Example sentences of "to be [adv] more [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new organizations catering for this were to be economically more efficient and culturally more bland than the popular movements of the first half of the century . |
| 2 | Another item I picked up some time ago from across the Atlantic was the information that the British 7′¼″ gauge was only found on the Great Eastern , a piece of information that I 'm sure Vic Smith will agree to be even more surprising than anything in his talk ! |
| 3 | Overall the system appeared to be even more cost-effective than the estimates , with a pay-back period of 2.6 years . |
| 4 | In postwar years there has been a tendency for MPs to be even more middle-class than they were hitherto . |
| 5 | Owen was the outstanding English poet of the First World War and I think that his poems will grow to be even more famous and appreciated . |
| 6 | Many of them were the scourings of the jails , and they began to be even more vile than before , burning houses , torturing people , and retaliating against the civilian population in every way they could . |
| 7 | Indeed , the theodicy question as to how one could ever use such texts as a medium through which to worship God may be thought to be even more insoluble than is Schüssler Fiorenza 's finding inspiration in the early Christian community . |
| 8 | When the story opens the Marquis , Darnay 's father , and his wife are both dead , and the twin brother , Darnay 's uncle , has succeeded to the title and estate ; he proves himself to be even more callous and brutal , beneath a polished surface of ‘ civilization ’ ( his face is ‘ like a fine mask ’ ) , than his brother , and hates his nephew for his liberal principles and determination not to accept the inheritance of the estate whilst the state of French society is still so cruelly inequitable . |
| 9 | But the presence of an observer is likely to be even more intrusive than the recording equipment , and thus any transcription will fail to reveal natural language . |
| 10 | She 's going to be even more upset when Mitch goes and we 've got to be ready for it . ’ |
| 11 | She finds herself to be even more mysterious than she knew , rather like her author , who likes to say that ‘ I have another person within , and it is perhaps that person who writes my books ’ . |
| 12 | One problem we have discussed as affecting the writer of the blueprint detective story is likely to be even more acute when embarking on an inverted story : the difficulty of making a static situation into an ongoing narrative . |
| 13 | Although in general , their wages and job levels were lower than those of white workers , West Indians and Bangladeshis tended to be even more disadvantaged than other ethnic groups . |
| 14 | The consequences of the emancipation were to be even more remarkable than the political process from which the statutes emerged . |
| 15 | The police presence seemed , if anything , to be even more oppressive than yesterday ( the Tory Party had become acutely aware just how much its security was costing the poll-tax payer ) ; perhaps there was trouble brewing . |
| 16 | As an election approaches , the Libertarian Ideal legitimizes a switch towards more strident press partisanship , while the Public Service Ideal encourages television to be even more careful than usual to maintain balance and impartiality . |
| 17 | Management 's role thus becomes a kind of balancing act ( this is sometimes called the ‘ stakeholder ’ theory ) , and it has to be even more persuasive than ever in ‘ selling ’ its proposals . |
| 18 | Our fate is to be even more horrible than to be frogmarched out of Downing street . |
| 19 | It proved , even at the insolent price of £5.95 a slice , to be even more popular than McGurk 's other stock-in-trade , the Jumbo-Cumbo Boggerburger , and he has prepared a batch every November since . |
| 20 | The company told the news agency that it has sold more than 200,000 of the 95LX model and will continue to sell both models — but ‘ We expect the 100LX to be even more popular and open up a whole new market . ’ |
| 21 | It is possible to be even more forgiving than Tit for Tat . |
| 22 | In the case of Japan collective agreements tend to be notably more general and abstract than their western counterparts , a characteristic — so it is claimed — of the nature of Japanese personal relations in which there is reluctance to have one 's rights and obligations closely defined ( Hanami , 1979 ) . |
| 23 | German seems to be generally more conjunctive than English The use of explicit conjunction makes the structure of the text more transparent . |
| 24 | The vegetable oil is important , as it seems to be slightly more viscous than olive oil . |
| 25 | These three studies all suggest ( if do not prove ) that science specialists are likely to be rather more conformist and conventional in outlook than arts specialists , who tend to be slightly more rebellious and free-thinking . |
| 26 | One would , for example , assume right turns to be objectively more dangerous than left turns . |
| 27 | Statute-based rules thus tend to be both more powerful and also more rigid . |
| 28 | When marriage did take place , older brides were often preferred , as they tended to be both more useful as work partners , and have less childbearing years before them . |
| 29 | Lyons , in fact , concedes ( b ) : ‘ I am only too prepared to accept that in other traditions scribal records either are not or are not seen to be intrinsically more reliable than memory and oral transmission . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I keep trying to drown my sorrows but they appear to be marginally more buoyant than expanded polystyrene . ’ |