Example sentences of "[art] more [noun sg] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hard water is formed as rain water passes down through layers of limestone which contains calcium and magnesium minerals ; the more calcium and magnesium minerals absorbed , the harder the water becomes . |
| 2 | Bethune-Baker and his school supposed that the more you strip the documents of the New Testament the more clarity and simplicity you will find . |
| 3 | Women are attracted to men who will be the most efficient ‘ mates ’ : the more money or power , the greater his capacity to attract women . |
| 4 | Nobody could claim that we have a good record of producing players , so the more debate and discussion we can engender , the better . |
| 5 | The longer the tube stays on the pump , the harder the vacuum , but the more time and money spent in production . |
| 6 | The more time and energy you give to developing residencies in hospitals and working with other people the less time there is for your own work . |
| 7 | So the finer it is the more time or expense it is to knit it . |
| 8 | The more architectures on which 88open is able to offer its testing and certification technologies , the more hardware and software suppliers will come knocking on it door . |
| 9 | The more architectures on which 88open is able to offer its testing and certification technologies , the more hardware and software suppliers will come knocking on it door . |
| 10 | The greater the openness of the boundary , the greater the potential capacity to negotiate across it ; the greater the number of open boundaries , the greater the potential power available to the social actors to promote a dialectical relation with the outside world , to actively influence the processes , policies and events that touch their lives Conversely , the fewer open boundaries there are perceived to be and the more closed , the more powerlessness and passivity is likely to be manifest in relation to the outside world . |
| 11 | No more ash and hazelnut trees with sunlight dancing and dappling between them , only the old , gnarled yews , growing thickly together . |
| 12 | In the 1960s the breed was exported to Canada and is thriving at altitudes of 1,400m on the eastern slopes of the Rockies with bitter winter temperatures and no more shelter than brush . |
| 13 | No more insurance or security problems . |
| 14 | Mortimer , who dominated the council , wielded power with no more tact and delicacy than had the Despensers or Edward II ; Henry of Lancaster , Mortimer 's erstwhile ally , was excluded from policy-making in 1328 , and in 1330 the earl of Kent was accused of conspiracy and summarily executed , much to the alarm of the other nobles . |
| 15 | They had no more taste or imagination , they were no more honest ; but there was a feeling of celebration , of cohesion , of festival . |
| 16 | Though it grated on their code of hospitality , the island hosts then decided there were to be no more gifts of food or drink , no more counselling or mapping , no more lending of labour , or advice . |
| 17 | Of no more strength and substance against inertia |
| 18 | Not for the first time it occurred to him how vulnerable his position was , and he reflected ruefully that there was probably no more security or protection in the rank of Khan than there had been in any of the various honours which he had received while he had been an intimate of the clique which had surrounded Nogai . |
| 19 | The logical structure admittedly is independent of the desires of the thinker , but the drive behind it is an enthusiasm , or an obsession to rid himself of an intolerable burden ; at the point when we notice there is no more joy or stress in his thinking , that it has become a routine , we begin to be afraid that his creative phase his passed . |
| 20 | Last week , he promised that there would be no more boom and bust . |
| 21 | No more trouble and strife , unnecessary arguments about electricity bills , or fights with your wife , or murder , or war , or mass destruction , or anything . ’ |