Example sentences of "more [adj] [coord] a " in BNC.

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1 The published paper was more extensive and a much better article , but an author does not have to be paranoid to wonder what went on .
2 Orphism appealed particularly to the Germans , since like so much of their own painting it was brightly coloured and was simultaneously a more theoretical and a more popular type of art than Cubism .
3 Some such as financial resources are easily specifiable , others such as not contravening the mores of the organisation are more elusive but a key aspect of these skills is sensitivity to limitations and obstacles as well as positive assets ( Singleton , 1981 ) .
4 Christmas dinner around the dining table will be rare treat and John says : ‘ Now the children are growing up , we hope they 'll be a bit more sensible and a bit less like unguided missiles . ’
5 O'Rourke sells a lot more than Hot Press , he is a lot more entertaining and a hell of a lot more sincere , and I bet that O'Rourke makes a lot more money than the po-faced , sanctimonious utterances on plebs , puffs , poetry and Provos from the likes of gobshites like Higgins , McCann et al will ever generate .
6 You can get the same sort of information from a Mel Bay book but going to Joe and doing it in a rock/heavy metal format made it a lot more interesting and a lot easier for me to learn .
7 His opponents accused him of selling out to the United States on North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ) with the United States and Mexico and leaving Canada with more unemployed and a bigger public debt than ever .
8 I think this is rightly so , but there is an advantage to knowing to being slightly more explicit about how you 're doing it , and I think that if a lot of the evaluation that already went on in schools became a little bit more explicit and a little bit more open , it would be much easier for people outside the schools to realize the extent at which schools were themselves already engaging in evaluation .
9 He was part of her past now , and the future was a little more serious and a lot more dedicated .
10 I mean you 'll work out whether it 's a bit more reactive or a bit less .
11 Where a man can become more male and a woman more female by coming together in the full rigors of the fuck … homosexuals , it can be suggested , tend to pass their qualities over to one another , for there is no womb to mirror and return what is most forceful or attractive in each of them .
12 Shirer was later to meet Joyce under more adverse circumstances , finding him more likeable and a good deal braver than he had supposed .
13 The commons played a more substantial and a more independent part in this political crisis than they had done in the conflicts of Edward I 's last years and Edward II 's reign , and they showed some awareness of their power to demand concessions in return for agreeing to the king 's financial demands .
14 You 'll do me more good nor a bucket o' medicine .
15 To become commercial , though , the magnets will have to be made at least two-three times more powerful and a good deal lighter than they are today .
16 Here the situation becomes more complex and a number of different possibilities need to be explored .
17 There remain some class differences in the proportion who take a more casual or a more planned approach to family building , and in the reliability of the methods which they use , and therefore in the proportion of unintended pregnancies .
18 Physics is not only a more important and a more fundamental subject , but also , it seems , a more certain subject .
19 In this form the Art Fair reached a more numerous and a far wider public ; and it is hoped that the Tabernacle will provide a permanent home for this venture , which does so much to help young artists of promise in the difficult years after leaving art college until they make their name .
20 As Gloucester used to be a major droving centre , there was inevitably much crossing with various Welsh types and the Gloucester 's slender , white , dark-tipped horns , spreading quite wide and tilting upwards at the tip , are often similar in style to those of the Welsh , though more refined and a little shorter .
21 At other times he said that Glenville needed a more mature and a wiser actor .
22 It is enough to say that , especially after 1529 , Parliament became a more dynamic and a still less dispensable part of English government than it had been before .
23 Old friendships are broken and replaced by new friends who find significant alcohol or drug use more tolerable and a perpetual round of drink and drug related activities more acceptable .
24 Progress is inevitably slower and more tiring and a bulky pack may make difficult terrain even more demanding , sometimes dangerously so .
25 Not surprisingly , the social impact of these migrants on rural communities was a major topic of study in the 1960s and 1970s , but in the 1980s , a new theme , related more to the political impact of the migrants on the power structure of rural communities has emerged , as rural sociologists and geographers have sought a more critical and a less apolitical and anodyne approach to rural society .
26 Our music is more insolent and a free form of thinking . ’
27 This can be done successfully , but requires a tank large enough to provide open habitat for the other fish ( as well as the rocks for the Mbuna ) and that the Mbuna do not outnumber the others — Mbuna are far more boisterous and a small number of Aulonacaras in a predominantly Mbuna tank tend to be scared all the time , even though rarely actually attacked .
28 And Terry Maher was also upbeat , predicting that publishing would ‘ slowly become a little more efficient and a little more commercial ’ ( and , of course , that the Net Book Agreement would receive further setbacks in the year ) , although he expressed worry about VAT being imposed on books .
29 Half an hour spent in his wife 's elegant and comfortable drawing room was usually more productive and a great deal more entertaining than hours spent beavering through official files .
30 In that way we shall have a Europe that is stronger , more sympathetic and a better one in which to live .
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