Example sentences of "more [adv] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The walls were normally constructed of Kentish ragstone , with or without tile bonding courses , or more rarely of brick ; some , though , were constructed with clay , a not uncommon feature in the south-east of Britain . |
| 2 | It is exactly this point which D. J. Enright makes in the observation that ‘ Plato may once have thought more highly of speech than of writing , but I doubt he does now ! ’ |
| 3 | More so of Father than of Mother . |
| 4 | Thus , to grasp properly the significance of popular dancing in the mid-nineteenth century — the waltz , for example — it is necessary to look not only at the waltz culture of the popular classes but also at such factors as : the peasant sources of the waltz ; the use made of those sources in bourgeois culture ; the changing social relations involved in the growth of industrial capitalism , to which the romanticizing of popular culture found in bourgeois waltzing , together with its cultivation of an explicit sensuality , was probably a reaction ; the tendency of the social developments to result in the atomization of established collective social patterns and modes of corporeal expression , leading , among avant-garde composers , to a music more overtly of thought and feeling , as against a music of social gesture ; the way these same composers , by way of reaction to that situation , incorporated spiritualized versions of dance elements in their music . |
| 5 | Third , there is the problem of universal knowledge , or more generally of knowledge by inference . |
| 6 | It is the behaviour of E or G as a function of frequency or time , or more usually of temperature that constitutes the relaxation experiment . |
| 7 | Here he died , after a short illness , perhaps , as his nephew 's biography says , of a liver disorder , but more probably of gaol-fever , debility and the shock of re-arrest , coming on top of the disappointment of all his worldly hopes . |
| 8 | It is now time to examine in more detail the intricate relationships between plants and animals , beginning with ‘ predation ’ of plants by animals , or herbivory , its extent and plant resistance to it , then the interactions that are more clearly of advantage to plants , namely dispersal of propagules ( i.e. genetic material at the diploid level ) and pollination of flowers ( i.e. dispersal of genetic material at the haploid level ) . |
| 9 | mail on the list is getting more and more out of order every day . |
| 10 | It 's just like the programme except the info in it is a bit more out of date and it 's about twice the size . |
| 11 | ‘ What are you doing here ? ’ they both asked at once , and immediately both laughed , more out of relief than humour . |
| 12 | She took on the ‘ difficult ’ painter more out of sympathy for Zborowski 's hopeless task than of belief in Modigliani . |
| 13 | Leisure committee chairman Paul O'Hanlon said : ‘ Reviving the Knowsley Sports Council would be an excellent way of helping residents of all ages to get more out of sport , particularly our younger people . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ you should get more out of life . |
| 15 | Bikers get more out of life , so climb down off your exercycle and get out and about for some fresh air . |
| 16 | Ponyboy wanted more out of life than his brothers . |
| 17 | And in thinking of replacing the reverend with a ‘ thrusting businessman ’ , which Waddington believe ‘ is more than suitable for the 1990s ’ , they have shown themselves to be even more out of tune with modern times . |
| 18 | Graham also watched the indicator and winced more out of irritation than anything else when green five increased to amber six . |
| 19 | However , I confess that I do not believe a party , any more than the society which it serves , can fail to suffer if it knowingly allows institutions to fall more and more out of correspondence with contemporary needs . |
| 20 | She ran the last few yards and was breathing heavily , but more out of anxiety than exhaustion . |
| 21 | But this is more out of opportunity than necessity . |
| 22 | For now he will continue to live in London , but more out of consideration for his daughter who is sitting her A-levels than a disinclination to move north . |
| 23 | Obviously , a child returning from school to find his own study quarters where he has books at his disposal and sympathetic parents who can offer cogent remarks on his work and broaden his outlook with lively , stimulating conversation , will be able to get more out of education than a child who , when doing his homework , has to share the kitchen table with plates , cutlery and cruet as well as the pet cat and having to contend with ‘ Crossroads ’ as the main intellectual challenge of the evening . |
| 24 | Heather Lloyd , defending , said they had committed the crimes more out of ignorance than malice and that their customers had not been unhappy . |
| 25 | In the end , the proposal was dropped more out of fear of ‘ Joe Six-Pack ’ , and the awful electoral revenge he might take . |
| 26 | Sharing is even more out of step with materialistic white Australia today than it was 200 years ago . |
| 27 | Thus dental surgeons were to be even more out of pocket . |
| 28 | Getting more out of chromatography — design of high quality separations , will be held in Manchester on 12 May 1992 . |
| 29 | Turning again , Manville made a mental note of the cab 's licence number , more out of habit than anything else . |
| 30 | She seemed to have come on the retreat more out of material loyalty than religious devotion . |