Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the more [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Every cracker contains a packet of seed along with the more traditional contents . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Rarer species of snowdrops are being indiscriminately harvested along with the more common ones . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ But it has yet to filter through to the more expensive properties . ’ |
| 10 | The principal results in Section 17.3 go over to the more general case with only minor modifications . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The renin raises your blood-pressure , which in turn leads to more kidney stress and more water retention , and on into the more severe symptoms . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Growing up in the more liberal atmosphere of secularist nationalism in the 1950s and 1960s , it was easy to forget the vigour of Islam . |
| 16 | Doctors agree that there are no risks in regular exercise , as long as you start gently and gradually build up to the more strenuous activities . ’ |
| 17 | Yep , yep erm these officers are all trained in , in fire prevention work erm at the Fire Service 's technical college at Morton Marsh , and er they practise those skills they learn there over many years erm I 'm looking back , I mean the time that I spent in training schools and er and in , in the job er I suppose when you total it all up it must be two or three years away from home really , er in courses you know , in my day we went away on fire prevention training classes six months , six months ' course was the , so you went away to the Fire Service college which in those days was at Dorking , a lovely place in Dorking , and you did six months there solid , and then nowadays about thirteen weeks , the courses run about thirteen weeks , and you are constantly fire , fire officers from the ranks of erm probably a Sub Officer , leading fireman in some places , but Sub Officer onwards and particularly Station Officer up to the more senior ranks are away on courses regularly for , it 's really updating people erm new legislation coming in , new techniques coming in , erm which have to be these people have to be updated so they are very well trained , erm more so than most local authority people I would think , fire , fire officers are , erm purely because the job is such a wide range of , of things to deal with . |
| 18 | The result is that ordinary motorists can now pick them up at the more respectable auctions for less than the price of an everyday family car . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | As you can see , unless you feel that there is something suspect about the property , such as an extension which you feel may be badly constructed , or it is very old ( say , 18th century ) it is really not worth paying out for the more in-depth survey in the initial stages , which costs twice as much as the ordinary valuation survey . |
| 21 | One is that it displaces wage costs out of the more expensive core to the somewhat cheaper periphery ; another is that it leads to stable long-term relations with suppliers which open up multi-directional flows of information between the partners in the subcontracting network . |
| 22 | Apart from the greater urban houses , they spread out into the more rural areas . |
| 23 | Nigger barked in annoyance , and moved out into the more bearable climate of the dry heat rooms . |
| 24 | In the London case at least , this recovery can no doubt be attributed in part to the strength of its economy , the support given by central government to the Docklands redevelopment and other schemes , and the associated attraction of young professionals back to the more central parts of the city . |
| 25 | His policies looked back to the more aggressive activities of his father ; he fought the Alans , and he attacked Arles . |
| 26 | After the war Attlee went back to the more responsible system . |
| 27 | But despite flying back to the more forgiving climate of Cairns , his fever showed no signs of leaving him . |
| 28 | I think back to the more rigid skills studied by foot-sloggers such as myself . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | The evidence from elsewhere in America and Britain is that exhibitors increasingly took the masses for granted and were always investing in better and better cinemas so as to hang on to the more respectable lower middle-class audience . |