Example sentences of "more [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A more intensively studied pathway is that leading from the cerci or paraprocts through the last abdominal ganglion up ascending giant axons in the ventral nerve cord .
2 ( Both Spanish and Italian lute-composers used the terms ‘ tiento ’ and ‘ ricercare ’ for the more loosely constructed type of piece . )
3 Delegates voted in favour of becoming a political party rather than remaining a more loosely organized movement , and approved a draft statute emphasizing the development of a market economy and support for private business .
4 At Annesley , Nottinghamshire , is a more discreetly dressed gentleman of similar date , whose loosely wrapped winding-sheet is drawn down , rather than parted , to show the facial features , shoulder-length hair and a delicately embroidered cap .
5 The central figure on this occasion was the more locally known organizer , Margaret Irwin of Glasgow , acknowledged to be an expert on women 's trades in Scotland . ] "
6 The pavements are packed to overflowing with spectators and yet more immaculately dressed clown children .
7 The thousand pound machine he 's riding is called a recumbant , it 's faster than the usual type of racing bike and has the added advantage of giving it 's rider , as the name suggests , a more leisurely riding position .
8 It seems highly probable that the northern kingdom achieved a greater cohesion and a more rigorously defined hierarchy of power in the decade or so after Winwaed .
9 Panspermia , for example , is a more rigorously defined statement that precursors of organic molecules are to be found in space , which in itself is neither an original nor a controversial finding .
10 Through a sophisticated structural analysis of features ranging from window position to door latch , Glassie-reconstructs a major change taking place around the late 1870s ( 1975 : 182 , 185 ) , in which chimneys and central halls became incorporated into the main building , and a new concern with symmetry appears , along with a homogenization of the exterior around a more conspicuously ordered façade .
11 Europen — which is making a gradual transition from the academic roots of its EUUG days to a more commercially led organisation , has a long-established record of technical conferences through Europe , while UniForum 's last US show and conference attracted 35,000 attendees .
12 Since a more widely ranging survey of Ernst 's art , selected by leading authority , Werner Spies , and attempting , not entirely convincingly , to rehabilitate the artist 's later work , took place at the Tate Gallery in 1991 and was shown in Stuttgart and Dusseldorf , this exhibition will not be presented in any European museum .
13 Bernard Jacobson is showing ten landscape paintings dating from 1940–60 ( to 1 April ) as part of his series of exhibitions devoted to modern and contemporary landscape art , and there is a more widely ranging survey of his long and prolific career at Waddington ( 3 March-3 April ) .
14 The inference here is that the volcano spacing is controlled by fracture patterns in the lithosphere , with increasingly thick lithosphere exhibiting progressively more widely spaced fracture patterns through which magma is extruded .
15 When Friends of the Earth researched the tapwater survey of England and Wales run in the Observer in 1989 , they found that lead exceeded the legal limit in a far larger and more widely distributed number of supplies than had previously been supposed .
16 a pattern of change and influence in considerable contrast to the more widely held image of the Georgian squire as a wine-swilling glutton intent largely on the pleasures of the chase .
17 They make up the active elements of inflammation , and are concentrated in ‘ lymphoid tissue ’ such as : the tonsils ; the ‘ glands ’ in the groin , armpit and neck ( more properly called lymph nodes ) ; and the spleen which lies next to the stomach in the abdomen , as well as the bone marrow where they are made .
18 In summary , Paint and Create does very little that has not been done elsewhere — but what it does achieve is to bring together in one coherent and consistent product a series of easy to use enjoyable programs that will delight the younger user , and more importantly provoke use of imagination and of creative thought .
19 The launch of the RSi model in April 1993 added further to the choice of engine types available with a more highly tuned version of the 8-valve 1.8-litre petrol engine .
20 This unit was supplemented in April 1993 by a more highly tuned version for the RSi model .
21 With the change from a nomadic and food-gathering to an agricultural and more highly organized form of society , man 's anxiety about himself and the animals that he hunted merged into a wider anxiety about nature .
22 The House was , as I recollect it , in a rather more highly charged mood than is usual when it discusses European matters .
23 In other words , those Scottish companies covered are far more highly rated pro-rata .
24 They appear only to be concerned with the present and future quality of the labour market and the need to have a better and more highly trained workforce .
25 During the summer months it was possible to get a much more highly paid job as a housecleaner , a ‘ barker ’ or a bingo-caller or a taxi driver , and so the winter job of working in a factory was a ‘ stop gap ’ .
26 This trade carried on for many years , but as a result of more advantageously located competition , it finally ceased working in about 1930 .
27 If a conventional game can appear so fragile , how much more so does drama with its less explicit rules .
28 If , as Honoré Bouvet wrote , the soldier who acted qua soldier did so as the king 's deputy , all the more so did war 's new leaders act in his name .
29 France has a huge network of minor roads , a much more sparsely populated country , and a motoring public who are , by and large , aware of cyclists and considerate towards them .
30 And down in the highlands of the south there is the extremely rare mountain zebra , with bold but more vertically arranged flank stripes .
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