Example sentences of "more [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Innovations in teaching methods do not usually come in the form of simple additions to a teacher 's repertoire , generalizable to all subject matters , but are usually designed to achieve more effectively an understanding of some particular X. Usually , for a variety of reasons , the descriptions of ‘ how to proceed ’ are not at a level of precision which makes the teacher a programmed automaton ; it follows that any teacher persuaded to adopt the innovation must be willing and able to explore modifications to his repertoire in order to try and achieve the hoped-for improvement in his pupils ' understanding of X at which the innovation is aimed . |
| 2 | A daughter ( or more rarely a son ) who has never left the parental home , or who has returned after widowhood or divorce to stay on indefinitely to care for an elderly parent or parents , does not make this choice automatically . |
| 3 | Other specialists might be expected , among them bone-workers , tanners , bakers and millers , and perhaps other food retailers , as well as a local potter and more rarely a glass-blower , where the necessary raw materials were available . |
| 4 | Another support worker was introduced more successfully a week later ( but see below ) ; |
| 5 | And therefore , in the County Council 's erm opinion , the test which I need to adopt when I go to the site again , is to look at it and er simply make a decision as to whether or not in my opinion the land is more properly a part of this built-up area which can not perform a greenbelt function , or is a part of the general extent of greenbelt around there , and therefore by definition performs a greenbelt function . |
| 6 | She is a historian , or more properly a micro-historian , and she is writing a history of our hillside — the road I walk up from the station and the various lanes and alleyways that open off it . |
| 7 | ( An influence on Leonard equal to that of A. M. Klein , also a lawyer , but more importantly a poet-novelist of considerable skill , whose familiarity with literature equalled his Jewish erudition and commitment unlike Leonard he was a ‘ ghetto ’ Jew of Montreal ) . |
| 8 | Later in 1991 came Adams Laboratories ( at $77m ) , with a series of branded prescription drugs , especially for respiratory disorders , but even more importantly a sales force throughout the US . |
| 9 | ‘ A doctor , and more especially a surgeon , has to be involved . ’ |
| 10 | The Old Cumberland Beggar is more obviously a sermon addressed to the political economist , who believes that only ‘ people who show a profit ’ are important , and that people who are poor or old or ill should be shut away because they are ‘ useless to society ’ . |
| 11 | The Boston text is more obviously an exhibition catalogue , if only because it includes a ‘ checklist ’ of the exhibition , which , ignoring the problematic identity of some of the works , distinguishes between works of art and other items ( books , tracts , pamphlets , etc. ) and also carefully identifies the status of individual exhibits by signifying their producer 's relationship to the formally identified Situationist group . |
| 12 | Erm a little bit more just a touch more Mollie ? |
| 13 | If anything it 's probably more just a suggestion . |
| 14 | Well-laid hedges of thorn , hazel , holly , or beech ( or more generally a mixture of several species ) form very effective barriers , and provide shelter for livestock and a habitat for wild life . |
| 15 | Since then the site has been home to a nursery and more lately a garden centre , attracting more than 20,000 visitors a year . |
| 16 | Some astronomers think that the more rapidly a body accretes the hotter it gets , and that for the outer Moon to have melted it is necessary for the Moon to have accreted in roughly 0.01 Ma . |
| 17 | To us , St. Joe 's embodies our own history : a history of caring and campaigning for homeless people , but more vitally a history of " Simon " and its ideas , principles and values . |
| 18 | It is accurately spelled out but the wrong word ; it is a homonym or more technically a homophone , i.e. a word that sounds the same but is spelled differently , e.g. hair — hare ; threw — through . |
| 19 | The main part of the animal consists of a cup ( or calyx ) to which the stalk is attached at its upper end , and from the top of the calyx stretch long arms , which are five in number or more usually a multiple of five . |
| 20 | Everywhere the most important element was a department or more usually a series of departments divided along geographical lines , which handled correspondence with missions abroad , of which those in the major European capitals were by far the most significant . |
| 21 | They 're more like a profile , and they will specify the kind of disabilities that the child has , the kind of progress that has been made , the kind of barriers that appear to be hindering the child from making progress . |
| 22 | Not too likely to be residential , more probably a row of shops and restaurants and oriental supermarkets . |
| 23 | Within Kent itself it may be possible to identify a shift , or more probably a division , of power through the distribution and date of certain imports . |
| 24 | Benzene is possibly a chain with triple bonds or more probably a ring compound with double bonds ( see fig 3.1 ) . |
| 25 | Mankind as a whole , or much more probably a tribe or race more advanced than others , had reached the conclusion that some less harsh substitute for the laws of survival which produced the human body had to be found in order to bring about the necessary control . |
| 26 | If , for lack of a formula , British ministries ( and no doubt ministries elsewhere ) are unable to price the amenity value of landscapes threatened by development , how on earth would any government — or , more probably a conference of governments — be able to arrive at a system for pricing the air ? |
| 27 | A reader could make a number of inferences about this passage : Mary is female , more probably an adult than a child ; It is morning ; Mary does not want to get up for some reason ; Mary is in bed ; she lives in a house with a refrigerator ; the house is possibly in North America , and so on . |
| 28 | Charles Lloyd had returned to Lime Street by September , but his presence was now more clearly a burden than a pleasure , and his mental instability was soon to result in what Coleridge bitterly recollected as a ‘ mad quarrel ’ and in vindictive ingratitude . |
| 29 | Meanwhile Pound has proposed an English poet who is more nearly an analogue to Gautier than any so far mentioned , a nearer analogue and yet still not wholly trustworthy because he is ‘ from poem to poem , extremely uneven ’ . |
| 30 | It too was reduced to quoting the Pilkington Committee 's view that ‘ though standards exist and are recognisable , broadcasting is more nearly an art than an exact science . |