Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [art] more [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second is how to elicit people 's preferences , and though score sheets , questionnaires and semantic difference scales have been widely used , the search is still on for a more effective method ( Propst and Buyhoff , 1980 ) . |
| 2 | So the search is on for a more durable , ‘ horizontal ’ resistance to a variety of races of a pest . |
| 3 | Anyone who seems suitable will receive an informal visit and then come down for a more formal interview . ’ |
| 4 | A paint-effect wall makes a beautiful backdrop , whether you try your hand at sponging or go in for a more adventurous colour-wash finish . |
| 5 | I am going to vote against the motion , I 'm disappointed with the liberal group not come in with a more constructive amendment or even a proposal , as I would say asked you to do . |
| 6 | This is , however , mixed in with a more primitive element relating rustic to savage through fertility rituals . |
| 7 | Then , in Madras , England went in with a more balanced attack of three seamers and three spinners , including Graeme Hick . |
| 8 | Alan set up the legal part of it and the political side and I would come in with the more spiritual side of it : the demand for separation from the Irish Presbyterian Church that was operating in cahoots with O'Neill at that time . |
| 9 | The total number of large vessels , a mere 40 in 1763 , was raised by 1771 , when he left office , to 64 ships of the line and 50 frigates ; stocks of stores were built up and a fourth arsenal , at Marseilles , added to those at Brest , Rochefort and Toulon ; improved training and signalling methods were introduced , along with a more scientific study of tactics . |
| 10 | Every cracker contains a packet of seed along with the more traditional contents . |
| 11 | The purpose of this chapter is to review such developments along with the more mundane business of recruiting new partners and opening new offices generally , and to analyse some of the problems they involve . |
| 12 | Rarer species of snowdrops are being indiscriminately harvested along with the more common ones . |
| 13 | Hunt found fame and fortune in the glamorous world of Grand Prix culminating in his Formula One world championship victory in 1976 before settling down to a more sedate career as a BBC TV commentator . |
| 14 | The contract was quickly sold down to a more sustainable 2600 level . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Perhaps an article on Sterlets , with pictures , might interest more people and with the increased interest perhaps in time the price will come down to a more realistic level . |
| 17 | Also , innovative ideas do tend to work their way down to the more affordable guitars and equipment , so it might not be for you now , but maybe in a year 's time it will be . |
| 18 | There was something about cutter work — glamour , adventure , battling the elements , or just plain escapism — call it what you will , but once you had experienced it you had great difficulty in settling down to the more prosaic existence ashore . |
| 19 | Finally , as the worst of the winter sets in , the goats move down to the more wooded foothills , where the trees moderate both the wind and the snow . |
| 20 | But as I became more acquainted with this set and stopped rushing from impossible passage to impossible passage , hoping against hope that at some point he would lose his balance and tumble like a second-rate trapeze artist off his swing , I was unwittingly dragged in to a more sinister , melancholic side to his playing . |
| 21 | He had offered to take them to the local dressmaker 's to have them seamed in to a more fashionable line , but Gina would n't even let him do that . |
| 22 | Unless it is prodded and pulled by the government , what is to stop it rolling over into a more comfortable position ? |
| 23 | It 's hard to imagine anybody writing more artificially , but I hope you feel , as I do , there can hardly be a piece of poetry in which the distress of the poet and the feeling that he may be wasting his time comes through in a more anguished fashion . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ But it has yet to filter through to the more expensive properties . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The principal results in Section 17.3 go over to the more general case with only minor modifications . |
| 28 | It is mildly blasphemous , too , to be sent into this breathing world with trillions and trillions of brain-cells , all anxious to fire and to titillate , and to shutter them off against the more vigorous half of human thought . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |