Example sentences of "be somewhat more [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes the basis for grouping may be somewhat more tenuous , although plural reference remains entirely possible , as in ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) : |
| 2 | Again , proof of knowledge in this respect may be difficult to acquire ; reasonable cause should be somewhat more easy , but is still not without its problems . |
| 3 | This means that Britain 's watchdog on pharmaceuticals — the Committee on Safety of Medicines ( CSM ) — needs to be somewhat more alert and responsive to the hazards than appears to have been the case . |
| 4 | Being an artist 's model was turning out to be somewhat more traumatic than she had anticipated . |
| 5 | Under a Labour government we might expect television to be somewhat more favourable to the Labour Party . |
| 6 | In the 1990s Britain will be somewhat more family-oriented , due to the increase in the number of families with small children . |
| 7 | I think I 'd like to start by making a few general points , er and then er it will be a matter for for others to be somewhat more specific , I I I think I can say that the issue of a new settlement of a new settlement in Greater York is is a fairly unique situation , because we have agreement between the development industry and the County Council , and that 's something of a rarity , but also we have mild support from the Department of the Environment , and as Mr Davis has already said , that is backed by public support . |
| 8 | The primary agents of the political and cultural-ideological TNPs may be somewhat more contentious . |
| 9 | failed to understand that the UDR would also be charged with policing the border and the countryside and would , in fact , be somewhat more efficient in its vigilance against a dreaded IRA invasion . |
| 10 | As incentives go , this would seem to be somewhat more potent than the weekly communal weighing-in ceremony at Weight Watchers . |
| 11 | The reality has turned out to be somewhat more prosaic . |
| 12 | We must now be somewhat more precise concerning the concept of ‘ degree of opacity ’ . |
| 13 | The arguments advanced may be somewhat more refined and the ideals more lofty , but here again it is the size of the readership , rather than the merits of the editorial comment , that counts most . |
| 14 | Your language may , in reality , be somewhat more forceful than can be printed here but , however you phrase it , you have in effect made a report . |
| 15 | Less tangibly , there was noted in the interviews the tendency for the specialist team members to be somewhat more articulate in the responses they made . |