Example sentences of "more [adj] [subord] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Headhunters were also forced to become more professional because of the growing complexity of the corporate problems they were called upon to solve ; those consultants who were less sophisticated than their clients soon went out of business . |
| 2 | Given that this was a central and crucial part of the film 's argument , the error is even more revealing as to the lack of care taken . |
| 3 | In the field of power station design , the conservatism of the headquarters engineers was more persistent than in the case of the Supergrid . |
| 4 | Control of Parliament by the executive has never been more complete than in the twentieth century , with compliant MPs loyally following party policy . |
| 5 | Surrealism 's often alarming tentacles reached far and deep in the history of modern painting , but nowhere was its influence more multiculturated than in the art of Wifredo Lam . |
| 6 | On the other hand , existence is more placid than on the common law side . |
| 7 | In the course of four decades almost half a million pounds were produced for the king by clerical taxation , and in fact its burden was all the more concentrated because of the absence of demands in the 1360s . |
| 8 | Their position is made the more disadvantaged because of the hostility directed at them by white society . |
| 9 | A further advantage of the new index investment trust is that dealings in its shares are expected to be more liquid than in the individual shares of many smaller companies . |
| 10 | Points to make in the context of this table are , again , the very large turnover involved and the fact that profit margins are healthier and more stable than in the tour operator case . |
| 11 | This was never more humiliating than in the category Most Fanciable Male . |
| 12 | He wore his usual air of meticulously contrived casualness , and the shadow of beard round his by no means negligible jaw was a shade more perceptible than on the previous day . |
| 13 | Nowhere was the call for a new attitude more clear than in the inquiry conducted at Manchester University by Michael Sadler and his associates and published in 1907 . |
| 14 | They are well practised in choosing what they believe to be the right firm to handle a particular assignment and nowhere is this more clear than in the area of specialisation . |
| 15 | Supermarket and shop owners , having anticipated the price freeze by raising prices in advance , refused to restock with meat , milk , rice and cooking oil , claiming that it was now uneconomic to sell such products ; general shortages of basic food commodities and the growth of a black market for food were reported to be much more prevalent than during the previous four price freezes since 1986 . |
| 16 | Bargaining occurs in all political systems , but nowhere is it more prevalent than in the United States — ‘ The necessity for constant bargaining is … built into the very structure of American government . ’ |
| 17 | In such cases failure is even more painful than with a home student , and one has heard rumours of failed candidates having to return several years of fees to their government , and suffering even worse penalties . |
| 18 | And nowhere is this attitude [ opposition to wealth creation ] more marked than in the cloister and common room . |
| 19 | There is splitting in all parties , and nowhere is it more marked than in the Labour Party ( Hear , hear ) . |
| 20 | This may be due partly to the fact that , compared to the University of Wales , the Polytechnic is a relatively new arrival on the higher education scene , and partly because of the Welsh tendency , even more marked than in the rest of the country , to regard technological education as less prestigious than that in pure science and humanities . |
| 21 | Nowhere will the difference be more marked than in the attitudes towards law and order . |
| 22 | Yet , for some , physical work at night seems more demanding than during the daytime and this is clearly another disadvantage for the night-worker . |
| 23 | Although European markets will be later than Britain in feeling any economic recovery coming from America , the bonus for investors is that share prices remain relatively undervalued and dividend policies , traditionally less generous than in America or Britain are now catching up , chivvied by foreign and domestic investors who are more demanding than in the past . |
| 24 | The report is more interesting than by the member for South East Derbyshire er not that there 's much sex in it but if er er i it 's more interesting er sexual favours provided by B C C I officials to certain persons affiliated er with the firm . |
| 25 | To the enthusiast , the loss of no less than fourteen locomotive designs was countered by the application of highly distinctive sector liveries , all the more interesting because of the number of attempts made before the final choices were made . |
| 26 | Even before Vivien 's committal , Eliot had been much more free than in the days of his marriage ; in the summer of 1935 he was with Emily Hale in Gloucestershire , and also visited the Fabers in Wales . |
| 27 | Language work in the final year is more specialized than in the first two years and includes translation and précis writing in administrative , technical and commercial registers of the languages , as well as some interpreting . |
| 28 | The wide entitlement to reliefs and rebates , which the government insisted were more generous than under the rates ; the existence of safety nets to redistribute income between certain authorities ; and the immediate introduction of capping all fudged the relationship between councils and voters . |
| 29 | Mr Jackson adds that salaries are much more performance-related than in the past . |
| 30 | As overhauled cars returned from Hendon , route boards were fitted just below the saloon windows , where they were more accessible than in the old position on the upper deck . |