Example sentences of "[vb pp] more [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least those present will have the comforting knowledge that they will be voting on the future of a team which has just ascended the summit of the Scottish Second Division , although that must be considered more of a Ben Nevis than an Everest of the football world . |
| 2 | In addition French ( 1986b ) found that various characteristics which go against the stereotyped image of the physiotherapist are stigmatised by that profession ; for example , to be very overweight was considered more of a barrier than blindness or needing to use a wheelchair . |
| 3 | Ethnicity , to use modern terminology , occupied more of the tsar 's attention than diplomacy . |
| 4 | I could n't have made more of a contrast . |
| 5 | She realised that for George and Elizabeth to take such a firm line , Sarah must have made more of a nuisance of herself to George than she herself had noticed . |
| 6 | This concentration is made more of a problem for suppliers where large scale organisations centralise their buying function . |
| 7 | I think at the time of the er , of the A G M , I said we were pleased by the prospects and in the current statement I say the outlook continues promising , but I do n't think at any point we 've made more of a forecast than that . |
| 8 | That school , that school made more of an impression than I mean it was , if anything they were too soft . |
| 9 | The problem may explain why Brady has not made more of an impact since exploding on the scene three years ago . |
| 10 | ‘ Sometimes I feel I should have made more of an effort with him , ’ Kate said . |
| 11 | ‘ At least I 've seen more of the town where I live than I ever saw from a carriage or on horseback . ’ |
| 12 | In 1954 Fairfield Osborn warned his countrymen : ‘ We Americans have used more of the world 's resources in the past forty years than all the people in the world had used in the four thousand years up to 1914 . |
| 13 | Some Slovenian bankers pointed out that it would have made better sense to have carried out a ‘ consolidation ’ , which would have preserved more of the assets of the firm than the policy of attacking it from all sides ( Politika , 1 October 1987 ) . |
| 14 | Scriabin 's First Symphony is a cyclic , tautly structured work than can well manage without being manoeuvred towards the sound world of the Poem of Ecstasy , and Segerstam would have done better to have had more of an ear for pacing and projection than is evident here . |
| 15 | And when you can be clear about what it is you want and be clear what it is they want you 've got more of a chance to get the solution to win win rather than if you 're just interested in your position and your side . |
| 16 | For my character that 's been her hook on life , she sees it as a way of competing with women who are brighter or have got more of a start in life . |
| 17 | His mother — God rest her — had got more of a spark out of him when they went to nearby Ballymahon and Oliver Goldsmith 's birthplace , but that was only because he had already at school learned off by heart the whole of ‘ The Deserted Village ’ . |
| 18 | Obviously you 've look as though you 've got more of a future , hopefully . |
| 19 | But they 've got more of a concentration on the restaurant , whereas we have n't , we have a busy time and without a busy |
| 20 | Okay , if you read and through , I take the kind of pros and cons of ideas , understanding there are those very active proposals , I 've got more of a selling approach with pretending ideas , you know , the candid advervisement like , you tell us negotiating |
| 21 | we 've got more of a leverage so we |
| 22 | But you 've got more of an accent now , a bit more country or it 's got |
| 23 | you know the biology 's gon na be hard , I can tell that the maths gon na be hard , but I think I 've got more of an interest in biology than physics , I mean I , I do n't know if Jean 's done any |
| 24 | Well no , you 've got more at the end as opposed to the |
| 25 | She rebuked herself for her timidity , for her first dismay that he had not shown more of the lover 's courtesies she had imagined from the fairy tales she told herself ; he had been too eager , obviously . |
| 26 | ‘ We could have sold more of the Palin book , but BBC Books insisted on firm sale . |
| 27 | I would have thought more of the state institutions really . |
| 28 | In past meetings between these sides , the top British goalscorer in 1991 and ‘ 92 , Scott Gough , has grabbed more of the attention , but since flopping in a brief spell at Chelmsford , his form has slipped considerably . |
| 29 | I must be getting tired : Anya 's binding spell has packed more of a punch than I expected . |
| 30 | At Cabinets on 9 , 10 and 11 December he cautiously defended it on the ground that Hoare must have known more than they did , and defended also the continuation of Hoare 's holiday , although this by then had become more of a matter of nursing than of recreation , for he had fallen on the ice and broken his nose in two places . |