Example sentences of "[prep] [prep] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Papa left him reasonably well provided for through more orthodox investments , but I imagine it just about breaks even . |
| 2 | The lucky ones are saved by the Pet Rescue Scheme and subsequently found homes where they are loved and looked after by more caring individuals or families . |
| 3 | I had to lift my gaze from the old dashboard that I had sat in front of for more than sixty years to a new one , and the only new one I knew of displayed the dials and instruments of what is called holistic medicine and which at that time I took to be something I knew virtually nothing about . |
| 4 | In modern English , moral and mental conditions are spoken of in more or less abstract terms ( anger , suspicion , forcefulness and so on ) cut off for the most part , from their etymological roots … |
| 5 | These may be formulated in more or less specific terms and the rather general issues that I have already outlined may be broken down into more narrowly focused questions and be dealt with in more than one module with provision made for explicit cross-reference . |
| 6 | Proportional series are dealt with in more specific detail as they do not appear anywhere else in the book . |
| 7 | Yet what could never be achieved via Parliament could be experimented with in more exciting forms in Southampton Row and the network around it . |
| 8 | New subjects can be experimented with alongside more familiar ones . |
| 9 | It is viewed with some suspicion by staff anxious about the standards of care provided , but there is undoubtedly an advantage to clients , who are able to be cared for in more homely environments rather than long stay wards . |
| 10 | Societies disintegrate from within more frequently than they are broken up by external pressures . |
| 11 | The differences in male and female secondary characteristics listed by Darwin shaded into intellect ; women were referred to as more intuitive and more ‘ capable of rapid perception and perhaps of imitation ’ . |
| 12 | The growing body of literature on the subject should be referred to for more detailed treatment . |
| 13 | As Charlotte started after her , it crossed her mind that this throw-away remark was the kindest thing Ursula had found to say about the man she had been married to for more than twenty years since the day they had found him dead . |
| 14 | Leo , bless him , was as ugly as sin ; and James had been referred to by more than one gossip columnist as a sex symbol . |
| 15 | No channel may be input from nor output to by more than one of the processes . |
| 16 | These structural proteins are coded for by more orthodox ‘ late genes ’ ; all that the early genes themselves do is ensure the synthesis of a group of intermediate signal proteins , rejoicing in even more than usually barbaric names ( c-fos and c-jun ) . |