Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [art] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Satisfied with this flimsy explanation for the time being , she moved on to a more intimate subject : herself . |
| 2 | However , as soon as they moved on to a more public and active presentation of their demands then councillors condemned this activity , the demands themselves were ignored , and the groups were held up to public ridicule as a threat to democracy and the general interest . |
| 3 | Nigger barked in annoyance , and moved out into the more bearable climate of the dry heat rooms . |
| 4 | While Toynbee Hall " expressed the spirit of Balliol " , Oxford House came out of the more " missionary " Keble College , Oxford . |
| 5 | For instance , on Big World Café they had a new and young Black male presenter ( Hawkeye Cherry ) teamed up with a more experienced White woman presenter ( Mariella Frostrup ) , so there was a kind of playing-off of inequalities , if you like , of gender against those of age and race , presumably to try and break with the hegemony of young(ish) White males in the area of music programming . |
| 6 | But as Freud , with his own particular brand of madness and insistence , pressed on into a more realist style , Minton was obliged to recognise the power of his intensely probing vision . |
| 7 | The press had been hostile at the beginning of the 1974 general strike , but swung over to a more balanced view once the electric power went off and the country came to a halt . |
| 8 | After a few years , the Earl settled down to a more responsible way of life as a serious politician , Rector of Glasgow University , Lord Lieutenant of Ayrshire and Viceroy of Ireland . |
| 9 | Having got his attention-grabbers out of the way , Mr Beckman went on to the more serious stuff . |
| 10 | Then , in Madras , England went in with a more balanced attack of three seamers and three spinners , including Graeme Hick . |
| 11 | After the war Attlee went back to the more responsible system . |
| 12 | His policies looked back to the more aggressive activities of his father ; he fought the Alans , and he attacked Arles . |
| 13 | Lower down we emerged on to a more open country of grass-covered hills , with delphiniums gladioli and other flowers growing along the banks of the many streams . |
| 14 | This is , however , mixed in with a more primitive element relating rustic to savage through fertility rituals . |
| 15 | We carried on in a more sober mood , each repeating his own prayers . |
| 16 | His wife , severely disappointed to find that her husband was happy to sink to the status of a businessman with only a distant connection with the movies , ran off with a more committed actor . |
| 17 | I set out with a more or less religious belief in a Platonic , eternal world , in which mathematics shares with a beauty , shines , I 'm sorry , with a beauty of that of the last cantos of the Paradiso . ’ |