Example sentences of "[adv] more [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The chief candidates for this distinction are most certainly the higher primates , and of them perhaps more especially the near relatives of man , the chimpanzee and gorilla . |
2 | Certainly , Meriden was much more nearly an authentic industrial co-operative than were the other two ; and , as certainly , realised the potential in morale , in practical commitment to the objectives of the enterprise , which is the special feature of a co-operative . |
3 | If it is to be successful in this objective it needs to articulate much more clearly the rival communitarian philosophy which one senses underpins its practical proposals . |
4 | this is much more much the nicer . |
5 | Whether we consider the rarity of the subjects , the speciousness of those he selected for his purpose , or the general production of the whole , England had not before produced any work , except the Hortus Elthamensis or Catesby 's Carolina , so superb and extensive , and in one respect Miller 's had an advantage , as they exhibited much more perfectly the separate figures of parts of fructification . |
6 | So we can find words like ‘ tonight ’ , ‘ canary ’ with an before , but medially and finally , as in words like ‘ threaten ’ , ‘ threatening ’ , we find much more commonly a syllabic : , . |
7 | Harper raised the cudgel to drive away the beggars who swarmed ever more threateningly the closer they got to the Duke and Duchess of Richmond 's rented house . |
8 | I am of course old enough to remember the first railway made in England , and still more easily the first telegraph wires ; now we see people are not satisfied with these last , but must have telephone wires too . |
9 | ‘ the clearest and simplest remedy for this evil of litigation about charity , by which so often the kindly intention of a testator is defeated , and still more often a considerable part of the benefaction is wasted in legal costs , would be for Parliament to enact a modern definition or classification of charities on some broad lines . |
10 | Yet twenty years later , largely as a result of the work of Maurepas , an energetic Secretary of State , she had nearly 50 ships of the line and was once more clearly the second-greatest European naval power The war of 1744–48 with Great Britain meant fairly heavy losses ; but by 1754 she possessed 57 ships of the line and 24 frigates . |
11 | Edward , re-inspecting them , saw even more clearly the perfunctory effect , and blamed himself . |
12 | An alternative theory , still concerned with major transitions in relation to economic changes , is that which conceives the turning-point in social life as being the emergence and development of industrial society , in which the growth of modern science and technology plays a crucial role ( Aron , 1967 ) ; and a further extension of the theory , in more recent discussions of ‘ post-industrial ’ society , affirms even more strongly the overwhelming importance in the economy and society of the production of theoretical knowledge . |
13 | Churchill had at moments in the First World War manifested great strategic prescience ; his intuition swung into action even more powerfully the second time round . |
14 | The Russians will be very ready to respond to this and I think even more so the other Republics . |
15 | It also has a mock-medieval castle erected in 1798 , and even more extraordinarily a 250-year-old fossilised tree . |
16 | Even more recently a whole catalogue has been devoted to single leaves and cut-out miniatures from despoiled manuscripts . |
17 | Then more slowly a second time . |