Example sentences of "more [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second half was played at just as frantic pace as the first with both sides looking dangerous on the attack , but Abingdon looking more solid in defence . |
| 2 | Outwardly Carter was more polite towards Congress than Nixon had been , but he shared the latter 's contempt for the legislature and was no less shocked by its disorderly , undisciplined ways and its vulnerability to special interests . |
| 3 | We may have discovered a statistical effect but do not understand how it operates ; the brute fact that people who have experienced unemployment are more rebellious in spirit does not itself explain why this occurs ( see diagram ) . |
| 4 | Jeremy , however , was rather more alert to Dulcie 's wiles , and his passion for her was unclouded . |
| 5 | Research conducted by NASA-Ames has shown that crews flying long sectors were more alert during approach and landing if they had been allowed to nap while cruising . |
| 6 | Ah , I 'm just more alert at night times you know . |
| 7 | However , women will have to be more alert in future in view of the growing violence against them and increase in sexual attacks . |
| 8 | As a result , we will be more alert in future . |
| 9 | Even more striking with automobiles — there was , I do n't know , just a few thousand automobiles in China , and only the very very rich , who are the bureaucrats and the you see have them . |
| 10 | Thus , if people achieve a fair degree of mastery over outcomes and have experience in controlling and manipulating the sources of reinforcement in their lives before they are exposed to uncontrollability , they should be more resilient to depression . |
| 11 | She took the cap and made herself once more respectable in silence . |
| 12 | Further , and hence We now have the embarrassing impossibility of a negative sum of squares and must conclude that method ( b ) is unsatisfactory for computer use even though it is the more practicable for hand calculation . |
| 13 | After two failed coups in 18 months , the US view is that the general is more entrenched in power than ever . |
| 14 | So , of course , I 'm all the more grateful to Edouard . ’ |
| 15 | So if , as seems likely , we have to wait a long time for a follow up to the triumphant Glyndebourne production , we should be all the more grateful for occasions like the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra 's concert performance ( sponsored by English Estates ) . |
| 16 | In the middle and upper classes at least , children stayed " children " for longer ( it was harder for a child to remain so when it was working at the age of 12 or 13 ) ; girls and young women were more shielded from experience outside the home ; parents were , on the whole , stricter and more repressive . |
| 17 | Almost all the maritime alga-lichen-moss communities are richer in species and more luxuriant in growth than their continental counterparts , more so on the outlying island groups than on Antarctic Peninsula , and more on the northern than on the southern peninsula . |
| 18 | The refuge has been more revealing about people and poverty than I 'd expected , because what it 's revealed is the hard edge of the sex differential . |
| 19 | Even more revealing of Baldwin 's personality than The Times letter and the action it announced was the note which he wrote immediately afterwards to John Davidson , who despite a twenty-two-year age gap had become and was to remain one of his closest friends : |
| 20 | ‘ She says Shaun and the twins will have to go , but she 's more upset about Theresa and the baby . |
| 21 | When the train had gone and they left the station Sarah seemed quiet and thoughtful and Anne thought that she was more upset by Terry 's leaving than she had shown while he was there . |
| 22 | He remained a Scandinavian puritan , less humourous than Bergman , certainly more covert about sexuality generally . |
| 23 | The Northern Ireland conflict has become progressively more covert in nature . |
| 24 | In the case of wind machines , for example , larger machines are more cost-effective in terms of wind energy collection but mass production of smaller units may offer substantial economies of manufacturing scale . |
| 25 | The unheard-of losses and strains of the war years greatly strengthened , at least in Britain , the pressures for a new order in foreign policy and diplomacy , for policies more democratically decided and diplomacy more openly conducted by men more representative of society in general . |
| 26 | If anything , Cajun food is more earthy in colour and some would say that it is spicier . |
| 27 | John 's firm having been established for nearly forty years by this time , the rival Lawrence Girls were definitely more earthy in character , with not a snob amongst them possibly because they did not have such a long tradition . |
| 28 | By contrast , Oistrakh on Le Chant du Monde , though not entirely at home in the Gallic idiom , is far more subtle in inflexion and seems less determined to impress . |
| 29 | During that week she became more friendly with Ben , who was often digging in one of the vegetable gardens . |
| 30 | His early observation that ‘ You can always be much more friendly with people who ca n't stay long ’ later assumes a terrible significance , so short-lived is their romantic relationship . |