Example sentences of "more [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is all the more striking a testimony to the power of natural selection , therefore , that numerous examples can be found in real nature , in which independent lines of evolution appear to have converged , from very different starting points , on what looks very like the same endpoint . |
| 2 | If we conceive of the least pleasant experience which is still a pleasure , then one way of quantifying its intensity would be by characterising the number of times more pleasant a pleasure is at a particular moment than that . |
| 3 | But advertisers love it — it means more air time to sell products because the more popular a show is , the more people watch the ads . |
| 4 | The more adequate a man feels , the less likely he is to seek an outside sex partner in order to prove something to himself . |
| 5 | The current emphasis upon ‘ empowerment ’ , and the belief that ‘ the more self-empowered a person becomes , the more able he or she will be to enable others to be the same ’ ( Fenton and Hughes 1989 : 19 ) , is effecting a shift in approach generally , and in my own personal practice , from a passive model of students . |
| 6 | And the more unstable a relationship is , the less likely it is that contraception will be used . |
| 7 | Those who defend the kinship bond find more acceptable a situation where , say , a child may maintain an active relationship with his [ or her ] natural parents while living with foster-parents , or may even remain in contact with them after adoption . |
| 8 | One would think that the more rigid a doctrine the more brittle it should be . |
| 9 | To those who hold the view that " the more liberal a subject is , the more useless it is " , history must have appeared as the jewel in the non-utilitarian crown . |
| 10 | The more autonomous a field is , the greater the extent to which production in that field is only for other producers and not for consumers in the social field ( or field of power ) . |
| 11 | Pop 's prime mover is narcissism , always will be , and so self-pity is more crucial a pop response than altruism . |
| 12 | There is no more dangerous a condition than that of boredom , nor , to my mind , a more wicked one . |
| 13 | The more Tory a ward , the more the party 's vote fell : hence the stunning loss of seats . |
| 14 | With time , as it became more lucrative a country for people to come , obviously the country had to be more restrictive about providing the nationality . |
| 15 | The more pervasive a structure becomes in a given context , the more difficult it becomes for speakers and writers to select other structures or to depict events differently . |
| 16 | And there is no more constant a reminder to her than her experiences teaching in special needs schools and her present job as adult education tutor at Ashworth . |
| 17 | All of these trends promote and/or accelerate podzolisation which in turn promotes leaching of iron and aluminium and the more acidic a soil profile becomes , the more decomposition of organic material is inhibited . |
| 18 | If this is so , it should follow that the more gratifying a mother 's physical-care practices are , the greater should be the child 's developing attachment to her . |
| 19 | Butler and Stokes ' surveys even suggest that part of the electoral swing to the Tories was for no more substantial a reason than the belief among some electors in the ‘ circulation of the parties ’ , i.e. the sentiment that ‘ it 's time the other party had a go ’ . |
| 20 | Crimes of violence , for example , are by and large one poor person hitting another poor person — and in almost half these instances it is a man hitting his wife or lover … the more vulnerable a person is economically and socially the more likely it is that both working class and white-collar crime will occur against them ( Matthews and Young , 1986 , p. 23 ) . |
| 21 | Lexandro waited patiently within the suit which made him so much more awesome a giant while armiger techs and biomedics , uttering incantations , completed their checks on the trio of warriors in a ribvaulted barbican giving access to the practice deck . |
| 22 | ‘ Bernie has made F1 viable , but the more powerful a man becomes , the less he listens . |
| 23 | Since conventionalism is at best no more powerful a conception of law than pragmatism , this marriage would hardly improve the case for the latter . |
| 24 | The more complex a society and the more varied the skills possessed by its members , the greater the need for institutions deliberately designed to effect the formal dissemination of specialised skills and knowledge — educational establishments like schools , colleges and universities . |
| 25 | As a general rule , the more complex a society becomes the less often military intervention is likely to occur . |
| 26 | Sometimes it seems more appropriate to describe tonic stress placement in terms of ‘ information content ’ : the more predictable a word 's occurrence is in a given context , the lower its information content is , and tonic stress will tend to be placed on words with high information content . |
| 27 | Is n't she rather attractive , the girl harpist : has he noticed the bend of her white swan neck , the discreet flicker of her fingers ; wondered how the neck would seem , the fingers flicker , in more intimate a situation ? |
| 28 | Bias is a problem in all aspects of social research and no more important a case of bias problems can be found than in sampling . |
| 29 | The better and more diverse they were , then the greater the area of influence which could be ‘ captured ’ , and correspondingly the more important a site in the economic and urban hierarchy . |
| 30 | In cost-benefit analysis , the more important a site is in conservation terms , the smaller the monetary value placed on it when calculating likely compensation payments to be incurred by a road scheme . |