Example sentences of "and [adj] [is] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the fact is that some people use this notion and that is more important than what it really is . |
| 2 | In 1912 Eleanor Barton , a spokeswoman for the WCG ( albeit herself middle class ) , voiced the opinion that ‘ women suffer a great deal through their husbands ’ sensuality , and that is more evident amongst working people than other classes , simply because the conditions of life lend themselves to that sort of thing , and they have not been taught the proper uses of their bodies ' . |
| 3 | ‘ And that is more important than anything else . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It 's now a question of honour and that 's more important than winning on the field . |
| 5 | ‘ We 're supposed to be interested in his first marriage and that 's more than thirty years ago , is n't it ? |
| 6 | I got ta say that thousands of people wear contact lenses f through vanity and nobody complains about that , and that 's more unnatural . |
| 7 | For many people the problem of how to become fitter and healthier is more a question of method than intention . |
| 8 | ‘ Secondly , and this is more important , you will have the capability to influence your own reality in a profoundly greater sense than at any time in mankind 's history . |
| 9 | Maybe modern man is more stoical of nature , or perhaps , and this is more likely , there has been a real change in the symptom-producing capabilities of the gonococcus . |
| 10 | In other households there will be younger sons and daughters who are in paid work and this is more likely to be the case among those households in which the younger elderly live . |
| 11 | The sentence is not related to the offence so much as whether the defendant is homeless , jobless , or has been the subject of a care order , and this is more likely to have happened to black youth . |
| 12 | This is because there are no semantic cues as to who is waving at whom , and so a syntactic analysis of the question is necessary and this is more difficult in the second version where the relative pronoun ( that ) has been deleted . |
| 13 | Experience of these techniques has recently prompted Oldfield ( 1983b ) to propose a steady-state model of ecosystem change related to man 's impact on environment as an additional alternative to more familiar successional and cyclic models , and this is more appropriately considered in relation to other time-bound developments ( chapter 8 , p. 182 ) . |
| 14 | Also , and this is more tricky , we want to know what Riddle 's financial position is . |
| 15 | From Figures 7.2 and 7.3 it is clear that there is indeed more risk-related information at the high risk junctions and this is more marked for the high risk exemplars than the low risk ones . |
| 16 | This is a task that is better done by the human eye , together with — and this is more to the point — the 10-giganeurone computer inside the skull . |
| 17 | Official and Confidential is more , though , than an exposé of a tyrant . |
| 18 | In parts of the country , a black man between the ages of 15 and 25 is more likely to be killed than was an American soldier in Vietnam . |