Example sentences of "more [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The term ivory has also been applied more loosely to a number of other substances . |
| 2 | For them , negotiation , in the form of bargaining , can proceed more effectively through a process of bluff and ambush , which is inimical to the demands of justice . |
| 3 | R&D consortia which include films that produce different products using the same basic technological knowledge may also be able to segment user markets , price discriminating more effectively as a group than they are able to do when they act independently and earning a higher return on their R&D activities . |
| 4 | It is usually more difficult to deal more effectively with a complaint if it is reported at a later date . |
| 5 | In practice , by 1975 , the resistance to this approach proved so great that settlement was the real objective , with the justification that farming families could be supported in every way — agriculturally , medically and educationally — much more effectively on a group basis . |
| 6 | Both of these goals can be achieved more effectively without an evaluation charade . |
| 7 | There had been another ace , this time hit even more courageously with a second serve , to prevent Sampras breaking back to 4–5 in the third set . |
| 8 | Tutoring ideas could be used much more widely as a way of helping both older and younger students , for example with older pupils helping younger ones in their own schools . |
| 9 | When such a person breaches his fiduciary relationship , he may be treated more properly as a tipper than a tippee . |
| 10 | Although many women have the confidence to wear softer clothes rather than masculine suits in order to be taken seriously , the wider choice can bring confusion about exactly what to wear , not only at the office but more importantly at a job interview . |
| 11 | Although many women have the confidence to wear softer clothes rather than masculine suits in order to be taken seriously , the wider choice can bring confusion about exactly what to wear , not only at the office but more importantly at a job interview . |
| 12 | His deification as the patron of craftsmen , but more importantly as a god of wisdom , medicine and healing , had occurred by the Late Period and he was thus identified by the Greeks with their god of medicine , Asclepios . |
| 13 | Still more so for a policeman . |
| 14 | If religious example , and to a lesser extent philosophical theory , can influence our moral decisions , then that an action is legal or illegal will probably have even greater significance ; less so for an old lag , more so for a judge . |
| 15 | The potential saving compared to paying for a childminder can be considerable ; more so for a nanny . |
| 16 | R. Louis Stevenson remarked ‘ it is worth a climb even in Summer to look down upon the lock from Arthur 's Seat , but it is tenfold more so on a day of Skating ’ . |
| 17 | All this is exceedingly American and seems even more so at a time , in the cinema at least , where men love men best and occasionally try for sex with women . |
| 18 | Conversation thus tended to be laconic and allusive and it sometimes scarcely seemed to possess a thread of connection between one remark and the next : this was however an illusion , seductive enough to a stranger ignorant of background , all the more so to a stranger not fully in command of the language . |
| 19 | This is a heady prospect , the more so during a recession . |
| 20 | She felt downright uncomfortable ; there could be something poignantly intimate about sharing the half-darkness of a car with a man — particularly when a tape played some soft Neapolitan music — and more especially with a man of Luke 's charisma . |
| 21 | This may be seen not only from a detailed breakdown of the sacrificial prescriptions in terms of the sex of the victim chosen for particular occasions , but more especially from an analysis of two other rituals which appeared on the scene at the same time : covenantal ( male ) circumcision and the regulations surrounding menstruation and childbirth . |
| 22 | Bacon and bread can be eaten more easily as a sandwich than as separate items . |
| 23 | But ( as medieval quacks knew ) more easily for a time , with the patient bled of his humours . |
| 24 | It is important to recognise this , for an acceptance of this fundamental point leads more easily to an understanding of the reasons which caused an increase in the military significance of those who did not fight on horseback . |
| 25 | Can you pour water into the bottle more easily from a jug or a bowl ? |
| 26 | Anyway , maybe he could say what he felt more easily in a letter . |
| 27 | IBM Corp last week took its first step towards saving the AS/400 from going the way of the mainframe when it accompanied the new F models with a string of software offerings and initiatives designed to make the machine sit more comfortably as a database server in an open systems environment . |
| 28 | It seems to be happening far too often , and I wonder i I wonder what 's actually going wrong that this happening so often and in so many places , seems to be something that you know , perhaps we need to address it far more generally as a problem of housing management as a whole . |
| 29 | Large-scale redundancies , particularly where the company employs a sizeable proportion of the workforce , are liable to result in a substantial reduction in local purchasing power ; this may in turn have a knock-on effect on other local businesses and on local tax revenues and hence municipally-provided services , and the ensuing high level of unemployment is likely to contribute more generally to a weakening of community relations . |
| 30 | More generally in a report by the Swiss-based IMD and World Economic Forum entitled ‘ The World Competitiveness report ’ Singapore and Malaysia both boast higher domestic savings than Japan and Switzerland , ranking first and third in the world . |