Example sentences of "[pron] is [adv] more [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand I felt I could scarcely ask you to wait while I dealt with the strawboard — you were by this time I think just on the verge of a few conventional politenesses about my work , an awkward stage in conversations of this sort which is difficult to endure gracefully but which is even more difficult to interrupt . |
| 2 | We also have an oxyacetylene torch , which is rather more difficult to use under water than most people imagine , but as this is just a reconnaissance trip we wo n't be taking it along . |
| 3 | His more contemporary recollection , however , placed the farmhouse ‘ a quarter of a mile from Culbone Church ’ , a description which has almost always been said to identify Ash Farm , but which is perhaps more likely to refer to the former Withycombe Farm . |
| 4 | To achieve complete combustion , in most cases , high temperatures in the order of 600–900°C , for not less than 0.3 seconds are required , in order to ignite and burn the odorous gases before they form the fine carbon of black smoke which is far more difficult to burn . |
| 5 | It is perhaps possible to say that a particular child tends towards introversion and , further , that he or she is therefore more likely to engage with characters such as Tom in Philippa Pearce 's Tom 's midnight garden , Max in Pauline Clarke 's The twelve and the genii , or Tolly in Lucy Boston 's Green Knowe stories , than a more extrovert reader . |
| 6 | The interview need not be long but Sheila will have discovered that there are people who will listen and she is now more likely to take up any referral she is given for more long term counselling . |
| 7 | She is far more likely to obey the rules if you discuss them with her , so that she knows why you make them . |
| 8 | " If one is basically more anxious to please and amuse people than to keep an implacably appraising eye on them , " the author of the urbane and chuckling funny Appleby books , Michael Innes , has said , " one will never take the first step towards considerable writing . " |
| 9 | If one is of course a member of a minority , let us say , one is a Jew or erm a socialist or erm a South German , erm then one is much more likely to cherish democratic values and federal values , and much less likely to accept authoritarian rule from above . |
| 10 | There is far more running to do playing midfield . ’ |
| 11 | It is rather more difficult to categorise the nature of processing at the tactical and strategical levels , even within the relatively simple dichotomy between controlled and automatic processes . |
| 12 | It is also important to examine the throat for the presence of gonococci ( by cultural methods ) , since , not only may it be the only site involved , but it is rather more difficult to eradicate the infection from this place . |
| 13 | The theory of the second-best says that it is allocatively more efficient to spread inevitable distortions thinly over many markets than to concentrate their effects in a few markets . |
| 14 | it gives children the chance to practise varieties of language in different situations and to use a variety of functions of language which it is otherwise more difficult to practise : questioning , challenging , complaining etc. ; |
| 15 | But it is generally more helpful to give meals for slimmers in single portions and it is very easy to multiply up the quantities , of course . |
| 16 | What seems objectionable in Matza 's argument is that he clearly believes there is a ‘ hierarchy ’ of stances in relation to deviance , not just alternatives : the appreciative stance is portrayed as superior to either the romantic or the correctionalist in that it is inherently more likely to get at the truth . |
| 17 | In organic chemistry it is thus more convenient to describe carbon in terms of its valency than its oxidation numbers . |
| 18 | It is thus more difficult to distinguish Σ and Π vibrations using the Raman bands , as we would have to detect the presence of P and R branches with spacings of 2B as well as the O and S branches with spacings of 4B . |
| 19 | That may be more difficult , but it is ultimately more likely to lead to a cleaner world . |
| 20 | It is even more rare to observe individuals while they are producing mixed messages during a meeting reflecting on their actions and the features of the organisational culture that makes the undiscussable undiscussable . |
| 21 | Considering the rifeness of disease , the poverty and the malnutrition prevalent there , and all the medical aid available here , it is even more surprising to discover that the continued life expectancy of a forty-year-old British or US citizen is not considerably greater than that of an Indian who has survived childhood and reached the age of forty . |
| 22 | It is even more dangerous to show it to the sitter 's wife ! |
| 23 | It is even more dangerous to generalise about the organisation of medieval agriculture than about its physical and demographic background . |
| 24 | In this case the same precautions apply and it is even more important to deal with ownership of copyright otherwise the agency ( as employer ) could turn out to be the ultimate owner of the copyright . |
| 25 | If your work is mainly in the trade and industrial area it is even more important to keep in constant touch with the leading publications in the field . |
| 26 | If you have recently arrived in this country special rules apply and it is even more important to get good advice before claiming benefits . |
| 27 | For insects such as locusts , which migrate over vast distances , it is even more important to fly at an economical speed . |
| 28 | If you play professional tennis , then it is even more important to have good technique because I am always saying that in a draw of 64 or 128 people , they are all watching how you play and of course they will find out what is happening with your game . |
| 29 | For product and feature work it is even more important to have a professional . |
| 30 | Sir : Returning from a long stay abroad , it is depressing to find so much rubbish in the streets , but it is even more upsetting to find it deliberately included in the newspapers as well ( 2 October ) . |