Example sentences of "[adv] more to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps more to the point , he is a corrupt man . |
| 2 | We must also try to direct support much more to the specialist producers of high-quality British beef . |
| 3 | The subsequent White Paper , Legal Services : A Framework for the Future ( Cm 740 ) , adopted a different tone , referring rather more to the requirement for legal services to be responsive to clients ' needs than to notions of competition and the discipline of the market ; but in content the proposals actually gave little ground on key points . |
| 4 | Rather more to the point are questions like " Are unc equal ? " |
| 5 | CAN I thank Gadfly ( Echo January 29 ) for putting a face and name to me and providing some , albeit sarcastic , coverage in The Northern But there is a little more to the story than he implies . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , they are rarely used individually and to the exclusion of all other forms of communication , so they need to be considered all together ; each form of communication adding a little more to the message the horse is sending . |
| 7 | ‘ The figures of the heads are beautifully done , ’ noted Selby , ‘ [ and ] are quite sufficient to identify the species , [ but ] I wish he had added a little more to the letter press as not a single word is said about habits , a description of the plumage alone being given . ’ |
| 8 | Let's think about the unsuccessful hospitals and , possibly more to the point , the unsuccessful ventures undertaken from time to time by otherwise efficient units . |
| 9 | Still more to the point is another essay in that volume , ‘ Mr Eliot s Solid Merit ’ ( originally in the New English Weekly for 12 July 1934 ) . |
| 10 | Still more to the point , were they welcomed by the Melians when they took over the existing settlement at Phylakopi ? |
| 11 | This discussion is continued in the next chapter where , after deriving the IS-LM model and considering the contribution of Keynes to economic theory and policy , we turn our attention once more to the monetarist challenge to Keynesian economics . |
| 12 | The Christocentric nature of his revelation is once more to the fore ; so is the characteristic Hebrew emphasis on knowledge leading to obedience . |
| 13 | Whilst the enemy had probed the positions the Jocks held , it had managed also to break through once more to the north . |
| 14 | The late autumn and winter again aggravated his emphysema and he looked tired and pale.Although he preferred to stay where he was , his doctor insisted that he travel once more to the sun for the worst of the winter , and at the end of 1960 the Eliots went to Jamaica . |
| 15 | ’ He bent his head once more to the pile of paper in his in-tray . |
| 16 | Leave the church and return once more to the W façade . |
| 17 | But it seemed Ace had n't finished with her yet , and soon she was incapable of any thought at all , rational or otherwise , as he took her once more to the edge of paradise . |
| 18 | Bonard bit his lip and turned his gaze once more to the horizon . |
| 19 | After a year or two of marriage ‘ men return once more to the company of their mates ’ . |
| 20 | Turning once more to the campaign surrounding The Little Red Schoolbook this point should become clear . |
| 21 | He brought our conversation to an end by alluding once more to the past ; and in comparing the difference between his present achievements and the tribulations that had led up to it ( though he did not put it quite like that ) , he appeared to coin on the Spot an Epigram which , so far as I know , he never committed to print but of which there are echoes in The Family Reunion . |
| 22 | Ian frowned and turned once more to the window . |
| 23 | The daemonic legions would march once more to the aid of their new allies . |
| 24 | Here , if you want something looking even halfway decent you 'll have to turn once more to the desktop publishing program . |
| 25 | Back at the table I was in crepuscular mood for a few minutes , then bent once more to the task of diverting the wedding guests . |
| 26 | Which brings us back once more to the web of words they have spun to entrap us . |
| 27 | Her eyes dropped once more to the boxer shorts as embarrassed colour rose to her cheeks . |
| 28 | His $100m purchase of shares in Newmont Mining , an American producer , from Sir James Goldsmith was worth far more to the gold market in terms of morale than a straightforward injection of fresh money . |
| 29 | Like the Channel Four programme on Thursday , which explores the secret life of the photocopier , John 's workshops showed there is far more to the machine than duplicating documents and jamming the paper . |
| 30 | Instead of keeping headcounts up in case of an influx of work , firms are resorting far more to the use of temporary staff . |