Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] the more " in BNC.
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| 1 | South Africa demonstrably adjusted better to the more disciplined requirements of the longer game after almost two months of the uninterrupted frenzy of the World Cup . |
| 2 | Rarer species of snowdrops are being indiscriminately harvested along with the more common ones . |
| 3 | You can tell that you have not been fobbed off with the more mature product by the size of the cuts and the pallor of the flesh . |
| 4 | Within months , Scargill 's warnings of substantial pit closures were transformed into reality : the NUM was unable to resist — with most of its members at the affected pits rapidly opting for the generous redundancy terms — and with the privatization of the electricity-generating industry at the end of the 1980s the ability of many British mines to compete was in question ; closures were instituted even in the more productive fields . |
| 5 | Whereas the bulk of athletes being attracted to this new four-pronged sport have spilled over from the more established triathlon ranks , and so have found the canoeing discipline particularly tough , Graham has the advantage of a fine record with the paddle . |
| 6 | There 's also Bob 's ‘ Songs Of Freedom ’ , a force worldwide , but out of fashion in Jamaica , a country that has moved on to the more bodily delights of raggamuffin . |
| 7 | The couple have now moved on to the more complicated use of silks , and subjects have varied from masterpieces such as The Old Mill and The Haywain to a girl skating on a lake and a Victorian winter scene . |
| 8 | The New Zealand experience suggests that those who proceed with ‘ open ’ adoption are not altogether the same as those who would have done so under the more traditional approach . |
| 9 | After the very earliest period of relative non-differentiation of functions , in which the ‘ literary ’ or ‘ artistic ’ had not or not fully separated out from the more generally ‘ cultural ’ , there had been this phase of specifically instituted artists , which should not really be described in terms taken from later phases , such as ‘ official recognition ’ or ‘ patronage ’ . |
| 10 | There are some words which are simply anomalous , like women , or once or gaol ( which is , anyway , being pushed out by the more reasonable jail ) . |
| 11 | Few of those who can read actually believe what is said even in the more responsible newspapers ; like many Middle Easterners they prefer the racy , outlandish explanation . |
| 12 | Keith was able to appoint officers even to the coveted rank of captain , which was in that period for all practical purposes the ultimate promotion , since admirals were drawn automatically from the more senior members of the captains ' list . |
| 13 | This should not be particularly surprising since the main element has been price support for commodities such as grain and sugar which are produced principally in the more favoured farming areas . |
| 14 | The word demises is used instead of the more popular lets . |
| 15 | Cheque book journalism is a broader and more complex issue than the confiscation of the proceeds of crime and is bound up with the more general question of media reporting of the criminal justice system . |
| 16 | War began with an unsuccessful attempt to return to the city-plundering strategy of the previous century , went on with a great commerce-raiding voyage round the world by Anson , and ( not before it had at last ended the trading career of the South Sea Company ) was swallowed up by the more far-flung clash of British and French . |
| 17 | It was obvious and natural that as the last report had dealt mostly with the more able pupils so its successor should focus upon the needs of the pupils of average and below-average ability — that 50 per cent of all pupils , in other words , who gave the Report its title , Half Our future . |
| 18 | The converse , however , is the case , and the difference can probably be explained simply by the more widespread use of assay of α fetoprotein concentration during the period studied . |
| 19 | That is because the offspring of the traditional older working class have gone on to the more pleasant and remunerative employments , the employments that are also called work . |
| 20 | Whatever the method chosen , these invitations were issued only for the more important — i.e. expensive — funerals ; those of lesser rank had to rely on word of mouth . |
| 21 | Certainly in the first 10 years that the two species overlapped , the proportion of magpie nests which were parasitised rocketed from a quarter to more than three quarters , as the cuckoos switched away from the more discriminating meadow buntings . |
| 22 | But do n't for one moment think that Munich should be left solely for the more seriously-minded visitor . |
| 23 | Some of the most important petrographic uses of CL are outlined below for the more common sedimentary rock types . |