Example sentences of "[vb mod] more [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently I was very interested to read the article ‘ Tower of Babel ’ by Tania V. Guha ( May/June 1992 ) since I realised that I could now without too much struggle understand most of it , or perhaps I should more truthfully say about 80 per cent of it on first reading . |
| 2 | They demand , therefore , that the social security bureaucracy should more effectively control and discipline its subordinates . |
| 3 | An externalization — or , perhaps we should more strictly say , a de-internalization — or dependency on the breast produces some external dependency which , if it does not manifest itself with regard to food , is likely to do so in an even more undesirable way with regard to addictive drugs or alcohol . |
| 4 | Rather than turning a blind eye to the polishers and legislating against the scuffers , we should more logically allow no interference … on either side of the ball . |
| 5 | The parole reforms will please the judges who believe time served should more closely reflect sentence given . |
| 6 | The ‘ Auld Alliance ’ and the French Connection should more properly be called the Scots Connection . |
| 7 | However , perhaps this increase should not be seen as the emergence of local politics , but should more properly be viewed as their re-emergence . |
| 8 | It is often called an eclipsing variable , though it should more properly be described as an eclipsing binary . |
| 9 | Instead , it considered that they should more properly be regarded as machinery provided by Parliament for adjudication independent of the relevant government department . |
| 10 | The government has consistently maintained that market rents should prevail in the private sector and that local authority rents should more nearly approach those obtaining in the private sector . |
| 11 | It follows from this reasoning that a company law focussed on the public interest should define management duties exclusively in terms of profit maximisation and should more generally provide a legal framework orientated towards that end . |
| 12 | These blobs are called sunspots , and they appear dark only because the rest of the Sun is so incandescent : the matter ( or plasma , as it should more correctly be called ) inside a sunspot , if transported to Earth , would give off greater brilliance than any arc-lamp . |
| 13 | The cost to consumers should more appropriately be spread over future generations by borrowing , ’ commented the ET . |
| 14 | This device should more accurately be described as a freewheel , the intent of which is to allow the blades to rotate at high speed while the motor is idling or stopped . |
| 15 | The Greek word entos translated here as ‘ within ’ should more accurately be rendered ‘ among ’ you or ‘ in your midst ’ ( Nolan 1976:46 ) . |
| 16 | The Agriculture Departments should more actively enforce the provisions of the HLCA regulations in cases where overgrazing is leading to vegetation erosion by withholding payments above an agreed , appropriate stocking density , taking conservation advice . |
| 17 | The sensitive area of defence should more realistically have been one of the last spheres for the renunciation of national sovereignty , with a solid background of integrative experience and mutual trust behind it . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh , she 'll more likely do so with him than to you , knowing that it 's hell let loose every time you look at each other . |
| 19 | It is arguable that the scale and pattern of grants might more reasonably have been based on the status quo in individual schools , to avoid an invidious distinction between the two " classes " of award . |
| 20 | If we find that human faculties and understandings are such that knowledge is necessarily limited , we might more easily and ‘ with less scruple acquiesce in the avowed ignorance ’ of what lies beyond the horizon , and ‘ employ [ our ] … thoughts and discourse , with more advantage and satisfaction ’ about what lies within our reach . |
| 21 | It is a pity that , instead of dismissing it as non-serious , they have not devoted their knowledge and experience to exploring ways in which we might more effectively ( and granted there is plenty of evidence of bad education carried out in the name of free play ) harness this natural power for learning . |
| 22 | The sadness is the greater as the Act comes at a time when the accumulated wisdom from attempts to improve schools was establishing a consensus on how schools might more effectively meet the needs of all pupils . |
| 23 | In this case , instead of accepting that comprehensible input is indeed validly conceived as ‘ The ‘ Fundamental Pedagogical Principle ’ ’ and then looking at how it might be achieved by interaction , one might more profitably ask whether these strategies of interaction on the part of the learner do not suggest that the notion of comprehensible input is inadequate for explaining how language is learned , and therefore is not so very fundamental after all . |
| 24 | Whatever defence strategies are currently used in cases of non-consensual buggery , arguments commonly deployed against female complainants might more frequently be heard against male victims if they were brought within the scope of rape . |
| 25 | Further , rather than seeking such a sensibility in an ‘ inner condition ’ , we might more usefully identify it outwardly and in relation to other strategies of survival and subversion , especially the masquerade of femininity , and the mimicry of the colonial subject . |
| 26 | Occasionally the public relations executive of an organisation is also that organisation 's spokesman but , except for promotional and marketing campaigns where the PRO is indeed the expert in the area , the provision of an obvious intermediary can lead to the viewer seeing him as a buffer for those who might more usefully have appeared . |
| 27 | But when it is used to describe what happens during reading , or any attempt at reading , it seems to stand for something less focused and further from full awareness — something which might more appropriately be called ‘ anticipation ’ or ‘ expectancy ’ . |
| 28 | They may shade off into what might more appropriately be called ethnocentrism , where ethnic groups are defined primarily in cultural terms and are regarded as having essential traits . |
| 29 | In England there is quite a bit of unofficial ‘ sentence bargaining ’ , as it might more appropriately be called . |
| 30 | However , because the CAB door is always open , the CAB adviser is expected to cope , at least initially , with clients who might more suitably be supported by a counsellor or social worker . |