Example sentences of "[pron] more [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the leakiness or otherwise of the gut wall will not make someone more sensitive to such chemicals . |
| 2 | Then I would want to find someone more senior like Hannah Collins or Alison Wilding or Susan Hiller or Helen Chadwick . |
| 3 | Well that 's exactly what I mean , a very good illustration of somebody who makes himself more important by coming in fifteen and a half seconds late , which is not so late for a corporate session , but is late enough to , to make everyone worry and so on in that time . |
| 4 | Marske earned a replay against their more illustrious with a 1–1 draw on Saturday . |
| 5 | Its more partial to what the paper calls SVR4.3 when its all integrated sometime next summer . |
| 6 | well if any thing its more likely to be at the top of the pile , not the bottom |
| 7 | She could feel Patrick 's erection digging into the side of her leg , his excitement making her more breathless by the second . |
| 8 | He argues that the imbalance acts to increase the person 's risk of schizophrenia by making him or her more susceptible to social influences ( Cutting , 1985 , p. 391 ) . |
| 9 | There is still plenty more potential for growth . |
| 10 | By the second week in July Baldwin felt able to say nothing more constructive about the ten-week-old lock-out than ‘ Leave it alone — we are all so tired . ’ |
| 11 | They knew that there was nothing more off-putting for a woman that a romantic encounter at the cinema holding hands with a large dollop of Castrol GTX . |
| 12 | In politics he is that which of all things least resembles a democrat — an aristocratic republican who thinks ‘ nothing more agreeable to the order of nature or more for the interest of mankind than that the less should yield to the greater , not in numbers but in wisdom and virtue ’ . |
| 13 | There is nothing more tedious for the teacher than to hear one of his best students saying , after the examination : ‘ Oh , I did very well , but I only had time to answer half the paper . ’ |
| 14 | There is nothing more annoying to older people , for their need and desire to communicate , at an adult level , is likely to be as strong as ever . |
| 15 | There is nothing more annoying to a journalist who is working on a story than to be told that the PRO will ring back with the relevant numbers and then not to get them for another two or three days . |
| 16 | Bill : I do n't know if anybody feels they have , but this is a thing which I felt was central to the gay movement of the seventies and I think I would go so far as to say that I assume that most of my close friends feel , like Mark , that it 's fine to have special relationships but it is n't fine to have ones where you are n't allowed to have anything else and also that there 's nothing more deadly to a relationship when you are trying desperately not to have it off with anybody else because you feel guilty about it . |
| 17 | There is nothing more baffling in cricket than the continuing reluctance of umpires to move for the adoption of TV assistance for narrow run-out and stumping decisions . |
| 18 | Even now he was careful to suggest nothing more specific to the US secretary of state than the creation of some sort of Atlantic " democratic system " as a warning to the Soviets that they " could not advance further " . |
| 19 | The game , if game there had been , had broken the constraints of rule , and there is nothing more reminiscent of chaos and old night than a game become uncontrolled . |
| 20 | Their relationship was an oddly comfortable one , with nothing more demonstrative about it than a swift goodnight kiss , or hands joined on a walk in the beautiful countryside around Chastlecombe . |
| 21 | There he delivered the first of his attacks upon the press lords : ‘ There is nothing more curious in modern evolution than the effect of an enormous fortune rapidly made and the control of newspapers of your own . |
| 22 | There is nothing more frustrating for a President to issue an order to a Cabinet officer , and then find that , when the order gets out in the field , it is totally mutilated . ’ |
| 23 | I can think of nothing more damaging to law and order in the metropolis than having the hon. Gentleman as chairman of such an authority . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , Sir , there are some things more fit to be looked at than others ; for instance , there is nothing more fit to be looked at than the outside of a book … |
| 25 | Americans , threatened by nothing more bellicose to their north and south than Canada and Mexico , are not accustomed to thinking they are in a battle zone . |
| 26 | There is nothing more important for the world economy . |
| 27 | For the good student , therefore , there is nothing more important in examination technique than dividing up his time as equally as may be between all the questions . |
| 28 | There is nothing more interesting to a busy chief executive or personnel director than knowing what the competition are doing , what they are being paid and who is moving where . |
| 29 | There was nothing more interesting to be seen than if this had been the entrance to a rabbit warren , nothing but a tunnel that led down into darkness . |
| 30 | As Eadmer reported , there was nothing more precious to the older monks than the recollection of the saints and their miracles . |