Example sentences of "more [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Added to this was the fact that the clocks themselves were so erratic ; every so often they slowed down , so that time went more slowly the closer you were to them . |
| 2 | The more militant and threatening the pressure from below , the more vigorously the propertied classes supported repressive measures . |
| 3 | That is , he contends , ‘ to get across clearly , at all levels of Scottish society , the detailed ways in which our scheme would provide better government than the new ( stock-taking ) proposals from Westminster , and would tackle more effectively the major ‘ bread and butter ’ issues which trouble our people ’ . |
| 4 | This association calls upon Council to make strong representations , including the use of the normal information retrieval procedures , to both the Advertising Standards Authority and the Office of Fair Trading to control more effectively the current advertising of and the availability of credit and to press for a tightening of existing guidelines and legislation covering advertising loans , credit cards and other financial services , in order to make the full implications clearer to the consumer ( for example , the nature of a secured loan ) . |
| 5 | The chief point at issue is not the competing merits of the models ; more fundamentally the controversial nature of the social class concept needs to be acknowledged and discussed by sociolinguists in order to give researchers some purchase on the important question of how language relates to social structure . |
| 6 | Similarly , the Iran-Contra deal indicates not only the differences between US statements and actions over terrorism , but more revealingly the Iranian government 's willingness to engage in Realpolitik . |
| 7 | Churchill had at moments in the First World War manifested great strategic prescience ; his intuition swung into action even more powerfully the second time round . |
| 8 | The sense of solitude and peace that surrounds these poems , where Coleridge is either alone , or with his sleeping baby or wife , in comfortable instances of reflection , and finally harmony , rests in contradiction with not only the vitality but more importantly the terrifying power that Kubla Khan possesses . |
| 9 | more importantly the whole side starts doing it . |
| 10 | More importantly the larger molecules manufactured inside the cell were later to be called the dna . |
| 11 | this is much more much the nicer . |
| 12 | Frequently the plan of a few words may be the first thing that comes into a student 's head or more ominously the only thing in the student 's head ! |
| 13 | The Russians will be very ready to respond to this and I think even more so the other Republics . |
| 14 | The chief candidates for this distinction are most certainly the higher primates , and of them perhaps more especially the near relatives of man , the chimpanzee and gorilla . |
| 15 | But will the clubs , more especially the big clubs for whom the internationals play , ever agree to dance the union 's tune when every issue that comes up between them ends up simply coming between them ? |
| 16 | Left-wing militancy a–d more especially the left-ward lurch of the Socialist Party are thus seen as responses to right-wing intransigence , and the right as bearing the main responsibility for political breakdown , ever-worsening social conflict , and ultimately , civil war . |
| 17 | And it should be recalled that in a very short time ( less than three months ) Harris mounted his 1,000-Plan to demonstrate what strategic bombing was all about , but more especially the main reason was to get the Navy and the Army off his back with their insistent and regular demands for bombers to bolster the parlous situation in their theatres of war . |
| 18 | A child can also see more easily the one-to-one correspondence of the buttons and button holes on his coat . |
| 19 | The Perkins 4 ( no of cylinders ) 236 ( size in cub inches ) will fit into a LR but in a four cylinder such as yours space is limited and it is a tight fit The six cylinder with the extra room in the engine bay allows the engine to fit more easily The 189 Ibf h torque as compared to the 103 Ibf h of its original engine will certainly find any weakness in the transmission , the S2A gearbox will handle it better than an S3 |
| 20 | I am of course old enough to remember the first railway made in England , and still more easily the first telegraph wires ; now we see people are not satisfied with these last , but must have telephone wires too . |
| 21 | It is now possible , however , to see the few remains of this enigma more clearly , and perhaps to appreciate more easily the impressive scale of the machinery that once was there . |
| 22 | We are thus enabled to distinguish more easily the would-be functionalist 's explicans ( interactional structure ) from the explicandum ( language ) . |
| 23 | First of all , we are virtually deprived of the Seleucid , or more generally the Hellenic , version of the events in Judaea . |
| 24 | Although some of the official assessments of cattle stealing in Kurunagala at the turn of the century may have been over-optimistic , it is clear that the level of the crime in the district , and more generally the Northern Band , was much less than it had been in the 1880s and earlier . |
| 25 | The correspondence principle states that we should expect wages to be rising more rapidly the larger is X i . |
| 26 | Maybe we should listen out for the noise in the voices of Kristin Hersh , Tim Buckley , Prince , Michael Jackson — the way they chew and twist language not for any decipherable , expressive reason , ( that 's to say , not to accentuate more deeply the conventional mannerisms of ‘ passion ’ ) , but for the gratuitous voluptuousness of utterance itself . |
| 27 | Black Shandy failed but GBS made a tidy living selling nuts and snacks until PTGI decided to develop a closer trading relationship with it last year and to manage more directly the retail distribution of the FES brand . |
| 28 | Thus Hourcade felt that an artist could convey more clearly the real nature of an object by showing as many aspects of it as possible , and guided by intelligence rather than by his eye , would resort to geometric forms . |
| 29 | At this stage , the patient often sees more clearly the appropriate course of action , whereas previously he was in a turmoil of indecision . |
| 30 | Edward , re-inspecting them , saw even more clearly the perfunctory effect , and blamed himself . |