Example sentences of "more [adj] [conj] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In complex societies there is a significant and often decisive unevenness , as the systems which train these inherent and constituted resources become more professional and more masterly . |
| 2 | Other people may find more low-key but equally powerful ways of working with their thoughts and feelings , gaining insight into the causes of their distress . |
| 3 | ' However eager sceptical Victorians might be to replace the superstitious world of their forefathers with a structure that seemed to them more solid and more rational , the alternative , namely that they lived in a meaningless world of chance , was repellent to many of them . |
| 4 | ‘ Citrus smells make people more alert and more likely to dash off . |
| 5 | While other ways of making money become more respectable and sometimes laudable , developers are still seen as the spiritual heirs of Victorian millowners and slum landlords , people who , even as they tear the hearts out of cities , simultaneously give then a fatal sclerosis . |
| 6 | It talks about one budget covering for the two centres and it also talks about two heads of centres which is more practicable and more rational than any other s situation that would have been if the merger decision would have stayed . |
| 7 | More armed and extremely dangerous Irishmen in true tabloid style : THE FRAMES , Island Records ' folk knees-up answer to ANDREW STRONG , were arrested at Dublin Airport last week for being in possession of high-velocity water guns . |
| 8 | That would mean overcoming shortcomings in the democratic answerability of the EC institutions by making the the Commission ‘ more strong and more effective ’ . |
| 9 | Often an arrangement is accepted as being faster , more cost-effective and more humane . |
| 10 | More subtle but equally important changes were the cleaning and straightening of water courses , the ploughing up of herb-rich grassland , and the construction of modern farm buildings , out of scale and out of character with the traditional landscape . |
| 11 | There is , however , something of a quantitative scale whereby the more important to us a particular belief may be , the more subtle and even ambiguous will be the evidence for it . |
| 12 | Otherwise it took more subtle and even secret forms — such as the semi-secret societies among stockmen like ‘ the horseman 's word ’ . |
| 13 | The morals and ethics are obvious , the comedy more subtle and highly entertaining . |
| 14 | On the other hand , there are different levels and degrees of both conformity and dissent , and in a context where prevailing versions of good practice tended to emphasize the visual and organizational , a strategic surface conformity allowed the more subtle and perhaps significant aspects of practice to be retained and underlying attitudes and assumptions to persist . |
| 15 | Further , taking features that are directly and simply encoded in one language , one may well be able to find the same features encoded in more subtle and less visible ways in either the structure or the use of other languages . |
| 16 | Another interactive approach is more phenomenological , aiming to take into account the influence of informal interest groups ‘ such as civil rights and student power ( where ) changes in values and attitudes of a more subtle and less deliberate kind are developing ’ ( Kelly , 1982 ) ' . |
| 17 | Work-group norms are usually more subtle and less universal and relate to behaviour within a part of the organization . |
| 18 | ‘ It is always safer to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem . ’ |
| 19 | Like Palumbo , they embody an image of developers both more friendly and more respectable : Bradman is a prominent Friend of the Earth ; Lipton is a member of the Royal Fine Arts Committee . |
| 20 | The match-guising results were interesting because instead of the typical prestige of the standard language , and the attractiveness of a dia You know a If you did R P and say er Cockney , you 'd probably get people saying that their R P was prestigious but the cockney was sort of more you know y more friendly and more attractive accent . |
| 21 | They are not more controversial nor more evaluative than some of the psychological facts available to the parties , such as the Aristotelian principle and the considerations concerning self-respect on which the priority of liberty is based ( cf. sections 65 , 67 , and 82 ) . |
| 22 | This category is much more controversial and inherently implausible , as it contains the alleged abductions of humans on board a UFO . |
| 23 | Although wound discomfort is usually fairly short lived , nerve injury during the operation occurs after somewhere between 1 in 100 and 1 in 10 hernia operations and this can lead to more persistent or even permanent pain , discomfort or numbness over the groin , the base of the penis , and the upper part of the thigh . |
| 24 | The use of more persistent and less volatile compounds such as the chloramines has posed a serious problem for many fishkeepers . |
| 25 | Are their emotions in fact dictated by the current situation , or do they display emotional reactions which are more persistent and more complex than they can articulate in words ? |
| 26 | Yalikavak and Bitez have similar wind patterns to Vassiliki , but the daily wind arrives much earlier , it 's more persistent and more frequent . |
| 27 | I was delighted with the attribution of a motive more understandable and more worthy than in biblical and Miltonic tradition and was lost in admiration of the boldness that could characterize the Supreme Being . |
| 28 | There were two servants still : the woman he had glimpsed , and a steward more frail and more sullen . |
| 29 | Conscious of his pioneering role in this respect , and in thereby ‘ opening up ’ Siberia to the prospect of a more orderly and civically developed future , Speranskii compared himself , rather immodestly , with the traditional ‘ discoverer ’ of Siberia , Yermak . |
| 30 | Anti-Darwinian versions of evolutionism flourished in the later decades of the century because they upheld the view that natural development is a more orderly and more purposeful process than natural selection would allow . |