Example sentences of "more [adv] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The setting is nearly as horrible as the inn-parlour in Great Expectations — and each is perhaps more acutely in love than any character in English fiction since Pip . |
| 2 | On the one hand are those adult educators who see in it exciting possibilities to extend the concept of adult learning , making it more relevant to the issues and problems facing ‘ disadvantaged ’ groups , helping them to participate more effectively in society , gaining more recognition and resources , removing gross inequalities and injustices . |
| 3 | When I say we will invest in the young , I mean , for example , that we 'll invest far more effectively in education and training . |
| 4 | It is difficult to avoid the impression that we , as a profession , and the Institute in particular , have so far been too willing to accept unwarranted criticism in the past and that we must respond far more effectively in future if we are to limit the damage caused by corporate failures . |
| 5 | People expect that the cheque-book will be opened more discriminatingly in future , that the alliance between the Gulf states will be strengthened , and that Egypt will be the principal regional ally . |
| 6 | The schoolfellows had been appointed to the Racer together through the efforts of a family friend of the Rogerses , and they serve together for much of their time at sea , occasionally allotted to different ships so as to give the author freedom to range more widely in space and circumstance . |
| 7 | Jefferson , a comparative radical among the constitution makers , proposed , for his own state of Virginia , measures to distribute land more widely in order to enfranchise as many as possible of the male and free population . |
| 8 | One of the earlier attempts to account for this residual precession was by the astronomer Le Verrier , to whom I shall introduce you more properly in Chapter 13 . |
| 9 | This agenda-setting thesis is very plausible and usually treated as an established law of social science in introductory textbooks , though much more sceptically in research reports . |
| 10 | But that and much , much more all in store next week . |
| 11 | The comparison prompts the question whether some sort of preamble would not be a helpful adjunct to British primary legislation from the point of view of those called upon to interpret and apply it , all the more so in view of the rule ( recently modified ) against referring to Hansard as an aid to interpretation in English courts . |
| 12 | ‘ In all those years the Echo has been a necessary part of a busy daily life and even more so in retirement . |
| 13 | First that I believe the causes you serve are vital to the welfare and happiness of people in this country , and that they will become more so in future . |
| 14 | We are intimately acquainted with the state of this painter 's worn-out trousers , decaying coats , leaking boots , the money spent on his teeth , his food , his rooms , more so in fact than with any other artist . |
| 15 | Probably more so in fact , for all organisms are more seriously threatened by competition from their own species than from others . |
| 16 | In other respects they are rather mysterious — more so in fact than seems to have been widely realized . |
| 17 | Colonic mucins are also highly sulphated , more so in fact than mucins produced elsewhere in the gastrointestinal tract . |
| 18 | When a beginner joins a club the first thing he will become aware of is that great emphasis is placed upon training exercises and stretching , more so in taekwondo than in most other martial arts . |
| 19 | For Diana 's mother , fiercely proud , combative and tough-minded , it was a humiliating and unjust experience , all the more so in retrospect as nowadays it is known that the sex of the baby is determined by the man . |
| 20 | The Air Ministry was emphatic that it " was suicide to attempt air delivery — more especially in winter time " . |
| 21 | It always was a surprise , the pure majesty of the scene approaching the Alps , more especially in moonlight ; it seemed odd to me , whilst devouring this special panorama that in a short time we would be raining all the horrors of war down on people not seriously willing to fight . |
| 22 | And then , with his foundations once more rightly in place , he continues in the second half of his letter to spell out the specific relevance of faith in Christ for daily living , particularly in this arena of relationships . |
| 23 | Accordingly I ought to be able to say that at this stage his comments seem to me beside the point , or more exactly in excess of it . |
| 24 | We begin the discussion with regional policies for they have featured more prominently in government initiatives than labour mobility programmes , both as regards expenditure and public debate . |
| 25 | That is to say , credit should figure far more prominently in education than it has done in the past . |
| 26 | Attached to the webbing on the shoulder harness the chest strap stops shoulder straps from sliding sideways and so keeps the sack much more comfortably in position . |
| 27 | Nobody is going to pay £10 billion ( $17 billion ) or more just in order to destroy ICI . |
| 28 | More generally in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England and Europe , children , livestock , milk and crops were believed to be vulnerable to the witchcraft of jealous neighbours . |
| 29 | More generally in geography as a whole Chisholm ( 1967 ) dismissed the approach as formalizing what had been done before and employing ‘ a jargon-ridden statement of the obvious ’ . |
| 30 | More generally in relation to external dealings , the advantages which the City of London possesses as a major international financial centre were listed by the Wilson Committee : its historical role as centre of the pax Britannica economica ; its geographical position close to Europe and between America and Asia ; the overlap of its working day with those of both Europe and Asia ; political stability ; a high degree of integrity ; a flexible regulatory system ; a concentration of ancillary and cognate services ; and the universality of the English language . |