Example sentences of "more [adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But going for gold these days is more down to money than motivation . |
| 2 | The journey through Louisiana was more down to earth . |
| 3 | Wilde took poetic licence to the extreme , for the true story is much more down to earth . |
| 4 | The reality could not be more down to earth and straightforward , though there is much more to this player than meets the eye . |
| 5 | The third source is more down to earth . |
| 6 | Incomers tend to see this in class terms as well — pilots are generally upper crust , while engineers are more down to earth ( socially as well as literally' ) Since many incomer workers are ex-military the distinction is often phrased in military terms : officers and ‘ other ranks ’ . |
| 7 | When the smoke clears Pain Teens turn out to be more down to earth , a punky bar band who occasionally stray into territory that can best be described as extra terrestrial . |
| 8 | The Kitchenware Records spokesperson , brought up on Newcastle Brown , was more down to earth . |
| 9 | ‘ more down to earth , more devoted to our purposes than those of the author , less concerned with artistic values than with a faithful rendering of the subject 's experience and interpretation of the world he lives in . |
| 10 | For the more down to earth woodworker it is interesting that often the cordless drill is picked up in preference to the mains powered one for many tasks . |
| 11 | our royalty is erm we sort of put on a pedestal and if you look at other European countries who still have royal families , they 're a bit more down to earth , some of them Europe go on bicycles and they do n't need , erm , all the limousines . |
| 12 | Unfortunately your head has a more down to earth message that stops you mid-melody . |
| 13 | More down to earth are essays on predicting the economy by Frank Hahn and the frontiers of medicine by Ian Kennedy . |
| 14 | Here is a more down to earth example than the ones suggested above : the drama is set in contemporary Britain , in a small rural area by the coast . |
| 15 | But after a lifetime working for God , a vicar 's cv does n't offer much to more down to earth employers . |
| 16 | Certainly there is much of interest here as the exhibition runs the whole gamut with further wide-ranging , bird 's eye views through more down to earth transcriptions to a couple of urban scenes . |
| 17 | Okay well that would again tie perhaps more in with culture . |
| 18 | But the waitresses in Marshall and Snelgrove had new uniforms , dark purple instead of the old coffee-cream shade , and a different style of cap , more up to date and less obtrusive . |
| 19 | Thus the importance of coinage for our understanding of the past diminishes , generally speaking , the more up to date we come . |
| 20 | For those who like to be a little more up to date , I recommend the ‘ Digital DDD ’ series ( CD or cassette ) ; recordings featuring Previn , Tennstedt , Marriner , Ozawa , Sawallisch , Slatkin , Muti , Ousset , Gavrilov and Zacharias from the mid '80s . |
| 21 | Surely , in any specialisation , each consultant who is widely experienced , but a bit out of date , should form a team with one or two younger , more vigorous , more up to date ‘ apprentice ’ consultants so that their strengths complement each other . |
| 22 | With the passage of time thereafter , the role of the audited accounts becomes progressively less important and other more up to date information , including up to date references and up to date experience of transactions and accounts , of whatever kind , covering later periods , become progressively more important . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Your book ? ’ she enquired , doubtfully , angry with herself for allowing domesticity to prevent her from keeping more up to date with the literary news . |
| 24 | The English news , inserted at 1315 , was more up to date , having been prepared in the late morning . |
| 25 | A number of them are duplicated in Windows 3.1 and these are more up to date versions . |
| 26 | She hoped his maps were more up to date and accurate than the one she had bought at the newsstand . |
| 27 | As a result of a Request For Proposal process , IBM was asked to provide a more powerful and more up to date processor to replace one of the two existing IBM 3090–600J machines . |
| 28 | DOS 6 will see it being brought a lot more up to date . |
| 29 | My niece , Alison , tells me that the more up to date term is solo as in ‘ going solo . ’ |
| 30 | I can think of no other person in the Anti-Apartheid Movement who knows more and is more up to date on the current situation in South Africa . |