Example sentences of "some of [art] more [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most students start with vague objectives or change direction quite fundamentally during their first year so that a wider range of courses is required including some broadly-based and some of a more specialized nature . |
| 2 | Lockington keeps its appearance of an estate village — it forms part of the estate of Lord Hotham of South Dalton and some of the more modern buildings have kept to the style of the estate cottages with their pointed-roofed upper windows . |
| 3 | As I eased the Transit over some of the more violent ruts in the track , I noticed that one of the lean-tos was in fact an old single decker bus from which the wheels had been removed . |
| 4 | In resisting rationalism he risks emphasising paradox to the point where it can seem sheerly irrational ; his insistence on the otherness of God and the sinfulness of man , and his fondness for some of the more arbitrary-seeming accounts of God in the stories of Abraham and Job , leave much too little place for a positive grasp of grace and mercy , goodness and love , though he does attempt to give them place ; his stress upon the centrality of the incarnation of God in Jesus commonly seems to reduce to the bare repetition of the claim that Jesus was also , paradoxically , God , but not fully to work through the implications and purpose of this identification of God with man ; his bitter attacks upon ‘ Christendom ’ in his latter years reveal rather too much of the solitary individualist who has little sense of the nature of community . |
| 5 | Doubtless they represent a thorough-going attempt to adopt the sort of Roman style envisaged by Fortunatus , and they presumably drew an admiring response from some of the more backward-looking members of the Gallo-Roman aristocracy . |
| 6 | In 1921 , for example , the boys section at Bradford Park Avenue was closed down for three months after the referee had been pelted with rubbish , and in the early 1920s the fierce North London rivalries between Arsenal and Spurs flared into open street battles in which some of the more zealous fans were armed with iron bars and knives . |
| 7 | In his introduction Piero Pazzi discusses some of the more piquant examples : in the aftermath of the Second Vatican Council well-meaning but misguided parish priests broke up their own collections to help the poor . |
| 8 | Some of the more straightforward letters wo n't need much alteration , but those which do contain bracketed prompts , which tell you where to enter information which is relevant to you — for example , the amount of an invoice , points you agree with , and so on . |
| 9 | Almost before they realise it , they may even find themselves defending some of the more absurd parliamentary conventions . |
| 10 | These examples vie with other reminders of some of the more arcane uses to which human technical ingenuity has been applied : the production of shrunken human heads from South America , or indeed dressed fleas from Mexico . |
| 11 | ‘ His tactical awareness was second to none — but he did n't want to know some of the more boring aspects of management . |
| 12 | The bicycle was accused of enlarging the scope for theft , and we were encouraged to linger over some of the more squalid details of profiteering and corruption which had accompanied the boom in the cycling industry . |
| 13 | Small invertebrates such as polycheate worms , shrimps and other crustaceans are also fair game for most invertebrate feeders and some of the more cosmopolitan species such as boxfish , puffers and triggerfish have an appetite which may extend to shelled molluscs , fanworms and even spiny sea urchins . |
| 14 | Check on salt tolerance of your fish especially some of the more delicate catfish before treating . |
| 15 | These form the government 's alternative protection measures to the CCS 's recommendations for tighter general controls on all mountain developments and national park designation for some of the more delicate NSAs . |
| 16 | If you grow some of the more vulnerable shrubs in an area where they are on the borderline of hardness , give them a little winter protection . |
| 17 | Well with our rarest birds , and certainly ospreys and red kites are extremely rare with fifty to sixty pairs of each , we keep a close eye on them , some of the more vulnerable nests are actually watched twenty-four hours of the day , others are monitored regularly to make sure they 're progressing well . |
| 18 | They offended some of the more straight-laced among the constructors — people who might have been more inclined to help the Fittipaldis if they kept better company — and generally put a question mark over the Fittipaldi team : how it was surviving , with whose backing , by what means . |
| 19 | Dealers will be delighted to find that these upmarket pretentions have rubbed off on to some of the more mainstream models in the range . |
| 20 | It is best to try some of the more constructive options first . |
| 21 | We were , of course , concerned with some of the more lethal forms of amphetamine tablets and the more dangerous LSD , although the latter was manufactured in the UK by highly organised gangs as highlighted by the police Operation Julie , later made into a television documentary . |
| 22 | There are several signs in the twelfth edition that the writer still hankers for the old methods , despite the necessity for tempering some of the more repressive advice , and the book remains far more authoritarian in tone than more recently written baby books . |
| 23 | Some of the more spectacular productivity gains ( e.g. British Steel ) have occurred prior to privatization . |
| 24 | I mean I know some of the , some of the more slender women , I wo n't say skinny here , what , are n't in need of a tummy tuck , but well there 's you as a twenty two Scottish women would spend two thousand pounds , what do you think of that ? |
| 25 | There followed as always , an uneasy compromise ; some of the more offensive wording was covered up . |
| 26 | In the next chapter I want to show some of the more insidious ways in which modernity stops us from seeing contemporaneity as the territory of the Enemy . |
| 27 | PHILLIPA DAVIES is not against Neil Kin nock — ‘ after all I am Welsh , too ’ — but she does wish he would drop some of the more irritating Welsh features of his speech . |
| 28 | Some of the more controversial issues may be raised in a separate document , a joint report from the chairman of the Advisor Council for Applied Research and Development ( ACARD ) and the Advisory Board for the Research Councils ( ABRC ) . |
| 29 | He had read some of the more discreet passages for the evening audience , having had a last-minute change of plan . |
| 30 | Surprisingly too , for a company associated with some of the more extravagant and transient retail schemes of the 1980s , the overall effect is both understatedly stylish and reassuringly solid . |