Example sentences of "[adv] more [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , perhaps because the eye and elbow joint develop in the same kind of way as our own eyes and elbows develop , a building process for which we , inside our mothers , claim no credit , we are illogically more impressed by the house . |
| 2 | Added to this , MPs and ministers have in a special degree the conviction that central government knows best and that any devolution from London must mean giving powers to authorities that are poorer , weaker , slower , perhaps corrupt , perhaps more reactionary ( for Labour members ) or perhaps more reckless with public funds ( for Conservative members ) . |
| 3 | Black tea is perhaps more familiar to most people ; the withered leaves are left to fully oxidise ( ferment naturally ) to the familiar dark brown colour before they are dried . |
| 4 | She became aware at an early stage that there was an entirely different way of life available not far outside Baldersdale , perhaps more appealing to her , but it could have been on another planet . |
| 5 | General practices would evolve into American-style health maintenance organisations — a prospect perhaps more appealing to planners than to patients or general practitioners . |
| 6 | Perhaps more worrying for the Government is the attitude of the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , who was reported by a most reliable gossip columnist called Peterborough in that impeccably Conservative newspaper The Daily Telegraph as saying that it would have been better if there had been no deal at all . |
| 7 | The Liberal Democrats remain a strong contender in left-of-centre politics , perhaps more certain of their identity than the Labour Party — albeit with some shaken confidence . |
| 8 | But perhaps more typical of European electronics companies were those with revenues of between one billion and a few billion dollars that experienced an ‘ identity crisis ’ in the 1980S . |
| 9 | The web of harmony added by the divided woodwind to the faster-moving octaves of the strings transforms the passage from a brusque late-Baroque flourish into something perhaps more appropriate to a Classical symphony . |
| 10 | The head said ‘ Yes , he does have difficulty remembering — particularly sounding ’ , and felt that this could be because he was perhaps more fluent in Punjabi . |
| 11 | They well illustrate a quality which is perhaps more necessary in farce crime fiction than in any other branch of the art , the need to set up a cracking pace . |
| 12 | But the more profiles are concerned with qualities of character and extra-curricular activities , the more intrusive of privacy they seem ; and , perhaps more relevant to the present enquiry , the less they have to do with the actual school curriculum . |
| 13 | But what is perhaps more surprising about this scene , which has about it so much of the " well-made play " , is that its form is a purely musical conception , with a closed key structure , a carefully placed recapitulation , balanced episodes and a definite coda and conclusion . |
| 14 | What is perhaps more surprising from a Marxist viewpoint is the restricted provenance even among working class Labour supporters of a developed conception of politics as ‘ class conflict ’ ( let alone any revolutionary conception of the possibility of an alternative social order ) . |
| 15 | Whilst this is perhaps more straightforward in certain businesses like banks , or in other activities such as in the military or diplomatic field , it is no less important in other sectors where a security culture has in the past seemed unnecessary . |
| 16 | But the truce does not seem to have aroused general opposition in England ; perhaps more serious in their implications for the regime were the disorders at Pontefract in the summer of 1323 , when a mob killed two officials guarding Lancaster 's tomb to prevent offerings being made there . |
| 17 | Additionally , his father 's side of the family were very enthusiastic adherents of the British Empire and in addition to their being ( as Leonard preferred to call them ) ‘ gentlemen of Hebrew persuasion , ’ they were perhaps more British in some respects than the British themselves , recalling what Hugh MacLennan said in his superb novel of the period , The Two Solitudes : ‘ The French are Frencher than France and the English are more British than England ever dared to be . ’ |
| 18 | He appealed to a certain nationalism ; he appealed to worldly motives , and to the knowledge that girls elsewhere were earning money with their education and were perhaps more marriageable as a result . |
| 19 | This is perhaps more evident in the case of longer courses where teachers are displaced from their pedagogic habitat for considerable periods of time , but it exists also in shorter courses . |
| 20 | Some buildings are larger and better known than others , and have had a great deal of publicity ; others are perhaps more modest in both scale and workmanship , but still deserving of attention as an important part of the local scene . |
| 21 | You mentioned that you were perhaps more scared of er ministers . |
| 22 | Goosanders are found on both fresh and salt water , near the coast and well inland , but they are rather rare on the open sea and are perhaps more likely to be seen c-n salt water in very cold weather . |
| 23 | The section , ‘ The family ’ , is perhaps more likely to be explored in terms of an imaginary one — the family in a story or rhyme , or the family of dolls that lives in the doll 's house . |
| 24 | If the Security Council excludes from the new tribunal 's jurisdiction such larger crimes , which are perhaps more likely to be committed by higher state officials , the resulting trials may end up dealing only with the small fry while the big fish get away . |
| 25 | Manfred Kronen is perhaps more sensitive to this extraordinary situation than most . |
| 26 | Observing the statute book alone might appear to depict a massive reinforcement of the agency model of central-local financial relationships but practical outcomes are perhaps more suggestive of power-dependency . |
| 27 | This method is perhaps more acceptable for those who can not or will not cope with blood testing or who have very stable diabetes because of some residual β-cell function . |
| 28 | Perhaps more important for the teacher is that some students , especially those from other cultures , may have been conditioned to respond to authority figures , especially teachers , by unquestioning obedience . |
| 29 | Perhaps more important for data interpretation , the nitric acid is believed to be returned to the gas phase , and is therefore measurable using ground-based FTIR techniques , unlike heterogeneous reactions on polar stratospheric cloud surfaces in the Antarctic spring where HNO 3 can be sequestered in the solid phase . |
| 30 | Perhaps more important for our purposes is the economists ' view of law which is something quite different from that of the lawyers ' traditional idea of a command backed up by a sanction . |