Example sentences of "with more [noun sg] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a 21st minute moment of magic which delighted the home fans and seemed to stun Middlesbrough , who had started the game with more purpose and menace . |
| 2 | Well , so long as no one tells Phena , everything should be all right , should n't it ? ’ she asked with more hope than expectation . |
| 3 | But she was also distant kin to the Sheriff of Gloucester , and thus treated with more consideration than Isabel . |
| 4 | Carrington , a colonial , possibly in love , detached , watched all this with a definite slight unease and hoped the battle in the field was conducted with more competence and panache , not to say goodwill . |
| 5 | He was good at them , linking all the stories together with more gum and spit , reintroducing the characters with , ‘ You know that bad bad man who was caught naked in the bathing hut ? ’ , as in a wild soap opera , until he knew that at the end of her day spent sucking on dusty brain juice , her maddening mouth would inevitably say , ‘ Hey , Changez , husband or whatever you are , do n't you know any more about that politician geezer that got thrown into jail ? ’ |
| 6 | Liberals favour the protection of human rights together with more participation and decentralization in government . |
| 7 | Baldwin showed them some of the curiosities of the house and gave them tea in the Long Gallery , which lie described with more pride than accuracy as ‘ the finest room in England ’ . |
| 8 | They will apply to fourth and fifth-formers , aimed at providing the pupils with more choice and flexibility during the last two years before they can leave school . |
| 9 | Other changes are also required to reverse the trend towards centralisation and authorities with more responsibility than power . |
| 10 | If we find that human faculties and understandings are such that knowledge is necessarily limited , we might more easily and ‘ with less scruple acquiesce in the avowed ignorance ’ of what lies beyond the horizon , and ‘ employ [ our ] … thoughts and discourse , with more advantage and satisfaction ’ about what lies within our reach . |
| 11 | According to John Earle , writing in 1628 , the inn was a superior establishment to the alehouses and was ‘ a degree or ( if you will ) a pair of stairs above an alehouse , where men are drunk with more credit and apology ’ . |
| 12 | Typical is Arthur Seton in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning ( 1960 ) , described by the film 's director Karel Reisz , as ‘ a sad person , terribly limited in his sensibilities , narrow in his ambitions and a bloody fool into the bargain ’ who ends up throwing a stone towards the housing estate that is his final destination , declaring with more bravado than honesty , ‘ It wo n't be the last one I 'll throw . ’ |
| 13 | This came out with more bravado than Sally-Anne really felt , and had she seen him more clearly before she intervened she might not have said anything at all . |
| 14 | Now Mr Albert , with more ability than Hank thought such an old fogey could exhibit , had shown him that he could look quite as dignified as Captain Dawson , not a bent peasant like Grandfather Palichuk or a rugged , outdoor type like his father , but a very respectable townsman called Hank Stych . |
| 15 | He scrambled over the wall and fell with more haste than skill into the enclosed , sun-warmed garden below . |
| 16 | He addressed Coleridge , with more enthusiasm than skill , in a poem which begins ‘ Hail to thee Coleridge , youth of various powers ! ’ , and which expresses in its stilted , conventional way , something of the electrifying effect produced by Coleridge 's passionate eloquence on any sympathetic listener . |
| 17 | He 'd even tried his hand at tapping boots , they were done with more enthusiasm than skill , but so far there had been no complaints from the customers . |
| 18 | Then there were new Switchboards springing up all over the place , sometimes with more enthusiasm than resources and occasionally with decidedly dubious intent or policy . |
| 19 | It was said that one of our very junior officers , with more enthusiasm than judgement , had been setting about a smuggler with the help of a dinghy oar when the " smuggler " yelled , " Stop it you silly b … , |
| 20 | Ashley yelled , flourishing a bottle of generic whisky with more enthusiasm than care ; she cracked the bottle off the oak-panelled wall of the castle 's crowded entrance hall , but without , apparently , causing damage to either . |
| 21 | She had been afraid to tell Nancy 's story to Dr Losberne , since the good doctor was very excitable and often acted with more enthusiasm than wisdom . |
| 22 | They were perpetrated by my great-aunt Olwen , an eccentric lady with more enthusiasm than talent ! ’ |
| 23 | Boardwalk bounded along with more enthusiasm than grace at the head of the second group while two horses , including the favourite , made the running some three lengths clear of her . |
| 24 | Perhaps the decision was made because it was here that Manzoni fell when attempting to negotiate a stairway with more enthusiasm than regard for his age . |
| 25 | The band you thought had no personality and were locked into a strait-jacketed genre have just made an album packed with more character and idiosyncrasies than practically any other released in 1992 . |
| 26 | The government has at last realised the importance of preserving the eco system as a way to attract a new kind of tourist ( with more culture and money to spend ) who will see Gran Canaria not just as cheap holidays in the sun but as a living island . |
| 27 | The main bar had an alcove with more marble than Lord Elgin could have handled , and , at the northern end of Blackfriars Bridge , it was over-popular with the lunch-time City crowd who thought it daring to venture across the river . |
| 28 | Then she had to say hello to Mike , then her mother again , with more laughter and tears and a promise that she would go out . |
| 29 | The afternoon was full of towering performances right through the team but none bossed the action with more grandeur than Paul Ince , described as ‘ a colossus ’ by Coventry boss Bobby Gould . |
| 30 | The fact that disruptive behaviour often leads to considerable stress , anxiety and absenteeism suggests that it is all the more important that schools tackle the issue with more clarity and imagination . |