Example sentences of "more [prep] [noun sg] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modern Rythmic Gymnastics is more about poise than power … its grace not gusto … is it a sport or is it art … theyre arguingthat one out but you ca n't deny its style and skill … |
| 2 | Its actual pace often seems to him interchangeable with Allegro , both words indicating more about character than speed . |
| 3 | The second was more about pressure than pace , as the pack bulldozed through for Paul Ashmead to score . |
| 4 | English fans feel that the emphasis on fast bowling in the last fifteen years has been greatly to the game 's detriment , leading to the continuing decline of the spinner , a lack of variety , slow over rates , broken bones and a situation where batting is more about courage than skill . |
| 5 | Is concerned more about justice than charity . |
| 6 | From the castle he ruled the lake , more as pirate than governor , choosing just the right moment to sell the fortress to the Milanese during the time of the Spanish-French war . |
| 7 | Edwards nodded and said , more as assertion than question , ‘ Dead ? ’ |
| 8 | Gently , I extracted them from the soil with the trowel I 'd brought more as alibi than implement . |
| 9 | While Jane makes a living from her pottery skills using a workshop set up in the garage , her father regards art more as pleasure than source of income . |
| 10 | The uniform , designed more for seduction than aggression , was created by Mr Pierre Balmain who won a pre-podium skirmish with designers Lacroix , Lapidus and Cacherel . |
| 11 | We will continue to argue for employment for all and will continue to criticize unequal development , discriminatory development , low-budget development and development designed more for propaganda than progress . |
| 12 | A cannon or two have been placed around a modern Scandinavian-type house , more for ornament than effectiveness . |
| 13 | However , she allowed him to squire her to the desk , without comment and with a straight face , told him the number of her key , though keys were almost an affectation at ‘ The Salmon 's Return ’ , more for ornament than use , and let him take it down for her and escort her to the foot of the oak staircase , which wound in slightly drunken lurches about a narrow well , the polished treads hollowed by centuries of use . |
| 14 | Mother was dressed more for sun-bathing than fishing , a homemade top being held in position whilst she tried to master the art of casting — much to the discomfort of an angler nearby ; one of the old school : tie , sports jacket , plus fours , deer stalker and gillie . |
| 15 | The chassis seems to be set up more for stability than agility . |
| 16 | Lunch on the mountain is the norm in many areas , but in most it is consumed in cafeterias designed more for efficiency than atmosphere , and even these are not immune from crowding . |
| 17 | The minister Nicholas Breton , for example , noted in 1603 that his parishioners ‘ came to service more for fashion than devotion ’ , while the preacher John Angier of Denton in Lancashire believed that his parishioners came ‘ for no other purpose but to sleep , as if the sabbath were made only to recover that sleep they have lost in the week ’ . |
| 18 | This was only partly true : but for her pock-marked skin she would have been much sought after : as it was she had been pursued more through calculation than desire . |
| 19 | Gina was anorexically thin , more through meanness than design ; she only ate when other people provided . |
| 20 | At national level they may be concerned to shift land policies more towards production than consumption purposes . |
| 21 | I sometimes thought that the social considerations of people like my mother militated more against religion than atheism or simple sin . |
| 22 | It is more like extermination than regulation . ’ |
| 23 | More like folksong than chant , it reflects the Community 's concern to relate worship and prayer to social issues . |
| 24 | Leaving behind low living standards and poor conditions in work and study seems more like rejection than adaptation . |
| 25 | We may generalize from very limited samples : for example we may say , echoing the words of Michael Flanders ' and Donald Swann 's lovely song of patriotic prejudice that the Irishman ‘ sleeps in his boots and lies in his teeth ’ , that the Welshman is ‘ dishonest , little and dark — more like monkey than man ’ or that the Scotsman is ‘ mean , bony , blotchy and covered with hair ’ . |
| 26 | The stuff looked more like plastic than metal , now , and it was definitely spreading . |
| 27 | I had been touched by his kindness to my aunts , though later on it seemed more like arrogance than virtue . |
| 28 | It sounded more like anger than injury . |
| 29 | It was very shiny , very fluffy , very pretty — more like icing than toothpaste . |
| 30 | ‘ British men 's judo is not in a very good state , ’ he said , more with honesty than pessimism . |