Example sentences of "more [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.

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31 ‘ While there is no crock of gold for GM schools , at least one is starting to see more clearly the financial implications and able to weigh them up against money coming into the school . ’
32 Now I know erm following a fairly recent er er er case in the house of lords that the courts are er entitled to rely on what ministers say in debate but perhaps the minister could er spell out a little bit more clearly the apparent discrepancy between what he said in his speech and what is on the face of these orders and indeed why it is that the orders in r relation to banking and financial services , adopts a different phraseology er to that used in the orders relating to insurance and building societies .
33 If it is to be successful in this objective it needs to articulate much more clearly the rival communitarian philosophy which one senses underpins its practical proposals .
34 Yet twenty years later , largely as a result of the work of Maurepas , an energetic Secretary of State , she had nearly 50 ships of the line and was once more clearly the second-greatest European naval power The war of 1744–48 with Great Britain meant fairly heavy losses ; but by 1754 she possessed 57 ships of the line and 24 frigates .
35 What , then , can we conclude about the contribution that political sociology has made to understanding more clearly the main trends of political change in the twentieth century , and to influencing the course of events ?
36 They indicate more clearly the underlying structure to her work and demonstrate how deceptive the apparent spontaneity can be .
37 By recalling the strength of these beliefs and the cultural , especially literary , achievements this order produced , the Anglo-Saxon world could see more clearly the common need to defend those essential characteristics of its civilisation against the barbarous foe .
38 In order to show more clearly the significant impact of exceptional items on the results for the year , these items have been presented in a separate column on the face of the profit and loss accounts .
39 The result is that the librarian has to look over both shoulders and consider more carefully the legal implications of every decision on stocking this or rejecting that .
40 One of the more controversial aspects of the budget , and one which contributed to the growing public concern about the integrity of the political system , was an increase in the so-called " MPs ' slush fund " ( more correctly the National Development Fund ) to K100,000 annually for each member .
41 ( In children 's addresses the minister has the last word or more often The Correct Answer . )
42 It is more often the poor conditions that many young mothers are forced to live in that negatively affect their lives , rather than simply their age or the experience of being a mother .
43 But it appears that it is more often the negative effect of a close relationship , rather than any positive effect , that is of significance in determining psychiatric risk .
44 There is rarely any action before 10.30p.m. , more often the first fish comes after midnight .
45 Although in some cases , part of the site may survive because it lies outside the area to be destroyed , more often the whole site disappears and only excavation records and finds are left .
46 More often the photographic session will be in the studio and it will be virtually impossible to work with people who are not professional models in these very artificial circumstances .
47 Whether we consider the rarity of the subjects , the speciousness of those he selected for his purpose , or the general production of the whole , England had not before produced any work , except the Hortus Elthamensis or Catesby 's Carolina , so superb and extensive , and in one respect Miller 's had an advantage , as they exhibited much more perfectly the separate figures of parts of fructification .
48 By considering physical violations first , this will enable us to identify more accurately the distinctive element in sexual assaults .
49 The Common Market , or more accurately the European Economic Community ( EEC ) — later called the European Community ( EC ) — was legally established on 25 March 1957 with the signing of a treaty between the governments of France , Western Germany , Italy , the Netherlands , Belgium and Luxemburg .
50 An alternative theory , still concerned with major transitions in relation to economic changes , is that which conceives the turning-point in social life as being the emergence and development of industrial society , in which the growth of modern science and technology plays a crucial role ( Aron , 1967 ) ; and a further extension of the theory , in more recent discussions of ‘ post-industrial ’ society , affirms even more strongly the overwhelming importance in the economy and society of the production of theoretical knowledge .
51 The downstream group has to forecast more reliably the final form of upstream output .
52 There are a number of attempts to " estimate more surely the intrinsic value of the work " by finding the means to capture its " spirit and mood " .
53 Valuable information as to the different types of method available and more particularly the best present practice recommended for certain specified trades and industries is available from various reports , in particular the Odour Reports and subsequent research reports published by the working party and ADAS mentioned earlier .
54 Around the towns , but more particularly the small rural communities in Sussex , the Saxon monarchs built a careful legal and local government structure , reinforcing the social hierarchies but carefully giving each man rights and dues according to his place .
55 Another area of study in which EXAFS will be valuable concerns mixed-alkali effects in glasses whereby the physical , and more particularly the electrical , properties of a glass containing a single alkali are considerably changed by introducing a second alkali .
56 From the 1850s and more particularly the 1870s onwards military considerations — new weapons , the importance of rapid and effective mobilisation in case of war , the balance of military and to a lesser extent naval power in general — were more prominent and pervasive than in the past .
57 Nevertheless , drug-taking and more particularly the disruptive social consequences of addiction , are especially serious in areas of city poverty ( Burr , 1989 ) .
58 Harper raised the cudgel to drive away the beggars who swarmed ever more threateningly the closer they got to the Duke and Duchess of Richmond 's rented house .
59 In 1989 the WCFBA was renamed more simply the Catholic Biblical Federation ( CBF ) .
60 More and more frequently the assaulting infantry discovered that French machine-gun nests had been left untouched by the artillery .
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