Example sentences of "more [adv] [conj] [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | De Choiseul recognised , even more acutely than de Broglie , that no invasion was possible without defeating the Royal Navy . |
| 2 | More importantly , they adapted to the conditions far more effectively than Gavin Hastings ' band of teetotallers . |
| 3 | For the last decade , such accolades have been heard more rarely since Mr Swinton chose a hermit 's life in the West Country and no paintings of his have come before the Selection Committee at the Royal Academy since he left London . |
| 4 | And no-one entertained more lavishly , more sumptuously , more successfully than Mrs Katherine Lundy . |
| 5 | At the time no one denounced it more fiercely than Ayatollah Khomeini , whom the Shah had exiled in 1964 for his fierce opposition tot he Pahlavi regime . |
| 6 | Though Clinton may have clinched most of the Jewish vote with his down-the-line promise to treat Israel more gently than President Bush does , the irony is that , for Jews and gentiles alike , his blatant Big Apple vote-seeking has done nothing to make him look principled or even presidential . |
| 7 | Whatever his standing with Catholics ( and for a short time it was high ) , he was set on a collision course with the representatives of traditional unionism and with no representative more so than Ian R. K. Paisley . |
| 8 | I think that 's the trouble ; I 'm very recognisable ; much more so than Paul McCartney walking through Soho in a beard . ’ |
| 9 | Mwangaza seemed dedicated , even more so than Mambo Leo , to opposing the nationalists . |
| 10 | ‘ In the 55 years I 've been at Paramount we 've lost a lot of giants , none more so than Hal Roach , ’ AC Lyles said in a tribute to his old friend . |
| 11 | Some corners missed part of it altogether , none more so than Low Birk Hatt Even during the last decade before the dawn of the twenty-first century , the prospect of water on tap there was still problematical . |
| 12 | The leaders , men-at-arms and levies of the lords and knights chafed sorely at this delay , none more so than Will Douglas . |
| 13 | Local centre events were often challenging as well as rewarding and perhaps none more so than South Cumbria 's ‘ Operation Isolate ’ . |
| 14 | The committee did sterling work on the hospitality front , and one more so than Gill Weymouth and the Social Committee who organised a credit trivia quiz . |
| 15 | The futility of war is thought about by everyone , but none more so than Wilfred Owen . |
| 16 | None more so than captain Graham Gooch who , although he could not deliver the Government the fillip of a World Cup win , appeared alongside another cricket-loving leader , John Major , at one of his election rallies . |
| 17 | The team that was made up of the remnants from Roxburgh 's original squad — and three of those conscripted to compensate for nine weekend call-offs — distinguished themselves at Ibrox and none more so than Duncan Ferguson , of Dundee United . |
| 18 | Lydia lies more comfortably than baby Hoskins , the angle of the corpse vis-à-vis the pillow being less exaggerated . |
| 19 | Why are discount stores able to sell goods more cheaply than High Street retailers ? |
| 20 | Alex spoke more quickly and Michael Banks lost the flow less often . |
| 21 | In this case , it would be hard to find language indicating more clearly that Mr Clayton intended the land to be preserved and managed as playing fields for all time , or at least for as long as the law permitted . |
| 22 | Today he was wearing a clerical collar , as was , more often than Canon Wheeler , his habit . |
| 23 | Jim Baxter 's name would crop up more often than Ronnie Biggs . |
| 24 | But America 's top shops are learning to apply their bar-code data in ways that might surprise a good many customers who shop more often than Mr Bush — and that signal big changes ahead for store managers , as well . |
| 25 | Sir Geoffrey spoke more cautiously than Mr Heseltine when he urged ‘ the energetic use of existing agencies and resources , private and public sector alike , to give potentially fruitful initiatives a helping hand ’ , and praised the work of the Welsh Development Agency . |
| 26 | " It would be incorrect " , noted Nizan , " to think that this decision in any way heralds a spectacular reversal in the policy of the USSR … continuity is the essential characteristic of Soviet foreign policy , and nobody has outlined the principles of this policy more forcefully than M. Molotov " . |
| 27 | Massingham hated to leave a scene of crime even temporarily while the body was still there , and he would go the more unwillingly because Kate Miskin , back now from Campden Hill Square , was to stay . |
| 28 | that is more than Mark Enson and Mark Nicholas earned from their benefits , more even than Kenny Dalglish has been able to spend on building up Blackburn Rovers into a middle-of-the-table Second Division team . |
| 29 | In combination with his ardent desire to improve the living standard of the British working man , this made for a potent brand of imperialism ; few politicians took the Dual Mandate more seriously than Ernest Bevin . |