Example sentences of "more to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The -ing form would have referred more to the mere experience of being alone at that moment than to the unexpectedness of finding himself alone . |
| 2 | Worse still , interest rates shot up and Romania had to pay more and more to the Western banks simply to service the debt . |
| 3 | Both Walter Hilton and Dame Julian insist that God is transcendent and can not be described or grasped by the human mind , but they belong more to the Western tradition than the author of The Cloud of Unknowing . |
| 4 | Winston Churchill was to write : ‘ The conflict sank once more to the bloody but local struggles of two or three divisions repeatedly renewed as fast as they were consumed , and consumed as fast as they were renewed . |
| 5 | Subsequently , Miss Picon inclined more and more to the legitimate theatre , both on Broadway and on tour . |
| 6 | Under s16 of the Legal Aid Act 1988 , if the Legal Aid Board suffers a deficiency in respect of an assisted person 's proceedings ( ie they have paid more to the assisted person 's legal advisers than they have received by way of costs from the other side and from contributions paid ) the statutory charge may attach to money or property " recovered " or " preserved " that has been " in issue " in the course of proceedings . |
| 7 | Norwich continued its ancient role as a major marketing centre , but its expansion owed more to the spectacular growth of the worsted trades . |
| 8 | It was a comment directed more to the other men than to me . |
| 9 | There is more to the Premier Division , of course , than just the mathematical outcome of the championship . |
| 10 | It had occurred to her that by devoting her life to her work she would never have the chance to look after her own babies , and her thoughts turned once more to the young man with the dark wavy hair and the expressive blue eyes . |
| 11 | Yet there is far more to the martial arts than the aggression of karate . |
| 12 | Our discussion this time will restrict itself much more to the two chosen passages , and will need only to take a brief look at a few details of the narratives leading up to them , and at the stories that immediately follow them . |
| 13 | In the UK , attempts to gain greater value for money have been related more to the present depressed economic climate than any need to provide for the wider accountability of government expenditure . |
| 14 | Both probably adhered more to the essential facts than did the lecturers on the City University evening course which the author attended . |
| 15 | This passed and on 6 August the first bomb was dropped on Hiroshima , killing outright some 80 000 people and exposing many thousands more to the longer-term but not less deadly effects of radiation . |
| 16 | Ahlburg 's work is a major botanical revision , but I suspect that Rice and Strangman will appeal more to the general gardener . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Now equally of course organization can stultify progress , enmesh teachers and students alike in a nightmare of regulations and restrictions , tie up materials and equipment that could otherwise be productively used , and generally contribute more to the personal empires of individuals than to liberation of either teachers or students . |
| 19 | This brings us back once more to the personal and social implications of such developments . |
| 20 | Nutty switched her attention once more to the deep end , where it seemed that Nails was giving Jazz a compulsory lesson in turns . |
| 21 | Objects as categories may , however , be related more to the fuzzy logic of normative and peripheral forms than to the contrastive logical approach of componential analysis and binary opposition ( Kempton 1981 ; Rosch 1978 ) . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , Irwin appears to have reconciled the two to his own satisfaction , though the arguments to which he resorted owed more to the theological aptitude displayed in his youthful biography of Keble than to ordinary practical intelligence . |
| 23 | In their examination of popular culture Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel were worried by the fact that music-hall seemed to belong far more to the professional performers than to the audiences and that it was individual stars who actually seemed to have created the stereotypes and much of the idiom . |
| 24 | As was mentioned in Chapter 3 , the American decision to sell grain once more to the Soviet Union in 1977 wiped out the Soil Bank established in the 1970s and caused ploughing up of marginal land and a marked increase in erosion rates ( Cook 1983 ) . |
| 25 | Chancellor Helmut Kohl of Germany had called on other Western countries to give more to the Soviet Union in a visit to Washington on Sept. 16 , quoting EC figures showing that Germany had provided 56 per cent of financial aid to the Soviet Union over two years . |
| 26 | Their appearance owed more to the 1937 Brush-rail railcoaches than the English Electric family , and represented the ultimate and probably most handsome development of the streamlined design . |
| 27 | The majority of economic historians would probably incline more to the latter view now , though the extent to which revisionist case can be taken remains debatable . |
| 28 | Most texts will lie somewhere between these extremes ; textual corpora in particular will tend more to the latter extreme . |
| 29 | By tea-time I felt that I conformed more to the recognized pattern of an escaper . |
| 30 | It has long been recognised that maternity services should respond more to the emotional needs of its female consumers , and there are radical midwives such as Caroline Flint who are working to change today 's medicalisation of pregnancy . |