Example sentences of "more [adj] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With Nigel Clough withdrawn into a defensive position , Forest looked more solid at the back — even though they conceded a 12th minute Rod Wallace goal that gave Leeds fleeting hope of registering their first away win for almost 12 months . |
| 2 | We 've re-aligned our cost space which makes us more profitable at the existing levels of demand and potentially very profitable indeed er er when you consider that we have the capacity to respond to any upturn in demand without increasing our costs . |
| 3 | ‘ We 've proved we can do it , and we 're more innovative at the moment than the Americans , ’ says Steve , who admits his career would have been far more difficult without the success of groups like Soul II Soul . |
| 4 | You may think of Simply Red as being more hollow at the centre than wild and crazy guys , but this shows neat exuberance and Hucknall 's increasingly inspired songs . |
| 5 | Norm was more pleasant at the dinner table when the boys were not there . |
| 6 | low eighty , low eighty it various from season to season as upholstery is more popular or less popular as beds are more popular at the |
| 7 | Further , discomfort is much more prevalent at the base of an organization than it is at the top , both physically and psychologically . |
| 8 | to back him through thick and thin , but not before I had consulted the eight or nine senior legal Members ( some of them more distinguished at the Bar than myself ) and got their promises of support . |
| 9 | But Sir George , as Roland had calculated , was more alarmed at the thought of pilgrimages of Leonora Stern than aware of the possibilities of Cropper and Blackadder . |
| 10 | There is dispute as to whether cutting is more likely at the time of menstruation ( Simpson 1976 ) . |
| 11 | He might have been a minor orator , not quite in the senate , nor yet on the stage , more likely at the Bar of some prosperous provincial town ; in fact he had made his early and relatively modest pile in some wholesale business . |
| 12 | There was , of course , now a great deal more interest in Eliot than in the play , but he had stipulated in advance that he was not to be subjected to any form of publicity : no press conferences , no interviews , no speeches ; as a result , he was much more relaxed at the first night and was even able to laugh at his own jokes . |
| 13 | These are said to indicate two broad phases , one apparently following the line of the mid to late second-century north-south cross-street , which is especially prominent towards the western end of the defended enclosure , the other seemingly having its own distinctive alignment more akin to the line of the road running north from the main crossroads ; this is more obvious at the eastern end , and might therefore be earlier in origin . |
| 14 | This needs to be said , because some churches feel more competent at the analysis than the action . |
| 15 | Benny had been even more astounded at the questions Patsy felt free to ask . |
| 16 | He was far more impressed at the fair in Guérande , an old fortified town north-west of St Nazaire , which he visited during his walking tour of Brittany with Du Camp in 1847 . |
| 17 | ‘ I considered it more important at the time , ’ he confesses . |
| 18 | Reductions in manufacturing employment were even more dramatic at the LLMA level , 1971–87 ( Table 5.6 ) , and were compounded by the disproportionate dependence on manufacturing of many of Britain 's provincial cities , especially Birmingham and Sheffield . |
| 19 | Bottom currents were probably weak throughout the glacial episodes , but evidence from both the northern Rockall Trough and the Faeroe -Shetland Channel suggests that the bottom currents became more vigorous at the onset of an interglacial regime as temperatures increased . |
| 20 | I WAS more startled at the amount Mr Lamont was allowed to run up on his card rather than his doing it in the first place . |
| 21 | You need to be far more dynamic at the front , launching yourself at all sorts of angles . |
| 22 | The world champion may not be worried about the £500 fine handed out for throwing the last game of his bizarre straight-games loss to Jahangir Khan in the final of last month 's Stuttgart Open , but he should be more concerned at the zero computer points assigned him for the Stuttgart tournament , which may enable Jahangir to overtake him in the New Year rankings , plus the fact that any further misdemeanour will probably mean draconian punishment . |
| 23 | But more recently , as companies have become more and more concerned at the escalating costs of purchasing and maintaining increasingly advanced technological capabilities , fundamental questions are being asked as to how the use of IT gives a company strategic advantage — if it does [ Earl ( 1988 ) ; Bruce ( 1988 ) ] . |
| 24 | Now , with the physical signs so very apparent , Celia was even more concerned at the prospect of confronting her . |
| 25 | The girl seemed to be more concerned at the loss of the eggs than her home , Christina noticed . |
| 26 | It all makes me even more angry at the injustice of the situation , and then I worry that I am passing on that anger when I 'm with the boys . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Interest groups are more vociferous at the planning stages . |
| 28 | Maxim wondered why he was n't more shocked at the instinctive distrust implied by that decision , and sighed as he realised it was because he 'd been nearly six months in the atmosphere of Whitehall . |
| 29 | Nevertheless they were considerably more evangelical at the turn of the century than they are now . |
| 30 | If the commission , which since its inception has been the CIVC 's ComCon ( Commission Consultative ) , required a yardstick on which to base their annual increase or decrease of production limits , then it would have been more rational at the time to term the figure , whether or not it was actually 50 hectolitres per hectare , an average for the region . |