Example sentences of "[adv] [art] more [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Perhaps the more significant of the deals is that involving BSB , which launches five new channels in the spring . |
| 32 | Obviously the more interesting the inscription , the more valuable the book . |
| 33 | Pound peg The second option was obviously the more attractive , for it pegged this latest rise to 15 per cent base rates firmly on the exchange rate . |
| 34 | These are all the more curious because Cohen is otherwise far from cavalier with the text . |
| 35 | Yet no one , it seems , can discover what lies behind Graham 's complaint — a condition which is all the more curious because on the surface his skin , while rather pale , seems quite normal . |
| 36 | It was an intriguing prospect and I was all the more curious why I had found one of his handbills in my chamber at the Golden Turk . |
| 37 | It was the nature of the place , he thought , perched up there on its remote peak , its back turned to the world , all the more obsessed with its petty intrigues and scandals because it knew them to be of no interest whatever to anyone else . |
| 38 | This parallel and overlapping protection is all the more relevant in the computer industry . |
| 39 | Baldersdale was far too remote for any of the gentry to be interested in building a country residence there All the more accessible dales had their halls , manors and castles , but the high moors sweeping up to 1,500 feet above the valley of Baldersdale was the habitat of a creature which every aristocrat , and many wealthy merchants and other nouveau riche with aristocratic pretensions pursued , then and now , with fanatical zeal — Lagopus scoticus , feathered-footed member of the Tetraonidae family , otherwise known as the red grouse For the locals it meant an extra cash crop during the days following the Glorious Twelfth — the shillings and sovereigns tossed , somewhat disdainfully , at them for providing a back-up service , such as beating the heather to alarm the birds into the air and towards the buckshot , or placing their horses and wagons at the disposal of their lordships so that ammunition , lunch and the essential bottles of whisky could be transported to the guns and the day 's bag of slain birds brought safely to the all-important count . |
| 40 | Five of his friends thought the article referred to him — an identification made all the more far-fetched by the fact that the fictitious character was described as a Peckham Church Warden . |
| 41 | The Quartets are all the more impressive for having this political dimension worked into them , yet still subordinated beneath the religious scheme . |
| 42 | Combine it with a visit to Hearts of Darkness — A Film-maker 's Apocalypse , Fax Bahr and George Hickenlooper 's superb documentary about Coppola 's difficulties in getting the film made , and the achievement seems all the more impressive . |
| 43 | In a way this makes them all the more impressive . |
| 44 | This makes the conclusion reached all the more impressive , and certainly forces one to take seriously the possibility that even low-level exposure to lead may have gravely deleterious effects on children 's behaviour and intelligence . |
| 45 | Last week 's starter with Heinz Wolff ( ITV , 13 March ) was all the more impressive for getting off to such a terrible start with the tortuous answer that interviewer Ian Fells elicited to his opener about the meaning of biomedical engineering . |
| 46 | They are all the more impressive because the road at their base nowhere attains much height , being lower than 350 feet above sea level at its summit . |
| 47 | It was a warning all the more impressive for being delivered by an old soldier . |
| 48 | The responses are all the more impressive when you consider the short period for consultation on the proposals . |
| 49 | This made my delight at finding King Felin 's tomb all the more great . |
| 50 | And when the same thing happens again , this makes the reaction all the more violent . |
| 51 | Faustina looked up from her saucer , her dark face made all the more reproachful by its beard of milk . |
| 52 | What made the victory all the more memorable for the 21-year-old was that he beat three-times champion and Chelmsford AC clubmate Dave Tullett , who was closing fast down the back straight . |
| 53 | These shimmering fables , in which an ageing heroine , a ‘ sweet Shura ’ or a Zhenechka , guards her faded mementos and sharp , unfinished memories in defiance of history , help us to understand , perhaps , the drive behind the current , terrifyingly fearless race towards 19th-century-style capitalism : that it is not only a hunger for consumer goods , but a kind of nostalgia for a glamour all the more potent because few now remember it . |
| 54 | White-hot rage that was all the more potent because it originated from humiliation , and from the sickening knowledge not only that she was infatuated with him , but also that he had recognised the fact . |
| 55 | Ace made love to her in a silence made all the more potent when her roving caresses forced him to respond with a groan of pleasure as they touched each other intimately . |
| 56 | In fact , Somerset 's next match was n't until Thursday of that week at Sheffield , so Hewett 's action was all the more sporting . |
| 57 | The incident was made all the more galling by the fact that neither climber had broken an axe of crampon in 27 years of combined mountaineering experience ! |
| 58 | This disappointment was all the more galling for the fact that the prime minister and eight other cabinet ministers had been his colleagues in the UDC ; and , unmollified by nomination for the Nobel peace prize , Morel became almost as bitter a critic of the Ramsay MacDonald government as of its predecessors . |
| 59 | The Polytechnic must find it all the more galling that a situation has developed whereby an institute of higher education has become a sub-centre of the Faculty of Education at Cardiff for training further education teachers , a role that is denied to the Polytechnic because it has lost its involvement in the professional training of teachers . |
| 60 | Making no attempt to disguise his anger at the Ulster decision John Hunter added : ‘ The fact that it was a blanket no , and that it was n't even person to person , made it all the more galling . ’ |