Example sentences of "and [v-ing] more [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a union in which both the lobon-gur solution and the rice-salt solution had been taught , LGS was also preferred over the rice-salt therapy , despite the recognition by the mothers of the fact that children treated with the latter recovered from diarrhoea and vomiting more quickly than those treated with LGS . |
| 2 | I delighted to know that the Medau Society is flourishing and going more strongly than ever in its fortieth year . |
| 3 | Both plays tell the universal and timeless tale of family relationships and how , when supposedly they are a place of union , harmony , love and protection , they are in fact in reality a source of discord and suffering more often than not . |
| 4 | Forester 's fiction is as meticulous in detail and as active in plots as that of O'Brian , yet the Hornblower novels are basically romantic adventures , built on sentiment as much as on action and answering more directly than the Aubrey tales to the simplest conventions of the adventure story . |
| 5 | It is when an outgoing fish ceases to swim with the shoal and skulks , perhaps with fins folded and respiring more rapidly than usual , that something is suspect . |
| 6 | Fleury made a dash for his sabre , but the sepoy was much nearer to it and picked it up , making as if to hand it to Fleury , and chuckling more loudly than ever . |