Example sentences of "more [adj] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These results are based on considerably expanded sample sizes so may be accepted as being more representative of the expected performance within each domain . |
| 2 | It is a passage that clearly portrays an intimate similarity between the two characters , although the wife is in some telling respects the more subtle of the two , reflecting the feminine cunning that is so typical of fabliau wives . |
| 3 | but I know the feeling of being a member of a brave band of right-minded guys and gals , charged with responsibility no outsider can imagine , working all hours , with bright minds often in good-looking heads , growing ever more contemptuous of the villainous obstructers out there with little faith , less vision and a paucity of patriotism . |
| 4 | It was always intended that the more usual of the two would be what Volvo term ‘ straight-line assembly ’ , where work in one team area is divided among four or five stations , placed one after the other in the direction of production flow . |
| 5 | The Second Quartet , composed in 1951 , is a far more concise work in a much freer tonal idiom , mostly avoiding the elaborate texture which marks the earlier quartet : perhaps for that reason I find it the more memorable of the two . |
| 6 | Technical Manager or Production Engineer — the latter title is the more popular of the two , in practice , although the former is probably a better description of the role . |
| 7 | A clear and detailed historical account of this event is given by Ammianus Marcellinus , who has always been accepted as one of the more reliable of the ancient historians , although it has been recently pointed out by Professor Malcolm Todd that Theodosius I was the patron of Marcellinus , who can hardly be blamed for enlarging on the achievements of the father of the Emperor . |
| 8 | Even if you have both the parallel and serial leads connected between the two computers , Fastlynx is intelligent enough to test both and choose the faster and more reliable of the two . |
| 9 | ‘ Wright is the more doubtful of the two , ’ Bobby Robson , the England manager , said last night . |
| 10 | Yet when they returned to the trot , Hermes was the more winded of the two . |
| 11 | After a while , though , when I 'd turned down the side-street where the house was I hoped ) , there were no more sounds to frighten me , and as a result of course I grew much more afraid of the stuffed , dripping silence . |
| 12 | Bolsheviks , on the other hand , were more dismissive of the revolutionary potential of the Russian bourgeoisie , saw the peasantry as more likely allies of the proletariat , and regarded legal activity as no substitute for underground preparation for revolution . |
| 13 | As the number of counts increases the more fortunate of the continuing candidates are to be observed making their bizarre progress to victory by acquiring , like Ruari Quinn , miscellaneous parcels of votes of anything but first preference . |
| 14 | Even more indicative of the solid support which the Party hoped to achieve in the future was the weekly circulation of 20.000 copies of Challenge , paper of the Young Communist League . |
| 15 | Roy Cohn , twenty-seven , with a legal background , was the more serious of the two , with an unappealing scowl and an arrogance that would have befitted a crown prince of Prussia . |
| 16 | My own studies of export oriented zones in China ( Sklair , forthcoming ) , Egypt ( 1988c ) , Mexico ( 1989 ) , and Ireland ( 1988b ) , suggest that backward and forward linkages tend to be very meagre , and these cases may be rather more typical of the Third World as a whole than the relatively highly developed enclave , Singapore . |
| 17 | It is the originator of the Dutch Belted in the USA ( which is possibly more typical of the original breed ) and perhaps of the old sheeted cattle of the Broadlands estate in England , now extinct . |
| 18 | Coward and Lawrence ( though he was obviously the brighter , better-read and more inquisitive of the two ) belong to an all-but vanished world in which celebrity , success and acclaim were seen as a means of validating one 's existence . |
| 19 | There is no area more evocative of the organised and peaceful life of a well-ordered household than the kitchen garden . |
| 20 | And again , ‘ people are more conscious of the widening circle of violence , involving more and more the decent , public-spirited people of the province and not just riotous bullies who may be creating the violence themselves . ’ |
| 21 | No administration has been more conscious of the political power of TV or , Kennedy apart , been blessed with a more gifted exploiter of the medium as president . |
| 22 | Research in the US has shown women are more conscious of the environmental implication of the products they buy than men , and women buy 60 per cent of all disposable batteries sold there . |
| 23 | But , again judging from the US experience , this awareness will not make people much more conscious of the actual money cost of different forms of credit than they are already , nor encourage shopping around for cheaper credit . |
| 24 | The agent stopped struggling and hung there , aware of the pain in his wrists and the rasping against his skin , but even more conscious of the massive welts and blisters that covered his throbbing hand . |
| 25 | And it was also at this time , erm partly under the influence of war , partly no doubt under the influence of Freud , he began to become very much more conscious of the ugly , destructive patterns of unconscious motivation , which underlie the decorous surface of civilized life . |
| 26 | I believe that everybody in the world is becoming more conscious of the green issue . |
| 27 | This would seem the more likely of the two stories . |
| 28 | Only that he was the more likely of the two . |
| 29 | Iran was much the more populous of the two countries , with 33.6 million recorded in 1981 against Iraq 's 12 million . |
| 30 | On the train journey back south they were cheered once again as they passed through every station , and this time Charlie felt they were more worthy of the hatted ladies ' respect . |