Example sentences of "[pos pn] more [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , my more recent work indicates that it is possible to predict how the universe would begin if one took into account the theory of quantum physics , the theory of the very small . |
| 2 | It might seem therefore that my more recent work had completely undone the results of my earlier work on singularities . |
| 3 | My more recent experience would suggest that matters have not improved significantly from this early social work text , especially concerning social work with elderly people . |
| 4 | I was a damned good half for about six minutes , at which point some lumbering Neanderthal would drop his 17-stone frame on my more delicate structure , and I would view the rest of the game from the sideline , where I lay whimpering and counting broken bones . |
| 5 | Among my more experienced colleagues , the north-east was known as ‘ Calvary ’ as most acts were crucified there . |
| 6 | I used to do this with my more experienced pilots using the Falke motor glider on the runway at Lasham . |
| 7 | Let's say I was prone to a certain amount of raffishness which would have been frowned upon by my more sober colleagues . |
| 8 | ( A flair for judging character is one of my more useful talents . ) |
| 9 | It was only a matter of time before my more traditional sort of jazz became popular again and I 'd have to think of a new image . |
| 10 | First stop was Stornoway where Ewen Munro , the Manager , was on hand to relieve me of an important part of my luggage , The Crofter of the Year Cup , which I was to present in Stornoway at a Dinner on the Friday once I had returned from my more distant island travels . |
| 11 | For the purposes of completing this project and covering some grand skylines in Snowdonia , the Lakes and Scotland — I had to take time out from my more usual pastime to actually walk those mountain crests . |
| 12 | Access to Tiree is not easy from Inverness but there was an opportunity before Loganair adopted their Summer flight schedules in April and this enabled me to link Scarinish in with my more regular Lewis/Uist/Barra trip . |
| 13 | Following the Oxford Dictionary , which is here a more lucid guide than my more abstruse colleagues , we can say that a symbol signifies something other than or complementary to itself ; it can therefore be used to represent , express , or image things which are external to it but to which it is linked in an appropriate fashion . |
| 14 | In my more lucid moments , I often feel that this whole reviewing game would benefit by being reduced to the simple ticking of a box marked yes , this song has a catchy tune and a good beat , or alternatively one marked no , it does n't . |
| 15 | My doctors came and went , with heavy hands and heavy breath , to admire my new gurgles and whimpers , my more spectacular twitches , my athletic jolts . |
| 16 | It was the price for my more materialist attitude , my seeking to occupy the middle ground , between absorption in life and soaring above the cares of the earth . |
| 17 | If I do n't manage the bedspread I know that my friend would really like a loose , plain , black sweater in fine wool for winter or a synthetic yarn for summer rather than one of my more dashing designer confections . |
| 18 | One of my more cynical film critic friends uses me as his personal ‘ shriekometer ’ to gauge how freaked out Joe Public is going to be by some of the grizzlier horror movies we have to sit through . |
| 19 | As was the case with my more general argument about gift exchange , the two aspects of the transaction , the economic and the symbolic , need to be distinguished . |
| 20 | Indeed one of my more embarrassing moments was when a child was told not to sit like Um Yusef . |
| 21 | And I knew that I 'd be seeing it in my more dejected moments for a long time to come . |
| 22 | I had other games , but that one always struck me as one of my more mature inventions ; symbolic somehow , and with a nice blend of callousness and irony . |
| 23 | I could not imagine when I should have occasion to wear some of my more exotic outfits . |
| 24 | One of my more unlikely activities was to preside from 1973 to 1977 over the Housing Corporation , and alongside it ( a body which bore no direct relationship ) the National Building Agency . |
| 25 | Another batch of letters has reached my desk , some pleading , others offering help to my more unfortunate patients . |
| 26 | But it has to be said ( it has to be said ! ) wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , typing , smiled to himself , it has to be said , wrote Harsnet , that if every project is likely , if not certain , to result in the addition of a little more shit to the shit that already exists , there is also the possibility , faint it is true but real , of the unexpected , and this is what delay makes possible and what the onward rush of time , the ever-increasing acceleration of time , perpetually denies , and in addition to the possibility of the unexpected appearing in the coils of delay , in addition to that , it has to be said , he wrote , that whatever the project , however trivial , however exalted , it will always say more than its maker knows , and , if genuine ( I will return to genuine ) , something will emerge which is distinct from whatever came before , from whatever elements went to make up the whole , a tone , a voice , which is not the tone or the voice of the maker but something else , something which , in my more optimistic moments , or perhaps my less clear-sighted moments , seems to be distinct from the shit though inseparable from it , a tone , a style , which links it to its maker 's other genuine ( I will return to genuine ) productions . |
| 27 | Falteringly , I sought to express these misgivings in my conclusions to a number of papers , conclusions that certainly brought no joy to my more optimistic colleagues in an emerging human ethology rooted firmly in the objective analysis of behaviour sequences and components . |
| 28 | Whenever I see coloured people in Porteneil , buying souvenirs or stopping off for a snack , I hope that they will ask me something so that I can show how polite I am and prove that my reasoning is stronger than my more crass instincts , or training . |
| 29 | In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents , it has turned out to be an Annus Horribilis . |
| 30 | Lisa found herself rushing on to inform him , ‘ This is one of my more conservative creations . ’ |