Example sentences of "more [adj] [noun] [is] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A more wide-ranging reason is that love of things , especially artificial things , could be seen as the besetting sin of modern civilisation , and in a way a new one , not quite Avarice and not quite pride , but somehow attached to both ( see pp. 68 , 128 above ) . |
| 2 | A more likely scenario is that GM and Ford will vie for a strategic yet friendly investment in Jaguar . |
| 3 | A more important point is that passages of this sort , spliced as they are with images like the lizard from the immediate foreground of Pound 's tent inside the wire-mesh cage of the prison camp , do not come into being out of the free associations of idle reverie , though in these Pisan cantos Pound exploits the illusion of that , as Joyce did in Ulysses when he pretended to transport himself and us into the mind of Leopold Bloom . |
| 4 | Of more immediate moment is that Cairns-Smith 's own theory , and indeed all other theories of the origin of life , may sound far-fetched to you and hard to believe . |
| 5 | Colin Anderson is still missing through suspension , and more bad news is that Owen Pickard is out injured . |