Example sentences of "he [was/were] [adv] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like Weber , Durkheim was hostile to Marxism , both as a theory of society and as a political doctrine , but he was rather more sympathetic to a reformist kind of socialism , although he seems to have conceived it exclusively in a national context , and he dismissed entirely the idea of working-class internationalism ( Lukes , 1973 , pp. 32–7 ) . |
| 2 | He was notably more libertarian than Tolkien , for all that , who as a Catholic had supported Franco during the Spanish Civil War . |
| 3 | Objectively , he was little more attractive to the Conservatives who were hostile to MacDonaldite mush than was MacDonald himself . |
| 4 | He was little more than five feet tall , slender all his life , and exuding a febrile energy that served in place of strength until it was periodically depleted and he fell into a relapse , paralleled as he grew older by deep depression of spirits . |
| 5 | He was altogether more interested , on the surface at any rate , in what he found there than in what he could observe of people and events around him . |
| 6 | He was also more Thatcherite in tone on Europe , accusing Labour and the Liberals of wanting to take Britain into a ‘ United States of Europe ’ . |
| 7 | He was also more formal than she had ever seen him , his suit and stiff collar making him look quite different . |
| 8 | He was also more adept at using his rhetorical skills in the service of theology and asceticism . |
| 9 | In spite of the immediacy of their terror and danger , he was somehow more self-absorbed . |
| 10 | When Moran came back he was even more restless . |
| 11 | He was even more baffled when he tried to convert some of his Duchy property in Kennington into small units for single teenagers — a group that finds it notoriously difficult to find accommodation — and met with vociferous local anger . |
| 12 | He 'd been a bit scared of her before , but he was even more so now she was acting as if she was n't right in the head . |
| 13 | It was here that Napoleon spent his working day when in residence at the Tuileries and from this study France was governed , for , as his ministers knew : ‘ The Emperor had no reason to fear that anyone doubted that he reigned ; he was even more anxious that they should know that he ruled . ’ |
| 14 | When Stirling found out about the plan in which his unit was to be involved , he was even more furious . |
| 15 | He was even more impressive in his short recital ( with Roger Judd at the piano ) of 20th century American songs by Samuel Barber , Jerome Kern , Cole Porter and Leonard Bernstein . |
| 16 | He was even more curt and the man took a step back . |
| 17 | I think he was even more surprised to see me than I was to see him . |
| 18 | He was even more distressed when , on another of his leaves , his wife , Fiona , started talking about a divorce . |
| 19 | But the most important thing about Lord Robertson was that in this particular case he was even more prejudiced than Lord Grant , although in the light of all that had recently occurred , with far less excuse . |
| 20 | But she passionately wanted to get on with him ; she made every effort to entertain and to captivate , for in proximity he was even more dazzling than from a distance . |
| 21 | He was even more emphatic . |
| 22 | He was even more irritated when Bunny told her she was to be interviewed by a reporter from the Manchester Daily News . |
| 23 | Bagehot was anxious that the established parties might bid for the support of the working man , and he was even more anxious that a working-class party might arise that would then press for the interests of that class through the ballot box and through Parliament . |
| 24 | By the time they reached the bandstand he was even more enthused with the charms of Miss Dawson . |
| 25 | Close to , he was even more intimidating . |
| 26 | Well , everyone was upset , but he was even more upset . |
| 27 | When Blyth came back the next year he was even more unpleasant than before , having lost his left leg from above the knee in a road accident ( the boy he was playing'chicken ’ with was killed ) . |
| 28 | ‘ Because then the ghaffir came back and he was even more amazed . ’ |
| 29 | In fact , if anything he was even more remote and distant now than he had been before their weekend , as if he had n't meant to let her get so close and was frantically clawing back space . |
| 30 | I do n't think he was any more upset , but I might n't have been paying attention . ’ |