Example sentences of "as [art] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were a numbers of factors which pointed strongly in favour of Ohio as the more appropriate forum for the trial of the disputes . |
| 2 | She is now known as the more successful sister of Margaret Drabble . |
| 3 | Vanguard was breaking up and its supporters were either rejoining the Unionist Party or moving to Paisley 's DUP , which was consolidating its position as the more militant and more populist loyalist party . |
| 4 | This was unfortunate as Neil tends to expect laughs as the more usual response to his lines . |
| 5 | This epitomises the current debate that exists relating to causal factors : while the issue remains unresolved , most of the available evidence points to human activity as the more important catalyst . |
| 6 | From an atlas find the names of the towns marked on the map as the more desirable dormitory towns . |
| 7 | A thirteenth-century man who was free to leave his own tithing ( or who absconded ) for a nearby town would not long be called Matthew atte Middele ( Matthew who lives in the middle of the village ) , or such , but rather Matthew Longback or Matthew of ( or from ) Thornbury , depending on which struck his new friends as the more appropriate , and the new identification may well have turned into a surname and passed down the generations . |
| 8 | The library guide may be described as the more passive approach to library orientation , and in spite of the fact that there is much uncertainty about their value most university and polytechnic libraries produce one or more . |
| 9 | But nevertheless diamond is the unstable form and if we crystallise carbon at atmospheric pressure it will form as the more stable graphite . |
| 10 | Ne saw the Nationalist as the more appropriate paper for this task . |
| 11 | Choosing a tall , thin tank is likely to bring fish into unnaturally close contact and may lead to serious territorial disputes as the more dominant species try to establish their ‘ piece of the reef ’ . |
| 12 | The other is the idea of political equality which presupposes that ‘ the weaker members of a political community are entitled to the same concern and respect of their government as the more powerful members have secured for themselves , so that if some men have freedom of decision whatever the effect on the general good , then all men must have the same freedom ’ ( Dworkin , 1978 , p. 199 ) . |
| 13 | This idea of political equality , he suggested , presupposed that ‘ the weaker members of a political community are entitled to the same concern and respect of their government as the more powerful members have secured for themselves , so that if some men have freedom whatever the effect on the general good , all men must have the same freedom ’ . |
| 14 | They argued contentedly about which saint emerged as the more attractive personality : St Benedict won on grounds of religious influence , St Luke on those of influence over secular life , because of his gospel . |
| 15 | Consequence : The odd success as the more sensible reforms of the 1970s take root , but nothing sufficient to arrest the gradual listing of the economy ; continued demoralisation of the workforce , but little threat to stability as élite maintains its cohesion against society ; however , minority factions in élite becoming more forceful in demanding strategy versus drift . |
| 16 | As schools increase in their heterogeneity , those that serve areas where there is a concentration of disadvantage will watch helpless as the more motivated , more able , more ambitious children move to the favoured schools , leaving them to cope with the rest , and worse , suffer the ignominy of having their results on national tests published , protected only by a general statement from the local authority , indicating ‘ the nature of socio-economic and other influences which are known to affect schools ’ ( Task Group on Assessment and Testing , para 134 ) . |
| 17 | Having been overshadowed since the war by Sartrean Marxism , in the crises of the 1960s it emerged as the more influential of the two . |
| 18 | What is missing from small firms is the sense of participation in decision-making as the more intimate working relations between owners and their family result in more authoritarian demands for personal obedience . |
| 19 | So the group , the primal horde , may be attractive to both those with little tension from their ego ideal , and for those people with a great deal , such as the more ‘ cultured ’ among the middle classes in modern societies . |
| 20 | By treating his subject as widely as possible , by seeing it in terms of the history of war , rather than as the more narrowly defined military history , the modern student will come to understand it in its many facets and complexities . |
| 21 | It was still there , and would be used to good effect in the relatively near future when the pitched battle returned as the more usual way of deciding the outcome of wars . |
| 22 | As the more industrially developed countries in the region , Kenya and Zimbabwe stood to benefit most from the association . |
| 23 | For this reason , the general collocation dictionary is suggested as the more appropriate . |
| 24 | Some research in this area seems to indicate that this may be due to perception of the father as the more powerful figure ( according to the classic structure of our society ) , with the result of greater ambiguity in seeing the mother as a desirable model for identification . |
| 25 | The major regions excluded are those that may be identified as the more remote rural areas — the extreme South West , the Lake District , the northern Pennines , mid- and North Wales and Scotland . |
| 26 | As the more doggedly political of the two , Reid in particular despised Richard Branson as an ‘ entrepreneur hippie ’ who had sold out everything that was exciting and subversive about the Sixties and turned it into big business . |
| 27 | Managers are often subtly portrayed as the more reasonable and responsible party , and greater authority is attributed to their views , while strikes are seen as ‘ problems ’ created by workers . |
| 28 | Indeed , the White Paper maintained that there would , in fact , be enhanced local accountability as the more accessible boroughs and districts would be responsible for a fuller range of services . |
| 29 | The Queen 's quiet and consistently efficient carrying out of her royal duties is not perhaps as easy to relate to as the more relaxed and smiling image of the ‘ Queen Mum ’ . |
| 30 | This latter proposition is not ideal as the more rampant plants will crowd out the less vigorous and often more desirable subjects . |