Example sentences of "more [adj] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unheard-of losses and strains of the war years greatly strengthened , at least in Britain , the pressures for a new order in foreign policy and diplomacy , for policies more democratically decided and diplomacy more openly conducted by men more representative of society in general . |
| 2 | A study by Parker , however , using a national sample , reached conclusions which were slightly more supportive of labour mobility programmes : Only 13 per cent of his sample said they would not have moved without a grant but 56 per cent said they would have found it difficult to move without a grant . |
| 3 | Tally , of Tally 's Corner , is another key informant , and Liebow ( 1967 ) acknowledges that this may mean that the account given in the book is more that of Tally himself than of others who lived around the street corner . |
| 4 | Other critics say New York children are already more tolerant of homosexuality than any other major city in the world . |
| 5 | The officer on a tidal river will be much more tolerant of pollution : one , for example , took a murky-looking sample of the discharge from a sand and gravel works which he described as ‘ a bit high ’ in suspended solids . |
| 6 | erm The other expedient which he suggested , so far as I know , although I do n't believe there 's been any sociological research into this , is that people should become more tolerant of adultery , and that occasional adventures should be able to be reconciled with monogamous marriage . |
| 7 | They were also more tolerant of ambiguity and contradiction . |
| 8 | Could this be a prelude to a trade war even more destructive of world prosperity than a military war ? |
| 9 | Lexical lookup is more demanding of storage and processing but is better at rejecting unacceptable letter strings . |
| 10 | In view of the interviewer 's role in the discourse , it is not clear how far or how reliably such an extended interview really does resemble spontaneous conversation ; but Labov 's schema is likely to be less demanding of the fieldworker , more economical of time and resources , and so not subject to the same range of disadvantages as the participant observation methods of the Belfast community studies . |
| 11 | Lucker is more afraid of sex than me . |
| 12 | Instead I had to sit and watch him produce the belt , and although he seemed pleased enough with it the incident left me even more empty of joy than before . |
| 13 | For those who sought symbols in inanimate objects its message was both simple and expedient , that man , by his own intelligence and his own efforts , could understand and master his world , could make his transitory life more agreeable , more comfortable , more free of pain . |
| 14 | Snobbery may provide one answer : in his supposed solidarity with his own kind , he may not have wished to suggest that a tenant farmer could prove more generous of spirit than the laird . |
| 15 | I opened my eyes to the sound of yet more crashing of dustbin lids , gales of laughter and the occasional scream coming from behind the bushes . |
| 16 | ‘ They just try and make the criminal more fearful of crime but more laws do not mean less crime we have seen that with all their previous measures . |
| 17 | The 1989 Home Office report found that victims of burglary become more fearful of street crime as well . |
| 18 | But the more profiles are concerned with qualities of character and extra-curricular activities , the more intrusive of privacy they seem ; and , perhaps more relevant to the present enquiry , the less they have to do with the actual school curriculum . |
| 19 | Such attempts to find solutions in the discourse of everyday were more typical of lawyer C. |
| 20 | In so far as it applies to Arabic , for instance , it suggests that an ego-centred pattern which is perfectly feasible and natural in English has to be replaced in most contexts by a process-centred pattern which is far more typical of Arabic . |
| 21 | Although horses only see in black and white , which is really varying forms of grey like in black and white photographs , they are much more conscious of colour than we would expect . |
| 22 | Teachers are probably more conscious of teaching knowledge and skills than they are of passing on attitudes , yet if , as former medical students themselves , they were to identify ideals in teaching the chances are that those ideals would be closely associated with one or two of their own teachers whose attitudes and behaviour made the most favourable impression at an impressionable age . |
| 23 | It is perhaps fair to say that while the balances are maintained , we are on the whole more conscious of evil as an objective power and of good as a subjective impulse ; Mordor and ‘ the Shadow ’ are nearer and more visible than the Valar or ‘ luck ’ . |
| 24 | The inclusion of sculptural elements into a given context makes one more conscious of time , not by slowing it down to a state of meditation , but rather by particularising time through the experience of the work in context . |
| 25 | Maybe modern man is more stoical of nature , or perhaps , and this is more likely , there has been a real change in the symptom-producing capabilities of the gonococcus . |
| 26 | For instance , it would surely seem reasonable to suggest that a theory that anticipates and leads to the discovery of new phenomena , in the way Clerk Maxwell 's theory led to the discovery of radio waves , is more worthy of merit and more justifiable than a law or theory devised to account for phenomena already known and not leading to the discovery of new ones . |
| 27 | The distinction between public law and private law interests seems to rest on the assumption that the latter are in some way more important and more worthy of protection than the former . |
| 28 | ‘ We dined this day , ’ writes Johnson , ‘ at the house of Mr Frazer of Streichton , who shewed us in his grounds some stones yet standing of a druidical circle , and what I began to think more worthy of notice , some forest trees of full growth . ’ |
| 29 | Kate had lost a husband and Charles a daughter — the only child of her father and he a widower — and I thought them more worthy of compassion . |
| 30 | It is probably true that , indeed , ‘ in this period there is no major occupational group more worthy of compassion than the rural labourer ’ . |