Example sentences of "more [adv] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mistakes of that sort apart , it would seem that , as had always been the case , some sort of checking system was needed to give lenders the required degree of confidence to carry on , and that the more thorough and ‘ scientific ’ it was the better for both borrower and lender , the more effectively it reduced the incidence of overindebtedness , and saved borrowers from overstretching themselves and indulging in mad bouts of impulsive buying . |
| 2 | In part this has been promoted by fundholding , but more fundamentally it has been stimulated by health authorities engaging in a dialogue with general practitioners and giving greater priority to primary care as a result . |
| 3 | To those activists of the Catholic right who eventually came together in the CEDA it was an illegitimate document calling for drastic ‘ revision ’ ; more widely it helped to render the passive majority of Spanish Catholics immune from the appeal of conservative Republicanism and drive them into the CEDA 's welcoming embrace . |
| 4 | More importantly it carried an explanation of the format of this pro-celebrity event . |
| 5 | More importantly it brought the team to the attention of Eric Shipton , the leader of the British expedition group planning an attempt on Everest . |
| 6 | But more importantly it brought free secondary education for all . |
| 7 | This may help to dispel any ill feeling associated with an anonymous approach , but more importantly it provides an opportunity for the purchaser to build on the candidate 's positive response before there is any change of heart . |
| 8 | Having that Greater York dimension has certainly allowed progress to be achieved dramatically in Greater York , erm , it 's led to progress towards progress towards green belt definition , and more importantly it 's led towards resolution of future strategy for Greater York . |
| 9 | Even more importantly it showed that millions of electors could be made to take a stand in favour of the League of Nations , towards which many Conservatives were cynical or even hostile . |
| 10 | This is not simply a problem which affects writers and journalists , but more importantly it plagues the lives of people in those regions , and those in government who try to plan for the future . |
| 11 | More importantly it has been shown that an indistinguishable stain of H pylori as assessed by its DNA fingerprint , is present in the gastric mucosa of more than one member of a family group . |
| 12 | More importantly it has also been the experience of the many students on whom the approach , exercises and problems have been piloted over the last four years . |
| 13 | More crucially it ran along political lines , i.e. in general it was applied by Labour-controlled local authorities only . |
| 14 | Semantically , the less of a notional component the verb has , the more naturally it goes with the theme as a foundation-laying element . |
| 15 | More generally it has meant that although religious freedom is formally guaranteed by the constitution , yet Bibles are unobtainable in bookshops , the printing of Bibles is forbidden , seminaries are rigidly controlled by the state , religious education in schools has been virtually eliminated , church publishing and information is under government control and Christians are discriminated against in gaining admission to colleges and in seeking professions of their choice . |
| 16 | In fact , more generally it has been shown that the most important single cause of violence in labour disputes in the USA during the early years of the twentieth century , involving at least 700 deaths and several thousand serious injuries , was the denial of union recognition for purposes of collective bargaining ( Taft and Ross , 1979 ) . |
| 17 | More usually it left him ashamed and angry , despite his wife 's kind words of consolation , and Ashi herself in an agitated state of dissatisfaction and unhappiness . |
| 18 | The more History attempts to transcend its own rootedness in historicity , and the greater the efforts it makes to attain , beyond the historical relativity of its origin and its choices , the sphere of universality , the more clearly it bears the marks of its historical birth , and the more evidently there appears through it the history of which it is itself a part … inversely , the more it accepts its relativity , and the more deeply it sinks into the movement it shares with what it is recounting , then the more it tends to the slenderness of the narrative , and all the positive content it obtained for itself through the human sciences is dissipated . |
| 19 | More probably it results ( in part at least ) from its general familiarity and widespread use as a descriptive tool in large-scale accounts of demographic structure ; in Britain , the decennial Census of Population is an example . |
| 20 | The site has no obvious Iron-Age antecedents ; more probably it originated as a civilian vicus outside the fort , which aerial photographs show as a multiple-ditched installation enclosing c. 2 ha ( 5 acres ) on a gravel terrace north-west of the later defended nucleus and the Billing Brook . |
| 21 | The transnational capitalist class is a bridge between the nation-state and the global system and the more assiduously it brings transnational practices into what were once the realm of the regional or the national , then the more faithfully it serves the interests of the system . |
| 22 | The more History attempts to transcend its own rootedness in historicity , and the greater the efforts it makes to attain , beyond the historical relativity of its origin and its choices , the sphere of universality , the more clearly it bears the marks of its historical birth , and the more evidently there appears through it the history of which it is itself a part … inversely , the more it accepts its relativity , and the more deeply it sinks into the movement it shares with what it is recounting , then the more it tends to the slenderness of the narrative , and all the positive content it obtained for itself through the human sciences is dissipated . |
| 23 | Like the unimpeded flow of the " native " culture , the spiritual greatness of the literary work is incontestable : " the greater the work the more clearly it speaks for itself " , " even the teacher of English must bow before the experience of those great minds with which the works offer contact . |
| 24 | More often it turns out to have weaknesses of its own and many a general theory ends up as tomorrow 's ‘ special case ’ , explaining something but not everything . |
| 25 | More often it involves the purchase of an operational division or the purchase of one business owned and operated by a multitude of different companies within a group . |
| 26 | More often it takes the plural form , indicating partition of the property between co-heiresses , like Agnes Chaplayne and Beatrix Salesbury at Gayhurst , Bucks . |
| 27 | Although the boto is a powerful animal , and can sometimes tear its way out of nets , more often it becomes entangled and drowns . |
| 28 | However , the more we investigate this phenomenon with the client the more often it becomes clear that the avoidance is maintained because the person is afraid of the fear response itself . |
| 29 | Sometimes it was quantitatively inadequate , but more often it suffered from an excess of conflicting signs and signposts . |
| 30 | This occasionally resulted in amendments — more often it took the form of assurances from ministers about future intentions . |