Example sentences of "[coord] more [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Journals can and do change , and their contents may at one period reflect the leading edge , whilst in another they may become review journals , or more ephemeral in nature . |
| 2 | There is nothing more difficult to take in hand , more perilous to conduct , or more uncertain in its success , than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things . |
| 3 | He added that the movie quality pictures offered by HDTV would not necessarily make it better or more satisfying to the viewer — instead they could well expose the cheap and cheerful sets used for soap operas for instance . |
| 4 | No one could have been more sympathetic to the detail of the poor man 's need , or more capable of vicarious imagination . |
| 5 | They breed from mid-May onward , hatching eight or more young in good years but only one , two or none when food is scarce . |
| 6 | These fish in the 1lb to 2lb class can be a hundred or more strong in a shoal , and if you begin catching this size of barbel it is likely they will remain in the swim , feeding off and on , for as long as you have bait to keep them interested . |
| 7 | Never , in all his life , had he witnessed anyone as clumsy or more dangerous to himself than Maltote with a weapon . |
| 8 | Did such calculations vary in different kin relationships , especially between kin who were closer or more distant in genealogical terms ? |
| 9 | Now if the alteration makes the crystal either less or more efficient in the damming/drying/erosion cycle , this will affect how many copies it has in subsequent ‘ generations ’ . |
| 10 | For about twenty-five years or more prior to the Poor Law Commission designating ‘ boy labour ’ a social problem , several attempts had been made to deal with the youth question by enrolling older children and young adolescents in a socially conservative youth movement , whose main features were discipline , religion , and organized leisure . |
| 11 | The results showed that only twelve volunteers lost 3 inches or more from their bust and all but two of these had measurements of 40 inches or more prior to following my diet . |
| 12 | Dynamic Voice is neat because it simulates the classic ‘ V ’ of a graphic EQ and the V can be made deeper or more shallow by use of the preamp 's up or down keys . |
| 13 | No writer has been more aware of this feature , or more effective in recording it , than Gerald Brodribb . |
| 14 | No one showed himself more resourceful in circumnavigating clerical consciences and objections or more resolute in extracting from them his needs ; even force — used tactfully — was employed to ease conscience as well as to produce cash . |
| 15 | 1 telescope ( either for looking at wonderful views from Chinese Bedroom or more likely for reading the label on object ten feet beyond the red cordon — seldom as rewarding as it should be , as it usually says ; Portrait of Unknown Lady by Anonymous Artist or Occasional Table in the style of Sheraton ) |
| 16 | Is such an event appropriate for a process timescale or more pertinent to a chronology approach ? |
| 17 | Did you erm find the work the sam as as easy or more difficult in in Llaneilian ? |
| 18 | The more politically-minded or more unfortunate of our participants were in the ‘ manure ’ group , studying and participating in the preparation and spreading of muck for the fields . |
| 19 | Any sector which is less favoured or more favoured as a result of a shall I say a generalized overview on agricultural land quality ? |
| 20 | He would of course be equally or more aware of a nagging toothache , but there is the further difference that while he would shrink from awareness of the pain , in this case he wants to sustain and enhance the awareness just as he wanted to come to Regent 's Park in the first place , and can be judged to want it by the same kind of tests , for example his reluctance to be dragged away from the cage . |
| 21 | There is a constant danger of losing sight of the young reader , a loss apparent in exquisite pictures that are too complex or more concerned with technique than content ; that are too concerned with nostalgia ( triggering the adult memory with steam engines and tram-cars , with gas masks and barrage-balloons ) ; books that are aimed at the coffee-table rather than the children ; and books that are too ‘ good ’ to handle . |
| 22 | Now , I 'm not a sociologist but I would say i it meant that children without both were more prone to trouble , or more prone to erm lack of parental control or lack of love , care there has , I mean somebody can draw a a conclusion from that , but barely fifty ! |
| 23 | Nothing has ever looked less inspired or more unready for action . |
| 24 | The severity of oesophagitis was classified into five categories according to Savary 's criteria : ( a ) Grade 0 : absence of oesophageal injury ; ( b ) Grade I : presence of few isolated erosions ; ( c ) Grade II : presence of multiple longitudinal or confluent erosions ; ( d ) Grade III : presence of Barrett 's oesophagus or columnar lined distal oesophagus , diagnosed by endoscopy when the squamous columnar mucosal function was seen 3 cm or more proximal to the endoscopic location of the lower oesophageal sphincter . |
| 25 | The distal end of the lower oesophageal sphincter represents the true oesophagogastric junction or cardia and if the squamous columnar junction is located 3 cm or more proximal to the proximal limit of this sphincter , a true Barrett 's oesophagus is present , which has been our criteria . |
| 26 | Their style of life was not much different from the ordinary Zuwaya : they had perhaps recently acquired better housing , but the new villas were not segregated ; food was no more generous , nor more delicate in a rich man 's house ; schooling and medical treatment were uniform . |
| 27 | And so I got more and more involved with the electronics thing , and stopped playing in groups completely in 1980 , having started work in the design section of various electronics companies like Pignose , Oberheim and BC Rich , who I 'd actually started with in ‘ 77 , then Fender during ‘ 81 and ‘ 82 . ’ |
| 28 | As the conflict with the king developed , he became more and more involved with the opposition . |
| 29 | Theodora pressed on , ‘ What the vicar 's warden also told me was that Paul had become more and more involved with the Youth Club and , in particular , with Jefferson , who had worked with him at Narborough . |
| 30 | It seems now to be less concerned with the publication of primary research results , and more involved with papers which reflect the interests of the membership , which includes undergraduates , teachers , and lay members . |