Example sentences of "[art] more " in BNC.

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1 To me this is odd as if I were the president of South Korea I would have imprisoned Kim Hyun-hui and released Im Su Kyong as to me Kim Hyun-hui committed the more serious crime .
2 These qualities have always been present in the metaphors and similes of poetry but they have been less frequent in painting , which in the past was largely concerned with reproducing external reality , with decoration , or , as in the more advanced movements of recent years , with the composition of color and line into formal design .
3 By the very energy spent in its realisation , his accomplishment is all the more intense in its expression .
4 Only dealers sell on the steps , while private owners prefer the more certain floor of a landing of clearly established prices for a category of work .
5 He commented on his project : ‘ The more I explored , the more I became absorbed with the mystery of the environment .
6 He commented on his project : ‘ The more I explored , the more I became absorbed with the mystery of the environment .
7 Perhaps this is the more important in the late twentieth century now that this means of image-making is so familiar that some people actually imagine that a photograph shows the world as it is .
8 It may be that neither statement need be held to subtract from the other , but there could well be some dispute as to which of the two is the more deeply entrenched in the novel .
9 And they will undoubtedly object to the more unbridled formulations that enter the three fictions ; the biography of Eliot has plenty to say on the subject , too , while maintaining a comparative , and suitable , reserve .
10 The former is ventriloquial ; the latter gives ‘ a carnival sense of the world ’ , and is the more hopeful .
11 The Facts is the more filial book of the two .
12 Philip Roth is right , however , to point to the limitations of the book , and to point to a law of Levi 's work in general : the less imaginary it is , the more imaginative — the more literal the better .
13 Philip Roth is right , however , to point to the limitations of the book , and to point to a law of Levi 's work in general : the less imaginary it is , the more imaginative — the more literal the better .
14 Some people find this makes theatre less ‘ believable ’ — less true to their own experience and therefore less convincing than the more restrained performances seen on television and cinema .
15 Reading plays is an essential part of your career preparation — the more plays you read the more you will understand of the theatre 's development .
16 If you try him I suggest you select from Greek or East rather than , say , the more recent Decadence : the latter play contains enormous speeches , usually much longer than you will need , and is fearfully difficult material to cut .
17 What do you feel about working in the more modern style of play after your classical work with Stratford ?
18 But it is likely that the professionals who have been responsible for the running of such companies at local level will have been allied to the more liberal group among the upper protestant classes , as represented by such families as the O'Neills , who have looked to the English public schools for the right sort of education .
19 This foundational belief gives meaning to the more popular belief in the right of the people to violence .
20 But the bulk of its laity and Northern clergy , and probably more so its industrial and farming classes , are low church and evangelicals , the more protestant and anti-catholic end of the Anglican synthesis .
21 It could be argued that the myths of Ulster protestantism and the institution of the Orange order take the place of the more centralized clerical organization of Roman catholicism in providing some element of overall religious unity among protestant loyalists .
22 Though the extent to which such a consciousness exists is not clear , one aspect of it is beyond dispute : 35 per cent of McGreil 's random sample of Dubliners and 46 per cent of the males in the sample , including a spread from the younger age groups and the more educated , supported the view that ‘ the use of violence , while regrettable , has been necessary for the achievement of non-Unionist rights ’ ( Mác Gréil 1977 : 387 ) .
23 They took what was left after the church schools had creamed off the more academic pupils and the upper classes .
24 The more you try to decipher the more confusing it becomes .
25 The more you try to decipher the more confusing it becomes .
26 Yet the more you build the greater the sense of exile .
27 But the more we try the more the feeling of familiarity evaporates .
28 But the more we try the more the feeling of familiarity evaporates .
29 The closer I get to completion the more I dread it , he wrote .
30 The more there is to go wrong , of course .
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