Example sentences of "to put [pers pn] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | COMING soon , maybe : a triumph for the gods of chaos , lunacy and bad taste - or , to put it more plainly , a film version of John Kennedy Toole 's wonderfully funny cult novel , A Confederacy of Dunces . |
| 2 | To put it more brutally , there is no other sport in which the participants are so habitually semi-literate . |
| 3 | Second and equally important , as Fratter ( 1989 ) also asks , can parents release and mourn a child to whom they are attached or to put it more bluntly , can parents mourn a child that is not dead ? |
| 4 | This public impression thrives in a climate of secrecy , or , to put it more fairly , in a climate where there is a lack of information on the selection process , the selection criteria , the selection policy and the selection decisions . |
| 5 | The beginning of conversation with strangers is all about finding something in common — or , to put it more succinctly and to use a very 1990s ' word , to discover commonality . |
| 6 | To put it more simply , why should they bother ? |
| 7 | These abilities promote animals in our affections or , to put it more academically , are moral points in their favour . |
| 8 | These three approaches are usually called Realism , Pluralism , and Structuralism , or , to put it more graphically , the billiard-ball , cobweb , and layer-cake models . |
| 9 | But with those grown to man 's estate , I think he fails ; he failed with me , or to put it more correctly , I failed with him . |
| 10 | Secondly , it will go , in accordance with the voter 's intention , to his next-preference candidate , or to put it more accurately — since it can not go to a candidate already elected or eliminated — to his next available preference . |
| 11 | To put it more simply , I wanted to look at the reciprocal interaction between individuals and their immediate social world . |
| 12 | To put it more crudely , those students who are male , white , middle-class and Christian , will very rarely have their views challenged or have to make sympathetic adjustments as a consequence . |
| 13 | What is tying these together is an ideal , or to put it more concretely , a certain position associated with some alienated intellectuals in late capitalist society . |
| 14 | Indeed , much of the film has dated badly , by comparison with the better American films of around the same time ( Wild River , Psycho , The Hustler , El Cid ) , or to put it more neutrally appears less attractive than it did in its own time . |
| 15 | Do these words refer to the actual expense incurred by the school in providing the benefit or do they refer to the hypothetical expense incurred by the school arrived at by the formula of dividing the total cost of running the school by the number of pupils attending it or to put it more shortly do they refer to the additional or the average cost of the provision of the benefit . |
| 16 | With this diversity , extended distribution and mobility , came new forms and opportunities of artistic and cultural independence ; or , to put it more strictly , forms of direct dependence , within relatively monopolistic social and cultural reproduction , were modified and sometimes replaced by forms of more variable dependence on more diverse modes of such reproduction , and within this diversity there was some significant innovation . |
| 17 | Do they behave in the same way syntactically , or , to put it more accurately , do topics , like themes , have no syntax ? |
| 18 | To put it more succinctly , diagnosis prognosticates aetiology. ( 136–8/138–9 ) |
| 19 | To put it more simply , all economies experience booms and slumps , many of which are quite drawn out or persistent . |
| 20 | To put it more briefly , the property FRENCH applies to or ( other things equal ) is true of that which is designated by the noun . |
| 21 | Or , to put it more accurately , any fifty of the hundred she 'd got lined up . |