Example sentences of "more [adj] [to-vb] the [det] " in BNC.
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1 | Parents who themselves behave in a responsible way towards their children , making it a habit to keep them informed of their whereabouts and accounting for their own actions , are more likely to receive the same consideration in return . |
2 | 14 , it is more reasonable to ascribe the latter pavement to an assistant of a more competent mosaicist 's workshop . |
3 | Vegetation is composed of the few plants that survive and grow : to explain that vegetation it may be more important to study the many that die . |
4 | Thirdly , the debates over how far to forge a strategy either for winning power or for promoting economic development in a post-revolutionary society have not been satisfactorily resolved , and indeed perhaps can not be , given that counter-revolutionary response to any successful formula will ensure that it will be that much more difficult to apply the same tactics in another situation . |
5 | Later , when distance made such bonds unrealistic in everyday terms , the nuclear family became isolated , friendless , and therefore all the more determined to maintain the former sustaining links by whatever means were available . |
6 | On the other hand , it may be more efficient to make the same investment to acquire additional taxable profits to absorb the ACT . |