Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] more [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , they used to play a kind of game ( about twice a week , or rather more often if Odilo put his foot down ) , where she must lie still and show no sign of life , throughout . |
| 2 | Starting was as fraught as ever or even more so because of large craft wanting to come through the start line but it must be said that the cruiser operators were generally very cooperative throughout the race . |
| 3 | In so many respects utterly ditferent from Wilde , Genet nevertheless also subverts the depth model of identity via the perverse dynamic , and perhaps more so than any other writer since Wilde . |
| 4 | Subsequent popes would exercise their right to provide far more often and much more widely than John did , but never again would a king of England be quite so impotent in the choice of his bishops . |
| 5 | The student population of universities is growing , though less steadily and much more slowly than that of polytechnics . |
| 6 | Edward never proposed to me , I never ‘ accepted ’ him , yet here we are just as much engaged and much more so than lovers of whom I have read . |
| 7 | Not by any means always , but more often than not ; and much more often than most . |
| 8 | Far more than before , however , and far more substantially because of the growth of TV and other new media , they stand out as dominant features . |
| 9 | She had ever been curious about Benedict 's background , and now more so than ever , when everything hinged on his moral claim to Merchiston Lodge . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't care much for it myself , Lieutenant , especially if it 's a military plane and even more especially if it 's carrying bombs of any sort . |
| 11 | For their part , trade unions mostly ignored community-based groups as irrelevant , self-appointed and ephemeral ; they seemed unaware that they were becoming increasingly remote from the people who belonged to them , especially to women ( as members , and even more so as unwaged workers ) . |
| 12 | Programs are expensive , and even more so if you have to keep altering them . |
| 13 | We might begin by asking ourselves just what is a sexual problem : we may find the term a difficult one to define , and even more so if we attempt to assess the magnitude of the problem in any given situation or individual . |
| 14 | Indeed reason would infer the existence of a wall , especially if the town became a civitas capital , and even more so if it became the capital of the late-formed province of Valentia . |
| 15 | He was a little surprised when she said no and even more so when she told him that he was wasting the doctor 's time — there were sick people waiting for these beds . |
| 16 | Let's face it , all of us are romantic at heart , and even more so when we 're young , possibly even falling in love for the very first time . |
| 17 | Then , as now , people were at a loss to help the whales back to deep water , and even more so when it came to explaining the phenomenon . |
| 18 | Even if the government backs legislation ( and even more so when it does not and the Houses find themselves confronted by a Private Member 's Bill ) no Bill will ever be passed which offends against the deeply held beliefs of Members , unless amended to accommodate them . |
| 19 | It was so fascinating to observe that I was very sorry when the party broke up , and even more so when Margaret did not ask her old pal Richard to stay on for supper with us after the Rolls drove away . |
| 20 | JR was suspicious by nature , and even more so when figures came together as easily as this . |
| 21 | In Cantal the livestock density per hectare of permanent grassland appears to be increasing only very slowly now and certainly more slowly than between 1955 and 1970 . |
| 22 | By the time the campaign started , and never more strongly than on polling day , I was convinced that the Tories would lose — that Labour would be the biggest party in a hung Parliament . |
| 23 | Othello is larger-than-life and never more so than when determined to die , as White demonstrates in a nobly paced resumption of dignity in the difficult final scene . |
| 24 | Matchmaking is a precise art and never more so than when practised by Terry Lawless and Mickey Duff whose most notable achievement so far was to manoeuvre Frank Bruno into a hugely profitable contest against Tyson for the world heavyweight championship . |
| 25 | Camp knows and takes pleasure in the tact that desire is culturally relative , and never more so than when , in cathecting contemporary style , it mistakes itself , and the style , for the natural . |
| 26 | Throughout the postwar period , Yugoslavia has been short of foreign exchange , and never more so than in the 1980s . |
| 27 | For all his determination to break the mould , Vincent was in a sense always typically Dutch , and never more so than in his obstinacy . |
| 28 | As always with Mussorgsky , and never more so than in the case of this opera , the issues are complicated ; and though most of the work 's admirer 's would now agree that Shostakovich 's orchestration is closer to the spirit of a composer he deeply admired than that of Rimsky-Korsakov , whose admiration led him to wish to ‘ sell ’ the work in the West , there are reservations to be made . |
| 29 | It is always a pleasure to go to Goldsmiths ' Hall , and never more so than for this event when the stately rooms provide the perfect background for contemporary work . |
| 30 | But adverse planetary influences invariably serve a useful purpose — and never more so than right now . |