Example sentences of "more [adj] [conj] it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nonetheless , the property market could and should be far more liquid than it is . |
| 2 | Labour 's Peter Mandelson dismissed the remarks and added : ‘ It is impossible to imagine a housing market more depressed than it is under the present Tory government . |
| 3 | In accounting for the curious distortion of the doctrine that has taken place in England , it is clear that this can not be explained by the mere presence of constitutional arrangements based on a separation of powers or it would be much more prevalent than it is . |
| 4 | I must check those feelings which are the expression of physical instinct craving for satisfaction , but God knows celibacy is as painful to women ( even from the physical standpoint ) as it is to men — could not be more painful than it is to a woman . |
| 5 | Bermuda in the mid-30s was even more charming than it is now : motor cars were not allowed on the island and most residents travelled on bicycles , usually with a large wicker pannier between the handle-bars . |
| 6 | Eaten raw in salads , it becomes more interesting if it is topped with herbs and a good quality olive oil . |
| 7 | But it sounds a lot more exciting than it is . |
| 8 | Like most villages , Lund in past times was much more self-sufficient than it is now , with its own grocers , shoemakers , tailors and the like and , during the 19th century , a second public house , the Speed the Plough . |
| 9 | A perm makes the hair more porous but it is the rinsing that causes the hair to swell , which is when the damage is likely to occur . |
| 10 | This is a real gift to the declining Italian tourist industry , which needs the country 's cultural assets to be made more accessible if it is to compensate for the fact that mass tourism has migrated to cheaper , less developed shores . |
| 11 | I take the view myself that when one has a person in advancing years , in some respects an impairment of movement may perhaps be more serious than it is with a younger person . |
| 12 | Since recruitment by its nature proceeds in waves , the fluctuations can not be avoided , and a serious problem results — all the more serious because it is so difficult to explain to outsiders . |
| 13 | Like any faculty , the psychic sense is more prominent if it is used and If the society in which an individual lives is conducive in its attitudes to the encouragement of such ability . |
| 14 | Problems of taste can also arise on the selection of music backgrounds for scenes of domestic life because the mood to be reinforced is more personal and it is all too easy to lapse into embarrassing banality . |
| 15 | The same kind of point is illustrated by ( 19 ) , except here it is more likely that it is the notion of full luminescence which is explained in the more familiar terms given in the reformulation : In these examples , the speaker 's aim in reformulating an utterance is to enrich the hearer 's encyclopedic entries in order to ensure a greater understanding of the surrounding discourse or text . |
| 16 | It was a bit of a pill at the time and y used to pay a shilling in the pound , well a shilling was a lot more valuable than it is now and erm I used to begrudge paying in it forty eight and sixpence but it does provide the , well the pleasures of life now , whereby the pens the ordinary old age pension would n't . |
| 17 | Consequently it is possible , even likely , that their observations may have a built-in bias that is the more confining because it is unconscious . |
| 18 | Volcanoes emit very large concentr very large amounts of hydrochloric acid as a gas H C L gas and earlier in the earth 's history volcanic activity was much , much more widespread than it is now and during this period vast amounts of H C L were emitted . |
| 19 | The fact that the spadefoot toad has achieved this is all the more remarkable because it is an amphibian , and its need for water is so much greater than that of other land-based animals . |
| 20 | 13 1775 & that Body is vastly improv 'd the longer it is kept & the little remains of fat shine a little more thro' & it is now very much the colour of Indian Copper , i.e. it is very near the colour of finished work 'd mahogany & is really a beautiful mass , the Legs are now perfectly dry and from the Beginning to the end there is nothing of putrefaction . |
| 21 | That might seem like the wackiest of wacky ideas but it becomes ever more fascinating as it is explored in a barrage of speculation , invective and anecdotes , all designed to prove that money , in a practical rather than puritanical sense , is the root of all evil . |
| 22 | Very often an approach to a Commission official will be more effective if it is ‘ pan-EC ’ , that is if made by a number of companies operating throughout the EC , preferably under an EC umbrella organisation . |
| 23 | As time has gone by I have been more acutely aware that as important as a good knowledge of a language is , it is more effective if it is accompanied by additional technical knowledge . |
| 24 | Contact does not have to be political ; in fact it can be more effective when it is n't . |
| 25 | As will be considered further in Chapter 6 , the large value of institutional holdings , the comparatively small number of institutions , and their mutual accessibility , make joint action more feasible than it is in the case of individual shareholders . |
| 26 | ' ’ This may fool it into thinking you are not afraid and therefore more powerful than it is . ’ ‘ |
| 27 | The parental vote will be even more powerful if it is proposed that a school should opt out of local authority control and transfer to grant maintained status . |
| 28 | I only want to make clear that the problem is far more complex than it is represented . |
| 29 | However , where the units are overlapping and non-hierarchical the problem is more complex and it is this that we investigate here . |
| 30 | Examining psychotic traits from a comparable point of view is more tricky because it is still unclear precisely what properties of brain activity are likely to prove crucial to a description of the schizotypal nervous system . |