing encompasses windsurfing , dinghy sailing and ocean cruising and if you 've got millions of pounds to spend you can enter the Fastnet or the Admiral 's Cup but whatever level or whatever part of sailing you want to take up , the basic techniques are best learnt in a dinghy or sail boat because it 's less expensive and a lot more simple to operate and that 's the purpose of this video to learn the most basic techniques as quickly as possible and to be at one with the wind .
21 She was a big ill-tempered animal cowed by a presence more threatening and a temper more volatile than her own .
22 Just a little more intense and a touch more desperate .
23 The six-cylinder lay-out , of course , makes for smooth engine performance and that , combined with plenty of sound-proofing measures , means that the BMW diesel is a lot quieter and a lot more refined than any other diesel I 've driven — without exception .
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