Example sentences of "[indef pn] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless someone more plausible comes forward , therefore , the challenge is likely to have two results . |
| 2 | It was the formal beginning of a lifelong friendship with ‘ someone more sure and staid ’ , eight years his senior . |
| 3 | Whereas someone more conventional , like Sue Lawley , who describes herself as a ‘ post-feminist woman ’ , is actually much better at drawing out chat show guests . |
| 4 | However , people often take umbrage and start disagreeing or , if you persist with difficulties , they may give up and go and find someone more positive to talk to . |
| 5 | So the leakiness or otherwise of the gut wall will not make someone more sensitive to such chemicals . |
| 6 | It was most peculiar sitting there among all the cameras wearing an earphone and talking to someone more than two hundred miles away . |
| 7 | You should discuss the situation with someone more senior than your boss within the company . |
| 8 | He was by no means a major figure in British politics at the time , though this had not prevented his being offered in 1920 , when he was a mere back-bench MP , the governor-generalship of South Africa — an offer which was withdrawn when the South Africans pressed their desire for someone more important . |
| 9 | I was obsessed with being flat-chested and unglamorous and I used to harp on about how he must be hankering for someone more glamorous . ’ |
| 10 | Prince Charles to photographers THEY should have known he needed someone more experienced . |
| 11 | If Dave is looking over Andy 's shoulder for someone more influential to talk to , then his sub-text is ‘ I 'm being cursorily polite until I see someone better . ’ |
| 12 | Avoid behaviour indicating sub-text like : ‘ You 're boring me rigid and I 'm looking for someone more interesting to talk to . ’ |
| 13 | Someone sensitive and caring might make a better leader or salesperson than someone more competitive . |
| 14 | I had taught myself the basics but learning the ‘ wrinkles ’ from someone more experienced saves time and increased the ‘ professional ’ look of garments . |
| 15 | Everyone in nursing has at some time experienced the abuse of power by someone more senior , and has been hurt by it , yet the system is difficult to modify . |
| 16 | But if I were you I 'd give him his wife back and find yourself someone more suitable . |
| 17 | Some candidates were unhappy about the selection process , claiming the region wanted someone more willing to fit in with the council 's corporate stance , than head a professional service . |
| 18 | There were fears that it was intended to remove him and substitute someone more acquiescent . |
| 19 | An insecure man , she knew , might not want to be married to someone more powerful than himself . |
| 20 | Prince Yuan was a clever one , there was no doubting it , so perhaps he understood why the T'ang had appointed him to oversee the Project rather than someone more sympathetic . |
| 21 | She had that feeling of insult often felt at a party when the person one is talking to focuses his gaze on people round about all the time , searching for someone more interesting , powerful or sexy to talk to . |
| 22 | ‘ Tell Connie all about it , ’ she invited , relieved to have , for a time , someone other than Memet upon whom to focus her attention , someone more miserable than herself and more … |
| 23 | ‘ Her things were all good-quality , ’ said Clarissa stiffly , turning to talk to someone more civilized . |
| 24 | Then I would want to find someone more senior like Hannah Collins or Alison Wilding or Susan Hiller or Helen Chadwick . |
| 25 | I wanted someone more realistic … |
| 26 | Someone more thoughtful than the rest had ordered to be shut the big river gates that were at the point where the Ankh flowed out of the twin city . |
| 27 | Not that she thought Matey , or Dr Neil , would come poking around her room , but she was changing rapidly from the trusting and innocent girl she had once been to someone more cautious — she , Sally-Anne , more cautious ! |
| 28 | ‘ Well , the Luciferi threatened you but they were apparently warned off by someone more powerful . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Then you 'll need to go down on your knees in that chapel Christian Timms built and call on someone more highly qualified than either me or Doctor Cheatle . |
| 30 | What a pity the invitation had not been extended to someone more congenial , such as the ubiquitous Austin Mitchell . |