Example sentences of "be [adj] more [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He said there might be some more money coming .
2 ‘ There seems to be much more interaction at all levels , ’ he said .
3 But characters will be much more present , be seen in much greater , convoluted depth even than in the detective novel .
4 If WACC is to have a significant impact on global communication , there must be much more dialogue with the creative and economic forces which are at the heart of the system .
5 For certain types of elective operation , there is likely to be much more scope for choice in whether or not to let contracts .
6 Judged in terms of former occupations , there seemed to be much more variety within than between classes .
7 If , however , a bond only has a short time left to maturity , it will be much more liquid : its market price will be near its face value .
8 Not only have teachers had a very extensive training , they can also be much more objective in seeing the cause of any problem .
9 The structure of a cell 's genetic material may soon be appreciated to be much more fluid than previously supposed , with a grey area emerging between truly chromosomal genetic material and the mobile genes of transposons , viruses , and as yet undiscovered entities .
10 Once all your books and ornaments are on shelves there will be much more floor space .
11 It was clear from a very early stage of our Belfast work that to describe the inner-city phonology was a more complicated task than to describe ‘ middle-class ’ phonology , because there appeared to be much more variability within inner-city language than in higher status language .
12 There will , of course , be much more information available than you can possibly record .
13 There would be much more point in spending the rest of the week working in the library , planning a project of her own .
14 There could n't be much more time before someone found she was missing .
15 ‘ There may not be much more time , ’ she countered .
16 In contrast , socialisation can be much more general .
17 Clearly , given the depths it has recently plumbed ( as shown in the Treasury survey above ) , there can not be much more downside even in the face of a tax-raising Budget .
18 The chapter/section idea(s) : these will be much more concrete , are usually expressed in the first and/or last paragraphs and should be seen as a part of the wider themes/theses of the book .
19 Giraffe prefer delicate , protein-rich leaves , though they can , when pushed , be much more generalist .
20 but I think there was an awareness that there was likely to be much more opposition to , to land reform in the south .
21 Waves certainly erode a metre or so ( several feet ) above the level of the highest spring tides , but the depth below the lowest neap tides at which erosion occurs appears to be much more variable .
22 There are to be 5,000 more student places next year , biased to science and engineering , and then a freeze on recruitment for two years .
23 As we now know , there ca n't be many more undiscarvard elements .
24 The organisation that is demonstrated by the London collection deserves a marking of 10 out of 10 but there must be many more collection points in the country that deserve similar consideration by ‘ the centre ’ .
25 There will be many more production platforms established as smaller accumulations are identified and exploited in the North sea .
26 And that would be one more bar we could n't go back to .
27 There would be one more year of work before he finally achieved his degree , a hard year , a work-filled year , but nothing could or would postpone marriage plans .
28 Is n't Compact going to be one more thing they introduce before they 've worked it out ?
29 For this would be one more loss suffered by the Imperium .
30 In conclusion , I am sorry if what I have said seems to be one more version of ‘ on the one hand ’ and on the other' .
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