Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [pron] more [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we reached it the next day , we were disappointed to find that in our more prosaic age they simply open the gates . |
| 2 | The inventor of the German action is not known but it was used in a square piano signed ‘ Gottfried Silbermann , fevr. 1749 ’ This piano is more likely to have been made by Johann Gottfried Silbermann ( 1722–63 ) rather than by his more famous uncle , Gottfried ( 1683–1753 ) . |
| 3 | The first attitude has been witnessed in the 1930s and during our more recent experience of high unemployment . |
| 4 | It needed to be bigger , for it was widely used as a plough ox on the very heavy , stiff clays of the Sussex Weald and in its more distant past it played a valuable role in the Sussex iron industry by hauling hefty loads of timber and metal . |
| 5 | In portraiture he obtained at the same time a good likeness , much appreciated by the sitters and their families , and , in these works and in his more fanciful subjects , he engendered feelings of respect and admiration . |
| 6 | As Balinese ethnography has often been invoked , with questionable accuracy , in recent theoretical argument , the research aims to contribute both to this discussion and to our more general understanding of the effects of development and of incorporation within a new nation state on indigenous populations . |
| 7 | Prose became his main medium of literary expression in his later years and among his more important works are the autobiographical Hen Atgofion ( 1936 ) , his biography of Owen Morgan Edwards ( 1937 ) , both of which are classics of Welsh prose literature , and Y Tro Olaf ( 1939 ) . |
| 8 | This particularly applies to the more beautiful showpiece villages , which by their very reputation attract more newcomers and by their more picturesque appearance prompt a premium to be placed on the price of local homes . |
| 9 | But in its more common uses it refers to an indirectness of relation between experience and its composition . |
| 10 | Papal favour was meted out not merely to the senior and cadet branches of the Albret under Clement V but to their more distant kinsmen and clients . |
| 11 | The results reveal little departure from the traditional view that applicants from large , old-fashioned institutions make the best employees , although UMIST and Loughborough are ranked highly , largely because of their more vocational courses . |
| 12 | Moreover , there are a number of other types of measurement , such as time sampling , which because of their more specific nature are not included here . |
| 13 | What is wrong , however , is the comparison which places universities at the top because they are thought to be concerned with the abstract and academic , polytechnics below , because of their more technological emphasis ( which is itself , as often as not , a myth ) , and which deems schools to be worth considering only if they are seen as primarily devoted to academic ‘ standards ’ , imposed from above by the universities themselves . |
| 14 | One senior officer described policewomen as having an ‘ instinct for tidiness ’ which made them good administrators ( FN 30/11/87 , p. 33 ) ; frequently they were described as being suited to dealing with child and female offences because of their more compassionate natures compared to male colleagues . |
| 15 | With the above background in mind , the task of selling services is perhaps more difficult than that of selling products because of their more abstract nature . |
| 16 | But , it 's probably a good long-term bet because of its more professional drawing tools , and extra features like converting text to outlines , 50 levels of undo , 200 named layers and locking objects in place to avoid moving them by mistake . |
| 17 | Sometimes with the orally administered benzimidazoles the drug by-passes the rumen and enters the abomasum directly and this appears to lower efficacy because of its more rapid absorption and excretion . |
| 18 | As deadpan as in its more accustomed role of relaying verbatim endless speeches by Mikhail Gorbachev , the official Soviet news agency reported yesterday on a town terrorised by ‘ at least three ’ visitations from outer space — and vouched for by eminent local scientists , no less . |