Example sentences of "[prep] [art] more [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Different curvatures would give different results in the sense that it would often be optimal for the more risk-averse to have some small part of the risk . |
| 2 | There is still some scope for the more deprived to move . |
| 3 | Most trade union leaders favoured the war , among them Havelock Wilson , and it was easy for the more romantic to suppose that , now there was a common enemy , all other conflicts would be shelved " for the duration " which would not , as most supposed , be a long one . |
| 4 | Furthermore , as a result of high levels of unemployment in the 1970s and 1980s ( and possibly also as a result of the capacity of the more affluent to accumulate enough resources to enable them to retire early if they wish ) , the percentage of those in their late fifties and early sixties who regard themselves as permanently retired has increased ( Walker 1980 ; GHS 1986 : 73 ; Johnson 1989 ) . |
| 5 | Marx was merciless in his indictment of the horrors inflicted upon subject peoples by British imperialism , but without repudiating the general right of the more advanced to develop the backward . |
| 6 | A subsequent collection of writings affirmed the right of the more civilized to appropriate the lands of the less : |
| 7 | The Christian neglect of the gods , indeed the propensity of the more militant to hiss in disapproval as they walked by a temple , offended polytheists , who feared that heaven would not be propitious : floods , plagues , famines , earthquakes were sent by angry spirit-powers who had not been placated with the customary offerings . |
| 8 | In fact , gardens that are long and narrow are among the more simple to design because they can be broken down very easily into separate garden areas or ‘ rooms ’ , each of them having a different function or theme . |