Example sentences of "much [adj -er] and [adv] more [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although an intensely private person , and in many ways an unusual one , Basil had a most affecting belief in the place of art in the lives of those culturally much simpler and perhaps more worldly than himself . |
| 2 | What everyone thought was the unveiling of an exciting new model , the Chimaera , turned out to mask something much bigger and potentially more significant — the birth of a new V8 engine , the first that TVR could truly call its own . |
| 3 | Much nicer and far more refreshing than the bland oiliness of avocado and prawns , a combination which still baffles me . |
| 4 | Small numbers of French had been parachuted into Indochina under SEAC auspices before the Japanese coup but a much larger and perhaps more effective intervention by the French Corps Léger d'Intervention , a specialist unit of some five hundred men recruited and waiting in Algeria , was frustrated for various nominal reasons ; the effective one being that the US , until the very last moment , was unalterably opposed to French units participating in the war against Japan , and especially , if this involved Vietnam . |
| 5 | The actively hunting wolf and jumping spiders show little dimorphism and similar adult life styles , whereas the sedentary orb web-building spiders and the similarly sessile ( yet webless ) crab spiders have males that are much smaller and much more mobile than their respective females . |
| 6 | People with congested skin often benefit from aromatic baths ( if not too hot ) and full-body massage because the skin of the abdomen , inner thighs and upper arms is much softer and therefore more capable of absorption . |
| 7 | erm Partly out of the same kind of wave of public sympathy , but was much slower and much more long-drawn-out process in America . |
| 8 | Memoirs based on diaries , or the autobiography itself , enable the writer to make use of the diaries for the basic pattern of events , but by adding hindsight to the diaries a much fuller and perhaps more plausible or self-justifying record can be written . |