Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [prep] the more " in BNC.
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1 | The same kind of point is illustrated by ( 19 ) , except here it is more likely that it is the notion of full luminescence which is explained in the more familiar terms given in the reformulation : In these examples , the speaker 's aim in reformulating an utterance is to enrich the hearer 's encyclopedic entries in order to ensure a greater understanding of the surrounding discourse or text . |
2 | Therefore , the light is situated above the more powerful Fluval 3 , where both heaters are sited . |
3 | Even more significantly this teacher goes on to express the view that this approach is not incompatible with the examination system , where in the context of the GCSE , the personal and professional experience the tutor has of each student 's progress and development is counterpoised with the more objective and detached assessment of the external moderator . |
4 | Our brief is to report on the more fascinating aspects of this period of intense change — the meeting of consciousness and business ; the search for meaning in our information society ; the need to empower ourselves , discover a new global heart and become our own politics . |
5 | The work previously published by Andrews & Evans ( 1983 ) on mammalian carnivores is expanded here for comparison with the avian predators , and the conclusion of these authors that small mammalian carnivores are not significant contributors to the fossil record is sustained by the more detailed work . |
6 | This type of physical abuse is limited to the more extreme forms of witchcraft and satanism . |
7 | There are even reports that this hair is gathered by the more discriminating kinds of birds to build their nests ! |
8 | This becomes clearer if it is considered from the more general perspective of post-modernism which has been widely characterized as involving a return of history , albeit as a category of representation . |
9 | Peter Brown , chairman of the Thomas Coram foundation , said : ‘ Unless the human imperative of individual dereliction is addressed alongside the more visual investment in environmental dereliction , and however well we spend it this means more money , the country will find itself in a downward spiral of inner-city social decay that could well substitute Drug Alley for the Gin Lane of Coram 's and Hogarth 's day . ’ |
10 | In Bleak House , the impersonal ironic voice of the author is interspersed with the more humanly involved voice of Esther . |
11 | Anthropological discussion of this relationship between self , object and society is dominated by the more general analysis or exchange . |
12 | ‘ Fashion now is not boring for me , because I can still have fun , even if the money is made on the more classical items , ’ concludes Smith . |
13 | As the derivation is based on an unrealistic Gaussian distribution of segments in good solvents , it has been suggested that α η is related to the more direct measurement of α in equation ( 10.12 ) by |
14 | This knowledge is expanded by the more personal comments of his diary . |
15 | Both sections have the same maximum punishment , five years ' imprisonment , yet s.20 , which deals with maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm , is seen as the more serious defence , yet that gravity may now depend on chance . |
16 | A name is needed for the more general set of phenomena , and the word ‘ chaos ’ has taken on a scientific meaning for this purpose . |
17 | The realization that religious beliefs were relevant to the rise of science is transformed into the more parochial claim that a particular religion , or religious tradition , was uniquely propitious . |
18 | The figures er , for each er , of the settlements , er is shown in the more detailed erm , paper . |
19 | Once it is accepted that principles can be part of the law for reasons not reflecting convention but just because they are morally appealing , then a door is opened for the more threatening idea that some principles are part of the law because of their moral appeal , even though they contradict what convention has endorsed . |
20 | By now the field is narrowed to the more experienced . |
21 | The US abortion debate , long entrenched in the absolute positions of the opposing activist camps , is moving toward the more moderate that reflect the broad plains of US public opinion . |
22 | The political significance of the vulgarization of high culture is exemplified in the more complicated case of Andy Warhol . |
23 | The second type of discrimination , indirect discrimination , is to deal with the more hidden forms of bias . |
24 | The most striking feature of this is its similarity to the ‘ reform , prevention and extinction ’ ascribed to Ferri earlier ( except that the ‘ extinction ’ is replaced by the more moderate ‘ segregation ’ ) . |
25 | ‘ It 's geared to the more serious player . |
26 | Sophisticated versions may be found in a number of workshop items , particularly Kerman and Quoom , but perhaps its finest and most definitive expression is encountered in the more primitive rugs of the Bakhtiari tribe . |
27 | Although it appears to be generally true that erosion is concentrated on the more exposed portions of the coast , one occasionally finds examples of marked marine erosion in extremely sheltered positions . |
28 | Although the impact of immigration on British society has been much debated , much less is known about the more geographically distant consequences of emigration . |
29 | They go on to suggest that the characteristic British concern with the professional status of engineers is largely compensatory , and that the status of engineers is linked to the more general status of industry in the two countries . |
30 | Gedge is left with the more pleasurable job of general promotion . |