Example sentences of "more [adj] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , some of the departments , some department managers I think have more erm , their goals tend to be more short-term possibly than longer term . |
| 2 | The virginia creeper was a little more luxuriant perhaps and the wood-work had been newly painted and was whiter than she remembered . |
| 3 | ( I think that Bread Not Stone is more hesitant here than In Memory of Her : she speaks of there being one vision , whereas in In Memory of Her she appears simply to suggest that in our suffering and our courage we are one with first-century women . ) |
| 4 | The implication is clear : liberals are more advanced morally than conservatives . |
| 5 | In fact , we 're more profitable now than we were in Andrew 's day , because of that new trade with West Africa I 've worked up . " |
| 6 | This school can not be regarded as typical , partly because each school and each project is unique , but also because the practical results of the staff energy and imagination which find a focus in the project seemed greater and more far-reaching here than in most other Minor award schools . |
| 7 | Group courses arranged at an area office are more common in city centres where bureaux are more concentrated geographically and less travelling is involved for participants . |
| 8 | Renewed famine , more devastating even than that of 1984-85 , threatened an estimated 8,000,000 of the population , who faced starvation in 1991 unless they received 1,500,000 tonnes of food , according to relief agency estimates [ see p. 37945 ] . |
| 9 | During the housing debate , Kevin Johnston , from Eastbourne , East Sussex , was cheered as he said : ‘ The homelessness problem is even more acute now than in 1985 . |
| 10 | The pleonasm can be cured by making the dependent item more specific so that it makes a net semantic contribution to the phrase : my patriarchal uncle ( notice that adding specificity to the head has no effect : ? my male maternal uncle ) . |
| 11 | From there onwards it becomes stronger and more emotional so that her joyous movements and later abandon in Romeo 's arms are in absolute contrast to her later dance with Paris . |
| 12 | She believes you are more pleasant now than you have been since your father died , in fact . ’ |
| 13 | Although Eurotunnel 's attitude to Trans Manche Link , the contractors ' consortium , was more conciliatory yesterday than has been the case , there are still important differences to be settled . |
| 14 | Spare time will be even more scarce shortly because we will be losing one full time man — Graeme , our student from Durham , leaves at the end of July . |
| 15 | Johnson attributed such decline in England to the fact that the bishops were now using other , more political rather than intellectual , methods of gaining preferment . |
| 16 | That way lay a danger more destructive even than guilt . |
| 17 | Throughout his reign Edward 's rule was marred and imperilled by his inordinate affection for , and reckless promotion of , men more tactless even than he was . |
| 18 | It 's also a relaxed , romantic ad for Bill S , more alive here than he has been for decades . |
| 19 | Uprights are traditional British favourites and are even more popular now that storage for all the extras has been integrated into their design . |
| 20 | I cant see why we would have to be more careful even if we were ‘ official ’ . |
| 21 | But it has always been wrong , and is more wrong today than ever before . |
| 22 | ‘ Music seems to be getting more expressive now and a bit more rocky . |
| 23 | They have become a bit more open-minded now but they like to make changes slowly . |
| 24 | Such difficulties as these tend to be all the more preoccupying nowadays because one does not have the means to discuss and corroborate views with one 's fellow professionals in the way one once did . |
| 25 | The recession — it looks as though there is a glimmer of light , but I was on the continent a couple of three weeks ago when the mortar attack took place at Number Ten and the reaction of people I met I mean it was much more marked there than it was here , or seemed to be . |
| 26 | And as this competition intensifies we should become more demanding so that we actually get the kind of services and products we want . |
| 27 | This was a new definition of poor — a depth of misery more nauseating even that the stink that still rose from my stained boots . |
| 28 | The adoption , for instance , of Darwinian views of evolution depended not simply on the intellectual breakthrough of a brilliant mind but on the conjuncture of social movements that made these propositions more acceptable then than they might have been at other periods . |
| 29 | The computational approach is , therefore , much more rigorous intellectually than that to which many psychologists have been accustomed . |
| 30 | Empty , it had a lingering ambience of warmth , and as she went inside it was even more noticeable now that there were people in it . |