Example sentences of "more [adj] [conj] [verb] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inert , mute , untouchable , she seemed uncanny and prodigious to Rosa , who wanted her to protest the hectic fury all around her , to come alive and give a sign , as , below her , the volunteers hauling the lumbering shrine on their backs on poles criss-crossed and tethered grew more obstreperous and howled and the crowd pressed up and obstructed their laborious way ahead ; after three turns around the piazza they at last reached the platform in the middle , only a little distance from the Duomo they had left , and the sweat-streaked bearers put down the skewed tower on which the Madonna stood , and tumbled to their knees . |
| 2 | Rousseau ( 1762 , p.54 ) wrote in Émile : ‘ Childhood has its own ways of seeing , thinking and feeling ; nothing is more foolish than to try and substitute our ways ’ . |
| 3 | After spending some time there ( as if we were actually present ) we will gradually come back to the present day , and as we do so we will become more reflective and try and push the present away from us — making it strange — by maintaining a certain distance from our immediate history . |
| 4 | It gives practical suggestions on how to develop your influencing skills , on how to become more versatile when influencing and on how to choose what tactics are best for the situation . |
| 5 | I learned that sex without emotional involvement or more than a fleeting physical attraction was more sad than fulfilling and that ‘ getting even ’ could only motivate me for so long — particularly since my husband was blithely unaware that I was evening the score . |
| 6 | There is little to fear from them if they can be closely examined , though they can be rather more deceptive when framed and covered with glass . |
| 7 | Additional transactions from the ‘ background ’ random distribution will only make it more unlikely that seeking and processing can be overlapped . |
| 8 | There is nothing more depressing than sitting and watching the paper peel off the walls . |
| 9 | And even the most hardened cynic must agree that lying down with your eyes closed listening to music is a lot more appealing than grunting and straining over a set of weights in your local sports centre . |
| 10 | Christmas decorations can be found in abundance at this time of year but there is nothing more satisfying than designing and creating your own . |