Example sentences of "[art] [adv] [adv] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Massingham hated to leave a scene of crime even temporarily while the body was still there , and he would go the more unwillingly because Kate Miskin , back now from Campden Hill Square , was to stay . |
| 2 | But ( the more so while elements of the most general training persist ) certain crucial human and social connections , or potential connections , are still there , in the shared resources of which these are developments . |
| 3 | Mountfield , veteran of many a Merseyside derby , Nielsen and McGrath were magnificently combative , the more so after Beardsley had equalised . |
| 4 | Your optimism is admirable , Mr Barnett , the more so since pessimism is , I suspect , your natural mood . |
| 5 | But since the LEP tunnel exists , it is tempting to use it — all the more so because CERN 's member states would never allow a bigger one to be built . |
| 6 | The people are almost foreign to me , the more so because country people have not yet been thrown into quite the same confusion as townspeople , and therefore look awkwardly upon those who are not in trade — writing is an unskilled labour and not a trade — not on the land , and not idle … . |
| 7 | Most hotels are medium plastic so self-catering condos , often beautifully appointed , can be a better bet , the more so because restaurant food veers from absurdly chi chi — as in elk Wellington — to savagely basic . |
| 8 | All the more so because Madness were such a good , unaffected laugh . |
| 9 | Recessions cause firms to scrap equipment ; they also discourage new investment , all the more so if interest rates are high . |
| 10 | In consequence , Christianity could also find lines of convergence with Mithraism — the more so as Mithraism stressed the immortality of the soul , a future judgement and the resurrection of the dead . |
| 11 | 360 , but any connection with imperial officials is highly conjectural , the more so as Firminus was a very common cognomen . |
| 12 | These , for Moore , have little or no intrinsic value , and their investigation belongs to the practical branch of ethics concerned with which among possible actions will have the best consequences , rather than to the more fundamental enquiry into the nature of the intrinsically better and worse which it presupposes . |
| 13 | She seems a little later than Nikandre 's marble . |
| 14 | He held McAllister 's hand for a little longer than propriety might demand , and the pair of them stood for a moment , rapt , until the surgery boy , who ran the doctor 's errands on his bike , delivered prescriptions and generally did a great deal of donkey work , knocked on the door before he came in , saying excitedly and importantly , ‘ You 're wanted , Dr Neil , sir . |
| 15 | The profile at sites 5-7 is similar to that at site 1 though a little slower since digestion products are only visible 10-30 minutes after initiating the dissociation . |
| 16 | But because lifestyles are changing constantly the rules of etiquette are changing too — a little slower than lifestyles perhaps , but still changing . |
| 17 | We climbed a little further and Arthur cooled off in the tarn . |
| 18 | The truth is that uphill the extra weight made it a little harder than walking , but the weight was not directly on my back , a fact that I appreciated . |
| 19 | Some basses are a little better than others , but the truth is that by turning up the line level you can make it sound like anything you want . |
| 20 | As I said at the beginning , conditions were a little better and bream were rolling and giving line bites . |
| 21 | So far , he 's collected a total of 25 locks and more than 100 keys , and while his family and friends are slightly bemused by his hobby , there have been times when it 's caused them a little more than amusement . |
| 22 | It 's a physical game and erm i it seems to me that er people should er develop their brain a little more and play games er which have more i interest for everyone , not just the people who like a good shout ! |
| 23 | No less plausibly than Attlee and his colleagues in 1945 , Mrs Thatcher was entitled to declare : ‘ We are the masters now . ’ |
| 24 | As I mentioned early the , the city of Sermaria it was under siege and the army of Seria was encamped all around it , Ben Hadad was a great warrior , he would of been the , the Alexander or the Napoleon of his day and he had set up this encampment around the city of Sermaria , nobody could get in , nobody could get out and very quickly the stocks of food and water er were used up , rationing would of been introduced but it only lasted for a certain period , they 'd got to the stage it tells us in the previous chapter that er , that a donkeys head was sold for eighty shekel 's of silver and some folk had even got to the , had sunk to the level of cannibalism , of eating their own children and the city was , when they heard about this they were in an uproar and they started blaming god and in between the city of Sermaria of all its suffering and hopelessness and helplessness and the army encamped about with all of their supplies , there was this area of no mans land in which they were caught up four men who were leapers and they were trapped there , they did n't want to go over to the Serians because they 'd be killed , they did n't want to go back into the city because they were n't allowed there and any way what was the point , they 'd only die of starvation in there and so these four men are caught up in no man 's land and yet their no better off than people in the city , now god had promised deliverance , through his serve and Eliger he had promised deliverance , Eliger said tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour shall be sold for a se shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel in the gate of Semaria , he said the gates are gon na be open , there 's gon na be food and its gon na be a reasonable price and it says the royal officer who 's hand the king was leaning on said the man of god said behold , if the lord shall make windows in heaven could such a thing be , he said do n't talk stupid man , how can such a thing happen for us ? , he did n't believe what god servant said and Eliger brings out to him a terrible judgment , he says because of your unbelief you will see it , but your not participate in it but lets look at these four men for a moment , cos that 's where our real interest lies this morning , I just wanted to say three things in their experience , the first things is that they were amazed that , at what they found , because after they come together and they talk about it and they said well what shall we do and they weighed the pro 's and the cons and Semaria does n't look very attractive with its cannibalism , they said well the least if we stay here were gon na die , if we go into Semaria we 'll die , lets go down to the Serein camp , the worse they can do to us is put us to death and were dying men any way , but they may just take pity on us , we maybe allowed to grope around in their dustbins and get some scraps of food , they may at least allow us that , and so they make their way down just as evening is falling , they make their way down to the Serein lines and when they get there , they are amazed at what they find , you see their condition was helpless and hopeless , they were dying men any way , they were lepers , but they were dying of starvation , that was far more imminent than their leprosy , their problems and their needs were greater than themselves , they could not meet their own needs , their problems and their needs were greater than their government , the king in Semaria and all of his court could not meet the needs of his people and then in verse five , we read something there , they arose at twilight to go to the camp of Aramians or the Serein 's and when they came to the outskirts of the camp of the Serein 's behold there was no one there , they expected to at least meet a guard , there would surely be somebody on sentry duty even if the rest of the soldiers had gone in to their tents and were perhaps getting ready for their , for the evening , going to bed or whatever they were gon na be doing , having their evening meal , there would at least be somebody on guard duty , but when they got there , there was no one there , god had stepped in , god had intervened and the good news of the Christian gospel is that god has intervened in our , in the midst of our helplessness , in the midst of our hopelessness , god has intervened , he had stepped in to history , so often you 'll hear folks say , well why does n't god do something , why does god allow this to happen , why does god allow that one , why does n't he do something all they really show by that comment is their own ignorance , because god has done something , god has intervened , listen to what it says in John three sixteen , for god so loved the world that he gave , he 's only son and the er , the er apostle Paul and he 's writing to the Gallations , in chapter four and in verses four and five hear what he says there , but when the time had fully come god sent his son , born of a woman , born under law to redeem those under law that we might receive the full rights of son , er of sons , god has done something , he 's sent his son Jesus Christ into this world in fact his done the greatest thing he could do , he has done the very ultimate thing , he has sent his son into the world that 's the greatest intervention god could ever have made , it was far greater than , than just intervening in sm , in some small local event , were you see some catastrophe happening and you say well why does n't god do something there , or there 's a war situation going on in some other part of the world , well why does n't god step in and stop it , god has stepped in , not in a local situation , not in some er passing problem or need but he 's stepped into the greatest way possible by sending his son Jesus Christ into the world to dye for men and woman , to take away sin , to pay the price that god 's righteousness demands for sin so god has intervened and his intervention has changed the whole situation , its brought a whole new complexion on things , its changed the colour completely , no longer is the world now under darkness and in , and in pending judgment in doom , because Jesus Christ came and he took that judgment and that , that condemnation upon himself , he said I 've not come to condemn the world he said its already condemned , its already under judgement , the sword of Damocles is already hanging over the world and Jesus Christ came in and to take that judgment and that condemnation on himself and when he died there on the cross and rose again , there came that burst of light in a world that had been shrouded in blackness and darkness , a world that had been shrouded in sin suddenly for the first time sees the light , god has paid for himself the price of sin , god has intervened and changed the whole situation and the message of the gospel is that if you and I allow that intervention to effect us personally , then like those four men surely we too are amazed at what we 've found . |
| 25 | Even the provision of free or almost free housing leaves the farm worker no better off when comparisons are made with workers elsewhere , for the latter often receive benefits — cheap meals , pension funds , medical facilities , etc. — unavailable to farm workers . |
| 26 | The only flaw was that he got hold of information so easily , but maybe it was no more easily than Cobalt had done . |
| 27 | If Nonconformists were imitators they were no more so than Anglicans or Roman Catholics . |
| 28 | But when light-food pairings were given in the test phase , latent inhibition was observed ; subjects given this treatment acquired the CR no more rapidly than control subjects that went straight from pre-exposure to conditioning without an intervening retention interval . |